What great easy meals do you cook for your family? Come and share them please (-:

[mosschops30]

After last nights 'pasta' disaster I need some inspiration.

We dont eat red meat anymore, and I'm not a big fan of pork.

Would like some suggestions for easy meals I can cook our fave at the moment is chicken breasts smothered in pesto with roast veggies and potatoes but its becoming a bit boring.

jasper hazlenut butternut squash rissotto recipe says to use fresh sage but I used dried and its fine.

Also

Pasta with peas and tuna (lots of parsley, lemon juice, and olive oil)

Mash with cheese and peas.

Egg fried rice - add bits of smoked salmon, prawns, peas, sweetcorn, diced carrot, baby veg, nuts, etc.

Couscous - with anything! Pasta sauce. Peas and quorn (or chicken) pieces. Chopped dried apricots, pistachio nuts, and quorn (or chicken) pieces fried up with a pinch of cinnamon. Spring onions, chickpeas, grated carrot, and lots of lemon juice.

Grilled salmon fillet - broken up into a big bowl of couscous and peas !

I quickly read this thread title as 'what greasy meals do you cook for your family' Answer- most of them.

we like bacon, leek and potato pie

fry leeks and bacon, make and cheese sauce into it IYKWIM and top with lots of mashed pots.

I make lots of the bottom part and freeze it so only need to do the potatoes.

we also do butternute squash risotto as mentioned below, but with bacon in. lovely

someone wanted a recipe for risotto - here's mine

fry onion in olive oil with a little garlic. Add a glass of white wine (dry) and let it burn off. Add around 300g of risotto rice and coat all the grains with oil/garlic/wine combination. This takes around 2 pints of chicken stock. You need to add this a ladleful at a time and keep stirring it in.

Add whatever you want in the middle of the stirring process - mushrooms, prawns, whatever.

I usually add a desertspoonful of cream right at the end.