Strange meal requests please

antw23uk

Gnocci roasted is one thing i ALWAYS have in my cupboards for when i cant be bothered or lack time midweek. Im not a fan of them boiled like pasta with a sauce but with a splash of oil and put in the oven in a roasting tin for 20 minutes they turn out like little mini roast potatoes and are Yummy

Serve with meat of your choice and you have a mid week roast dinner (ish) :T

spiddy100

Ooh thank you antw23uk for that tip. My kids and DH love gnocci and I have to grit my teeth to eat them, as boiled they always seem like slimy little lumps to me! Will try them roasted next time!

minniemaus1970

My lot are fussy too, but I persevered.

One will only eat beans,carrotts, peas, cauliflower, the other one just peas, broccoli and sweetcorn, my partner will eat most veg as long as there is sum kinda sauce to drown it in. I like any veg!
I boil my veg in fairly big chunks (so I can split up, carrotts for some, broccoli for another one, and everyone likes peas. I never add any salt while cooking the veg and keep the stock for the gravy/ sauce. Thats how I got mine used to eat it, the taste somehow seemed familiar........:T
when they were little i used to puree it and hide it in sauces.

I also do bakes ( potato, pasta or just veg)i always sneak in a handful of frozen sweetcorn, or peas or grated carrotts)
Hope this helps
MM

Stephen_Leak

I'm sorry, but ... he grows up and either eats what you cook or cooks what he eats. :mad:

tuttifruiti20

A fairly quick and easy idea might be some filled pasta with sauce - most of the supermarkets do these and many are meat based rather than vege based and sauces vary from tomatoey ones to cheesy ones etc.

Meatballs and spaghetti would be another - I do mine with a tomato based sauce - don't know if this would be acceptable to him or not. Also if you make the meatballs in advance you can freeze them and then they're very quick to do with the spaghetti.

toad in the hole
cottage pie (beef mince)
shepherds pie (lamb mince)
All could be as meat free or not as you required.

Stephen_Leak

tuttifruiti20 wrote: »

<snip> Meatballs and spaghetti would be another - I do mine with a tomato based sauce - don't know if this would be acceptable to him or not. <snip>

Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.