Your top 5 weekday meals

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I'm trying to build up a repertoire of weekday teas so that we stop eating the same ones week in week out. I do simply cook to add some variety and ideas but this is mainly for DP and I as DSC wouldn't really like any of it yet.

So what are you top 5 weeks day dinner time meals? 😊

Spaghetti Bolognese.

Steak & kidney pie with potatoes and vegetables, green beans v. popular.

Homemade pizza.

Cassoulet.

Chicken casserole.

Other midweek favourites include cauliflower cheese with sausages or gammon, hearty soups such as minestrone or fish chowder followed by an omelette, risotto especially chicken, chicken supreme with rice or pasta.

Spaghetti bolognese
Chicken, chorizo and potato traybake - Nigella has some great versions of these and they are very simple and quick to throw together.
Sausages and mash
Thai curry of some kind (usually prawns and veg)
Tostadas - crispy tortillas topped with retried beans, chicken, salad, avo, lime juice, coriander, salsa, cheese, ( a mix and match kind of dinner)
Beef and Guinness stew on days where I remember to plan ahead!
Egg fried rice with whatever meat/veg leftovers are in the fridge - my 6yo loves this so much.

Meatballs and pasta
Pitta breads, falafels or kofte kebabs, salad, hummus, herby yoghurt.
Fish fingers, pizza, chicken dippers,pesto pasta etc on days when I haven't got energy to cook.

Stir fry
Jacket spuds and fridge pot luck
Bolognese/chili
Stuffed pasta and veg sauce
Spinach and chickpea curry

Also:
Freezer surprise (chips, peas and fish fingers/fried egg/veg pie etc)

Mine are all fairly quick- under an hour, and low effort. I can't be doing with DC (or me) being hangry when we get in!

Also the ones that need to be easily adaptable for fussy DD1 are. She doesn't like meat, or butter, or egg yolks.

Spaghetti bolognese
Breaded fish, beans or chips or veg - 'beige day' for crazy/lazy days
Traybake of some type - usually chicken or sausages
Chicken satay stirfry - cheats satay sauce of smooth whole earth peanut butter, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce mixed together
Slow cooker meatballs - pack of meatballs, frozen onion, pack of frozen Mediterranean veg, garlic paste, smoked paprika, passata and stock pot. Easy to chuck together in the morning
Honey and soy salmon with noodles and veg
Naice chicken Kiev with veg
Jamie Oliver's roasted veg chilli
Omelettes with salad or beans depending on the weather and sometimes oven chips
Lamb keema with rice - nigella
Chicken and veg curry - I cook in batches and freeze
Cottage pie - I cook three at once on quiet weekends and freeze.
Slow cooker tikka masala from good food is delicious

Wow! What a response! Thanks all! Xx

Mine is:
Garlic chicken and carbonara
Omelette and salad
Toad in the hole, vegetables and creamy mash potatoes
Tomato based pasta bake
Cottage pie

We're all fussy in different directions, although DH is probably the least fussy. DD and I are veggie, DH will eat veggie most of the time, occasionally adds some meat or, more often, fish.

This week, Monday was broccoli and leek risotto with lemon and basil, an old BBC healthy eating recipe, supposed to be pearl barley but we prefer rice so I use that.

Sweet potato katsu curry, the sauce freezes so I make a double batch and this week just got it out of the freezer.

Pasta with tomato sauce and lentil and spinach balls. Again, big batch of balls, got them out of the freezer.

Sweet potato, spinach and red lentil dhal

Bean stew with butter beans, lots of veg and sweet smoked paprika. It used to have quorn sausages in until they discontinued the ones we like so now it doesn't.

Veggi chilli
Cauliflower curry
Courgette , carrot, halloumi fritters
Shakshuka
Veggie shepherds pie

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Jacket potatoes with various fillings - spinach/cream cheese, beans, prawn Mayo plus salad

Crispy topped fish (basa topped with breadcrumbs, sundried tomato, olives, seeds, grated cheese and baked), with new potatoes, green veg

Veggie katsu curry with sticky rice

Meatballs/veggie balls in hidden veg tomato sauce, rice, green veg

Homemade pizzas with salad

Tomato pasta bake

Chickpeas in tomato sauce with rice and veg topped with haloumi

Eggs, homemade chips, beans, veg

Veggie burritos
Salmon with potatoes and veg
Prawn linguine
Chicken and roasted veg tray bake with feta
Spaghetti bolognese

This week it is/was

Braised cows cheeks in red wine and cumin and various other spices, green veg and roast potatoes.

DH cooked this, so as ever lots left over, so we had it with very garlicky mash and veg on the Monday.

Tuesday, chicken stir fry with fresh ginger, loads of garlic and noodles, carrots, broccoli, fine green beans.

Wednesday teriyaki salmon panfried on a very hot pan so the inside is very pink, with jasmine rice, warm teriyaki sauce and panfried sesame seeds black (Japanese) and normal sesame seeds. Green veg.

Tonight, baked gammon with a white sauce with very finely diced white onion in it, green veg and new potatoes.

Tomorrow is ehhhhhhh what day is it.... , seriously, tomorrow is take away night,

Saturday, home made burgers with a double cream and mushroom sauce, wedges with paprika.

Sunday , rolled rib of beef, with all the trimmings,

Monday, stir fry with the left overs

And so it begins...... again

Roast Chicken
Ramen noodle stir fry with chicken
Coconut turkey mince curry
Lamb mince keema curry
Lamb moussaka
Paella with quinoa and lentils
Chili con carne
Thai fishcakes with rice
Thai green curry
Fish pie

Following this thread! I feel like we have hit a wall with dinners!

Ours are:
Stroganof - used to do pork or chicken, but I discovered a recipe for a vegan Stroganof (don't know how to spell it!) and it's actually nicer!
Stir fry
Jacket potatoes
Fajitas (tesco tip off old el paso ones)
Quorn nuggets and chips
Pesto pasta with mozzarella, tomatoes, sweetcorn
Sometimes do a veggie curry

Pan fried lamb steaks with garlic and rosemary and red wine sauce
Bollognese
Cottage pie
Carbonara
Sea bass with prawn and pea risotto
Prawn and chorizo Pilla.
Cod topped with a chorizo crumb

Teriyaki chicken stir-fry
Swedish meatballs
Sausage and mash
Chicken schnitzel
Roast chicken potatoes etc which I then turn into a chicken pie the next day.

Copied from my notes...
Egg fried rice
Cannelloni
Mango sorbet
Chicken pesto mozzarella filo parcels
Fajitas
Gammon
Roasted vegetable & mozzarella gallette
Meatballs
Pizza
Creamy pork casserole (Kitchen Sanctuary website)
Paprika chicken
Mac n cheese
Caprese chicken
Chicken & chorizo paella
Sausages & mash
Chicken Kiev’s
Cottage pie
Cod & chips
Pork chops & veg
Veggie burger & fries
Sweet & sour chicken (KS recipe)
Chilli
Shepherds pie
Lasagne

Fish pie (the cheap ones from Tesco). They are actually really good, and a bargain!!

Spag Bol.

Chicken stir fry.

Pasta.

Mac cheese

Jacket potatoes
Fajitas
Sausages and mash
Sausage baps
Pickys (sorry but that's what it's called in my house ) - usually something like ham salad roll, Indian snacks, cheese, peanuts, houmous
Chicken curry
Chili

Very boring and basic I'm afraid.

@AlternativePerspective do happen to have a rough recipe for the lamb, not sure how to do a red wine sauce. Thanks!

Carbonara
Spaghetti bolognese/meatballs
Variety of pasta bakes
Braemar/balmoral Chicken with potato's, veg and peppercorn sauce
Tuscan chicken, potato's and veg
Lamb kebabs with salad and pitta bread
Fajitas
Chicken wraps
Homemade soup
Sausage casserole
Pizza

I love cooking and I'm looking for new things to try so following with interest

Stir fry
Chickpea and cauliflower curry
Spinach Dahl
Bolognese
Pesto pasta
Fajitas
Sausage & mash
3 bean chilli
Hoppin John
Thai curry

I've just written a list of 40 meal ideas. Every week everyone will pick a number 1-40 and we will have those meals. Means I don't have to think and we can have a bit of variety

pattypan what’s Hoppin John?