The thread for sharing your best/favourite recipies

[littleboyblue]

I need inspiration for more home made family meals. I thought it'd be nice to all swap some ideas and recipies.

I'll go 1st

you will need
1 box of captain birdseye fishfingers
1 box of potatoe waffles
1 bag of frozen mixed veg

Instructions
Put fishfingers and waffles on a baking tray in the oven on the highest setting until they look cooked
Put your veg in an old ice-cream tub and zap until floating

This is the extent of my cooking skills. Please help.

Anyone?

We don't really eat as a family but mine and DP's favourite recipes currently are:

• Mauritian prawn curry
• Keralan Fish curry
• Jamie Oliver's veggie curry
• roast chicken pasta
• tuna arrabiata
• anchovy, garlic & rosemary lamb with a butter bean and spinach salad
• fish burritos
• Spanish fish
• lamb tagine with pomegranate relish

Any of those interest you?

Ok what about changing potato waffles for potato wedges. Just get some potatoes and cut them up. Spray with some oil and add some seasoning - any type you like and put in oven for about 30 minutes or so

toad in the hole works well. - basic pancake batter and sausages.

Cook sausages in oven in dish about half way through cooking add batter and finish cooking.

We do a monthly menu and have lots of the following:
Macaroni Cheese
Plaice/Salmon/Haddock with potatoes and veg
Fish Pie - pastry or potato topping
Pasta Bake
Spaghetti bol.
Lasagne
Meatballs - sometimes swedish sometimes normal
Pork Chops
toad in hole
Chicken Spaghetti Carbonnarra
Scrambled Eggs
Cottage Pie
Chicken Curry
Fish cakes
Jacket Pots
Risotto
Eggs in Baskets (bread basket with egg in middle cooked in oven)

Oh and I make a mean fish pie .

gosh littleboyblue you do need help if that's your idea of a home made family meal!

My advice to you, ditch the botato waffles and buy some real potatoes. New potatoes would be lovely with fish fingers and veg.

DS's favourite ever supper:

1 cup of couscous, soaked in two cups of boiling water until tender

loads of cherry tomatoes, halved

loads of olives or loads of raisins (either go well, but never mix olives and raisins, yuk)

tin of chickpeas

tin of tuna (optional)

lots of chopped fresh coriander

Mix everything together for an easy summer supper.

OMG littleboyblue - you are desperate aren't you ?! As I said on other thread I love casseroles here is Delia's beef in beer recipe, I don't usually bother with the croutons.

Love her or hate her Delia is very reliable you really can't go wrong with her and lot of recipes online so you don't even need to buy cookery book.

Home made is cheaper and healthier and more environmentally friendly - go cook girl

Thank you ladies. All sounds yummy!
CD I haven't checked other thread...........
Overmdb That sounds nice. Might give that a go tomorrow.

Hello lbb - we are having what we call Spanish rice tonight (not sure why!) It's dead easy -

1. Stir fry a chopped onion and crushed clove of garlic in a little oil for a couple of mins, add in rice (amount deps on how many you're feeding - use the packet for instructions) and a tablespoon of turmeric and stir for a couple more mins.
2. Next pour in 300mls of chicken stock, a tin of chopped tomatoes and a chopped red pepper and let bubble away for 10 mins.

3.Add in some prawns (or you could use cooked chicken) and let it all cook down for another few mins until rice cooked and the prawns or chicken is warmed through. If it gets a bit dry, just add a little hot water.

Bon appetit

A fab summer dinner (and cheap!) is soup, salad and garlic bread. Take your pack of frozen veg, 2 tins of tomatoes (and fill them up once or twice more each with water), salt, pepper, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic and a bit of stock. Boil up for 45 mins, blend with hand blender and cook for another half an hour. Serve with salad and garlic bread. Buy a large bag salad, grill some chicken (1-2 breasts) marinaded first in whatver you have around -lemon, garlic, salt, pepper, mustard etc on george forman or grill pan then mix in with home made or bought croutons. Serve with crunchy home-made cheesy garlic bread. The soup can be made in huge batches and frozen so you only need to defrost each mornig you want it. The salad and garlic bread take 10 mins to prepare and you're serving your family a fab, nutrition loaded meal.

Once you've got the hang of this you can made your own soups- sweet potato and red lentil, carrot, onion, tomato soup, and you can vary the sald by adding tuna, hard boiled egg, leftover pasta, whatever veggies you fancy.

marmoset sounds nice What's turmeric?
naomi Sounds a bit scary! Will have to try it though. Dp is a big soup lover, his nan used to make them for him. I'm not too keen on soup so he never has it anymore, but maybe he deserves a little treat.

littleboyblue, it's so flipping easy and you'll save a fortune on your shopping bill if you do it twice a week

I know you're right.
I really need and want to start doing 'proper' meals and things for my family. Dp works very hard to bring home enough money so I can stay with ds's, I should make the effort to look after him a bit better, and I would like ds to eat better food too.
Tonight I did rump steak with new potatoes, onions and veg. Was nice and ds1 even ate some.
Tomorrow I'm doing pork chops with roast dinner sides, but will def give the soups and all other suggestions a go over the next week or so. Will let you know how it goes. Are you excited?

2 packs of bacon,dry fried (if you have a lot of water come out I usually drain it off.) When it is nearly cooked add crushed garlic to taste. Then bung in a big carton of cream and warm through. While you are doing this put some pasta on and it should be cooked by the time the bacon/garlic/cream mixture is ready.

This is loved by everyone in the family and gets wolfed down and seconds asked for too

You can also add mushrooms or sweetcorn or similar.

Thanks MrsGW Sounds lovely

I have a meal plan for every 2 weeks- what i'm making for dinner and what is needed for that meal. Makes shopping very easy. Things like spag bol, meatballs, roast chicken, soups and quiche i make double amounts and freeze half so I have to do less cooking. I also keep lots of bags of frozen veg in the freezer, a couple of ready mixed salad bags in the fridge so there's never an excuse for a meal with no fruit or veg.

lbb - sorry, lost this thread and just found it again. turmeric is a very mild yellow coloured spice - mild enough for my kids to eat it - and you can get it n any supermarket. gives the rice a lovely yellow colour and the taste is very subtle - i'm sure it's what they use in those packets of flavoured rice you can buy