Ideas for easy meals on holiday!

[Moominmummy12]

In Cornwall, cottage. Usually would eat out most of the time but reluctant yo because of Covid. What meals can I make that are quick and easy? So bored of same meals we eat at home all the time..... pasta, roast, tacos, jacket potato, blah blah.

I’d go simple and make use of fresh local ingredients.
Fresh linguine with chilli’s, cherry tomatoes, garlic, fresh parsley and Cornish crab.
Fresh fish baked with herbs and lemon juice and served with new potatoes and salad.
Do you have a bbq at the cottage?
I’ve often baked a piece of gammon with a honey and mustard glaze then used leftover for picnic lunches.
Similar with chicken.
Home made ‘burgers’ grilled, butterflied chicken breast or halloumi in ciabatta with lots of salads.
See if you have any restaurants near by that do takeout wood fired pizza. There is an amazing deli where we usually stay and their pizzas are amazing.

tortilla pizza?
allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/35505/tortilla-pizza.aspx

This is easy, but probably not cheap. But we're going on holiday (similar, holiday cottage, just want to be somewhere besides home, easy meals) in a few weeks. I'm ordering some tinned type foods with an international theme - think French, Spanish, etc. And serving them with cheeses, salad, baguettes, etc. So we can do like a 'French day' and a 'Spanish day'. A lot of it is pre-prepared, but it means just putting things on plates and it's not the same tacos, lasagne, pasta we've been surviving on for months.

M and S dine in?
A takeaway
Pizza and salad
Lasagna or similar from a local deli

One holiday staple for us is sausages, oven chips and garlic bread. Chuck them all in the oven to cook together. Loads of ketchup, serve yourself. It's because we don't have it at home that makes it a holiday meal.

Sausage baps
Fajitas
Beans on toast
Simple pasta
Fresh produce / picky tea
Pasties!!

Get some meals from Cook. Their puddings are delish too! Saves you cooking a couple of times

Nachos, loaded with bacon, bbq pulled pork, spring onion, jalapeños, a mountain of cheese, salsa, guacamole, thick sour cream. And more cheese!

Lots of lovely deli food, good bread and salads.Lazy barbeque in the evenings, nice stuff in for breakfast. Eat as much outside as you can in the garden or on picnics to make it feel less like the usual task of cooking at home after a long day at work etc.

A couple of things we’ve had this week in holiday house
-Spaghetti (or pasta of choice) carbonara. 100ml double cream, 4 egg yolks, 100g Parmesan mixed together, fry a pack of bacon, cut into strips until crispy. Add egg/cream/cheese mix to hot drained pasta and add bacon. Serve with garlic bread and salad. Takes 10 mins and serves 4 but quantities can be increased.
-Fish and chips takeaway
-Steak, packet uncle Benn Mexican rice, chopped avocado, salad and sour cream on the side.

Our self-Catherine cottage standards:

Baked salmon with pesto on top, with potato wedges and a veg. Wedges: just cut potatoes into wedges, season, olive oil, in 180 degree oven for maybe 30-40 mins.

Fajitas using a fajita kit.

Pasta, prawns, peas.

Get nice local stuff from a local deli, eg proper pasties/pie/sausage roll/quiche, plus other nice deli stuff like olives, good cheese (ideally local speciality) etc etc.

Self-CATERING, not Catherine!

Meals for family

Tacos
Chicken fajitas/fajita bowls
Spaghetti bolognese
Sticky chicken and rice
Roast dinner
Bacon pasta
Salmon
Sausages and mash
Pulled pork, mash and corn on the cob
Cottage pie
Pizza
Gammon
Burgers
Sausages and waffles
Chicken in pittas
Steak

Check out whether the local restaurants which you would usually eat at are doing takeaway. We were down in Cornwall two weeks ago, couldn't get a reservation at a nice restaurant in Charlestown that we always go to but they have started doing takeaway (including their cocktails!)so we got a whole meal from them one night. Bonus was not having to drive home!

Thanks so much everyone. Super ideas.