What's on your menu this week?

[pontipinemum]

I do my shopping most Mondays and I'm stuck for ideas, I do 1 shop per week and usually like to have everything in so I don't do a top up. I am thinking

Spanish style chicken/ sausage/ chorizo rice
Lasagne - batched in freezer
Taco Fries
Chicken curry probably Indian
Chicken stir fry
Roast beef

I don't eat fish or pork (but I do eat bacon/ sausages). I like easy to throw together in the pressure cooker meals. Other usuals would be creamy pasta, curry rice, jambayla, fajitas, savory mince, stew, chicken vol au vont, bacon + cabbage, mac & cheese

What are you cooking?

Dinners: Chilli was yesterday, spaghetti Bolognese tonight then
Chicken curry with naan
Homemade pizzas (courtesy of bread maker for the base)
Sausages, mashed potato, leafy greens and carrots
Tacos and salad
Beef stew and dumplings
Roast dinner (haven't decided on veg and meat yet).

@pontipinemum no, I don't buy the pizza base - I make my own (for 2 x 12" pizzas) using 333g of strong bread flour and 200ml water, a packet of quick yeast (Tesco), a glug of olive oil and some mixed Italian herbs. If I'm low carbing (good for diabetes!), I make a base out of cream cheese. parmesan and eggs with the aforementioned Italian herbs. You have to bake it in a dish (before adding the toppings), but it hits the pizza spot - even has a bit of crunch on the edge if you layer up the parmesan!

Roast chicken with veg
Oven pizza with salad
Lasagne with salad
Salmon with new potatoes + veg
Spaghetti carbonara

Tonight is lasagna with rocket tomato salad and garlic dough balls (dough balls left over from Saturday)

Tuesday is baked lamb chops and cauliflower cheese with rocket and tomato or normal salad.

Weds is rest of lasagna with tenderstem Broccoli and beans

Thursday is home baked ham from the freezer with the rest of the cauliflower cheese and Broccoli and beans

Friday is cabbage stir fried with ginger garlic spring onion and chilli oil for the adults served with brown rice or noodles and then with either fry prawns with same flavours or may serve with a fried egg as the recipe suggests.

I do a lot of cooking on a Monday to roll out food for later in the week and I make big meals that will last more than one meal.

Edit to add I meal plan in the week then freestyle something nice and fresh at the weekend. At the moment I fancy going to the posh fishmongers and getting sashimi salmon to do poke bowl style with edamame beans and will probably grill hake a garlic butter on Sunday. Often we go out.

Tonight - A chicken, coconut and pineapple curry I seen someone post on a Facebook group last night.

Tomorrow - Mexican meatball subs (sour cream, guac & jalepenos) with a big salad.

Wednesday - Sticky salmon with Spicy stir fried veg noodles & crispy kale

Thursday - Gammon steak, cabbage, new potatoes, peas and cauliflower cheese.

Friday - chicken fajita bowls (chicken peppers etc with coriander and lime rice, corn salsa, pico de gallo, guacamole and black beans)

Saturday - Lamb chops with chimichurri, cous cous, roasted veg and Greek salad

Sunday - Cottage pie with green veg.

Greek lemon chicken & rice
Lamb kebabs, chips, salad
Chicken parmesan casserole (experiment, off tiktok 😂)
Omelette & salad
Salmon fajitas
Baked potato & cheese

I'd love the recipe for the Boston baked beans if you have it!

Tonight was quorn, pepper, black bean wraps and salad.
Rest of the week:
mac n cheese with broccoli.
Fritatta with green beans
pizza (freezer job as I’m working later that day) with salad
veggie curry (with paneer if I can find some)
Friday is my mum’s birthday, I’m treating her to a takeaway, she’s chosen fish and chips.

I’m veggie, DHsnt but eats whatever I cook

In no particular order...
Garlic chicken pasta (taming twins recipe)
Filled pasta and garlic bread (easy tea!)
Spaghetti and homemade turkey meatballs
Chicken fajitas
Friday is always pizza night!
Thinking jambalaya for Saturday maybe

Quinoa, lentils, veggies in stock, tomato's and Mexican spices

Courgette fritters, baked sweet potato

Vegetable curry and brown rice

Mushroom stroganoff and cous cous

Lasagne and chips with peas

I use the Cherrypick app for meal planning, which makes it so easy!

This week we're having (in no particular order except for the Roast on Sunday):

Thai Satay Stir-fry
Greek Salad Omelette
Roast Beef Dinner
Cajun Cod Tacos, Pickled Pineapple and Avocado Salsa
Chicken, Spinach and Bacon Alfredo Pasta Bake
One Pot Lemon Chicken Orzo
Crispy Greek Style Pie

Think I've got enough food in to let to friday, I generally make a meal plan and then base my shopping list off that. For the rest of the week we have:

Tonight: chicken Cesar salad (left overs for lunch tomorrow)
Weds: lasagne and salad
Thurs; omlette and sweets pot wedges (were out for lunch)
Fri: left over lasagne

Had lamb tagine last night, chicken curry tonight (more Thai style than Indian but my recipe), salad tomorrow and pasta Thursday. Dsd has announced she's out of town all weekend so probably slope off to pub with ddog Friday and I shop on Saturday

Saturday was lemon pasta with seafood.
Sunday - Nadiya Hussain's chicken shawarma with flatbreads and coleslaw
Monday - pork chops, mustard cream sauce with gnocchi
Tuesday - beef, broccoli, mushroom and ginger stir fry with noodles
Wednesday - quiche and salad
Thursday - cauliflower cheese and bacon lardons
Friday - kippers and bread and butter.

Other regular dishes include baked rice with chicken and chorizo, sausages and oven-roasted veg, salad with ham and boiled eggs, or rare roast beef and blue cheese, or shredded duck, orange segments and hoisin dressing, spag bol, chilli with either rice or tortilla chips, melted cheese and sour cream, fish finger wraps with salad and tartare sauce, chargrilled chicken wraps with sour cream, guacamole, grated cheese and fried onions and peppers.

We’ve had a Gusto box this week so 5 of them have been that;

Maple chicken thighs with Jasmine rice and Asian coleslaw
Tomato, broccoli and garlic pasta
Chicken gnocchi Caico e pepe (Gusto)
Chicken souvlaki sandwich with chips and tzatziki (Gusto)
Italian veggie stew with ciabatta (Gusto)
Chicken and broccoli pesto farfalle (Gusto)
Cajun chicken burgers (Gusto)

DP was in charge of choosing the Gusto meals hence why it is so chicken heavy!

I'm British Indian and never heard of aloo gobi traybake .. sounds delicious ! scurries off to google to find a recipe

Oh crikey! So much chicken.

Meatballs in tomato sauce with tagliatelle

Jamaican Quorn casserole with rice and peas

Chili con carne

Pesto pasta

Chicken fajitas

Seeet potato curry

Roast beef

Smoked haddock fish cakes (the big ones with cheese sauce in the middle), spinach rocket and watercress salad.

Chana masala with spicey naan.

Pepper steak stir fry with brown basmati rice.

Nigella's minestrone - will probably cave and double carb and have some garlic bread with it.

Spicey bean burgers, home made wedges, salad and tomato salad.

On Sunday we had roast chicken and all the veg and roast potatoes and stuffing.

Friday night we might have a pizza? Haven't had one for ages. But maybe not - I can't get excited about pizza.

Mon - Warm Moroccan salad with hummus and rolls

Tues - Spaghetti tempeh and green salad

Wed - Rice bowl with spring veg and edamame

Thur - Quinoa, chickpea and sweet potato with peanut sauce

Fri - leftovers if there are any, takeaway if there aren't

@doubleshotcappuccino this is the one we use, we all love it! We freeze the ginger before grating as found it grates finer that way

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spicedalooogobi54698

Chicken Parmesan ,spaghetti with tomato sauce and mozzarella

Beef in oyster sauce with stir fried veg and noodles

Chicken in cider bacon sauce with cheesy mash and broccoli

Jacket potatoes with baked beans and cheese

Slow roasted pork belly with fennel and crispy potatoes

Asparagus with ricotta and roasted hazelnuts/lemon with focaccia

Tart with courgettes and cheese,salad and new potatoes

That looks delicious thank you ! And for the ginger tip hadn't heard of that as well.. much appreciated xxx

So many of these dinners sound amazing!

I tried to make Spanish rice last night but realised the paella rice was in fact orzo but it tasted good. (I don't feel I can call what I make paella so I call it Spanish inspired rice!)

@worriedgal - the chicken in cider and bacon sauce sounds delicious - would you mind posting the recipe, please?