What are you making for dinner?

Pixie_Fairydust

klew356 said:

Pixie_Fairydust said:

  All quick veggie meal ideas please 😁

Tonight is a late finish so pizza & salad for us.

Have a great day 🌞
Pix
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hi, welcome, can you do any batch cooking on a sunday? i tend to do this, curries etc then all you need to do is reheat and cook a pasta/ rice/ potato? 

Il also chuck a Baked potato in the microwave and finish it off the oven whilst im in the shower, doing housework etc etc

Islandmaid said:

Hi Pixis

I agree with KLEW about batch cooking, saves a lot of time and stress when you are busy, and don’t forget KISS meals (keep it simple silly) things like a quick omelette, throw together a salad, some simple spaghetti with some pesto ran through it, bread and soup etc good luck with the course 👍

dinner tonight chicken and chorizo over a green salad, added jacket spud for DH

Thank you, my long days, are Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday so I think batch cooking may have to be on another evening. It's a work in progress, I think by half term in October I should have a system! 

I love the KISS idea for meals. Jacket potatoes are a great idea cooking whilst I'm doing something else, perfect my type of cooking 😁

I will have a look for the Hairy Bikers cook book. I tend to look on YTube for ideas and here of course.

Thanks again 
Pix
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kerri_gt

JIL said:

Roasted a load of veg, for the first time ever I used a roasted veg flavouring sachet. For the first time ever I didnt enjoy my roasted veg 😪
Made husband a lamb mince kebab loaf (recipe in takeaway secret cookbook) 
I had halloumi
Left over jacket potatoes from last night made into wedges.
Last of the coleslaw. 

Boo, its so disappointing when that happens. Actually you've reminded me i have some packets in the cupboard i should really use or bin...I'm sure some moved house with us over 4yrs ago.

C_J

Pix, if you have a slow cooker it can be a godsend especially in the winter months. A nice veg chilli or casserole, lovely and hot and waiting for you when you get in from work!

Tonight, in a game of "here's one I made earlier",  I shall be defrosting some chicken tikka massala to go with some rice and maybe a cheeky veg samosa.  I messed up my menu plan a bit this week, I was certain I had a large pack of beef mince in the freezer which was going to form the basis of three nights' meals but when I looked I realised it was diced casserole steak so I left it in there for another day. It's thrown me a bit! The chicken tikka can fill in for tonight (I love a mid week curry!) and I'll have a deeper rummage in the freezer later to see what there is to fill in for tomorrow.

rachsecret

Steak in peppercorn sauce with celeriac fries and mushrooms, tomato and peppers. 

Islandmaid

Bacon wrapped, Stilton stuffed chicken breasts with watercress and avocado salad 

JIL

Sausages, pork chop, vege sausages, onion gravy, root mash, cabbage and green beans. Yorkshire puddings. Delicious.

kerri_gt

One of the restaurants we tried during Aug is still running Eat Out to Help Out offers, so we went back today to try out some more of the menu. It didn't disappoint

Pixie_Fairydust

C_J said:

Pix, if you have a slow cooker it can be a godsend especially in the winter months. A nice veg chilli or casserole, lovely and hot and waiting for you when you get in from work!

Yes I do have a slow cooker, great idea for when the evenings start getting chillier 👍😊

Tonight my lovely DS treat us to a takeaway pizza. I made a veg lasagne for tomorrow. 

Pix
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Islandmaid

Tonight we are having MIL round for dinner, we used to do this weekly before lockdown, we’re hoping to get back to that routine- Covid dependant 
Sea bass fillets, DH caught and frozen. With mash potato for MIL, she only eats soft foods, and I’ll stir fry broccoli in garlic butter as a main side for me and a side for them.
I”ll also make chocolate fondant for them

rachsecret

It feels so cold here today that I felt like something comforting. Today's tea will be sausage, ratatouille and celeriac puree. Think I need to research some more autumnal recipes that can just be bunged in a slow cooker but are a bit 'different' to just the usual things I cook.