Family meal suggestions (please)

Zziggi

I am trying to spend less time in the kitchen without compromising on HM meals. I am trying to come up with a list of meals that ALL the family can eat (2 parents, 6 & 4 year old). Can anyone help extend my list please?

I got
* shepherds/cottage pie - with veg
* lasagne - with salad
* spag bol - with pasta
* chilli con carne - with rice (but kids wont eat)
* curry - with rice/naan/pittas (but kids won't eat - has anyone a really mild curry recipe??)
* stew - with mash
* sweet & sour - with rice
* fish pie - with veg
* soup - with breadrolls
* faijtas & sauce
* kedgeree - with mushrooms.peas

Has anyone a sausage casserole recipe? or some sort of italien/mediterrainean one-pot recipe?

Can anyone suggest any other meals please?

Zziggi

angie_loves_veg

My family enjoy chicken tagine - basically a one pot chicken thigh stew, flavoured with onions, carrots, chickpeas, cinammon, chopped apricots, chicken stock, tomato puree and honey. It freezes well too

I serve this with cous cous, although you could easily serve with chunky bread or rice or potatoes.

tesuhoha

I do a greek lamb dish but its usually served with rice and a green vegetable. Everyone likes it in the family.

1/2 onions
1/2 garllic cloves
cubed lamb (amount to feed no of people you are cooking for)
1/2 courgettes
tsp paprika
tbsp tomato puree
jar of passata
rosemary/bay leaf

Fry an onion and a mashed garlic clove (You can vary the quantities)
Fry cubed lamb with onions (amount to suit)
Slice 1/2 courgettes and add to the mixture. Cook until courgettes soft.
Stir in a spoonful of paprika. Continue cooking for a minute or 2
Add a large jar of passata
Add rosemary or a bay leaf
Add tomato puree
Place in casserole dish and cook for 40mins-1hour. serve with rice and green veg/salad.
This is simple to make and is good. Its very tomatoey but that takes the fattiness away from the lamb. Kids usually like it.
Also macaroni cheese is a good dish

piglet6

For an easy sausage casserole, we brown the sausages (only to give them some colour...you don't have to, but I think they look nicer), then put them into a casserole dish with varying quantities of sliced onion, chopped carrots, + a tin of baked beans and a tin of chopped tomatoes, before bunging the whole lot into the oven and forgetting about it...!:p

It varies every time we make it - sometimes we fry off the onions as well, sometimes its 2 tins of beans/1 of tomatoes or 1 tin of beans/2 of tomatoes, or 2 of each. Sometimes we add in some chilli flakes/powder. Its a very forgiving recipe and we've never had a disaster with it yet...;)

Serve it with mashed potato and a green veg (our favourites are broccoli or green beans or cabbage, or any combo thereof!) for colour. Yummy!!!:D

Piglet

kaz665

What about kebabs - then you can vary them slightly or marinate them to everyones taste or homemade burgers (if you are into spicy things you could add chillis etc yo yours but leave the kids ones plain.

angchris

pizza, fishcakes, stir fry, toad in the hole,roast chicken, steak n mush pies, good old ham egg n chips mmm getting hungry now :rotfl:

moon-pig_2

Grilled fish with vegatables....roast chicken....chicken marinated in for example tandoori masala.

Simple, quick, cheap and healthy.:T

Choccie

Tuna pasta bake with salad, or homemade pizzas with salad (this one is always a hit in my house as its very easy to adjust to everyones taste and DS loves to make his own!)