...to ask you your family’s favourite five meals?

[AndOfCourseHenryTheHorse]

Just out of interest, as I’ve really been enjoying the fridge contents threads! Also, I’m in a bit of a recipe rut, so could use some inspiration.

We are a family of four, (2 adults and 2 dcs). I eat mainly veggie, but, since my family can’t seem to agree on veggie meals that we all like, I now just cook meat for the rest of the family and adapt it, so it’s suitable for me too.

Our favourites are:

• roast dinner
• choose-your-own-toppings pizza
• pasta and veggie tomato sauce
• sausage mash & gravy
• Buddha bowl / salad type things with everyone’s favourite things

Lamb meatball curry
Cau Lau noodles
Roast dinner of any variety
Bangkok chicken rice
Steak and chips

Also fajitas

Chicken pie with baked potato and peas

Chicken Kiev

Gammon egg and chips

Meatballs and pasta

Any roast and any curry

Chicken chasseur
Lasagne
Chilli
Chicken fried Rice
Tomato and veg pasta bake

Chicken curry with Pataks simmer sauce and chickpeas.
Bangers and mash.
Greek lemon chicken made with chicken thighs, wedges of potatoes, onion, garlic, lemon and various herbs, all bunged in the oven to roast.
Beef stew with mushrooms.
A number of dishes from a YouTube cook called Chef John who has a weird singsong delivery but every single dish I have tried has been fantastic.

Sausages and mash
Cauliflower and mac and cheese
Pasta pesto
Spag bol.
Stir fry with noodles.

Kids would choose;
Pesto pasta
Spaghetti and meatballs
Curry (non specific but preferred is butter chicken) and rice
Fajitas
Anything with sausage in eg casserole or just sausage and mash

Sweet and sour chicken.
Risotto.
Jalfrezi.
Baked spicy salmon, rice and salad.
Burgers and chips.

Nothing prepared in our house, but also nothing that's much hassle.

That was supposed to say pre-prepared!

Tomato and chorizo risotto
Carbonara
Home made fish and chips
Stir fry
Prawn linguine with chilli and sun dried tomatoes

Kids eat a variation of the following
Spag bol or pasta in general
Sausage and mash
Homemade pizza
Gammon and jacket potato
Picnic tea- chicken wraps, cucumber, grapes, yogurt, crisps etc
Curry

Roasts (with the meat appropriate accompaniments)
Cheese and chicken pasta bake (home-made)
Cottage pie with yorkies
Farmers casserole with beef and dumplings
Smoked salmon, prawns, baby new pots, avocados and salad

Less special but quick

Carbonara
Barbecue grills, minted cous cous, salad
Cherry tom, mozz and olive puff pastry flan
Salmon stir fry
Chicken thighs with lemon, curry, spinach and creme fraiche

Lasagne
Roast dinner
Pizza
Enchiladas
Tacos

Homemade soups,
Fish, chips, peas and tomatoes
Oven cooked salmon, potatoes with skin's on, cauliflower with cheese sause
Chicken salad fajitas
Pizza

Roast any meat
Spag bol
Paella
Hunters chicken
Homemade KFC

Roast, must include parsnips
Lasagne
Broccoli and cauliflower cheese
Fish pie
Game casserole (varies, but usually rabbit, pigeon, pheasant, with other stuff as and when)

This is a great thread - it would be even better if people could link to recipes, where available! Coincidentally I just wrote down all the meals that I can just about get everyone to eat (one adventurous, one quite fussy, one ridiculously fussy DC). mbosnz - would be interested in your chicken lasagne recipe.

Our top favourites are:
Nick Clegg's pasta bake (from the Henderson's Relish cookbook)
Stew and crispy dumplings
Toad in the hole with veg and mash
Salmon, new potatoes and veg
Tuna pasta bake www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/kerryann-s-tuna-pasta-bake/
Roast dinner

My personal favourites, but only eaten by 3 of the 5 are:

Pesto and goat's cheese risotto
Spinach and chickpea curry (first made by DS1 in school cookery)
Tapas

Four dc, two boys two girls and weirdly the boys prefer very different things to the girls. Obviously just one of those things but a mighty pain in the butt.
Boys favs
Sausage and mash
Roast dinner
Macaroni cheese with cauli blended in
Scouse with pickled red cabbbage
Beef casserole with mash and broccoli
Girls favs
Pasta with ragu and garlic bread
Roast dinner
Chicken stir fry with noodle
Chicken tikka with rice and flat breads
Steak with new potatoes and veg

They will all eat everything but it seems like someone's always bloody moaning.

Homemade Katsu curry
Risotto (usually mushroom for meat free Monday)
Roast pork belly and mash
Spaghetti
Teriyaki chicken and udon noodles

In no particular order...

Spaghetti Bolognese
Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pud etc
Roast Ham with baked potatoes and salads.
Fish (almost any works) baked in soy, garlic and ginger with sushi rice and greens.
Chicken fillets marinaded in paprika, lemon and oregano with sweet potatoes and salad.

Fajitas (any kind, steak or salmon if we're feeling flush, mushroom or chicken)
Tacos (serve all the bits to the table and everyone helps themselves)
Chilli (I make a double batch and have it with nachos, cheese, soured cream, guacamole and jalepenos and then as another meal with rice and soured cream)
Mac and cheese with lard ons and topped with sliced tomatoes
Sausage and bacon carbonara

Roast chicken /beef / pork & veg etc
Enchiladas/ fajitas / tacos
Chicken, wedges & salad/veg
Pasta- Amatriciana current fave, meatballs, Bolognese
Risotto

Although they would all live on spaghetti Bolognese if I let them!

Seafood pie
Pulled pork with salad and baked potatoes
Paste carabona
Chips beans and egg
Sheperds pie
Chicken curry
Chicken stew
Spanish Omelette
Homemade soup with crusty rolls
Fry up
Roast Turkey dinner
Steak with onion gravy ,Yorkshire pud etc
Baked potatoes with beans
Chicken and bacon pie
Chicken princess
Salmon in ginger and lime with baby potatoes

I know you asked for five but there's usually two dinners done each day here because of fussy eaters!

Keralan risotto with spiced mango crevettes
What is this? Sounds amazing...

I have not-particularly-fussy DC but a DH who has recently stopped eating a load of things. So our current top 5 please-everyone meals are probably:

Roast chicken (whole, with all the trimmings, or thighs on a tray bake with veg, or chicken & chips, or a variation on the above)

Fish pie

Risotto, veg/chicken/maybe prawns

Pan-fried turkey steaks, with sweet potato wedges

Turkey meatballs with rice

Thai red curry (veggie, prawn, chicken or as a successful with veg and seabass)
Kedgeree
Lamb saag
slow roasted duck legs with a port sauce (takes ages though)
Berbacoa beef/pork with Mexican rice and beans, and pink pickled onions.

We eat a lot of spicy food...