What's your 'slack dinner night' Recipe?

We always have a slack dinner night - either Saturday or Friday night. Usually Friday night as we go out Saturday's (usually).

I want to know what's your slack dinner recipe?

Ours includes things like:

-Tuna Mornay (tonight)
-Gourmet Bacon & Egg Sandwiches - with stuff like avocado, cheese, pickles, etc...
-Mexican Salsa Dip (Refried beans, salsa, sour cream, avocado & cheese baked in the oven & then you use corn chips to dip)
-Hot Dogs
-Macaroni cheese (usually add things like ham, mushrooms, brocolli - whatever we have spare)
-Marinated chicken wings with a simple salad
-Baked Beans on toast (when in Aus as the Baked Beans here in China are awful!)
-Homemade pizzas

I just want to know what yours are???

Love Jayne x

We like breakfast for dinner on lazy nights. Eggs and something (sujuk, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, smoked salmon) on toast.
Roast chicken with salad.

I usually have a stash of frozen left-overs so that on lazy nights I can just re-heat and serve. Casseroles, curries.... all the wet foods reheat well.

Shooting star told me a receipe many years ago that my girls love...

bolognaise Val u vunts

make a mince bolognaise pour into val u vunt casing of choice, sprinkle with cheese and heat in oven til cheese melted... my girls love it!!

Wow, Jayne, some of your lazy night dinners are my normal night dinners, lol!

Ours are usually things like,

French toast
Egg on toast
Baked beans/spaghetti on toast
Tinned soup and crusty bread rolls
Frozen pizza (with added toppings) and salad
Frozen fish, oven chips and salad
Toasties with ham cheese and tomato
Salad with shop brought chicken

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Shooting star told me a receipe many years ago that my girls love...

bolognaise Val u vunts

make a mince bolognaise pour into val u vunt casing of choice, sprinkle with cheese and heat in oven til cheese melted... my girls love it!!

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Oh, i like that idea!
Lazy nights are toasted ham,cheese,tomato and onion sanga's or toasted steak sanga's with the thin sizzle steak you can buy at woolies. It takes me longer to cut up and cook the onions, grate carrot etc then it does to cook the sizzle steak.

Tuna pasta - Can of tuna, tomato paste, mushrooms, onion, light cream & cheese served over spiral pasta. The kids love this.
Pancakes!
Jaffles/toasted sandwiches.
Chicken Caesar salad made with BBQ chicken.
BBQ Chicken & Salad
Chicken & corn soup (can you tell BBQ chickens are my staple for easy meals? lol)
McLisa's bacon & egg Muffins.
Hamburgers - either chicken or beef.

Yep, some of those are my all out, cooking type dinners. My lazy dinners involve 1 or less pans and very little effort at all!

Crumbed fish, chips and veges (maybe a fried egg or garlic bread instead of chips).
Pasta with sauce from a jar (with frozen peas and a handful of baby spinach).
Baked beans or spaghetti on toast.

Most nights I prep dinner in the middle of the day and one of my new faves is steamed fish (salmon or white fish) with quinoa/rice. 3/4 cook your quinoa/rice, drain and put in a steamer (on a plate or layer of baking paper) then sit the fish on top. Add chopped tomato, some sliced olives, diced onion, snow peas, herbs and juice of 1/2 lemon (or whatever you've got lying around). Sit in the fridge until dinner time then steam on the stove for about 10 mins after the water boils. Voila, dinner in 1 dish - no stirring, turning etc ;-) You can do it with chicken too.

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Wow, Jayne, some of your lazy night dinners are my normal night dinners, lol!

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that was my thought too!

I like a tin of tomato soup with a handful of frozen veggies, tin of baked beans and some diced meat thrown in, it can all go on together (love 1 pot meals!) takes 15 mins to cook and still has veggie in it! Even better if you have leftover cooked meat already in the fridge :D

An omelette
I quite often make up a big batch of pizza dough, divide it and freeze it.
Then on those nights I can't be bothered, defrost one and have yummy gourmet toppings on it.

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We always have a slack dinner night - either Saturday or Friday night. Usually Friday night as we go out Saturday's (usually).

I want to know what's your slack dinner recipe?

Ours includes things like:

-Tuna Mornay (tonight)
-Gourmet Bacon & Egg Sandwiches - with stuff like avocado, cheese, pickles, etc...
-Mexican Salsa Dip (Refried beans, salsa, sour cream, avocado & cheese baked in the oven & then you use corn chips to dip)
-Hot Dogs
-Macaroni cheese (usually add things like ham, mushrooms, brocolli - whatever we have spare)
-Marinated chicken wings with a simple salad
-Baked Beans on toast (when in Aus as the Baked Beans here in China are awful!)
-Homemade pizzas

I just want to know what yours are???

Love Jayne x

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We have some of these on none lazy nights LOL

Lazy nights
Charcoal chook with a side or just sandwich
Party pies (DS1 so obsessed at present would eat pies for breaky if he was allowed)
Take away chinesse
Leftovers in freezer
Soup
Omlette (kids dont eat)
Scrambled eggs (kids dont eat) but yours might
Slow cooker is a lazy night meal to me as 30 mins prep in morning is all it takes!!

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I quite often make up a big batch of pizza dough, divide it and freeze it.
Then on those nights I can't be bothered, defrost one and have yummy gourmet toppings on it.

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What a grat idea...I will have to steal this one :)

Pesto and ricotta sauce on pasta is our go to dish, ready in 5 minutes. Just mix pesto, ricotta, salt and pepper for the most delicious pasta sauce and you're done.

Thanks so much ladies!!! I'm thinking I am going to google some ommelette dishes now. I'm 'trying' very hard to be quite savvy in the kitchen. I really enjoy cooking & trying out new things. Some of you mentioned tomato soup in a can - oh how I miss this!!! We can't seem to get it here. I love tomato soup in a can. Others have said shop bought barbecue chickens. Oh my mouth is literally watering. I could get a barbecue chicken here - they do sell them. But they come complete with feet & head & i just CAN'T take care of this myself. Big wuss I know but I just can't do it.

My girls favourite dish here is duck. Either duck with orange sauce, or crispy skin duck or noodles with duck. Duck is more readily available than chicken here & I'm not a fan of the meat itself & we used to have pet ducks as children & I just can't fathom eating duck. Also, majority of the time it comes complete with the head & it just sends me over the edge. Literally puts me off my food. Sorry. Oh I should add that duck is a definitely a dish we only order in a restaurant. I wouldn't be able to cook it at home. I would be in tears I think! lol

I'm also thinking maybe a quiche.......... I'm getting some great ideas! Thanks so much.

I make a really delicious zucchini slice which is basically a quiche anyhoo.

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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW at chicken with head and feet that feral!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do love duck i must say especially Peaking duck and roast duck!

The other night I made a carrot slice that is carrot, zucchini, ham, eggs, cheese plus a few other things. Eat on it's own or have with chips/salad/veggies! I make it all the time :D

Oh... quiche is another one of my slack night meals 'cause I use frozen, pre made bases. Pumpkin & fetta quiche is a favourite.

Oh yummy, Lisa I would LOVE the recipe to this please, pretty please???

Yum Lisa I would like the recipe too

Thanks girls - I have got some yummy ideas from this easy thread

I don't have a recipe for it, but basically I dice up some pumpkin into small pieces and fry it with some garlic - sometimes I also fry finely diced onion too, it depends on my mood. When it is cooked I add it too the whisked eggs and crumble in some fetta. I often use 2 different types of fetta - danish & australian or greek - but it is fine with just one type. I make sure there are chunks of fetta too as I love fetta! I then add some grated cheese and pour it into the base and cook. Your don't have to add the grated cheese if you don't want to.

This sounds awesome Lisa - definitely going to give it a whirl! Thanks so much. Do you fry the crap out of the pumpkin so that it's really soft? Or do you leave it a bit harder? I'm just new with pumpkin. I have aquired the taste! Love roasting it with some honey on top - delish!

Our Lazy dinners include:

frozen fish and chips
Homemade sausage rolls (beef or veal mince with tuscany seasoning and onion and puff pastry, uncooked lay the mince mix on the puff pastry then roll it into a roll and then cut into small or large sausage rolls and cook in oven 15mins or so, its delicous and 5mins to prep)
Oven baked risotto (spray oil on the baking dish, add aborio rice (usually 2 cups), I then fry chicken, garlic, bacon and onion together add tomato paste if you want a tomato base one, put that in the baking dish, then I add frozen veges and then poor chicken stock over the top till everything covered, add any seasoning you want then cover with foil and put in oven at 200 degrees c cook for 50mins or until rice cooked! so easy.
Spagetti cabonara
Bacon and eggs

I do the pumpkin so it is close to soft, especially if they are very small diced pieces.

Mmm honey on pumpkin, so trying that one tonight!

instant noodles cooked in a pot (not the ones u leave in a bowl with boiling water) with a cracked egg, some beef if i have any and poured over some lettuce

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instant noodles cooked in a pot (not the ones u leave in a bowl with boiling water) with a cracked egg, some beef if i have any and poured over some lettuce

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Mmm we do similar! Instant noodles in the pot, chopped up tofu, in another pan fry up some butter ad garlic and add bok choi, add to noodles, in pan used for bok choi fry an egg and serve that on top. Sometimes with thinly sliced beef in the broth to cook. Yummo!

LOL and it must be the noodles from the asian shops hey not the Maggie 2 minute noodles!!! LOL

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LOL and it must be the noodles from the asian shops hey not the Maggie 2 minute noodles!!! LOL

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Totally! We live in a mainly Asian area, so they're real instant noodles with a million different little sachets etc :)

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I don't have a recipe for it, but basically I dice up some pumpkin into small pieces and fry it with some garlic - sometimes I also fry finely diced onion too, it depends on my mood. When it is cooked I add it too the whisked eggs and crumble in some fetta. I often use 2 different types of fetta - danish & australian or greek - but it is fine with just one type. I make sure there are chunks of fetta too as I love fetta! I then add some grated cheese and pour it into the base and cook. Your don't have to add the grated cheese if you don't want to.

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Lisa I did this tonight and omg it was fantastic! Fried up the onion, pumpkin and garlic until soft, then mixed it with beaten and seasoned eggs, crumbled feta, grated cheese (tasty and Parmesan) and spring onion. Served with a simple salad, mmm it was divine and super quick and easy!

Glad you liked it. It is a huge hit here and it is also really lovely cold :) My older kids love to take it to school.

It's my new fave...I love pumpkin and ADORE feta, I made sure the chunks were quite big so that when you cut a slice of it there was a nice gooey pocket of melting feta. Noms!

Creamy Pesto, pinenut, spinach and sultana pasta.
Laksa (using paste from a jar)
Antipasto platter


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Shooting star told me a receipe many years ago that my girls love...

bolognaise Val u vunts

make a mince bolognaise pour into val u vunt casing of choice, sprinkle with cheese and heat in oven til cheese melted... my girls love it!!

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Yum... I am going to try this tomorrow night.. Thanks for the idea

Our lazy meal is a bought bbq chook, with avocado, tomato and cheese in bread and in the toaster maker. Oh yum. I reckon you could do it with duck too Jayne, would be delish! Hot duck jaffles. Yummmm.

Another quick and easy dinner and the kids love it - I chop up at least 5 different ingredients mainly whatever needs to be used up from the fridge (ie chicken, ham, onion, pineapple, capsicum, mushrooms, anything really etc) and get the kids to make their own pizzas for dinner... It's works a treat in out house, the kids "make" their own pizza and then are more happy to eat them cause they made them...