to ask for your no-fuss dinners that keep hot well ?

[tulipsforthetable]

DH has recently got a new job, wfh 🎉 but doing a lot of West Coast USA 🇺🇸 meetings - right over dinner time.
he used to do the lion's share of cooking. I am now taking this over but need stuff that can sit in the oven for a bit and stay warm for both him and also we do a lot of to-ing and fro-ing to collect DC from activities who are then starving when they return.

e.g. Pasta bolognese works well- super easy as can feed people who are here but can cover and keep warm for those who aren't yet.

I know this is an age-old one but I'd love to get this sorted

tia

I would assume any dish that is like lava when dished up, usually those things cooked in pyrex dishes/ceramic dishes etc

So cottage/shepherds pie, moussaka, lasagne, chilli baked in the oven or slow cooker, curries same

Slow cooker might be a good shout

Don't you have a microwave? That's what they are for.

Or are you one of those who believe they have harmful rays, or whatever?

Pretty much anything, just microwave it to warm it up if needed

Lovely old-fashioned casseroles and stews that will just get better whilst they wait…served with good bread to mop the bowl afterwards 😋!

Do you have an air fryer? I leave the food in there to keep warm if my husband isn’t back in time for tea? I follow recipes on Instagram. Fajitas wrapped up and put back in air fryer for two minutes are a favourite and stay hot forever!

Pretty much anything will either keep warm in the oven or be ok to microwave later won’t it? Except a soufflé or something I suppose! This week I’ve kept portions back of curry, creamy pasta bake and chilli and microwaved them later. They’ve all been fine.

Same problem in our house as I work per tea time but I do the cooking. So week days its traybake central! Love the roasting tin books as I can prep up and they can sit in ovens and they're fine hot/cold / warm/ heated up. Jacket pots. Stews in winter in the slow pot. Salads in the summer.

Similar predicament here!

Slow cooker curries so all I have to do is cook some rice in 10 minutes

Stews, same as above with potatoes

Pasta bake as an alternative to lasagna

I should add, I have a sage risotto plus. Couldn't live without it! Obviously great risottos, but also does rice and you can slow cook in it as well but the main thing is that it has a "keep warm" feature when it's finished cooking.

I’d say cottage/shepherd’s pie, lasagne, casseroles, stews, curries, chilli etc, jacket potatoes- but those are foods more for the depths of winter! Bar jacket potatoes.

With the weather being warmer I’d do quicker, lighter meals like quiche, salad and new potatoes or poached fish with broccoli and new potatoes or rice. Kedgeree is quick on the hob, or risotto. I don’t bother anymore with all the stirring stages of risotto, after softening the onions and adding the rice just pour in wine and stock, stir and simmer with a lid, stirring once in 20 mins.

That plus quick dishes like spaghetti carbonara should do you ❤️