Midweek meals. Expand my menu!

[JLeigh29]

I usually prep dinner when DS is napping as he's a cling-on - so meals have to be super easy here too. We are having lots of salads lately 'cos it's so hot but DS wasn't really eating much of the usual salad type stuff so we've had to expand our ideas:

Salad ideas - the usual cue, tom, lettuce, avo, spinach leaves plus asparagus or snow peas (m'wave for 30 seconds), beans, broccoli, cauli (M'wave a little too), capsicum, raw carrot, mung beans etc, spinach leaves, raw mushrooms, tinned corn/kidney beans/mixed beans/beetroot, olives, gherkins, sundried toms, cheese, boiled egg, some kind of deli meat (ham, roast beef, turkey etc). I'm sure there's other stuff but I can't think atm!

Honey soy chicken drumsticks (mix a spoonful of honey with a spoonful of soy plus a little chicken stock plus water and garlic, pour over the chicken and bake for 1 hour), served hot with cous cous and veg or cold with salad (can be cooked in the oven when DS is napping, so no danger there OR use an electric frypan)

Smoked salmon 'caesar' salad - the usual stuff plus cue, tom, avo, asparagus or whatever else happens to be in the fridge! Also good with BBQ or smoked chicken, or just the vegetarian version and it can be made all in advance.

Omelette (winner with DS) with whatever's lying around - cheese, tom, mushies, bacon etc

Savoury pancakes (pancake batter with grated cheese, carrot, zucchini, herbs and bacon for the meat eaters) and salad

I know it's an oven recipe but we also love lamb cutlets and baked mushrooms with a mix of breadcrumbs, parmesan, herbs and a little water (plus pine nuts and/or pesto if you're feeling adventurous). Smoosh on top of the cutlets/mushies and bake at 180 degrees for 10 mins. You can prep it all in advance and if you cut up some thin zucchini and pumpkin it'll bake in the oven at the same time too (or serve with....salad!). Meal done!

Pies and quiches - make the pie filling in the slow cooker and freeze it! Sometimes we just have the pie filling with pasta or rice

Fried rice in the rice cooker - love our $9 rice cooker

Frozen fish with veg or salad is my lazy meal and one of DS' faves!

[~TT40~]

im just bumping this.. DH came home is a bad mood because he has had to cook tea every night this week and I said I would cook something tonight then when I told him what (chicken kiev rice and vegies) he went off about there is no imagination blah blah

I can't cook very well, I am very limited in what I can cook, but am keen on learning more for when I am home all the time. Thats why I thought I would play it safe and cook something I know how to, because there has been times I have cooked his looked at it and thrown it straight in the bin =(

So I came here for ideas, EVERYTHING I have thrown at him he has said yuck too... its his fault he doesnt eat anything with imagination...

so... no lamb, mushrooms or corn, and no imagination. (there are more nos, like no seafood.. but those are the big bad ones)

any more ideas girls?

[MummyNaomi]

Some quick and easy weekly meals for us are (mostly with some vegies on the side for me and DS, DH wont eat vegetables - Grrrr)

Tuna patties
Apricot Chicken
Stroganoff
Potato bake and meat (either lamb chops/beef skewers/steak)
Lime and Chilli Stir Fry
Tacos
Spag Bol
Meatballs and spag (DSs fav)
Chicken satays, baked potatoes
Cold Rolls
Butter Chicken (sometimes in the slow cooker from scratch which is awesome and sometimes with a Sharwoods cooking sauce)
Lasagne

[Novella]

ask your DH to suggest something if he is being so fussy! Or get a simple recipie book, there are some great ones around, and get him to put post its on things he likes the look of. Slow cooker meals are also good as it is harder to over/under cook food in it.

Im lucky DH spent the first 20 years of his life eating the burnt offerings of my MIL so he will literally eat anything, which is good because if he threw something I had cooked int he bin more than once he would be a very hungry man!

[Bloom]

Here's a few of our recent meals:

Pan fried steak with steamed brocoli and carrot
Chicken and vegetable thai red curry
Lamb steaks panfried and served with greek salad
Chicken marinated in soy, served with wombok salad

[*Danni*]

Here's some of what we have done this week (DH loves cooking, so I leave it to him, yay!)

* rump steak with gravy, garlic butter asparagus and potato mash

* butter chicken tenders with capsicum & carrot on a bed of rice

* spaghetti with mince meat, crushed tomatoes & veges

* BBQ gourmet sausages with tomato, onions & beetroot in bread rolls

Edit: just read your last post aw that isnt very nice of your DH! I definitely agree with the PP that you should ask him what he would like. And also about there being some great books out there for simple meal ideas. You could also go into the "taste" website (www.taste.com.au) as they have soo many awesome recipes and most are reviewed by real people so you know if it's good or not! Good luck hun, that must be awful to feel the way you do!


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[fionas]

DP is not home for dinner one week out of two so I tend to keep those dinners REALLY simple as it's just me and the girls.

I've found it easiest to do meat and two or three veg. So the meat tends to be something like chicken tenders, rissoles (I make some really good chicken and veg ones from scratch but otherwise I buy them from the butcher), snags.

Potatoes I either do mashed or wedges (great for finger food for DD2)

Veggies could be something as simple as frozen peas, microwaved broccoli or beans, cauliflower cheese or stirfried snowpeas or beans/carrots cooked in a little sesame oil and with some roasted flaked almonds.

Other regulars here:

blue cheese pasta sauce
pumpkin soup (recently discovered you can make it more substantial by adding gnocchi)
chicken cacciatore done in the slow cooker
chilli (I add some veggies like zucchini, mushrooms, corn plus sultanas to mine)
bought roast chicken with bought asian noodle salad and tossed together
curries