Anyone have any good meal ideas?

Question

We seem to get in a rut, and it would be interesting to hear what others eat. Thanks! :)

Answer 1

You and yours should sit down together with a couple of cook books, or web sites and pick out your next meal and cook it together. Since you used the term "we", I assume you both like to cook. Try making it a romantic meal where both of you cook, set the table, set out the candles, and together choose a bottle of wine. (if you have kids, have a nieghbor or family member keep them overnight).

Do you have a favorite place to eat? Try  recipe trove .com

Answer 2

jambalaya, dirty rice, red beans and rice, boudan, crab cakes, meat loaf, spaghetti, baked pork chops and baked chicken, chicken fried steak, shrimp alfredo pasta, pizza, peppered steak, shrimp fried rice, chicken wraps or beef wraps, tacos, steak, anything on the grill from time to time, fish, all kinds, loaded mash potatoes, garlic ranch mash potatoes, baked mac and cheese, scalloped potatoes, shepherds pie, lasagna, cheese tortellini, cheese steaks, burgers, sweet corn, collards, yams, potato salad, deviled eggs...and much other things

Answer 3

http://www.uclick.com/client/adv/mu/

Great site, updated weekly.  She has shopping lists, recipes, and tells you how to use up leftovers!

Answer 4

Boneless pork chops covered in Mrs. Dash, fried up in a Med High skillet with olive oil, about 5 minutes each side, then top with crumbled feta cheese, then turn down heat, cover and let the cheese soften up.

Remove and top with a dollop of sun dried tomato pesto.

Side dishes are usually Uncle Ben's 90 sec long grain wild rice, and asparagus.

Tasty and quick!

Answer 5

I plan all of my meals in advance and here is my menu for this week:

Mon:     Stuffed chicken breast w/ smoked gouda, sun-dried tomatoes  and capers

Sauteed cheese pierogies

Fresh Spinach



Tues:    Teriyaki Salmon

            Roasted herb Potatoes

            Glazed Carrots



Wed:    Curry chicken

            Peas and Rice

            Some sort of veggie (haven’t decided)



Thurs:   Angel hair pasta with chicken broccoli and garlic parmesean sauce

            Grilled Aparagus, peppers, zucchini, brussel sprouts



Fri:       Pinon- Spicy Cuban pie made with beef (I use turkey whenever I can substitute for ground beef) plantains, egg, string beans and served with rice

            Empanadas

I also usually make some sort of fruit tart or cake in the beginning of the week and we munch on that for dessert, this week, I bought melons, strawberries, grapes and  a pineapple and were eating fruit salad.

Answer 6

Home-made Tacos ( all the topping) with re-fried beans and whole kernel corn

Answer 7

ramon noodles

Answer 8

My favorite 'quick and easy' dish:

Take one box of velveeta shells and cheese.  Brown 1/2 to 3/4 lb of ground beef.  Stir into the beef one can of stewed tomatoes and a 1/2 chopped ontion, along with some garlic to taste.  Saute until the onions are tender and add to the mac and cheese.  DELICIOUS.

For something a bit more in depth, but tasty, my favorite is pasta carbonara.  It's similar to an alfredo, but you use bacon and some egg to thicken up the sauce a bit.  You can find a lot of variations on this recipe, but look around for one you think sounds good.

Last night, we made 2 blackened steelhead (fish) fillets served under sauteed corn and diced bacon alongside some grilled escarole drizzled in balsamic vinagerette.

Good luck!

Answer 9

Here are a few of my meal ideas:

Lemon chicken with potato's and lot's of garlic in the oven,with a Greek salad and Greek feta cheese.

Veal in wine tomato sauce and pasta.

Pork souvlaki on the BBQ with oven rice , a green salad and tgatgiki

Grilled Salmon with dill sauce,lemon pasta and green salad with a few

chery tomato's for colour.

Answer 10

Here are some of my families favorites: Cheeseburger Casserole-this one is easy to make you fry hamburger meat with garlic,onion,salt and pepper,drain the meat and add cream of mushroom soup ( i use 1 can per 1 lb.of meat)and a little bit of milk to make a smooth consistency(just a little bit though)and put this in the bottom of a casserole dish,then prepare 1-2 boxes of mac-n-cheese according to the directions on package,when done spread this evenly on top of hamburger mixture,sprinkle with shredded cheddar or shredded Velveeta and bake @ 350 degrees until heated through and cheese starts to brown.they also like grilled tomato &mozzerella sandwiches-for these you take a little bowl and put olive oil and a little bit of garlic(I use powder)you use this to brush on your sourdough bread,after brushing w/olive oil mix put on griddle (however make sure to have your other ingredients easily accessible as these brown very fast and will burn easily!!) put one slice of mozzerella cheese followed by 2 slices of tomato then sprinkle with sweet basil and then one more slice of mozzerella top with second slice of sourdough brushed w/olive oil mixture and grill until done.Even my kids love these!! We eat lasagna,Pizza Casserole,beef stew,I make alot of homemade soups in the winter,(cheeseburger soup,chicken tortilla,corn &sausage chowder,cheesy lasagna soup,italian wedding,etc.)

Answer 11

have you tried making stack a meal?  you cook rice, ground turkey or beef mixed with ketchup, tabasco, onions, and i think oregano, cook some peas and then you stack each part of the meal on a plate.

We do rice as the base, then the meat, then peas and top it off with Cheese.

Might not be super healthy but it's good and it feeds a family.

Answer 12

I thought of something good I haven't made in a long time that I'm going to make for supper tonight.  SOS.  Where you take you hamburger and scramble it up and make milk gravy on it and serve it over toast.  My mom used to make it all the time and I loved it but I haven't made it in a loooong looong time.  We also do alot of spagatti and chicken alfrado and chicken cassarolles.  Frozen pizzas are good every once in awhile and if you have kids they love it.  

Answer 13

try this its real good

TACO PIZZA

1 lb. ground beef

1 (6 oz.) can tomato paste

1 pkg. taco seasoning mix

1 (8 oz.) can refrigerated quick crescent dinner rolls

2 cans water (use tomato paste can)

1/2 lb. Velveeta (Mexican style) cubed cheese

1 c. shredded lettuce

1/4 c. ripe olive slices

Sour cream (opt.)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In large skillet, brown ground beef; drain. Stir in tomato paste, water and seasoning mix; simmer 5 minutes. Unroll dough, press onto bottom and sides of ungreased 12- inch pizza pan. Prick bottom and sides with fork. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cover crust with meat mixture, top with cheese. Continue baking until cheese begins to melt. Top with remaining ingredients. Serve with sour cream, if desired.

Answer 14

Take cube steak, dip them in buttermilk, then dredge in salt & pepper seasoned flour. Brown in skillet, on both sides. Then, make milk gravy from the drippings in the skillet. Put the steaks in a sheet cake pan, pour gravy over the steaks, bake in oven @ 375 for 45 minutes to an hour. Make biscuits. Slice tomatoes, heat sweet peas. When you take out the steaks & put on plates, it leaves the gravy behind to put over biscuits, & the meat is so tender you can cut it with a spoon. Have the tomatoes & peas on the side. It really sticks to your ribs.

Answer 15

Yestorday I made lemon pepper chicken, with mashed potatoes and corn. Tonight Im makeing Chicken Parm With rolls.

You should buy a new cook book that is what I do when I get in a cooking rut.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 16

tater tot hot dish, good and easy to make cheap to. baked chicken, a good beef roast and all the fix ens, lasagna is always good, 1 of my favorites pork cutlets, good stuff,  

Answer 17

Currued lentils