-homemade meatballs with red wine gravy (I use the Hairy Dieter's meatballs recipe and cook in oven for no faff) served with either rice or mash and vegetables.
-Dutch stampot - mashed potatoes with your choice of other cooked veg mashed in (kale, carrots, chicory) with smoked sausage.
-chicken or sausage casserole (I use a Hairy Dieter's recipe for chx - celery, onions, mushrooms, carrots, white wine or cider plus stock and herbs - and Hairy Biker's recipe for sausages - mushrooms, red wine, onions, carrots, cannellini beans, tomatoes, stock, herbs). served with rice or mash.
-Chicken chorizo bake (again, Hairy Dieter's: cubed potatoes, quartet tomatoes and onions plus whole garlic cloves, salt and pepper in oven for 20 mins, turn everything over, add slices of chorizo and chicken thighs, sprinkle with paprika powder and mixed herbs, another 20 minutes, then add 2 peppers of different colours, cut into 3cm chunks, another 20 mins - so delicious! You can find it online somewhere or in their first HD book).
-split pea soup with smoked sausage, bacon, carrots, onions, leeks, garlic, brown beans.
-butternut squash soup (bns, potato, onions, garlic, stock, salt/pepper). Serve with fresh bread.
-make a proper batch of bolognese slow cooked over a couple of hours to freeze to have with spaghetti or lasagne (onions, garlic, mince, carrots, courgette, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, tomato puree, stock, red wine, herbs, worcestershire sauce).
-potato bake - layer thin slice potato with onions, bacon or ham and seasoning. Pour over homemade white sauce, cover with foil and cook slowly for 1.5 hours at 180 degrees. Serve with a big pile of veg of your choice (lovely with red cabbage and apple) or add thinly sliced veg into the bake.
-toad in the hole with homemade red wine gravy and veg.
-tagiatelle with roasted pumpkin or butternut squash, spinach, goats cheese and pine nuts (I don't use pine nuts any more as they're so ruddy expensive!)
-cottage pie (I use my bolognese recipe minus the courgette and peppers or for a vegetarian version replace the mince with brown lentils)
-scotch broth (can do a veggie version, the barley makes it super filling)
-chilli con or sin carne (onions, garlic, mince, kidney beans, black eyed beans, brown beans, tomatoes, chilli and paprika powder)
-any kind of curry - I like tomato based, my DH prefers green curries with coconut milk
-spaghetti carbonara - garlic, bacon, eggs, grated cheese and spaghetti, served with broccoli.
-and if you do really start craving a burger, make your own oven-cooked paprika potato wedges instead of oven chips