What's a meal your family loves?

[STP]

Lasagna (I make my own sauce)

I love a good roast chicken w. veggies and potatoes. Ina Garten's technique is my go to for a perfect crispy skin.

I also make her company pot roast on occasion, I don't eat beef but the rest of the family loves it.

[angelashly]

Oct 22, 2024 9:05:04 GMT -6 STP said:

Lasagna (I make my own sauce)

I love a good roast chicken w. veggies and potatoes. Ina Garten's technique is my go to for a perfect crispy skin.

I also make her company pot roast on occasion, I don't eat beef but the rest of the family loves it.

I was just looking at this chicken! I think I may do it Sunday

[piratecat]

I remembered something I don’t cook often that we love — Donkatsu. I bake it in the oven so it’s not as much work as frying but still more steps than I have the bandwidth for most days.

[piratecat]

I recently started making bossam at home, which kinda feels fancy but is pretty easy to make.

[CestLaVie]

My favourite project meals for weekends:
- fresh pasta and homemade sauce (if you don't want to make noodles lots of places sell them in the fridge and even that can make it feel more elaborate
- Cassoulet
- French onion sandwiches (made with a roast beef)
- Steak and stout pie
- Lasagna
- joloff rice


For quick during the week:
- i love making freezer meals ahead of time and popping one in in the morning (green chicken chili, chili, pulled pork, creole sausage and beans)
- poke bowls. everyone can choose what they put it
- coconut chicken, tikka masala, butter chicken sauce from costco, just add chicken and make rice

[STP]

Nota🎃, this is my favorite mushroom soup and I can't eat it anymore bc of FODMAP issues.

But it's soooo good:

themodernproper.com/hungarian-mushroom-soup

[AmyG]

Oct 22, 2024 12:27:44 GMT -6 Nota🎃 said:

I know some would say soup isn't a meal, but my kids love soup

Mushroom barley is a current favorite
Homemade tomato soup that my oldest makes and lemon orzo soup (minus the chicken)
We have them with chunks of bagettes

Otherwise when I have more time for things on weekends I bake, usually something that can be used as breakfast or snackd during the week. Like I made apple walnut muffins. My oldest really wants pumpkin roll so I make take that challenge on and see if I can make dairy free frosting for it.

Pumpkin roll is pretty easy. Recipe Often on back of can of pumpkin.
www.verybestbaking.com/libbys/recipes/libby-s-pumpkin-roll/

My brother makes pumpkin roll with the filling ice cream and it's delightful so you could always use dairy free ice cream. Slice thin and store in freezer

[Bookshelves]

But truly, I appreciate this thread… my picky, picky 7yo is killing me. I think there’s some neurodivergence at play with him. The 10yo has gotten somewhat better through constant effort.

We’re in the midst of a huge effort among our household to collaborate and meal plan in the hopes of finding things for everyone and giving everyone some responsibility and ownership. And raising my morale, haha. (Picky kids… my IBS and difficulty with rich foods… MH’s weight concern and constant desire *for* rich foods, like cream- or cheese-based casseroles, that test his portion control issues)

We’re doing “pasta Friday”s at the younger’s suggestion. Turkey meatballs from the Run Fast, Eat Slow cookbook (I can make a big batch and freeze). Random pasta and marinara sauce. Big salad.

Make-your-own pizza night is usually a hit. Big salad. (lol, there’s a pattern, but, bizarrely, the kid actually loves salad.)

Grilled chicken kebabs with rice and a veggie (grilled zucchini or steamed broccoli). If the kids don’t want the veggies I usually offer some cold ones, which they’ll eat (carrots, cucumber slices).

Burgers on the grill once every couple weeks. Big salad.

[mathrun]

Dry brined turkey or chicken

Pretty much anything Mexican (tacos, burrito bowls, Mexican pizzas)

Homemade chili that I literally simmer all day

[McBenny]

beef stew
smothered pork chops
fried chicken
chicken wings of any kind
roast
fried pork chops
gumbo

[agm04]

spaghetti and meatballs or meat sauce (i'm the only one who isn't crazy about this meal)
beef stew
meatloaf
make your own pizzas
breaded chicken of any kind + roasted potatoes and veggies
chimichurri steak
lemon butter chicken
chicken and tortellini soup
anything with cornbread
pork schnitzel

[AmyG]

when youngest comes home next time
he wants slow roasted pork ribs on the grill with potato salad and cole slaw maybe baked beans and cornbread
and he always wants tacos and enchiladas always

[crazydoglady]

We do a lot of recipes from krollskorner.com we love the chicken and rice and most of the salads

[almostfamous]

My kids love these slightly more time consuming than typical meals the best which we make on most football sundays:

Hibachi night (typically chicken, fried rice, veg)

German dinner (chicken or pork schnitzel, spaetzle, red cabbage, sweet and sour green beans

From scratch chicken pot pie. We typically do cute cutouts for the top. I make 2 regular size pies but always have extra crust and filing for my two little dds to make their own in ramekins.

Bolongese cooked for at least 3 hours. On pasta or made into lasagna

Homemade raviolis/homemade pasta

Beef stew with homemade bread

[FlightView]

Any variation of Salmon and rice.

My kids ask who caught the salmon and where it came from. Their grandpa catches the best fish, apparently.

[harrisonbergeron]

Our favorites that are time or labor intensive:

Dahl (with yogurt/spices) and homemade naan

Tacos, black beans and rice with homemade wheat tortilla. Since moving to France, we use merguez, a North African sausage, instead of ground beef that is soooooo good)

Homemade pizza (highly rec a pizza stone for this, a game changer!)

Halal Cart Lamb over spicy rice