Which 5 meals do you cook most often?

[MrsHuxtable]

Please indulge me. Been sick with hyperemesis for the last 5 months, so the thought of food was pushed to the very back of my mind. I'm now ready to look at cookbooks again. It's bliss! In fact, I'm a little obsessed at the moment with all the things I want to eat...

So what are the 5 meals you make the most often?

And also, how many different meals are there roughly in your repertoire that you rotate for dinner?

I make spagetti bolognaise nearly every week, a roast dinner every Sunday, depends on time of year but seem to be making a lot of stews at the moment (with pearl barley, delicious!) fish pie, lasagne, veggie curry. Am really into cooking at the moment as my youngest started school in September so can indulge myself with preparing longer-to-cook meals!

Soup
Roast
Chilli
curry
Jacket potatoes

No idea how many recipes in rotation, but I know we once went 6 weeks without repeating a menu, so a few

Spag bol
Beef casserole
Lasagne
Roast
Shepherds pie

WOW, 6 weeks without repeating a recipe, that's impressive!

Roast
Spag bol
Lasagne
Stews
Jacket potato

However this is only when I can be bothered - I ate nothing but bread and butter yesterday.... must pull my finger out really!

Chilli
Lamb and winter veg soup
Spare ribs
Casseroled braising steak
Braised pork steaks with fennel
Baked salmon in sweet chilli sauce
Marinated chicken breasts
Mediterannean chicken with peppers and black olives

Most frequently, pasta with cheese sauce and green veg, ragu, soup of many kinds, chilli.

No idea how many different recipes we usually rotate, but I tend to do at least one new thing a week.

Our regulars are spag bol, cottage pie, chicken fajitas, spicy chicken pasta, salmon with stir fried veg, roast, fish pie, meatballs with spaghetti and sausage & mash. There are a few other things in there that change seasonally so beef stew or chicken casserole in winter; seasoned grilled chicken breast with baked pots and salad in summer.

I 'm on maternity leave at the moment so experimenting a bit more with home made pasta sauces, stuffed meat & fish and pies but when we're both at work it's nice, easy stuff that can be on the table in 40 minutes or less!

Chilli
Bean soup
Pesto with chicken and mash and greens
Sausages mustard mash
beans on toast

I think the thing I make the most is Thai green chicken curry. I also do a lot of Indian curries - I have "I love curry" by Anjum Anand so have been working through all of the different recipes. I also make beef and guinness stew quite a lot. Besides those I batch cook bolognaise sauce and chilli so there's normally some of that in the freezer if I can't be bothered to cook.

Regular features

Spag bol
Spag carbonara
Caesar salad
Soup
Sweet and sour

We have at least one of those once a week.

I guess I have about 50 main course recipes that I use, some more regularly than others.

My children and husband all have cooked meals at school / work, further my daughters have to often eat 'on the run' as they do a lot of gymnastics, so I need food that is quick / easy to cook or heat up. Therefore my girls have (most weeks)

Macaroni cheese
Fish, vegetables and rice in a cheese sauce
Pizza (Fridays)

At the weekends dh cooks, and his 3 favourites are:
Spag Bol (made with quorn) or chilli
Curry
Fajitas or enchiladas.

He'll cook two of these each weekend

Chilli con carne
Spaghetti Bolognaise
Roast
Fish pie
Chicken casserole

Variations of the first two foten make an appearance too. lasagna, mince and mash, minted lamb mice etc. I really do need to revamp our dinner menu. I am sick of miced meat!

Miced meat???

Well that would jazz things up a little I guess

Spag bol
Chicken fajitas
Lasagne
Parsnip and pancetta pasta
Chilli
Beef casserole

(Sorry, I know it's 6!) We eat these a lot - they're my 'make it blindfolded' meals for when I'm tired / short of time / cba

Spag bol
Sunday roast
Cottage pie
Rissotto
Beef stew

Chicken fajitas
Spaghetti in pesto sauce
Homemade meatballs in Tom sauce
Pan fried salmon and new pots
Thai green curry

lentil and bacon soup
cassoulet
saffron chicken and rice
baked pototoes
egg on toast

I probably have an "everyday" repertoire of about 25 dishes rotated over the month. I used to get the recipe books out more often, but I've lost my cooking mojo recently.

Spag Bol
Pasta With tomato sauce
Roast dinner
Chuck it all in salad
Tomato soup

we're not doing much to encourage your foodie side, are we !

We also like chilli beans (a.k.a. As Nacho Night)
Moroccan Lamb
sausage and green lentil casserole
Stir fry
Bang bang chicken

Really, I must mix it up some more....

Sausage casserole
Spag bol
Cottage pie
Chicken casserole
Pasta, peas, cheese and ham

I live with the least foody types ever!

pasta with tomato and veggie sauce
macaroni cheese with broccoli and cauliflower (from jamie oliver 30 min meals)
bangers and mash with beans
roast (risotto and soups with left overs if I have the inclination)
chicken curry

Fish pie
Shepherd's Pie
Bacon and Liver Casserole
Prawn Noodles
Roast Chicken

And I probably have about 8 meals in rotation because I am crap

Spaghetti Carbonara
Roast Chicken
Curry
Spaghetti Bolognese
Baked salmon and rice