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?

Ivykaty here you go, scroll down guardian article for thai chicken noodle soup recipe.
www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/02/citrus-recipes-lemon-orange-lime

I've adapted the chicken and rice recipe as my dc don't like broad beans so I use frozen peas and sweetcorn instead and reduce the lemon juice by half .
www.tesco.com/recipes/product.aspx?R=2161

My DH does the cooking, this is what he cooks most often:

Spag bol
Steak with pepper sauce
Roast pork with crackling
Oxtail stew
Chicken pie (with pastry) or fish pie (with mash)

Goan chicken curry (like vindaloo)
Gujerati potato curry
Chilli and rice
Pasta puttanesca
Sausage and mash

thanks you mumzy

Whatever's in the cupboard. :)

Lots of pastas with veggies and some sort of protein and a sauce
Potatoes with cheese and beans or tuna and chopped broccoli with cheese sauce
Venison and root veggie stew in the winter if DH gets a deer
Peppery-lemon fish with rice and veggies
Tacos
Homemade pizza
Chicken and dumplings

Roast chicken
Cauliflower cheese
Tomato sauce for pasta
Chicken fajitas
Roasted vegetables

Spag Bol
Pork chops with a creamy tarragon sauce
Thai green chicken curry with noodles
Roast
Chicken casserole/curry

Stir fry veggies with lots of garlic topped with crunchy spring rolls (Tesco Ken Holmes range of spring rolls are the best, imo)

Chickpea, vegetable and sweet potato curry with homemade flatbread

Pasta with either olive oil, lemon zest, chilli, garlic and summer veggies or with gorgonzola sauce and fresh diced tomatoes

Thai red or massaman curry with duck for DH and veggies for me with jasmine rice

Tofu tacos topped with greens and cheese

if we have no time, we do a tomato soup (Heinz) with cheese toasties or Sainsbury's vegetable instant noodles topped with slices of omelette

Tuna pasta (tin of creamed sweetcorn, handful grated cheese, splash of milk, drained can of tuna)
Butternut risotto (boil cubed butternut in chicken stock and tbsp tom puree and use that to cook rice)
Venison sausages (sorry bambi)
Curry (fry onion/peppers add curry paste then stock then tin toms then simmer chicken/fish then add 1/2 tin coconut milk, mange tous and fresh coriander)
Chicken supreme (make white sauce with half chicken stock half milk yum yum)

sausages with roast root veg like butternut squash potatos parsnips
baked potatoes tuna baked beans /cheese
tortellini, tomatoey sauce and salad
salmon on lentils
cottage pie
omlette

lobster souffle
scrambled emu egg with shaving of white truffle
Wagyu beef with glass of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild
Almas caviar served in gold plated melamine bowl
beans on toast

Our main offenders meals are:

• spicy beef with courgettes and bacon with rice
• sweet chilli chicken wraps
• spag bol
• Freezer Surprise (aka, e-numbers wrapped in day-glo orange breadcrumbs)
• mince and dumplings
• shepherds pie

issynoku

My frequent 5 are

Roast chicken
Chicken and chorizo paella
Nigella's spaghetti and meatballs
Veggie chilli
Cajun salmon and sweet potato mash

I have a repertoire of about 40 dishes, some get wheeled out more then others but I try to cook something new every month from the good food magazine.

I try and do 2 new recipes (or at least something I haven't tried on the kids yet) a week and mix up the rest as I get really bored of eating the same stuff. And I spent most of last year and quite a lot of this year being ill and relying or dh very limited cooking ability and so were eating the same 2 or 3 meals constantly (chilli con carne, sausage & bean casserole, pasta and tomato sauce). Plus ds is finally coming on leaps and bounds with his eating so we are introducing him to lots of new foods.

Every week we have a roast - slow cooked beef or chicken. And if its chicken we'll have a curry or chicken & chorizo stew with leftovers.

Kids will have sausages or fishfingers, potato shapes & peas when dh goes out on a tuesday (he eats out and I have a home made ready meal from freezer).

Ds likes us to do wraps for dinner which is make your own burrittos. But i get bored of that so we don't have it every week.

We have poached lemon & parsley haddock with spinach, saute potatoes and a spicy tomato & chorizo sauce usually at least once a fortnight.

We have a pork & chorizo spicy stew thing every 3 weeks or so.

Dd has just started eating pasta so am introducing a pasta and sauce meal every week (though am trying to think up different ones everyone will eat).

Cooking is my hobby and I enjoy finding/thinking up new recipes and inflicting trying them on my family.

Roast
Curry
Chilli
Spag bol
Pizza

My 5 most common dinners:

spag bol

pasta with cherry tomato sauce, plus variations like tomato/red pepper sauce and tomato/roast aubergine/mozzarella bake

saussage and lentil casserole

white fish baked with easy channa massala (from Delicious Magazine website)

eggs (boiled or scrambled), toast, asparagus/broccoli (usually on a Sunday night)

Now I think about it I have a really big repertoire but I probably only rotate around 25 dishes regularly. My mum always kept folders of recipes in the kitchen but I can't really be bothered with this so instead I keep a Word document on my computer desktop called "Dinner Ideas" split into fish, chicken, veggie, etc with lists of dishes under each one. If I cook a new dinner and it's any good, it gets added to the list.

I am now around 5 weeks out of a grim 17 weeks of miserable morning/all day sickness so am also just rediscovering the cooker - it's fun!

Something with mince - chilli con carne, spag bol
Once per month a roast - chicken, pork, beef, lamb
Once per month something traditionally Ugandan (where DH is from) - usually a meat curry with plantains, rice, sweet potatoes etc
Something with chicken - curry, moroccan-style stew, hunter's stew, spanish chicken etc
Something vegetarian - tomato and mozarella pasta bake, pasta with pesto and salad, risotto
Other things that I tend to do are: coconut mackerel curry, tuna pasta bake, egg fried rice and stir fry veg, cheese omelette, macaroni cheese
Once per week - something easy like fish fingers, chips and peas!

issy

I was going to ask for the lobster souffle recipe, but then read the rest of your post

chilli
risotto
pizza (by which I mean, we buy plain pizzas and top them with all manner of stuff from the fridge)
pesto pasta
curry

I always try soup but it invariably end up tasting of potato, and I never learn.

My 5 most regular meals are:
Chickpea and spinach curry
Pea and paneer curry
Lentil dal
Meat curry made with leftover Sunday roast lamb or chicken

Jambalaya
roast beef
cottage pie wth loads of veg in
pizza
lasagne

Roast on a sunday, at this time of year followed by crumble
soups served with garlic bread (DD's absolute favourite)
pasta in various guises (also like to melt garlic and herb cream cheese as a sauce!)
toad in the hole with red onions and thyme recipe here and gallons of gravy :)
curry, naan bread and approx one bucket load of yummy cucumber raita

Happy cooking OP!

Every week i tend to cook:

Thai chicken or prawn curry
Spag bol or carbonara
Homemade pizza
Chicken fajitas
Some kind of Indian curry