What's for dinner - the lazy version

[HottestEverRecordedTemperature]

I am not feeling too good today. Just low and overwhelmed by life stresses.

I am at a loss as to what to cook for dinner. I am coeliac so it has to be wheat and gluten free. We have had chicken almost every day lately. Dcs are 14 and 12 but generally eat very plainly due to autism and sensory issues.

I'd really love easy peasy no fuss dinner suggestions.

At present I am thinking saying fuck it and just getting Dominos. (For the Dcs, not me).

Ideas very welcome.

Miso aubergines

The sauce would work well for tofu, chicken, mushrooms, beef/pork strips

www.marionskitchen.com/spicy-miso-braised-eggplant/

Salmon fillet (or white fish instead, or breaded fillet? Can get frozen packs of either to keep handy), with rice, peas (easy to jazz up with sweet chilli and soy sauce or anything else if you fancy)

Or the above with mash instead.

Thanks all the above posters for some great easy meals!

Thanks again everyone.

Today i had a bit of a pootle around the local school websites because I discovered that many of them publish their lunch menus online. Some great meals around and most of them I think I can get past older DS. This is the list I wrote;

• swedish style meatballs with mash and lingonberry jam
• bbq pork ribs with sweet corn and wedges
• hot chicken wraps with salad
• sausages and mash (I always forget sausages and mash!)
• chicken pizzaiola with spagetti and garlic bread
• creamy homemade chicken soup with mini pizzas

Lots of lovely ideas. I made meatballs in tomato sauce in the slow cooker yesterday. I'm having some tonight with spaghetti and parmesan.

We’ve been really good last few days and I can’t be arsed cooking again tonight so it’s frozen haddock in batter with some airfryer chips and macho peas

Feeling a bit more motivated today so planning on making these - Japanese prawn pancakes (more like fritters I think) and the Dcs can have ramen afterwards (which really just means instant noodles but I add all sorts of bits like grated carrot, corn, mange tout and chicken to it).

But slow cooker meatballs sounds like it will definitely make an appearance this weekend!

https://www.delicious.com.au/recipes/okonomiyaki-japanese-pancakes-prawns/bvwz2xcl?r=recipes/collections/l1y6brzi

Keeping it simple, pasta with salmon salmon, peas and creme francie. Will add some crusty bread and a salad as we've got a guest

@HottestEverRecordedTemperature I have a son who is coeliac and he loves easy paella. Using either pouches of ready cooked vegetable rice or cook some yourself. Fry up with onion , chunks of chorizo , chunks of ready cooked chicken breast, garlic, smoked paprika and some frozen peas. He likes with with grated cheese.
On table in 10 mins, 15 if cooking the rice and easy
Or for super easy, potato waffles , egg and beans !

Or curry - taming twins slow cooker curry went down well and I made Becky excellent flatbreads to go with

I do mashed potato with salmon darnes (cooked in the microwave, just over a minute) and peas. Doing it for one person (me) I use the microwave for everything - peel and chop up the spud before zapping and then mashing it, putting the peas into a little ramekin and doing them alongside the salmon while I'm mashing. Serve with a blob of mayonaisse and a wedge of lemon. Laziest dinner in the world, and not much more complicated if you have to steam the potatoes and cook the peas. And gluten free.

One that I have posted before -

Pork casserole that works very well with those excessively lean chops that can taste like cardboard. Not sure where it came from - my mother got it out of a newspaper ca 30 years ago.

1lb/454 grammes lean pork, cubed

1 medium onion, chopped

16 dried apricots

8 stoned prunes

2 cloves

1/2 cinnamon stick

Salt and pepper

Glass of white wine

Some chicken stock

Put everything in a covered pan and cook together for an hour or a little longer. Stir if you feel the need, no other intervention necessary - if you want to thicken the sauce, a little potato flour or cornflour mixed with water and cooked in at the end will be fine.

I like to eat that with green beans and either rice or mashed potato. Anyone I've given it to has liked it - the spices don't dominate the flavour, and the fruit vanishes into a rich gravy. Now that I'm living alone I tend to cook a double or triple batch and then freeze single portions in bags - it's a good lazy day meal