Whats your families favourite meal?

Wornoutmom

Looking for inspiration for new meals as like to cook new things but becoming stuck in a rut! I make everything from scratch from chicken nuggets to fish pie but am getting a bit bored. My children are pretty good they will eat quite a variety of food as long as its not too spicy so if you could just reply with your families favourite meal or their favourite meal that you consider to be a bit out of the ordinary that would be great!!:beer:

room512

Crab linguine is one of our favourites. Also crispy bacon in mashed potato with cheese and caramelised onions (not very out of the ordinary!)

meritaten

Three of my grandkids like 'Pub Prawns' - which is a bog standard prawn cocktail served in wine glasses, on a plate with the cutlery wrapped in a paper towel!
or Chicken in a Basket - another pub favourite!
Scampi or sole goujons have to be served in the baskets too!
lol - no they don't frequent the local pub - they just got fascinated by me and DD talking about 'retro food'!

booter

Usually the family favourites are simple, quick(ish) and cheap (thank goodness!) - bangers and mash with gravy (and I always throw in a couple of veg ) toad in the hole, (yes, sausages have a recurring theme I'm afraid ) Cottage pie, spag bol - the usual. Although the kids have found they quite like "constructing" dinner - like with fajitas.

They also quite enjoy "choosing" their dinner, so if space allows, the separate dishes are placed on the table and served there IYSWIM - that way they get to choose how much/little of each dish they have (and we can "negotiate" e.g."if you don't have any peas, you'll be having more carrots then?")

Tenyearstogo

Roast gammon/pork or toad in the hole. Bacon sarnies are our favourite weekend lunch too.

Pigs don't stand a chance near my family!

BitterAndTwisted

One of the things my mum used to make that was my favourite was roast belly pork. Get a squarish piece, place it skin side down and spread mixed dried fruit over it and then roll it up like a swiss roll. Tie it with string and roast it. Cut it into slices.

The tartness of the fruit compliments the fattiness and cuts right through it.

Cor! I can just taste it now. Mum's been dead for over a decade and I've been a non meat-eater for over twice that and if it was in front of me now, I'd eat it.

A hot veggie accompaniment was peas and carrots in parsley sauce. Yum. Yum. Yum.

n.b. Ma wasn't British so we had all sorts of things that were out of the ordinary at the time, like kohlrabi and celeriac

stiltwalker

My 2 small monkeys are real foodies and will happily polish off lobster ravioli when it is on the specials board at our favourite Italian for lunch! At home they'll eat pretty much whatever I put in front of them - we have mac and cheese with 'stuff' in most weeks - ie whatever needs using up so it may be chicken from the roast with leeks and mushrooms or swetcorn and red pepper with a tin of tuna or even just a load of veg - peppers, courgette, onion etc.

Another fave if you pick up some croissants from the whoopsies section that are a bit past their best is to cut in half and fill with a slice of ham and a slice of cheese before popping in the oven for 10 minutes - in fact it's in the oven as we speak for DH and I, you can also fill with whatever floats your boat - I like cream cheese and sliced mushroom sauteed in butter and garlic but DH not a big mushroom fan.

DD goes mad for sketti arbon (spaghetti carbonnara) bacon mushroom, onion and garlic sauteed off in butter/olive oil. Whisk 2 egg yolks with cream and grated parmesan and pour over cooked spaghetti and stir in (residual heat will cook as it coats the pasta) then chuck fried bit on top with liberal quantities of black pepper (in our house anyway) and serve with garlic bread.

I tend towards the quick and easy - lol - but also do the long, slow and easy and you can't go wrong in our house on a winters day with a big bowl of beef and veg casserole with either dumplings or mash.

Lamb tagine is also very popular, as is the veggie butternut quash version in the economy gastronomy cookbook - which reminds me, not done that one for a bit, put it on the mental list for next week!

thehappybutterfly

Chicken fajitas! We eat them a lot and the kids (21 and 16) still always request them for birthday teas too. Old El Paso original BBQ flavour We put everything in dishes and make them up ourselves as we all have different filling and folding methods!

And they also love my Monday night chicken risotto!

Peggybabcot

In our house favourites include lasagne, tuna pasta bake, chorizo pasta, bangers & cheesy mash, roast dinners of any type, chicken breast in a bun with salad and HM wedges/chips, corned beef hash, Jamie Oliver's bang bang chicken with rice and HM sesame prawn toasts, hairy dieters sweet & sour chicken & rice, fajitas and the good old jacket spud. It seems sometimes the less time I spend in the kitchen the more they appreciate the finished meal. The only exception to that is a roast which they'll eat every day if the could x

mummybearx

Just asked my dh what he likes -

Mince and mashed potatoes
Slow roasted belly pork and mashed potatoes
A good ham broth soup
Carbonara
Potatoes cabbage and ham

For me being vegetarian it would be -
Penne arrabiata and garlic bread
Oven baked potato with homemade coleslaw and salad
Veg shepards pie with sweet potato mash ( I make it with carrots and green lentils)

Xx

carlamarie_2

we all have different favourites in this house!

me; HM cottage pie with any veg
dh; HM sweet and sour chicken with chips
ds1 (6); gammon HM yorkshire puds, stuffing (aunt bessies, not my own )broccoli and green beans. no mash or gravy for him!
dd(5); jacket potato with butter and cheese
ds2 (1); HM chicken and chorizo jambalaya or HM tikka masala

but everyone likes a simple sausage egg and chips and 'build you own' wraps where i put all different veggies, chicken, ham, eggs, sauces, cheese and generally anything that needs using up in bowls on the table and give everyone a wrap. it does get messy with the baby though!