To ask for your meal ideas, so bored of eating the same things

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I seem to repeat the same meals week in week out and I am so bored of cooking it and eating it. Below is a list of the meals and non of us are fussy eat everything going really apart from I have a fish and seafood allergy so don't prepare fish st home. Dc eat fish at school once a week and are free to have it when we eat out.

Pasta:- tortellini
Carbonara
Lasagne
Pasta and meatballs

Roast dinner
Cottage pie
Chilli and rice
Chicken fajitas
Sausages mash and peas
Toad in the whole
Beef caserole
Chicken caserole
Burgers and onion rings
Quiche and salad
Chicken pie
Jacket spuds
Cajun chicken and cous cous
Gammon

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-chickpea-tagine
This is a favourite and quite quick to make. I always end up adding a bit of cornflour to thicken it...we have with couscous and/or flatbreads

Also a change from chilli...mix your chilli up with Mexican microwave rice, roll into wraps and layer in an oven dish and top with cheese, serve with salad

I made the most delicious pork dish at the weekend. I call it 'sugared pork' but there may well be an actual recipe out there which is different...... So - get a pork shoulder joint. Take off the string and the skin. In the dish you will be cooking it in, put a good whack of grown sugar, I used about half a packet, and not the tiny packets either. Add a good squeeze of tomato puree (about a tablespoon) and a good squeeze of garlic puree. Add a goodly glug of Worcestershire sauce, enough to mix in all the sugar and to make a loose paste or very thick sauce consistency. Put the pork in the dish and cover with the marinade. Marinade it overnight if you can, for a couple of hours if you can't, turning it at least once and spooning the marinade over whenever you happen to pass it. Then cook on a fairly low temperature until it is done (check cooking times for slow cooked pork), spooning the marinade over a few times while it cooks. Once it is notionally 'cooked', whack the oven up high and give it another 20 minutes to half an hour to give it a sticky glaze. Serve it with home cooked potato wedges, broccoli or whatever veggies you like, and the extra sauce on the side. If you score the skin well you can cook that separately and have some nice crispy crackling too.

As you may have guessed, I'm a fairly relaxed cook. This always comes out yummy and doesn't need exact measurements. If you like it more garlicky add more garlic. If you don't like garlic (who doesn't like garlic!) then leave it out. If you like chili then add some chili to the marinade. Put in the flavours you like.

Not grown sugar! BROWN sugar!

Oof that pork recipe sounds amazing! Does it pull apart?

Have you tried quesadillas op? They might be something you would like based on your usual meals. You can put all sorts in, the world is your oyster!

Mozerella pasta penne?

www.flickr.com/photos/drower/6242475722

That's the only copy of the recipe I could find but it's super easy and super yummy

I promise I don't work for them but I get simply cook every couple of weeks and I love it. I was so bored eating the same meals . I have only ever had two that I wouldn't order again . They were ok but not really lovely.

It just got me out of a rut and I have done it for about a year now and not bored of it yet .

Shakshuka is my new great love: spicy tomatoes and peppers with eggs baked in the sauce. It is so comforting and tasty and perfect for cold winter evenings.

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1014721-shakshuka-with-feta

Another variation on the chilli, serve it in lettuce “bowls” using little gem leaves, sprinkle with cheese, some home made guacamole or salsa and toast some wraps in frying pan, cut into triangles and serve on the side.
Halloumi is lush - we have (cooked) halloumi and peppers in wraps with a bit of hummus or tzatziki and salad
Omelettes are always quick and easy, I throw in mushrooms, sweet corn,
Tomato, Spinach...finish off under the grill so it’s all fluffy and browned
Home made wedges made from either potatoes or root veg (I use carrots and parsnips), roasted in Mexican spices, serve with home made guacamole and a couple of fried eggs
Thai curry, any meat plus some sugar snaps, green peppers etc with a ready made spice mix and a tin of coconut milk, serve with lime infused rice (just mix in some lime juice and rind to plain basmati)
I think your list sounds lovely!

Meatballs with mash and gravy, posh it up with some herbs, cream and a bit of recurrent jelly for the IKEA experience.

I’ve been doing this since I saw it recommended on here a while back. It’s very easy and delicious.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1167651/chicken-and-chorizo-jambalaya

Apart from your list which we eat much of we have:-

Steak
Hunters chicken
Omelette
Frittata
Sausage cheese and potato pie beans
Chicken burgers, beef burgers, veggie burgers
Spag Bol
Stew
Curry and rice (korma, Masala etc)
Chicken Marsala (the wine not curry)
Chicken in white wine sauce
Pizza (homemade per made bases)
Stir fry
Sausage casserole
Chicken chassaur

Roast chicken salad and jacket potato
Fry up on a Monday with Sunday’s letter over veg ans potato

I made these the other day, really nice and lots of recipes on here.
lilandlife.com/2018/02/05/creamy-chicken-and-broccoli-stuffed-pasta-shells/

We've made a real effort lately to add in a new dish every week. The favourites get added to our list to include in weekly meal plans (when we can be arsed to do it).

Iately we've tried Kenyan, Iranian and all sorts. Only easy things.

Also our usual meal plan foods are red lentil dahl, Spanish beans, fajitas, curries, slow cooker stews.
Oh, and we discovered last night that my 7 year old loves Persian spiced lentil stew. Win!

Today I discovered Katsu Curry sauce is very easy to make and made with basic ingredients. The dc think I'm a fucking Legend for making chicken katsu curry and it is a hens tooth meal in that WE ALL LIKE IT!!

Oh and we also get Simply Cook very 4 weeks and do one recipe a week that’s always ‘new’ to us.

Oooh Katsu curry recipe link please!!

Here's the lentil dhal is make all the time: veggiedesserts.co.uk/red-lentil-dahl/

Get an Instant Pot. I gave one to DH for Christmas (he does all the cooking) and it's opened up all sorts of recipe possibilities. This, for example, was fabulous:

Instant Pot Mongolian Beef

It also make perfect brown rice in 22 minutes.

Haha internetrandomer I wonder if that was my recommendation, it’s another of my favourites off BBC food

Macaroni
Homemade pizza
Steak
Steak pie
Chicken jambalaya
Chicken fajita pasta

Risotto: mushroom, leek and bacon, pea and ham, chicken . . .
Also macaroni cheese.
All the curries.
Slow roast duck, guinea fowl (Sainsburys sell it)
Lamb kebabs
Rack of lamb
Chicken fried rice

There was a glut of offers on meal boxes before Christmas- groupon etc, so we did Hello Fresh, Simply Cook, Gusto etc over a month and it was great to doing something different. Then now have teenagers and they choose a meal out of a cook book/ online and they help cook it. Family of 5, we all score a new recipe out of 10 and if it gets more than 35, it's a keeper!

Second katsu curry! Chicken and chorizo paella, chicken chasseur, chicken wrapped in bacon, homemade burgers

Pineapple Malaysian curry

Lentil stew is delicious, either a Spanish one with chorizo and pimenton (spice) or a veggie one. I make a lot and freeze it. serve with couscous, rice or sometimes just pitta bread used as a spoon