Share your good dinner ideas

Dukechick · Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:13 PM

Ladies, I NEED IDEAS!!!! I've never been much of a cook, but I'm thinking that's got to change soon!! I always find myself making the same thing over and over again!! I'm a big 'meat and potato' kind of girl, but I just seem to run out of ideas!!!!

Please share some of your favorite meals.......

Sherileigh · Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:18 PM

One of my current favorites..is very easy and yummy. I cook a chicken breast...or two, add mushrooms, onions and garlic. Boil some (whole wheat bowties!) pasta....then add all together, throw in some veg, tomatoes, green peppers, and the sauce is just some cream cheese...I use plain or herb and garlic! Just mix together and that's it. Quick healthy and yummy!

happyfamily123 · Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:30 PM

I like to cook some ground beef/hamburger meet and throw it in a pan with some cooked spaghetti, sauce, and cheese and put it in the oven til it all melts together it's yummy.

also....cook ground beef put that on the bottom of the pan then add cooked veggies and mashed potatoes on top, also a fav. of mine!

I love to make lasagna too. Cook the lasagna noodles, then you just layer the pasta,ricotta cheese, spaghetti sauce, mozarrella cheese repeat and cook it til it all melts

Also if you buy a can of crescent rolls. Mix a can of chicken like swansons or whatever with a thing of cream cheese and then take a spoonful and wrap it in one of the rolls and just cook it like it says on the can. Super cheap! Oh and just make a chicken gravy from a little mix

esther · Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:40 PM

Potato bake!!! It is so yummy this recipe and you can eat it for leftovers as well, it lasts!

Shopping List
Potatoes
Thickened cream
Cheese of your choice
Onion
Bacon or chicken if you want
French onion soup mix (powdered)

Need a big casserole dish or similar oven bake dish. Slice potato or cube it up - however you like it, and put down a couple of layers in the dish. Combine the cream with the packet of powdered french onion soup mix and combine well, you might need more cream or french onion soup mix depending on how big you are making the dish, or you can add a splash of milk. Dice up some onion and throw onto the potato, drizzle with the cream mixture - do another layer of potato and cream mixture and when you get to the top of the dish make sure potato is evenly covered in cream mix, sprinkle bacon/chicken and cheese on top and put into the oven for about 45 mins - 1 hour, checking on it regularly.

Very yummy and goes really well with a green salad!

esther · Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:49 PM

Meatball special!

Shopping List
Minced/ground beef
White rice
Garlic
Eggs
Flour
Tomato pasta sauce of your choice

In a big bowl combine ground beef, with some minced or finely chopped garlic, 1 egg, 1 cup of uncooked white rice. On a seperate plate put down some flour and you can use some salt pepper to season the flour. Roll beef mixture into meatballs and lightly coat with flour and put into baking dish. Once all the meatballs are in the oven baking dish, covered the uncooked meatballs with your pasta sauce of choice, and add half a cup to a cup of water depending on how thick the sauce is. Put meatballs in the oven for about 1 hour. The rice in the meatballs will cook and become soft and the meatballs will cook and be really tender and yummy when they come out of the oven.

We call them porcupine meatballs, they are yummy.

Goes well with rice, pasta, salad or any vege's!

esther · Feb 2nd, 2009, 19:07 PM

Chicken/beef/fish or prawn(shrimp) stir fry!

Shopping List
Chicken breast, rump beef, prawns, boneless fish fillets (whatever meat you want to use)
Onion
Capscium (peppers) - red and green
Snow peas
Broccoli
Carrots
Mushrooms
Sesame oil (or any other oil)
Soy sauce
Garlic
Honey
Chilli if you want
Cashew nuts

Cook meat in pan add onions, garlic and then other vegetables, once softened pour on soy sauce gradually and a tablespoon of honey, you can add some white wine to the mix as well or a splash of water. Let simmer for a while.

Goes well with white rice or noodles, once served up sprinkle cashew nuts over the stir fry and enjoy! Can add more soy to taste once cooked.

massacubano · Feb 3rd, 2009, 01:03 AM

I make a version of shepards pie (it is not quite like what they do in UK)

ground hamburger fully cooked and drained of grease. (seasoned with salt and pepper)
cream of corn (canned)
whole corn (canned)
whipped mashed potatoes (seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and milk)

in a shallow dish you layer the meat on bottom then the corn, pour it in even.

Then add the potato layer on top spread it out so it makes it look like a nice frosting on a cake.

Bake in the oven till you see the top layer look a little golden. I always guess on the temperature. Since it is all cooked you are just adding a crisp to it a bit.

serve it as you would sliced pieces of lasagna... you really do not need much else maybe a green salad for fancy.

I know a few others.. by heart. I can burn water so mine are quite simple!

esther · Feb 3rd, 2009, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by massacubano

I make a version of shepards pie (it is not quite like what they do in UK)

ground hamburger fully cooked and drained of grease. (seasoned with salt and pepper)
cream of corn (canned)
whole corn (canned)
whipped mashed potatoes (seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and milk)

in a shallow dish you layer the meat on bottom then the corn, pour it in even.

Then add the potato layer on top spread it out so it makes it look like a nice frosting on a cake.

Bake in the oven till you see the top layer look a little golden. I always guess on the temperature. Since it is all cooked you are just adding a crisp to it a bit.

serve it as you would sliced pieces of lasagna... you really do not need much else maybe a green salad for fancy.

I know a few others.. by heart. I can burn water so mine are quite simple!

That is such a yummy dish, I make that one too but I put pasty on the bottom layer because my OH likes pastry and I sprinkle a light amount of cheese over the top of the mashed potato - but only a tiny amount too much cheese and it is sickly.

Lisalovesbean · Feb 3rd, 2009, 03:42 AM

I have a lovely meal that's very easy!

Even easier if you have a slow cooker!

Brown off some thinly cut chicken breast in a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil (you decide how much meat per person!), chop in one medium sized onion, 2 chopped garlic cloves, sliced mushrooms (if desired) and a chopped red or green pepper, also add half a pint or large cup of chicken stock, 1 tin of drained chopped tomatoes and 5 whole cherry tomatoes for each person you are serving, add a pinch or two of dried basil and oregano and a bit of fresh parsley if you have any and one large glass of medium dry/dry white wine....let this simmer for ten minutes and serve with baby new potatoes or rice......

Now enjoy your Chicken Provencale!!

This meal cannot go wrong! Miss out the wine if you prefer, but the alcohol content boils away when cooked so no problems there!!!!

nikkip75 · Feb 3rd, 2009, 04:37 AM

good old bangers an mash!

get some nice sausages, i love cumberlands.

make some mash, you can mash it with some parsnips or spring onions.

fry up some mushrooms, onions, peppers and add some gravy throw in the cooked sausages and leave to simmer for about 10 mins.

then pile it all on a plate and tuck in! mmmmm its real comfort food...

Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:13 PM	#1
Dukechick Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 4,758	Share your good dinner ideas Ladies, I NEED IDEAS!!!! I've never been much of a cook, but I'm thinking that's got to change soon!! I always find myself making the same thing over and over again!! I'm a big 'meat and potato' kind of girl, but I just seem to run out of ideas!!!! Please share some of your favorite meals.......

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Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:18 PM	#2
Sherileigh Other BnB Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 4,451	One of my current favorites..is very easy and yummy. I cook a chicken breast...or two, add mushrooms, onions and garlic. Boil some (whole wheat bowties!) pasta....then add all together, throw in some veg, tomatoes, green peppers, and the sauce is just some cream cheese...I use plain or herb and garlic! Just mix together and that's it. Quick healthy and yummy!

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Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:30 PM	#3
happyfamily123 Pregnant (Expecting) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Arizona Posts: 1,062	I like to cook some ground beef/hamburger meet and throw it in a pan with some cooked spaghetti, sauce, and cheese and put it in the oven til it all melts together it's yummy. also....cook ground beef put that on the bottom of the pan then add cooked veggies and mashed potatoes on top, also a fav. of mine! I love to make lasagna too. Cook the lasagna noodles, then you just layer the pasta,ricotta cheese, spaghetti sauce, mozarrella cheese repeat and cook it til it all melts Also if you buy a can of crescent rolls. Mix a can of chicken like swansons or whatever with a thing of cream cheese and then take a spoonful and wrap it in one of the rolls and just cook it like it says on the can. Super cheap! Oh and just make a chicken gravy from a little mix

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Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:40 PM	#4
esther Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia, Brisbane Posts: 2,468	Potato bake!!! It is so yummy this recipe and you can eat it for leftovers as well, it lasts! Shopping List Potatoes Thickened cream Cheese of your choice Onion Bacon or chicken if you want French onion soup mix (powdered) Need a big casserole dish or similar oven bake dish. Slice potato or cube it up - however you like it, and put down a couple of layers in the dish. Combine the cream with the packet of powdered french onion soup mix and combine well, you might need more cream or french onion soup mix depending on how big you are making the dish, or you can add a splash of milk. Dice up some onion and throw onto the potato, drizzle with the cream mixture - do another layer of potato and cream mixture and when you get to the top of the dish make sure potato is evenly covered in cream mix, sprinkle bacon/chicken and cheese on top and put into the oven for about 45 mins - 1 hour, checking on it regularly. Very yummy and goes really well with a green salad!

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Feb 2nd, 2009, 18:49 PM	#5
esther Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia, Brisbane Posts: 2,468	Meatball special! Shopping List Minced/ground beef White rice Garlic Eggs Flour Tomato pasta sauce of your choice In a big bowl combine ground beef, with some minced or finely chopped garlic, 1 egg, 1 cup of uncooked white rice. On a seperate plate put down some flour and you can use some salt pepper to season the flour. Roll beef mixture into meatballs and lightly coat with flour and put into baking dish. Once all the meatballs are in the oven baking dish, covered the uncooked meatballs with your pasta sauce of choice, and add half a cup to a cup of water depending on how thick the sauce is. Put meatballs in the oven for about 1 hour. The rice in the meatballs will cook and become soft and the meatballs will cook and be really tender and yummy when they come out of the oven. We call them porcupine meatballs, they are yummy. Goes well with rice, pasta, salad or any vege's!

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Feb 2nd, 2009, 19:07 PM	#6
esther Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia, Brisbane Posts: 2,468	Chicken/beef/fish or prawn(shrimp) stir fry! Shopping List Chicken breast, rump beef, prawns, boneless fish fillets (whatever meat you want to use) Onion Capscium (peppers) - red and green Snow peas Broccoli Carrots Mushrooms Sesame oil (or any other oil) Soy sauce Garlic Honey Chilli if you want Cashew nuts Cook meat in pan add onions, garlic and then other vegetables, once softened pour on soy sauce gradually and a tablespoon of honey, you can add some white wine to the mix as well or a splash of water. Let simmer for a while. Goes well with white rice or noodles, once served up sprinkle cashew nuts over the stir fry and enjoy! Can add more soy to taste once cooked.

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Feb 3rd, 2009, 01:03 AM	#7
massacubano Other Inactive Join Date: Oct 2008	I make a version of shepards pie (it is not quite like what they do in UK) ground hamburger fully cooked and drained of grease. (seasoned with salt and pepper) cream of corn (canned) whole corn (canned) whipped mashed potatoes (seasoned with salt, pepper, butter, and milk) in a shallow dish you layer the meat on bottom then the corn, pour it in even. Then add the potato layer on top spread it out so it makes it look like a nice frosting on a cake. Bake in the oven till you see the top layer look a little golden. I always guess on the temperature. Since it is all cooked you are just adding a crisp to it a bit. serve it as you would sliced pieces of lasagna... you really do not need much else maybe a green salad for fancy. I know a few others.. by heart. I can burn water so mine are quite simple!
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Feb 3rd, 2009, 03:42 AM	#9
Lisalovesbean Mum (Mom) Chat Happy BnB Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wirral Posts: 2,257	I have a lovely meal that's very easy! Even easier if you have a slow cooker! Brown off some thinly cut chicken breast in a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil (you decide how much meat per person!), chop in one medium sized onion, 2 chopped garlic cloves, sliced mushrooms (if desired) and a chopped red or green pepper, also add half a pint or large cup of chicken stock, 1 tin of drained chopped tomatoes and 5 whole cherry tomatoes for each person you are serving, add a pinch or two of dried basil and oregano and a bit of fresh parsley if you have any and one large glass of medium dry/dry white wine....let this simmer for ten minutes and serve with baby new potatoes or rice...... Now enjoy your Chicken Provencale!! This meal cannot go wrong! Miss out the wine if you prefer, but the alcohol content boils away when cooked so no problems there!!!!

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Feb 3rd, 2009, 04:37 AM	#10
nikkip75 Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 4,354	good old bangers an mash! get some nice sausages, i love cumberlands. make some mash, you can mash it with some parsnips or spring onions. fry up some mushrooms, onions, peppers and add some gravy throw in the cooked sausages and leave to simmer for about 10 mins. then pile it all on a plate and tuck in! mmmmm its real comfort food...

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