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willowtree · Veteran Member

Off Topic! :) I need some dinner ideas

Katy · ~*Service Worker*~

We had pasta bake last evening, just boil the pasta for 12 mins put anything and everything you like into the mix add a pasta sauce, sprinkle with cheese, accompany with mixed salad and garlic bread, can be made in advance just needs cooking through about 20 mins before serving but can be eaten cold,

Barbacue, pre cook your favourite things and refridgerate, make a salad jacket potatoes, put some babanans in sugar and wrap in foil and put on the barbicue towrads the end serve with iceream yummy, get the kids involved, and sit back and enjoy at your leisure.

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Smukke · Veteran Member

I don't know where to start...

My new favourite is pizza. I prepare the dough in the bread maker, then roll it out, add what I like (e.g. tomato sauce with garlic, briefly boiled spinach leaves, cheese and fried onion rings), and bake it.

It is so interesting what children from different countries like. In Thailand they were crazy about seafood confuse I used to love spaghetti with ragu/bolognese sauce with a lot of minced meat and grated hard cheese. Furthermore Schnitzel (breaded cutlet) with potatoes and gravy, rice pudding with apple compote, pancakes, breaded fish sticks with ketchup...

Today I could eat everything spicy and hot, like curries and those Middle East dishes. With those ready-made curry pastes the effort is bearable for me. I love all kinds of salad, especially with strong leaves like spinach or rocket and a strong dressing.

I can recommend Jamie Oliver's books for easy, colourful and creative ideas. Often I buy something I don't know or don't usually use and then search for recipes with this ingredient in the internet. I found a lovely mango salad with onion dressing this way.

Have fun and let us know how it goes biggrin

Too hard · Senior Member

If you put your question into Google search engine you will get loads of web cooking sites with lots of ideas.

Having a happy meal with family is the main thing...not always what we eat.

Every good wish. T.H.

ilovedogs · ~*Service Worker*~

I have a 13 year old and we stick with the basics like pizza and burgers, although he does like sushi and California rolls on occasion so those are considered take out. Last night we had tortellini, I made bbq pulled beef in the crock pot the other day and we had sandwiches with homemade coleslaw and corn on the cob. The day before that I made shrimp macaroni salad, served with grilled burgers. Earlier in the week, I made stuffed manicotti and froze the leftovers. My family likes curry so last week I also made coconut chicken curry. I made taco salads with seasoned ground beef. My son likes caesar salad so I heat up some precooked breaded chicken cutlets and chop it up and throw it into a salad, super easy meal because the chicken can be heated in the microwave quickly and it doesn't heat up the kitchen by using the oven. My son likes to cook potstickers and egg rolls for us, too. He does a great job getting the potstickers just brown enough before he steams them. He also makes pita pizzas out of pita bread and puts spinach, fresh tomatoes, and feta cheese on them topped with some mozzarella. Very yummy.

Well, after typing all that out I guess we do eat a variety of food. You can look up any recipe online at allrecipes.com.

willowtree · Veteran Member

These all sound like super yummy ideas!

Have any of you ever tried Chicken bundles? That is our family favorite around here. You use cresent rolls, chicken, and, cream cheese. Let me know if you want me to post the recipe here.

And please keep the ideas coming! :)

pineapple · ~*Service Worker*~

I like stir-frys. Sometimes all veggie, sometimes I add some chicken. Easy to make, healthy and delicious. Other favorites are burritos and fajitas-sometimes all veggie, sometimes I add some chicken or beef. I like spaghetti and meatloaf too, partly because they give me leftovers for a couple days. And my all time favorite-jamabalaya! It's a little labor intensive to make but it's SOO good! I also make homemade soup. There are so many good soup recipes I'm always finding new ones online to try. In fact I'm making cabbage soup today. I double the recipe and put half in the freezer to enjoy at another time. A bowl of homemade soup with some good bread and a salad makes a great meal.

AStrongerMe · ~*Service Worker*~

Tacos, ham, BBQ anything not still walking (burgers, hot dogs, steaks, chicken, etc and veggies, mmmm BBQ veggies!), pasta salad, regular salad, fruit salad, taco salad LOL, burritos, tuna sandwhiches, grilled cheese, grilled ham and cheese, OH yes fajitas (saw pineapple)... yummy.

Smukke · Veteran Member

Willowtree, please let me know the chicken bundles recipe.

Breakingfree · ~*Service Worker*~

I love to cook spaghetti, eggpplant parmesan, garlic shrimp alfredo, chicken in heavy garlic sauce over pasta, homemade pizza, tacos, chili, white chicken chile, santa fe chicken in the crockpot, I have 1000 of recipes I have made up or changed. Private message me if anything grabs you.

Debilyn · ~*Service Worker*~

preheat oven to 350

Get boneless chicken breasts, cut in forths.

Mix honey, brown sugar a tsp of molasses, pineapple juice, little bit of salt, cut up onion, garlic powder a bit of soy sauce. Does not have to be exact, taste it to see if you need more sweet or sour or salt etc.I add those little onions too stems on.

Put chicken into glass container. Pour sweet and sour mix on top. stick in overn and cook about an hour, check it at forty five min or so.

I get that gourmet rice and throw it in the rice cooker same time. It has all kinds of brown rices and wild rice in it.

Then a plain ole good greens salad

and sweet tea....

Oh French dip sandwiches are great too!! Just use hamburger..., sour dough....mmmmm

willowtree · Veteran Member

Yummy, yummy, yummy everyone! Thanks for sharing :)))))

My Chicken Bundle Recipe is:

Ingredients

1 ( 8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted, divided
2 tablespoons minced chives optional
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 cups cubed cooked chicken
2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
1 cup crushed seasoned stuffing

Directions

In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, 2 tablespoons butter, chives, milk, salt and pepper until smooth. Stir in the chicken. Unroll crescent roll dough and separate into eight rectangles; press perforations together. Spoon about 1/2 cup chicken mixture onto the center of each rectangles. Bring edges up to the center and pinch to seal. Brush with remaining butter. Sprinkle with crushed croutons, lightly pressing down. Transfer to two ungreased baking sheets. Cover one baking sheet and freeze until firm; transfer squares to a covered container. May be frozen for up to 2 months. Bake remaining squares at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. To use frozen squares: Thaw in the refrigerator and bake as directed.

This is SUPER YUMMY!!!! Enjoy!!!!!!!

Path to Serenity · Senior Member

I made a huge pot of BBQ pulled pork yesterday. Tossed a pork shoulder roast in the crock pot for 10hrs, shreded it, added BBQ sauce - takes no effort and is so yummy.

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