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Which 5 meals do you cook most often?

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MrsHuxtable · 05/11/2011 14:29

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?

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akaemmafrost · 05/11/2011 18:07

Well my kids are super fussy and one of them has ASD. The only meals they will BOTH eat without a fuss are:

Spaghetti Bolognaise but I make it with a 5 veg home made sauce
Salmon, Jacket Potatoes and Broccoli
Picnic type lunch, ie Ham, Cheese, Crusty bread, juice/smoothie, cucumber, fruit of some kind
Chicken and Noodles
Boiled eggs and wholemeal toast
Pizza, even then that is more ds than dd who turns her nose up at it.

Yes thats it, I would faint with happiness if my kids would eat a roast or a stew

akaemmafrost · 05/11/2011 18:08

Oh and neither of them will eat any kind of sauce or gravy, I mean seriously, who DOESN'T like gravy!!??

Lisatheonewhoeatsdrytoast · 05/11/2011 18:09

lasagne
Roast chicken and trimmings
Fajitas
Sausage Casserole
Fish Fingers, mash and peas Blush

HazleNutt · 05/11/2011 18:24

Risotto
Thai green curry
tuna steaks
Seafood pasta
Pumpkin soup

LittleWhiteWereWolf · 05/11/2011 18:31

Risotto
Shepards Pie
Spag Bol
Pizza
Pasta Bake

Kladdkaka · 05/11/2011 18:37

Thai Green Curry (Fish)
Sweet and Sour Pork
Spaghetti Bolognaise
Chicken Dupiaza
Roast Beef and Yorkshires

BornToFolk · 05/11/2011 18:42

Stir fry (tofu, veg, satay sauce) with noodles
Quorn sausages and mash/oven chips
Beany shepherd's pie
Curry in one form or another (Quorn chunks with jarred sauce, spinach and chickpea curry, Thai green curry)
Spag bol with Quorn mince.

That looks like a lot of Quorn, but it's not really. We have it max twice a week.

PamBeesly · 05/11/2011 18:43

Chilli
Pasta with chorizo and tomatoes
Fajitas
Lentil dahl
Meatballs and garlic bread

sighnomore · 05/11/2011 18:52

Not sure how many I rotate probably only enough for 2 weeks notvery adventurous! Most often
Sausage casserole
Beef stew
Spaghetti bolognese
Chicken curry
Soups- spicy lentil/leek and potato

(I'm a bit of a one pot cook!)

notnowImreading · 05/11/2011 18:57

Spag bol
Baked salmon with lemon couscous and broccoli
Monday night chicken and rice (70s 'risotto' with veg and stock)
Chicken fajitas
Leek and potato soup

wildstrawberryplace · 05/11/2011 19:01

5 most often cooked are:

Thai green curry with chicken or prawns
Homemade pizza and salad
Noodles/chicken/veg stir fry
Roast chicken dinner, gravy etc
Sausages and rice or mash, veggies
Salmon and rice with veggies

But we don't eat them every week and tend to vary it a lot so chicken and egg noodles might be beef udon the next.

wildstrawberryplace · 05/11/2011 19:02

Just realised I can't count Wink

Woodlands · 05/11/2011 19:51

Penne all'amaratriciana (pasta with bacon, tomatoes & chilli)
Prawn curry
Beef stirfry
Sausage pasta bake
Homemade pizza

ButWhyIsTheGinGone · 05/11/2011 19:57
  1. Roast - (pork or chicken ususally - beef and lamb usually too dear)
  2. Thai Green curry with chicken or pork (leftover roast!)
  3. Rice with leftover roast, onions and some kind of Chinese sauce from a sachet!
  4. Shepherds Pie
  5. Soup (parents and I both grown own veg, so no shortages of delicious soup) I am not very original, but live alone so don't have to worry about other people's tastes!
Cupawoman · 05/11/2011 19:58

Red pepper, red onion and goats cheese tart
Malay spiced pork
Vegetarian curry
Black bean chilli stew
Chilli chicken with coriander and lime Smile

moggiek · 05/11/2011 19:58

Just realised I can't cook Blush

NeeNaasAreAfterMe · 05/11/2011 19:58

mrshuxtable - I used to have a teacher called that. She had a "touch of the Ann Widdecombes" about her.
Anyhow, my 5 most often cooked are:

Beef goulash (ghoulash if it's Halloween, ho ho, hee hee)
Roast chicken
Spag Bol
Cottage pie
Pasta/cauliflower/chicken/ham/leek/ red pepper in a cheese sauce

BetterTogether · 05/11/2011 20:09

The meals I cook most often are probably...
Pasta with passata, frozen veg (peas, sweetcorn etc) and grated cheese
Some kind of wrap-based meal - either make your own fajitas, enchilladas or quesadillas
Thai fried quinoa (like egg fried rice but with quinoa, peas, pineapple etc, delish!)
Curry - paneer & pea most often, but other favourite is sweet potato & cauliflower
Marinated grilled tofu with rice and grated raw courgette with some kind of sauce

I love cooking and trying new recipes so I probably cook these regulars every 2 weeks or so, but with lots of other new recipes in between :)

racingheart · 05/11/2011 20:10

Spag bol
Kedgeree (spiced rice and fish)
sticky ginger and honey 5-spice pork with rice and steamed veg
Roast salmon with noodles and stir fry veg
Chicken in wine, rosemary & garlic

dementedma · 05/11/2011 20:13

mince and pasta
stir-fry (either chicken or tuna)
lots of home-made soups
pork chops and gnocchi
spaghetti and mozzarella bake

also:
egg and chips
pasta bake
noodles and sweetcorn
pizza and salad
sausages and mash
mushrooms on toast
Chicken wraps

whatdoiknowanyway · 05/11/2011 20:22

Pea soup
Sausage with roast veg
Mince and tatties
Pasta sauce ( fusilsli with bacon, soya beans, mushrooms, onions,carrot, pepper and a bit of chilli)
Chicken masala

Mominatrix · 05/11/2011 20:23

Roast chicken
Pasta Bolognese
Grilled beef steak
Pasta with fresh tomato sauce and pesto
Fritata

with Fried rice (made with leftover protein) a very close sixth

naughtymummy · 05/11/2011 20:23

Our favourites are kegeree
Roast
Rissoto
Lasagna or gallon
macaroni cheese
Lemon,honey chicken and cous cous
Fish pie
Shepherds pie
fajitas
sausage and mash/toad in the hole
sausage casserole
Beef stew

this is a winterselection , in the summer we have lighter meals, with meat cooked out side,cold Vegas and salads.

naughtymummy · 05/11/2011 20:28

Vegetables not Vegas !

dreamfeeder · 05/11/2011 20:33

Oh my I feel hopeless looking at these lists... Also hopefully coming out the other side of morning sickness- a bad last couple of days but have eaten some 'real' meals! Barely cooked since I got pg, thanks to the puking, but currently 16+2, hoping soon I WILL cook if these twins agree, and used to do

Spag bol
Pasta of some easy kind
Risotto
Thai curry
Something from freezer- fish and chips/pizza
Beef stew