If you cook regularly

[jgenie]

what are the top 3 meal in your dinner rotation? Would love recipes or links if you're willing to share. I'm failing in the cooking dinner department and would really like to try to rectify that. The biggest problem is no one wants to eat. I can cook dinner and neither DC will even try what I cook. I'm fine to have a bowl of cereal and yogurt for dinner but I really want to have meals to expose DC to a bit of variety. TIA

[Jenny_A]

I *love* http://www.allrecipes.com to get ideas for cooking in general! Click on recipes, then (if you want to) you can narrow down your category to main meals, chicken, etc.... THEN sort the recipes (there's a button at the top) by highest rating. I usually only cook things that have 4.5 or 5 stars that more than 100 people have reviewed.

Here are a couple of our favorites:

Angel chicken pasta
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/angel-c...e7=Home%20Page

Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-co...10=1&e7=Recipe

[lisa928]

I *love* http://www.allrecipes.com to get ideas for cooking in general! Click on recipes, then (if you want to) you can narrow down your category to main meals, chicken, etc.... THEN sort the recipes (there's a button at the top) by highest rating. I usually only cook things that have 4.5 or 5 stars that more than 100 people have reviewed.

This is the way I have found a few of our favorites:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-co...up/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/debdooz...li/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-co...ff/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/rempel-...af/detail.aspx


I should add that all of the above freezer very nicely, so you can make a double or triple batch and save them for another week.

[crl]

Breakfast for dinner goes over pretty well here and is easy. Sausage and oven roasted cauliflower and fresh fruit. Or whole wheat pancakes and fresh fruit.

Hamburgers and oven roasted sweet potato fries (wash organic sweet potatoes in advance so they dry, slice into fry shape, toss with olive oil and salt, roast at 400F for about 15-20 minutes)

Cheese quesadillas. Grate Colby jack or cheddar cheese, spread on tortilla, top with tortilla. Fry on both sides in skillet with hot olive oil. (Can also put shredded cooked chicken in if you have it.). Serve with salsa and plain Greek yogurt or sour cream. Add fresh fruit.

Catherine

[SnuggleBuggles]

Tacos- I love the Frontera brand taco season packets. I use Trader Joe's shells. Joy of Cooking Spanish rice as a side.

Baked potato bar- cheese, beans, bacon, sour cream, chives...

Chicken pot pie- poached chicken, cooked potatoes and carrots, peas, homemade white sauce, Trader Joe's puff pastry

Homemade chicken nuggets with panko crumbs and McCormick Montreal chicken seasoning

Stir fry- no recipe, just contents of fridge and spices

Moosewood carrot soup

Breakfast- quiche, waffles, pancakes, scrambled eggs...

Homemade pizza- ds1 makes the dough.

[infomama]

I have one.....
This taco base for everything from soft/hard tacos to enchiladas to taco salad.
1 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
1 large onion, chopped
2 1/2 cups salsa
1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
1/4 cup Italian salad dressing
2 tablespoons taco seasoning (I use Penzys chicken taco)
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1 small can of summer crisp corn

Cook the onion and meat until no longer pink, drain. Add the rest and simmer for about 20 min on low. We use iceberg lettuce, Greek yogurt in place of sour cream, taco sauce of your choosing if you like and a nice cheese blend.

[cvanbrunt]

Our go-to is Mizithra and browned butter pasta.

Cook some pasta. As it cooks, melt/cook unsalted butter over medium heat until it turns brown. I use one stick of butter for a pound of pasta. Less is fine too, really just enough to coat the pasta well. You have to watch when it starts to turn brown because once it is brown, it burns quickly. Mix the pasta and butter and sprinkle with freshly grated mizithra cheese.

The girls would eat this every day if I could stand it. Super fast and easy. The trick is finding mizithra cheese. I make kale chips while the pasta cooks and butter browns.

[elbenn]

I really like a lot of pasta sauces from the Pioneer Woman website. She has a terrific orange sauce, pasta a'la Betsy (shrimp pasta), creamy mushroom sauce, cajun chicken pasta, etc. They are so yummy. They are all pretty easy to make. I usually use whole wheat pasta.

[sste]

Well, DH does alot of our cooking (I am slooooow!). His go-to dish is tofu and veggie stir-fry. He does alot of veggie/chix with some of the TJ's basil pesto and pasta. He also does a mean braised brussel sprout.

I mainly do make-ahead and I am kind of nutrition-anal. My stand-by kid and adult favorites are chicken chard noodle soup; moroccan chickpea zucchini soup; okra beef jamaican curry barley stew; or lentil or other bean soup. I frequently buy the raw kale salad from the WF prepared foods - - it is sweet with dried cherries and relatively inexpensive because it is so light -- my kids love it and call it candy kale.

Oh, this is my favorite cookbook, food is great, only criticism is limited make-ahead but most of the soups can be frozen. You will find chix chard, lentil soup, and moroccan chickpea in here -- - okra kale I just brown the meat, then the okra with sweet curry (we have jamaican) and onion, throw some flour on it and let it brown out, add low-sodium chix stock from a carton (tjs is fine, wfs is fine, swansons good too), then dump in some barley.

http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Kitch.../dp/1933615567

Also, what I do is cook the same dish over and over again until I get really efficient and in some cases have memorized the recipe. Then I move onto a new recipe. That is how I can do the soups relatively quickly.

[maestramommy]

Pasta with meat sauce
Whole fish baked/steamed in the oven. Wrapped in foil with salt, pepper, chopped scallions and ginger
steak.

Veggies: roasted squash, steamed broccoli, salad.