Midweek meals. Expand my menu!

[*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