since when do we need to prepare "dishes" for dinner?

[Liviam]

Rissoles, spag bol, chick tonight, steak/fish with veg as a regulars here. I am not a good cook at all. I also like slow cooker meals where I can throw some cheap meat in with some stock. Pasta bake is another goodie and quickie here too.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I make up names. Pasta and bacon with other bits is a carbonara. Or I do "meat a la maison", style is "cuisine de moi". Potatoes in cheese sauce with extras is "extras melt" or "extras bake" - goes down ok so don't think DH has caught me out!

[AnyDream]

Most of the food I cook doesn't have a name...I just look at the ingredients I have, an idea pops into my head, and off I go. Leftovers are rarely ever called that simply because I usually turn them into something else. FWIW my family never expect be told what their food is, they just eat it.

[Nettie]

My mum called that 'Hotch-Potch'. That's it's name! She called that anything that she chucked together.

I still cook Mum's Hotch-Potch today and it's different every time!

[AnyDream]

Hotch potch - I like that. Sounds like something my Nan would say

[Trillian]

"Rissole's Darl" is what we jokingly call stuff. We don't name our food either, it's just sausages/chops/steak/chicken and veg, sometimes with gravy. our staples are meat and veg, so nothing fancy that needs a name LOL. But I will admit to saying to the kids when I've been asked for the millionth time what am I cooking for dinner "its poo" and they usually stop asking

[LimeSlice]

DHs is "S*** on Toast"

[~Kim~]

But I will admit to saying to the kids when I've been asked for the millionth time what am I cooking for dinner "its poo" and they usually stop asking

Me too!!

DD just rolls her eyes and walks away now

Occasionally I will whip out a 'named' dinner, but I rarely use a recipe.

[Indadhanu]

LOL savory mince and mashed potatoes If you'd had baked it with potato and cheese on top, I'd say its a shepards pie!



Just make something up Mummy's secret is a good name, I think every family needs a 'Munnys seret' meal!!

[DaintreeDream]

FWIW my family never expect be told what their food is, they just eat it.

:yeahthat: as long as it is food my DH will eat it, no name required. Although the other night I made noodles (with egg, lemon, fish sauce etc) but put egg noodles rather than crunchy ones and it kind of turned into mush, DH did ask what that was called, when I said 'noodles' he looked closer and asked where the noodles were, he still had seconds so it obviously didn't affect the taste.

[MrsFabuloso]

My mum used to call these meals **** on a stick....hmmm, not too appetising! LOL!

I made a mince meal very similar to what you did the other day Kaz, but with noodles and noone was terribly impressed ('cept me!). I wasn't happy. I literally threw out the whole lot except half of what DH had, my whole meal, and one bite each from the kids. The plain noodles were a hit though! Sometimes my 'whatever' meals aren't very well recieved, lol! But I persist, hehe... alot of our meal are just meat and veg, nothing special. Mostly the only time I make a 'special' meal is if it's a bake (as you said, easy as!) or a slow cooker meal (again, easy as to just throw everything in!). Though I often make 'whatever' meals in the SC too, and they usually turn out sooo yum! But you do need to learn what goes with what when you do meals like that too. Sometimes what I put with what isn't terribly nice, but hey, you gotta learn somehow!

BTW, mum makes chow mein too, but I think it was called something else in our house...can't remember what though- mince, cabbage, french style sliced beans, curry powder, and a packet or two of chicken noodle soup, a bit of woustershire sauce (sp?) and water, yummo.....I might have to make some of that one day!

[turtleschell]

Just thought I'd share DH's funny story:

When he was a kid his mum used to break bits of stale bread, put it in natural yoghurt and sprinkle sugar all over it. They loved it, and asked her what it's called and she said "lambs brains".

So guess what they started asking for when the guests arrived.. "Mum Mum Mum can you make lambs brains!!"

[*star*]

My brothers used to make a dish they called "crud in a bowl". Mmmmmm appetising. Some things are better left unnamed.