New ideas for evening meal

[NotSoJollyChristmas]

Can anyone give me some ideas for tea, I’m sick of eating the same things week in and week out

Off the top of my head this week we're having:

chilli con carne and nachos
fishcakes and salad
bacon and chicken pasta bake
spanish omelette and salad

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What are you eating now?

Daal is a favourite here.
I’ve done a lot of Wagamama wok from home through lockdown. They’ve got lots of great ideas there. Once you’ve done them a couple of times they can be very quick.

@movingonup20

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This is a really good idea. We’ve had hello fresh occasionally and recreated the recipes.

I've got a craving for pan fried white fish with rice and pickles this evening!

If you eat chicken you can coat it in harissa paste, then natural yoghurt, leave to marinate then roast.

Lentil curry with dessicated coconut

Chicken pot pie, can vary it by putting it in filo parcels.m, or with different lids, filo or pastry or yoghurt dough.
Mozzarella pesto chicken (like hunters chicken).
Lasagna.
Chicken soup.
Beef stew.
Lentil soup.
Tandoori chicken.
Fakeaways, the feed your family for £20 pw has a great recipe for KFC gravy.

@PurpleDaisies
Sausage and mixed bean casserole
Cheesy chicken and chorizo pasta bake
Beef stew with mash and mixed veg
Chicken roast
Chilli chicken pasta
Homemade pizza

Tomato soup ( saute onion, 2 red peppers, stick of celery. Add can of toms and veg/chicken stock. Blend when cooked) with flatbread

Lentil dhal and chapattis/roti/flatbread.

Chicken with orange ( chick thighs, onions, garlic, red pepper, sundried toms, can of toms, black olives , chick stock, juice of one orange). Serve with baguette or other crusty bread to mop up sauce.

Chickpea, spinach and lemon casserole is really nice and easy.

I always recommend Fay Ripley's Fay's Family Food - I must have made every recipe in there and the kids have eaten them all! The chicken pie and tandoori chicken are their favourites.

Also the Rukmini Iyer Roasting Tin recipes are great as you just hung everything in a tin so there's minimum prep and washing up!

I think you can Google some of the recipes online to see if it's your thing?

Successful weeknight meals recently:

Traybake of honey mustard chicken thighs, sprouts and potatoes
Traybake of chicken thighs, chorizo, potatoes
One-pot meal of chicken thighs cooked over cardamom rice pilaf
Sausage and red cabbage alongside polenta triangles and a green salad
Chicken schnitzel and a green salad
Skillet of kale, red onion, sausages with fennel seed, eaten with garlic bread
Roast cauliflower with tahini sauce, meatballs, tabbouleh
Leftover turkey/pepper/onion fajitas

I'm using this blog for inspiration

http://www.lisadawsonstyling.com/blog/2019/1/4/new-year-new-plan-seven-one-pot-meals-to-get-you-through-the-week?rq=New+year+New+plan

Your menu's quite meat-heavy, maybe chuck in some veggie meals to switch things up? This week we're having:

• Baked sweet potato, cheesy refried beans, avocado salad
• Coconut aubergine and peanut curry
• Jacket spuds stuffed with mushroom and spinach, baked beans
• Veggie sausage casserole
• Fish cakes with minted peas or salad

I usually double up for leftovers/freezer meals. Bit carb-heavy this week but it's January and we're hibernating!

My partner won’t eat vegetables lol

Something which is really nice is roasted shrimp and broccoli, I found it on a blog called the Wednesday chef. She has some really good recipes.

@AtLeastThreeDrinks I like the sound of your aubergine curry.

I love ratatouille as well, it goes so silky after it's been cooked for ages

@NotSoJollyChristmas

My partner won’t eat vegetables lol

Is he a toddler?

So basically, the reason you've run out of inspiration for meals is because you've landed yourself with a man who has the palate of a 3 year old?

@RaspberryCoulis bit harsh?

Plus we do have vegetables with our food he just doesn’t eat them and I have a fussy 18 month old (she will eat veg tho)

Some ideas in here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/4028036-Recipe-review-club
We waffle on a bit but if you just scroll through looking for hyperlinks there's quite a few.

Pasta, pasta sauce, roasted butternut, aubergine, courgette, red onion, peppers and plum tomatoes, smothered in garlic, herbs and black pepper and a drizzle of oil. Sausage, chicken, bacon etc, optional.

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@Frownette recipe here!

Oh there a was thread like this a whiel ago and I got a few fab recipes that I now use

tagliatelle with salmon.
(cook taglitelle, in a bowl mix creme fraiche, tins of salmon or crab, or prawns, chilli flakes, lemon juice, olive oil. Stir into cooked taglietelle)

chicken pasta bake with pesto. - pesto, chicken, cream/sour cream/creme fraiche, can make it into a bake with brocolli and pasta

risotto - chorizo, chicken, mushroom, then near the end add cherry tomatoes and green beans.

Purple Daisies,
Can you share your dahl recipe?
Thanks