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?

Spaghetti Carbonara
Fish pie
Lasagne
Pasta bake
Chicken curry or Beef Stroganoff

Spag carbonara
roast
pasta bake with sausages
sausage and mash
fish/cottage/shepherds
sweet and sour chick or pork
pancakes
And a continual supply of toast for ds!!!!

Oh, this thread has amused me so much. I have in fact spend the last 2 hours compiling lists of what I want to cook once we moved house in 3 weeks. For now it's all a little boring as we're trying to empty all the kitchen cupboards hence eating random combinations.

Spag Bol seems to be a real winner on here!

This thread's really interesting. I will try chicken fajitas - never made them or thought of them before.

Ds has:
shepherds pie
spag with salmon and cream cheese
boiled egg and soldiers
loads of fish - mackerel, pan-fried cod/haddock, smoked kippers.. he's a fish-nut
full roast with oodles of gravy

I have:
Chicken
Thai green prawn/chicken or red curry
lamb pasanda

Every week the following five without fail:

Jacket potatoes, cheese and salad (jacket potatoes at least twice a week)
Bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches
Fish fingers, waffles and beans
Pasta and pesto
Ham 'spoily plate' (basically a sort of mix of cheeses, olives, raisins, tomatoes - whatever's in the cupboard)

And every fortnight:

Greek Salad
Chickpea and spinach curry
Tuna pasta bake
Roast something
Pitta and salmon

I really need to mix things up. We're all home for lunch, though, so I need quick no thinking meals.

Danish meatballs (pork)
Lasagna
Caserole of some sort
Roast
soup

Sphaghetti
Burritos w black beans
(I buy large pkg of ground beef and cook big pots of sphaghetti, burrito filling and sloppy Joe's and freeze them.)
Tuna casserole
Roast beef with mashed potatoes, gravy, cheese broccoli
Pork chops or roast in crockpot

I only cook about 3 times a week. Other times we forage, eat leftovers, go out, order in, or microwave something from freezer.

I have a quick and yummy standy by

Fry up onions, streaky bacon and mushrooms
Add in some diced chicken breast - brown it off
season
Pour in a can of cream of asparagus soup
Add some fresh blanched baby asparagus (optional)
Cook gently till chicken cooked
Add about a tablespoon of cumin seeds
Season to taste - if its too thick stir in a little chicken stock
Serve with jacket potatoes / rice

I promise you it is delicious and so quick and easy

Sorry - add the cumin seeds along with the soup - not at the end

Five spice salmon with stir fry veg noodles (really takes no time at all)
Pasta chicken arrabiata
Chicken nuggets (just cut up strips of breast dipped in egg and flour and fried) with baked beans and salad
Scrambled eggs and slow roasted cherry tomatoes on toast
Mushrooms in cream and sherry on toast
Veg curry and rice with yoghurt and mango chutney
Fillet steak, salad and chips (never get any left over and it feels like Mum's night off as so easy)

The chicken and asparagus soup above sounds good - I will try it.

prawn stir fry and noodles
jacket potato with beans and cheese
tuna, tomato, olives and garlic sauce with pasta and chopped salad
Fishermans pie with veggies and chopped salad
chilli
chicken, prawn and bacon pasta with pesto and chopped salad
chicken curry and rice

chopped salad has become a main stay and my dd2 often reaches for the salad after her main course is finished. We have a long term guest and so puddings are also on rotation

sponge pudding with custard
apple crumble - either plain or with spices and sultanas
ice cream
rice pudding - this week I made the rice pudding using milk and caramel carnation - only half a tin and omitted the sugar, it was lovely.
fruit sponge and ice cream
pears and creme fraiche
mandarins in jelly
chocolate and orange sponge with chocolate butter icing
apple cake

Nigella's Thai salmon with steamed rice and stir fried veg
Chicken noodle soup
Spaghetti bog ( using Delia's Ragu recipe made in bulk and frozen for midweek dinner when can't face cooking)
Grilled lamb chops new potatoes and veg
Oven Baked fish
Toad in the hole ( dc's current favourite)
Thursday roast dinner, chicken, lamb, beef or pork
Friday night curry for adults and fried rice for dc( both made using previous evenings leftover roast meat)
Pizza and garlic bread ( both bases made in bread maker) assortment of toppings depending on mood) served with salad
Chicken and lemon rice one pot meal

mumzy...

can I have the chicken noodle soup recipe please - along with the lemon one pot chicken rice recipe

I had pretty bad morning sickness too but have just gotten over it and have started cooking again without retching at the smell and sight of everything.

My partner is Colombian so we do make quite a few Colombian soups which are easy to make and very delicious so here goes:

Sancho Valluno (hearty chicken soup)
Lentils - really versitile and you can mix them with most vege's like carrots, butternut etc and if you make loads you can freeze them.
Spag bol - so easy to make
Macaroni - but we tend to spice it up a bit and add things like chorizo, tomotoes and mushrooms.
Lasagne is good too and sometimes I make roast chicken lasagne which is amazing!
Meat - chicken or steak, with plantains and salad. Definitely one of my fave meals especially when the meat is marinated well.
Roast dinner - when we have time
Beans on toast - as a back up!

Good luck and enjoy eating again :)

Hmm, spag bol
lasagne
baked potatoes with various fillings
nachos
pasta with various toppings
baked salmon with new potatoes and veg
roast gammon with pineapple, pots and veg
chicken noodles with chinese veg
curry
risotto
chilli
potato frittata with whatever veg and bacon etc we have in the fridge
sausage and potato and bean casseroles, that type of thing.

Wil read this thread with interest - always on the lookout for new ideas!!

oh and pancakes. I love them :)

Hmm well you asked what we cook most often. That is probably:

One pan chicken (like easy roast chicken, using thighs, and all the veg goes in the same dish
filled pasta or pasta bake
Carbonara (but raw egg so no use for you, OP!)
Scampi and chips (though OH on diet so that's off just now)
Salmon with pesto and parmesan.

But these aren't my favourite, they are just the quickest to rustle up or require little attention whilst cooking. Strangely I don't cook Spag Bol that often as to be properly tasty it needs long slow cooking, which really means I need to do it at the weekend.

My favourite weeks though, start on a Sunday with Roast Chicken, then risotto or chicken fricasse on Monday with day 1 leftovers, pasta with tom sauce and day 2 leftovers on Tuesday, Nigellas prawn mango and sweet potato curry on Wednesday, lazy filled pasta on Thursday, steaks on Friday then a jamie's 30 minute meals, hilarious race against the clock on Saturday, preferably with friends over and the wine flowing . In fact I'm not sure why we don't do weeks like that more often!

My repertoire is about 30 items probably.

Meat and potato pie
Spag Bol
Jacket spuds
Chilli
Curry

I do mix it up with pasta, roast dinners and a couple of other dishes. Also it changes with the season, in summer we eat loads of salad and fish. I am a creature of habit though, I need to add some new dishes!

Recently I've made:

Sunday dinner
Various pasta dishes
Sweet chilli tofu and vegetable rice
Homemake quiche/pie with salad and potatoes
Cauliflower cheese
Homemade pizza
Grilled sandwhiches and soup
Garlic potato gratin

I used to make the following, but dd went off them so I stopped:

Spanish omelette
Vegetarian Moussaka
Lentil lasagne
Macaroni cheese
Kedgeree
Potato/veg/bean bake
Stir fry noodes and veg

chicken curry, pasta,shepherds pie,chicken fajitas and ratatouille.

Spag bol
Chicken (roast)
Pizza
Curry
Boiled ham

I only cook on saturday's and sunday's. DH works nights and I work days, so he cooks during the weeks.

My kids come home from school to a hot meal, dead on the dot of 4.15!! Which sounds good, but dd is sick to the back teeth of either stew, hotpot or shepherds pie with lots of veg. Poor little buggers having to eat traditional English winter food with veg all the time , I wonder if its something to do with DH's Nanna bringing him up, he cooks the same food (on the same days) that he was eating in 1976.

So I cook a roast on Sunday.
Saturday's in the winter - Stir fry, Fajita's, Lasagna, Chilli, Mousakka, or my fav, Lamb chops with new pots and veg. In the summer its normally a salad with new pots and either cold meats or hot fish, with a roast on a sunday.

Penne Arribiata with chorizo
Chicken or pork stir fry
Chicken curry
Sausage in spicy tomato sauce with potato wedges
Chilli con Carne with mushrooms instead of kidney beans (DH doesn't do beans)

Lamb carry
Spag and meat balls
Tacos
Fajitas
Chicken wrapped in pancetta with something

1. Lasagna - I make a huge one and freeze portions for kids and DH's lunches.
2. Grilled Chicken Fajitas with homemade guacamole and salsa
3. Gourmet cheesy beans on toast - seriously! bread, Serrano ham, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, beans and chill flakes. Actually this is my husband's contribution!
4. Fetuccini (or other long pasta) with garlic, olive oil, chill and prawns (yummie)
5. Salmon in the oven with salad/ veggies

I am a massive Jamie O fan too.