To ask what your favourite (quick) family dinner is??

[SamWheat]

Looking for inspiration, somebody inspire me as I'm stuck in a rut of Bolognese and pizza (all they seem to want to eat lately!
What's your failsafe, everybody likes, dinner recipe?

Ours is fish finger wraps

International chicken and rice

Basic recipe is fry sliced chicken thighs/breast with onion and garlic, add stock and a packet of ready cooked rice. You then change the flavourings before you add the rice according to which one you're making so

Chinese - spring onion, soy, chinese leaves, 5 spice powder, cashew nuts
Spanish - red wine, chorizo, peppers, prawns, tomato and paprika
French - white wine, mushrooms, cream, use Uncle Ben's wild rice mix
Middle eastern - add ras-el-hanout, dried apricots, flaked almonds
Mexican - peppers, sweetcorn, taco spice mix
Indian - blob of patak's curry paste, frozen spinach
Italian - tomato, basil, chunks of mozzarella
etc.

Cook everything together then for about 2 mins after the rice is added.

Jamie Oliver sausage sausage bake - chuck loads of cherry toms, few garlic cloves, some dried herbs into an oven dish. Slosh in loads of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Mix. Shove in 6 sausages. Mix.
Shove in oven.

I serve with a bagged salad and sliced tiger loaf with butter.

Egg and chips - eggs are healthy and oven chips are fine

Omelettes

quesadilla - made with wraps grilled with anything you have to hand as a filling (olives, ham, chese etc)

corn beef hash with egg

Pepperoni pasta and garlic bread. I always do this on a Thursday when ds has Cubs. Just boil some pasta, chop up some pepperoni, chuck together with a jar of spicy pasta sauce (tomato and chilli is my face). Top with grated hard cheese.

I really need these ideas in my life

Love that International rice idea.

Pasta with bottom of the fridge vegetables and chopped up frank furters

Gnocchi with butter fried sage.

pasta with a carbonara-type coating of egg yolks, creme fraiche and parmesan, with sautéed bacon, mushrooms and sausage meat. You can sauté the stuff in the time it takes the pasta to cook, and then just stir in the sauce.

fish baps - get some white fish fillets, slice into strips, dip in egg, seasoned flour and panko. Shallow fry for a minute each side. Stuff into white baps and eat with a salad.

Fresh mozzarella, basil and tomato pasta salad - with balsamic dressing. Goes down well every time!

Fajitas or tuna pasta bake.

Saturday night lazy dinner is frozen scampi with peas and home made potato wedges.

Honey soy noodles, got the recipe from mumsnet and has saved me many a time!

Marinade chicken thighs in 3tbs soy sauce, 3tbs honey, 1 tsp 5 spice

Shove in oven at 180 for 30 mins

Cook noodles, brocolli, pak choi, peppers, sugar snap peas, baby sweetcorn, whatever

Shred chickrn and mix with the greens and noodles.

Good thread, some brilliant ideas here. Those talking about the broccoli past bake - is it the cheesy one?

Pesto!! With pasta and chicken/bacon/cheese - anything really,
Fish fillets cooked in foil in oven - with couscous or rice and lots of veg...
I'm definitely trying a couple of these!!

My fastest dinner is also my kids' favourite!

Spicy seafood pasta

Boil spaghetti; in a pan heat quite a lot of olive oil, frozen garlic and chilli (Waitrose), a brick of crab meat from the freezer, finish with frozen parsley (also Waitrose). 10 minutes.

I'm making these today

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/sloppy-joe/#13FlsEobS0C3ogyU.97

Salmon tray bake, roasted veg and pasta, macaroni cheese, stir fry with a sort of satay sauce made from peanut butter, hairy bikers sweet n sour chicken

Veggie burritos.
Heat up a tin of black beans with some rice. Spoon into a corn tortilla, add lettuce, salsa and cheese, then roll up.