Main meals - ideas needed

[fairydust]

I feel that at the mo i'm cooking the same meals week in week out.

Chilli
sunday roast
curry

I need insperation / ideas to keep dh n dd happy

do they like Italian food?
I'm debating what to cook tonight - have a choice of chicken breasts, lamb mince or pork escalopes
dh has requested something not too spicy (overdone it lately)

might to coq au vin or chicken marengo or shepherds pie with the lamb or pork escalopes cooked with sage and marsala (nice italian recipe)

fairydust, I feel like that a lot. What I do that works is make a weekly dinner list. For inspiration, I rip recipes out of magazines and flip through them. If they work, they get pasted in my recipe book.

Please notice that I didn't say I do this all the time, but when I do, it does work and makes the whole dinner experience more fun for me.

dh is very very funny will only eat mince n chicken no creamy sauces and no veg

and the spicier options - faitahs, enchiladas, nachos grande
chinese - stir fry
greek food eg souvlakia pitta and dips
beef in beer
goulash
stroganoff

can't you tell we've got about 50 cookery books

sorry posts crossed

mince = meatballs (greek with mint, italian with herbs) burgers, kofta kebabs, shepherds pie, meatloaf

chicken - marinate in olive oil garlic and lemon juice and do greek style, marinate in cajun spices, chicken enchiladas, chicken pie, chicken kiev, chicken cordon bleu.....oh no I'll be here all night and must get ds2 from nursery

chicken cordon bleu - what is this please

lasagne
moussaka
meatballs
running out of mince ideas....

chicken cordon bleu - breast stuffed with ham and cheese, breadcrumbed and deep fried - I've got a book entitled 'the book of chicken recipes' with over 100 recipes in it

don't do ham

just put cheese in then

My two standard easy meals which we probably have once a week are:

1} Premade tortellini or ravioli and some decent jarred pasta sauce;

2. Quesadillas. 2 flour tortillas with grated cheese inside. You can also put in strips of cooked chicken. Cook in a frying pan coated with cooking spray until the cheese melts and the tortillas get crispy on each side. Cut into wedges. My girls like dipping them in salsa.

does he do pasta?

Lasagne, spag bol, shepherds pie, chilli con carne (all these are with mince).

Chicken dishes - chicken breast wrapped in bacon, chicken fajitas that he could make himself (might eat some veg then?!), could he help you make a chicken pie?

They tend to eat things they have helped make themselves!

Hope all the posts help.

Helsi, it sound slike you are talking about a child. We are talking about her husband, right?

"sounds like"