Your top five

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Looking for inspiration and new ideas. What is your top recipe in each of these five scenarios?

1. A quick and easy family dinner, for when you're short on time, money and energy
2. A fail safe feed a crowd dish
3. an easy but gorgeous dessert
4. a weekend meal when you don't mind spending longer in the kitchen
5. your favourite meal when it's just you

Mine are:

1. either chickpea curry using a bought paste and coconut milk, or a Thai curry ditto
2. a huge bowl of veggie chilli and all the trimmings, or ditto but with a proper, made from scratch curry
3. port trifle or Nigella's Guinness cake
4. a huge veggie lasagne using roasted vege, loads of red wine and puy lentils
5. a big bowl of Greek salad with toasted pitta, or Heinz tomato soup and a cheese toastie

1. Chorizo and bean stew
2. Pulled pork
3. Eton mess
4. A proper curry
5. Chicken dipper and ketchup sandwich in cheap white bread or cheesy chips

1. Chorizo and bean stew
2. Pulled pork
3. Eton mess
4. A proper curry
5. Chicken dipper and ketchup sandwich in cheap white bread or cheesy chips

1. Chorizo and bean stew
2. Pulled pork
3. Eton mess
4. A proper curry
5. Chicken dipper and ketchup sandwich in cheap white bread or cheesy chips

1. Chorizo and bean stew
2. Pulled pork
3. Eton mess
4. A proper curry
5. Chicken dipper and ketchup sandwich in cheap white bread or cheesy chips

Thanks, Could. Used to have an Italian friend who had also been taught to use tinned tomatoes - but I detest the things.

Eton mess is v popular on this thread. :)

1. Chorizo and spinach omelettes
2. Lasagne with garlic bread and plenty of green salad
3. Cheeseboard with a selection of grapes, apple, celery and crackers.
4. Maduhur jaffrey's nutmeg lamb shanks
5. Pesto pasta and a glass of wine!

Love this thread!!

1. Quesadillas with whatever we have in inside - cheese and spring onion if nothing else. Or enchiladas with roast veg inside and cheese on top.
2. Chilli, guacamole, salsa, sour cream, corn tortillas, rice. Or Nigella's chicken/chorizo dish.
3. Chocolate and salted caramel tart or chocolate brownies layered with berries and drizzled with white choc.
4. Korean lamb shoulder; curries with many side dishes; homemade pizzas with choices of topping; anything from Ottolenghi!
5. Portobello mushroom stuffed with Stilton etc and baked.

Though tbh these just sprang to mind now and I could imagine many others!

Erm...

1. Risotto (really not as difficult as people think it is) or a pasta bake.

1. Chilli con carne or paella.

1. I don't really make desserts so would generally buy one, although when it's in season I make a rhubarb sauce to pour over good vanilla ice-cream, which always seems to go down well.

1. Slow cooked lamb shoulder with all the trimmings or other roast.

1. A big pile of scrambled eggs with beans, mushrooms and sausages or lasagne.

Oops, kinda gave two answers for everything!!

1. Frittata with grated carrot and courgette and cheese on top
2. Slow cooker lamb and haricot bean stew served with green beans, broccoli and garlic bread
3. Golden syrup cake with custard
4. Fish pie
5. Marmite spaghetti

1. A quick and easy family dinner

The family favourite is bacon and broccoli pasta. Takes 10 mins to make and everyone loves it.

2. A fail safe feed a crowd

Got to be a curry or a chilli. Nigella's chilli with dark chocolate is really delicious. There is also a fabulous Nigella dish which is a Greek lamb stew with pasta and feta cheese.

3. An easy but gorgeous dessert

Again Nigella's white chocolate mousse, or the pannacotta with poached peaches from Jerusalem.

4. A weekend meal when you don't mind spending longer in the kitchen

Roast lamb. I make a rub with garlic, anchovies, capers, rosemary and olive oil which makes the lamb and the gravy taste amazing.

Or a fish pie.

Or Bill Bryson's roast chicken with chilli and coriander stuffing and coconut gravy.

5. Anything lentil or beany.

I also love making myself a pesto chicken salad.

Great thread btw.

1. Spaghetti bolognese or another pasta dish (bacon and tomato/sardine and tomato)
2. Nigella's Greek lamb stew with salad
3. If it's easy, I haven't made it myself. Bread and butter pudding is nice and not too difficult.
4. Lasagne, full roast, ham in coke
5. Stir-fry veg with noodles and prawns

Brilliant ideas on here.

Cheeseboard - gosh, yes. Love it.
Chocolate and salted caramel tart sounds amazing, as does rhubarb sauce, and golden syrup cake. Bread and butter pudding is one of my favourite desserts, but the dds won't eat it.

Some of the meaty things sound amazing too, even though I'm veggie!
SO hungry again. :)

1. A quick and easy family dinner, for when you're short on time, money and energy:
   Pasta with tuna/olive/basil/tomato sauce

2. A fail safe feed a crowd dish:
   Sausage & bean casserole with crusty bread & salad

3. an easy but gorgeous dessert:
   Crème brulée

4. a weekend meal when you don't mind spending longer in the kitchen:
   -Onion tartlets
   -Filet steak with dauphinoise potatoes, grilled tomatoes on the vine & steamed spinach
   -Pavlova (cunningly using the egg whites having used the yolks in the tartlets) with ideally blackberries & raspberries together

5. your favourite meal when it's just you:
   Sautéed mushrooms on granary toast with a poached egg on top & loads of salad

Remus - was it you who provided the recipe for roast vegetable and puy lentil lasagne? I got it from mumsnet and it's one of my favourites too.

Yep! Really glad you like it. I made it up to use up some port and puy lentils once, and loved it. Unfortunately the ddcs prefer their veggie lasagne using Quorn mince. To me, the lentils make it seem really rich and 'meatier' than the mince version.

Mushrooms on toast....Guess what I fancy now?!

1. Family dinner - bacon and courgette pasta or French stick, meats, cheeses, salads
2. Feed a crowd - pulled 24 hr slow roast pork, apple sauce etc or Indian banquet incl chicken pasanda, chicken chettinad, dhal and rice
3. Nigel Slaters brownies with raspberries and cream on the side or for after spicy food, coconut creams with passion fruit
4. Weekend - roast, big fish pie, souvlaki
5. Prosecco and salty snacks

1. Pasta, chicken, almost any sauce.
2. Grilled Lamb chops, roast mediterranean veg
3. Cheese (not a dessety sort of bloke)
4. Staring to use a tagine so it would be something in there at the minute.
5. Fish finger omlette.

Prosecco and salty snacks for a lone meal sounds right up my street! :)

1. Sticky Salmon, rice & greens
2. Slow Roast Lamb with mash & veg
3. Pears in chocolate sponge - so quick, works well with raspberries as well
4. homemade pie
5. eggs - poached egg on sourdough maybe with some avocado