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To request your midweek meals please....

75 replies

onceyoupop · 20/02/2017 22:01

Just that really. We are stuck in a fairly boring routine of my main go to dishes & am seeking inspiration from you guys please.

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Bumpsadaisie · 20/02/2017 22:57

Here's our week (four of us, kids 7 and 5)

Sat - pancetta and broccoli risotto (kids), chicken curry and raita (us, thank you DH!)
Sun - feta cheese and spinach pies made with bought pastry for lunch, (really easy, really yum) then lamb chops, new pots, roast courgettes, spinach and roast tomatoes for supper
Mon - Sausage, chorizo and cannellini bean stew plus pots and spinach (yes there is a lodda spinach to get through!)
Tues - kids tea at grandma's, we will probably have roast veg salad with halloumi and roast chicken on it
Weds - prob spag bol or shep pie
Thurs - IKEA (meatballs and DAIM cheesecake, oh glory be!)
Fri - long day out and can't think that far ahead. Prob stir fry beef noodles or sth like that.

NoBiggie · 20/02/2017 22:58

Steak stir fry with egg noodles
Pan fried salmon with quinoa
Chicken Kiev with wedges
BBQ chicken with sweet potato mash
Spaghetti and meatballs
Sea bass and rice
Chicken fajitas

Braceybracegirl · 20/02/2017 23:00

NoBiggie barbecue chicken sounds nice

glitterazi · 20/02/2017 23:00

Always go down well here -

toad in the hole and mash /peas
tuna pasta bake
fish pie
lasagne
pizza and wedges
roast chicken, potatoes and veg such as broccoli, peas, carrots,cauliflower
risotto
paella

venys · 20/02/2017 23:01

Whirlwind I can relate. Especially the orange food and chips Grin. Slow cooker has been featuring a bit lately. This week it has been or will be:
Caribbean chicken and Squash curry
Roast Turkey breast, roast sweet potatoes.and normal pots, braised red cabbage,
Homemade pizza and chips
Mama's pot noodle
Sushi
Old English Deviled sausages and mash
Beef and Onions with flavourings (Japanese home cooking)
Boboti (never tried this but looks interesting with the slow cooker)
Paella or fideua - the latter slightly more kid friendly as it has their preferred noodles).

Montezumasrevenge · 20/02/2017 23:06

This week we are using up stuff/playing freezer roulette:
Pizza, salad, coleslaw
Spicy Roast chicken, couscous, roasted veg
Salmon with pesto crust, pasta
Barley risotto with bacon
Spiced parsnip soup and toast

venys · 20/02/2017 23:09

Scarymonsters - what's your recipe for the bacon cheese onion and potato pie? Is it online?

FortyFacedFuckers · 20/02/2017 23:10

Last night we had chicken curry
Tonight salmon
Tomorrow steak
Wednesday gammon steak
Thursday fajita pasta
Friday roast chicken

Other regular appearances are
Stew
Pasta & meatballs
Lasagna
Cottage pie
Fish pie
Fish cakes
Fajitas
Chilli
Burgers
Stuffed chicken breasts

Chickoletta · 20/02/2017 23:16

I follow Slimming World and love their recipes.

Mon - Fry up with Heck chicken sausages, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans.
Tues - Chicken curry and rice.
Weds - Singapore noodles (stir fry chicken and prawns in a spicy gingery/curry sauce with loads of veg)
Thurs - Toad in the hole.
Fri - Pasta carbonara.
Sat - Steak and Slimming World chips.
Sun - Roast chicken and all trimmings.

This is a typical week for us, kids love all of it except the Singapore Noodles so that will be a nuggets and chops night for them.

CremeEggThief · 20/02/2017 23:24

Jacket potatoes with cheese and pesto and spinach/salad or cheese and beans or (summer) cheese and coleslaw or cottage cheese.
Some sort of pasta dish with enough for 2 nights: macaroni cheese with spinach; pasta bake with borlotti beans and Mediterranean vegetables; red lentil Bolognese with spaghetti; etc.
Fusilli pasta or gnocchi with pesto 1 or more of: avocado, olives, mushrooms, hardboiled eggs, butter beans, borlotti beans, or roasted Mediterranean vegetables. Or sometimes just with pesto and grated cheese.
Fusilli pasta mixed with chili beans and grated cheese.
Stirfry with tofu or Quorn chunks and vegetables, stirfry sauce and noodles.
Veggie sausages with mash, mixed veg and gravy.
Veggie burgers in baps with oven chips or wedges and green salad sometimes.
Veggie chilli made with soya mince and rice and tortilla chips and sour cream.
Ready made vegetarian pie with mash, mixed veg and gravy.
Quiche with new potatoes/oven chips/wedges and salad. More often in spring and summer.
Falafel with houmous, olives, salad, pitta and sometimes cous-cous. More often in summer.
Ratatouille with chickpeas and cous-cous.
Omelette with salad or frozen vegetable rice.
Scrambled eggs on toast.
Pizza (usually on Friday or Saturday).

Basically, it needs to take 30 minutes from pan to plate. I tend to use wholewheat pasta and noodles, as I find them more filling and they don't take much longer to cook than white, but I don't often have brown rice, even though I like it, as it takes too long, compared to Basmati. I also use a lot of frozen chopped veg (onions, peppers, Mediterranean vegetables, mixed veg, stirfry vegetables, frozen rice and homemade frozen mash), canned pulses and bagged salad, packet cheese and stirfry sauce, to speed things up, and no way I would make my own quiche, falafel, pesto or proper gravy. Grin

NobodyKnowsTiddlyPom · 21/02/2017 00:40

We used to have Mackerel Mondays when the kids all had a club they went to and had to be out of the house with a quick turnaround. That involved quick cook pasta (takes 5 mins), which I boiled with broccoli chopped into v small pieces. Once that's done, I add a whole tin of mackerel in olive oil (minus the oil) and a big dollop of pesto. The kids all love it and it's really healthy. We still have it midweek now but it's just the kids as neither DH or I like tinned mackerel!

Other family midweek meals:

Chilli with rice and tortilla chips
Chicken curry and rice and naan
Spag Bol
Bacon carbonara (good recipe for this on BBC good food)
Cottage pie
Chicken enchiladas or fajitas
Beef cannelloni (I'll usually do this as a weekend dish as it's a bit fiddly and then make extra and put in small pie dishes as individual portions to cook from the freezer)
Beef and guiness stew
Lamb tagine
Minestrone soup (more like a stew really - a very old Jamie Oliver recipe I think ) with homemade focaccia bread (the kids like to make this)
Braised pheasant in madeira, served with buttered new potatoes and braised red cabbage (both these are slow cook dishes so I tend to prepare the night before and will only make it if my husband is working from home and so able to put the hob/oven on to cook them in time.

Kateallison16 · 21/02/2017 01:03

Toad in the hole
Jambalaya with prawn crackers
Garlic and tomato pasta with chargrilled chicken
Chicken korma with rice and popadoms
Spag bol with french bread
Lasange and mix leaf salad
Spaghetti carbonara with parmesan
Enchiladas
Jerk chicken and pineapple tortillas
Burgers in brioche buns with onion rings
Sweet and sour chicken
Stir fry with naan bread or pitta
Mixed grill (Gammon, steak, sausage, chicken...)
Boubon Coke ham joint served in ciabattas with bbq sauce

Just a few ideas :)

Huldra · 21/02/2017 07:38

One night a week we have an easy sandwich based meal, so with a bowl of salad something like:

Burgers or sausages in rolls. Bit of a variety in there sometimes with different cheeses, egg and burger, bacon and burger, roasted veg.
Steak sandwiches, the minute steaks are useful.
Sloppy Joes
Meat Ball Sub
All the above I can easily do my own veggie version.

Chicken sandwich / burger. I marinade the chicken in something like piri or jerk overnight.
Falafal burgers. It's the one home made veggie burger that they all like, even the meat lovers.
Wraps / tacos. Good for leftovers if my husband has done a slow roast lamb or pork at the weekend.

I vary the bread, anything from part baked bread, shop white rolls, home made flat breads, seeded.

It also works for different tastes because they're Build Your Own. I often have jalapeños and gerkins in the fridge that add little variety.

GallivantingWildebeest · 21/02/2017 08:42

Pop - jambalaya recipe here: www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1167651/chicken-and-chorizo-jambalaya

Fopr tapas we do a selection of bread, parma ham, roast tomatoes and pappers, potato salad, fritatta (Tesco do a nice one), and everyone can help themselves.

GallivantingWildebeest · 21/02/2017 08:42

Peppers, not pappers!

fuckwitery · 21/02/2017 08:50

Kids (7 and 5)

Pesto pasta with prawns broccoli peas and kale
Mackerel with couscous and crudités/salad
Sausages and mash with peas and corn
Chicken with rice veg and gravy/white sauce combo thing DH does
Fish fingers chips and peas /corn
Macaroni cheese (with cauliflower mixed in. Yum)
Pizza made from wraps
Fish cakes and salad
Spag bol
Spag carbonara
Spag Tom sauce and sausages
Pork chops with mash and broccoli

I get home late (DH does the above from a menu plan) and then I do us a later supper. Often salmon stir fry, chicken and fennel, sea bass mash and samphire/cavalo Nero/kale
Steak and spinach as a treat. Chicken and mushroom risotto.

Weekends are quite set in stone around here. Thai or Indian curry Friday night. Saturday homemade pizza for lunch and often out for supper. Sunday always roast (which I use the leftovers from either for work lunches or a risotto if chicken).

madmoon · 21/02/2017 08:58

Last night we had an African curry ( made with a packet mix )
tues( today) = we have farm sausages in a slow cooked casserole
Weds = honey and lemon chicken with rice
Thur = jacket spuds with either tuna or beans and cheese
Friday= Chinese noodles
Sat = take away
Sunday = quiche ( I normally do a three bean and onion with strong cheddar) and salad

JaxingJump · 21/02/2017 09:18

Mon- Asian pork on rice with roasted broccoli
Tues- chilli lamb, Bombay potatoes, courgette curry and raita
Wed- Cod with chorizo crumb, Parmesan roast potatoes, spinach
Thurs- veggie chilli con carne
Fri- Sausages, mash, onion gravy and peas
Sat- Chicken fajitas
Sun- Roast gammon, braised cabbage, potatoes
Mon- Pea, broccoli and chorizo pasta

That's us this week. A bit pork heavy!

Groovee · 21/02/2017 10:15

This week is

Mince and potatoes
Cajun chicken pasta
Vegetable Risotto
Steak and Prawns
Chicken Tikka
Roast dinner

We're all out Friday so no menu then.

MumOfTwoMasterOfNone · 21/02/2017 10:23

Lasagne
Fish pie
Curry and coconut rice
Chicken laksa
Sausage, mash and onion gravy
Pizza
Honey mustard pork loin and roasted new potatoes
Pesto salmon
Monkfish wrapped in prosciutto
Moroccan chicken
Tapas (gambas pil pil, halloumi and rocket, mushrooms in Stilton and black pepper etc)

Anything and everything really!!

minipie · 21/02/2017 10:31

Marking place for ideas!

Here are our usual suspects (for DH and I, not the DC):

Chorizo and butterbean stew
Halloumi with tomato/red pepper cous cous
Pasta bake with mozzarella and tomato
Lots of variations on meat/veg/potatoes or fish/veg/potatoes
Stir fry with chicken or prawns
Lasagne (bought Blush)
Pitta bread burgers

More occasionally:
Spag bol
Risotto (pancetta and mushroom, pea and prawn, leek and cheese)
Mushroom tart
Fajitas
Left over roast chicken and salad (Monday night)
Carbonara
Crab linguine
Gnocchi with blue cheese sauce
Pasta with smoked mackerel, cream and peas
Curry (more often at the weekend)

NotAMammy · 21/02/2017 18:56

Slag Bol
For when you're really regretting your decisions at the weekend...

Rixera · 21/02/2017 19:30

Sunday- pork roast (make soup with leftover veg)
Monday- leftover pork with homemade BBQ sauce and coleslaw in buns
Tuesday- Vietnamese braised leftover pork with carrots and fluffy steamed rice
Wednesday- last of pork and chickpea curry
Thursday- slow cooker ragu
Friday- date night, French onion soup followed by crepe suzette
Saturday- Chinese egg & tomato rice

thesockgap · 21/02/2017 19:36

Some of our current meals include:

Chicken breast with pesto & mozzarella
Cajun chicken with pitta breads
Cottage pie or shepherds pie
Spag bol
Penne pasta with spicy tomato sauce and either chicken & chorizo / meatballs
Chicken curry

LightTheLampNotTheRat · 21/02/2017 19:50

We meal-plan too. So this week:
Pork stir fry (with leftover roast pork from Sunday)
Spaghetti bolognese (everyone says this!)
Cauliflower cheese
Lamb, spinach and chickpea hotpot
Roast chicken

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