How many meals do you have in your repetoire?

[philippat]

Unfortunately people rarely use my name and 'domestic goddess' in the same sentence. However, since recently changing my hours to finish work 4 days a week by 2pm, I'm making a bit more of an effort. Ready meals are almost a thing of the past...

However, I realised we have the same things practically every week, so wrote down all 'my' main course meals and got 23. This included things like lamb chops, salmon fillet as well as 2 different varients on lasagne etc... It seems a bit pathetic...

How many can you do?

I don't know...but fwiw 23 sounds quite respectable

ha! about four....
I can make
Lasagne
Spag Bol
Roast dinners
Stir fry
Sweet and sour
Fish and chips/ egg and chips
Various meats with mash and peas
Stew
Cassarole (Stew with tomatoes in it)
curry
Fish pie
Poached egg on toast
Cheese and potato pie
Leftover hotpot (Things in a pot with gravy)
Fry up.
Tomatoes on toast
virtue burgers (whizzed veg with an egg mixed in, shallow fried.
Omelettes
Pasta carbonara.

And I do use jars and packets to get the results I want

23 sounds darn good to me!

Here are mine:

Chicken korma
Shepherds pie
Chicken rogan josh
stir fry - various
Mixed veg omelette
Chilli - standard
Chilli - vegetarian
Roast & trimmings
Stuffed pancakes
pork balls with mango chutney
homemade chicken nuggets
fish pie
salmon gougons

....umm struggling now...

tuna pasta bake
ratatouille pasta
leek, bacon and cream cheese stuffed jacket pots

...I give up now.

is that ones you make off the top of your head, or ones that you use some sort of recipe for??

Off the top of my head - probably have about 25-30

Toad in the Hole
Roast chicken
Chicken Pie
Baked Bean Lasagne
Corned Beef Hash
Bean and vegetable soup
Macaroni Cheese
Bangers and Mash
Turkey Stir Fry
Cottage Pie
Beef Casserole
Spanish Omelette
Mince and Dumplings
Pork Chops
Pizza (homemade)
Sausage Casserole

plus I do lots of 'variations' of the above - which turn out as completely different meals from the originals. I'm sure there's more - but can't think of them ATM

For ones that I use a recipe for........well I've got about 200 in a folder from my (long since expired) subscriptionn to a menu-mailer - and I've cooked all of them at least once.

oh yes forget the spag bol
(homemade) burgers
Jacket Spuds

Spag bol - ooh I can add that to my list too

At first I thought I had about 20, but scanning your list I saw there are loads I missed. Probably close to 40 for me. But some are quite similar, for example I can do about 4 different types of cheesy pasta dishes. All lovely though!

Yes thinking about it, I missed mince out completely, and I do loads with mince

Mine's hardly any I remember one day DH asking if we could go a few weeks without a pasta dish

for us: curry
chicken and chips
pork chops and mash
stir fry

tried corned beef hash but dh and ds refused point blank to eat it

for ds: sandwiches
crisps
apple
chocolate biscuit

Quite a lot - and I mix & match and play around a bit too and have an 'invent' in the kitchen. Last week I did Mexican chicken parcels - basically a chicken breast fillet, wrapped in smoked bacon. I topped it with some slices of Mecicana chilli cheese, a couple of tablespoons of Dorito's salsa, some sliced courgettes. Wrapped it in foil & stuck it in the oven for 35-40 mins. I have to admit, it was pretty delicious

too many to mention

I have cooked from scratch almost every night for the last 10 years

Ooh you've got me thinking. Might come back later.

Enid - you need to get out more!

lol

i know

not sure, I make a lot up, with varying degrees of success

tee hee, had to send DH out to the chinese take away tonight...

and this was because I was so busy crafting lavender cordial that I forgot to check if we'd run out of pasta (and we had). I think I might have to aim for goddess rather than domestic...

baked bean lasagne???? OMG!!!!

Like the sound of the lavender cordial..how do you do it???

moondog - it's one of rickman's - can't find the recipe off hand - but it's REALLY lovely - the topping is very scrummy (not like the stuff they used to make in school as 'vegetarian' option I hasten to add!)

well, it's still too hot to taste so I can't vouch for how good it is but:

dissolve 100g sugar in 300ml water, bring to boil. Infuse 40 lavender flowers (fresh picked) for 20 mins. Strain, bring back to boil, stir continuously until syrup-y (by which point you've got about 100ml). Pour into sterilised bottle.

Mix with sparkling water to drink.

QoQ,you know I love ya (and Rickman) but the thought has me retching over my laptop!
I have never eaten a baked bean in my life.
Bllleaaarghhhh!

P...sounds great! I love lavender in all guises.Am nibbling old fashioned lavender cachous now which I saw in a shop the other day and had to buy.They remind me of powdery old great aunts.

does pasta and cheese, pasta and cheese and tuna, pasta and cheese and tomatoes, pasta and pesto, pasta and broccoli and pesto etc etc all count as different meals

we went to yorkshire lavender this summer (up near scarborough) and I bought some recipe sheets from them. Had lavender scone and lavender ice cream there. Really really lovely