What are you cooking for dinner tonight?

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I love to cook but I am so bored cooking the same old stuff, week after week. What are you all cooking for dinner? Can you give me inspiration

DH has escaped to the pub - so it's Sainsburys Vegetable Dansak and Thai rice - a grand total of seven minutes in the microwave which allows time to add some runner beans. Delicious. Frankly, I don't know where I get the time or the inspiration. Nigella eat your heart out.

Azzie - and there was I thinking that the deep pan frozen pizza with scrambled egg, bacon, baked bean and sausage topping that I spotted in the supermarket cabinet could not be beaten.

Tigger2 - we had the chicken, veggie, baked bean thing last night with cous cous and it was amazing! One of the easiest things to put together and was completely delicious - thank you. I tend only to do that all-in-one pot thing in the winter with stews and casseroles but this made a lovely summer dish. Dh esp liked the cous cous and the baked beans made it v tasty.

PamT, if I was in the condemned cell, I would ask for a fish finger sandwich as my last meal... brown "plastic" bread and lashings of mayonnaise!!!

Tissy, fishfinger butties, yummy - I also love salad cream on chips (but not greasy chip shop ones) and no this isn't a pregnancy craving, they are just so right together!

Mmm

Tissy perhaps our tastes are actually more common (usualy) than common (uncultured).

Sorry, typo, I meant common as in not unusual rather than common as in uncultured, uneducated etc - but I appear to be that too today. I blame lack of sleep and hunger! Ignore me and I'll go away.....

If I was in the condemned cell I would want a white farmhouse loaf, slab of butter and jar of Skippy peanut butter. (And I wonder why I'm having difficulty losing weight!)

Peanut butter!!!!

Haven't had any for months...dd is still bfing am I allowed to eat it yet?

funnily enough, as I am reading this thread I am also tucking into to a plate of plastic bread (toasted) with marmite and peanut butter. Food of the gods.

Hmm... toasted freshly made Granary bread with lashings of salted butter and Nutella ... that combination of the salty and sweet...absolute bliss

Since turning veggie fish fingers are one of the things that I really miss. You can get fake bacon and burgers, but not fake fish.

During my pregnancy I ate oven chips with egg mayonnaise!

ionesmum, I have some good news for you. The Redwood Company who make Cheezly, non dairy cheese have just released 'Making Waves' vegan fish style fingers, they come in 215g packs at a recommended retail price of £2.49 but are on a special introductory offer of £2.25 according to my local wholefood wholesaler. I've no idea what they will taste like but they might just satisfy that craving. Ask about them next time you go to a health food shop, they might get some in for you.

Oooooooooooh, thank you!

ionesmum, if you try either of them let us know what they are like, I'm curious as to whether the texture or taste would be anything like the real thing.

Will do, if I can find them! (I'm a bit in the sticks)

Tigger, just to say I made your baked bean casserole thingy this morning and it is delicious - dd ate an enormous great bowl of it and so did I! I used lamb bits which were lovely but I think it would be really nice with sausages too. Thanks

Thank you, it is a good easy thing to make and most kids love it as well!!

Debster made your stuffed peppers tonight and thought it was delicious.

These recipes all sound totally wonderful! I wondered if anyone has any gorgeous suggestions for cauliflower? I do an organic box thingy, which is lovely, but at the moment I'm getting enormous cauliflower's every week, so it's either soup, or, like tonight, cauliflower cheese. Latest cauliflower (I've a backlog) is totally beautiful - a green and whirly variety that looks like something out of a sci-fi novel. It's still a cauliflower though. Help!

It's not particularly different, but I like cauli in a rich tomato or ratatoiulle- style sauce with grated cheese.

Perhaps Mumsnet could publish a Mums' favourite recipes book along with the other Mumsnet books. If each member sent in their own favourite it would be a great book with a really wide range of recipes. I'd buy it. There could be a kids meals version too.

PamT, I love that recipe book idea.