What’s your family’s favourite home cooked meal?

[Smallsteps88]

Stuck in a rut and looking for inspiration that won’t raise complaints from the DC.

Chorizo and butter bean stew, me and DH have it with crusty bread, kids (8, 5, 3) like it lightly blitzed over any pasta. Basically it's chopped chorizo, an onion, a red pepper, two tins of butter beans, two tins of tomatoes, a bit of salt, pepper and smoked paprika. Drizzle of balsamic when serving. It's delicious. Also any kind of fajita/taco type dinner goes down well if not too spicy.

Watching this thread with interest!

Also all 5 us us love this: www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/greek-lamb-orzo%3famp

Roast chicken dinner, fajitas, chilli con carne and homemade taco fries

We all love a roast
Spag Bol
Carbonara
Curry goat
Jerk chicken
Mac n cheese
Butter pies
Lasagna
Noodle stir fry
Courgette fritters
Chilli stuffed butternut squash

Beef Stifado
Lentil daal with butternut squash
Chicken fajitas
Homemade pizzas
Cumin and masala spiced chicken with naan, salads with loads of lime in and spiced yoghurt
Chicken noodle ramen
Pork belly with wraps
Gamon joint with homemade chips
Whole roast chicken peri peri style with corn and avocado salad and spicy rice

Spaghetti bolognese, lasagne, roast dinner, curry, macaroni cheese (simple but always a favourite), carbonara, shepherds pie and cottage pie, sausage casserole.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/441643/recipe/spicy-chicken-chorizo-pasta

No such thing here. Probably a roast as they can plate it up to suit themselves. My children are like chalk and cheese.

Thank you everyone. This is a great list to work through.

Chicken or turkey breast topped with half a handful of spinach leaves and a slice of mozzarella, wrapped in prosciutto and baked in oven for 30 minutes. Served with a ton of broccoli and green beans.

Has the advantage it takes less than 5 minutes to make and you can prep the veg whilst the meat is in the oven.

Chicken and bacon creamy garlic pasta. You can hear a pin drop it’s so quiet.
Roast gammon
Eggs, chips and beans
Crispy duck and egg fried rice

@Longdistance - what's your recipe for the creamy pasta please?

Roast Lamb or chicken with all the trimmings
Macaroni Cheese
Beef Lasagne
Chicken Lasagne
Fish pie
Chili con carne
It tastes like honey (a Chinese lamb dish)
Beef Rendang
Chicken or Beef Fajitas
homemade fish and chips
BBQ
Teriyaki salmon with udon noodles and stir fried veges
Chicken in a creamy onion sauce on a bed of fettucine
Steak with a red wine jus and veges
marinaded lamb rack and veges
Shepherds pie
Paella

We like food. Quite a bit.

I look forward to seeing who is the first to ask me 'what's for tea' each day, and how early in the day it happens!

Roast dinner.
My Chinese fakeaway - chicken curry, egg fried rice, salt and pepper chicken, chicken chow mein and normally chips too!

Spag bol, cottage pie, Chicken and chorizo paella chicken in a garlic white wine and creme fraiche sauce. Home made burgers, toad in the hole.

My son says pepperoni pasta. Just pasta with fried pepperoni (including the oil from it when you fry it without adding oil) red pesto and cheese. Really simple but he loves it especially if its egg pasta

All these creamy pastas sound amazing! Does anyone have a way of making them dairy free?

brie and bacon risotto - we add peppers / other veg..

@turnedouttoes I think a lot of the creamy pastas could work with a dairy free alternative to cream cheese/Philadelphia, would be worth a try at least!

In the Cajun chicken pasta recipe I linked too, the Philadelphia is the only dairy included.

Things everyone eats without variation and they actually ask for:

Stifado and lemon potatoes
Chicken or beef fajitas
Tacos
Thai chicken curry
Chicken tikka, dry not masala
Butter chicken

Dh loves a macaroni/cauliflower cheese combo, lots of very cheesy sauce, breadcrumbs and extra cheese on top, browned under the grill so there are lots of crispy cheesy bits.

Meatballs slow cooked in marinara sauce then tossed over pasta, mozzarella on top and baked in the oven. Served with fresh basil and corn 😋

Or Greek chicken gyros - chicken thighs marinaded and grilled are amazing, served with flatbread, dips, salad and rosemary roast potatoes.

Roast dinner is always popular, pork is a favourite.

Popular weekday meals are
Chicken & mushroom risotto
Pasta carbonara or pasta primavera
Chicken pie
Beef casserole with dauphinois potatoes

The only things that everyone will eat are steak and jacket potato, macaroni cheese, roast dinner (gammon, beef or chicken - end up having it two or three times a week though!) but most meals are a variation, eg sometimes we'll have a dhal or something with roast chicken rather than the roast potatoes and mash that the kids always want. Macaroni cheese is so boring on it's own, we often will have that with gammon or with something else, even though the youngest will happily have nothing else! And although they will eat casseroles and love boeuf bourgignon for example, they don't like onions, so I usually take the beef and carrots out of the sauce after it's cooked and stick-blend the onions into it

Chicken and chorizo paella
Cottage pie With baked beans
Chicken or pork chops in a sauce made from cream,mango chutney and Worcestershire sauce Served with new potato’s and runner beans.
Home made lasagne
Home made mince beef onion mushroom pie.