What dinners do you eat on a regular basis?

[kccougar]

My wife is generally in charge of the menu planning each week, and it is one of her most-dreaded tasks. She likes to cook, but coming up with dinner ideas is very frustrating for her.

What meals do you eat on a regular basis in your home?

[Mrs. Funk]

My wife is generally in charge of the menu planning each week, and it is one of her most-dreaded tasks. She likes to cook, but coming up with dinner ideas is very frustrating for her.

What meals do you eat on a regular basis in your home?

Now that the weather is cooling down, we eat a lot of soup. I made chicken tortilla soup over the weekend and Russian borscht on Monday.

We eat stirfry, chili, broiled sandwiches, and anything we can stuff into a costco raw tortilla.

[Donuthole]

One of our regular meals (at least once a month, sometimes twice a month) is black beans, eggs, and flour tortillas. It's an homage to my mission, but my wife and I both like it (as does my daughter). It's simple, cheap, and relatively healthy. If you want to fatten it up, put some creme fraiche and cotija cheese on the beans.

[Pheidippides]

I don't know what my wife makes. My kids invariably eat before I get home (this will change as they get older and stay up a bit later) so I usually end up fending for myself. I have a lot of fruit smoothies and pasta. Pasta. More Pasta. And fish.

[cougjunkie]

We went with the old family staple last night: Grilled cheese and tomato soup.

[TripletDaddy]

we always have a pot of beans. we always have some pasta or rice. I grill a lot of chicken these days....this entire year, to be exact. These things are easy to heat up, take for lunch, etc.

My wife makes all kinds of crazy salads that are fattening but delish.....strawberry salads, raspberry chicken salads, grape chicken salads....yum.

I have found that with a perpetual supply of grilled chicken on hand (hot or cold), you can quickly branch out in all directions....spice up a quesadilla for dinner, shred it into toasted chicken salad sandwiches, make a tasty noodle soup, create your own yummy chicken breast sandwich with your favorite toppings, cut it up into chunks and use it for a small pizza topping, make a homemade burrito with beans and rice, mix it with tomatoes and peppers in the crock pot for a nice stew base, fry up some tasty taquitos and make your own salsa (my kids love these), stuff some enchiladas, throw it in a wok with veggies and stir fry it to tomorrow.....etc.....the possibilities are endless. And it will be less tough on your cholesterol than beef and less smelly than fish.

[Pheidippides]

we always have a pot of beans. we always have some pasta or rice. I grill a lot of chicken these days....this entire year, to be exact. These things are easy to heat up, take for lunch, etc.

My wife makes all kinds of crazy salads that are fattening but delish.....strawberry salads, raspberry chicken salads, grape chicken salads....yum.

I have found that with a perpetual supply of grilled chicken on hand (hot or cold), you can quickly branch out in all directions....spice up a quesadilla for dinner, shred it into toasted chicken salad sandwiches, make a tasty noodle soup, create your own yummy chicken breast sandwich with your favorite toppings, cut it up into chunks and use it for a small pizza topping, make a homemade burrito with beans and rice, mix it with tomatoes and peppers in the crock pot for a nice stew base, fry up some tasty taquitos and make your own salsa (my kids love these), stuff some enchiladas, throw it in a wok with veggies and stir fry it to tomorrow.....etc.....the possibilities are endless. And it will be less tough on your cholesterol than beef and less smelly than fish.

Does your wife make a lot of salads that don't involve lettuce or other leafy greens at all? If so, I'd like some of the recipes. SHW has been doing it lately (a really good one with tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese and balsamic vinegar is my fave) and I am digging it. Lettuce has next to no nutritional value anyway (which is why I am a fan of spinach).

[cowboy]

I don't know what my wife makes. My kids invariably eat before I get home (this will change as they get older and stay up a bit later) so I usually end up fending for myself. I have a lot of fruit smoothies and pasta. Pasta. More Pasta. And fish.

You are dead to me.

[Pheidippides]

You are dead to me.

I smoke beef briskets on the weekends, you sensitive sally. And I have a roast beef sandwich for lunch almost every day.

[TripletDaddy]

Does your wife make a lot of salads that don't involve lettuce or other leafy greens at all? If so, I'd like some of the recipes. SHW has been doing it lately (a really good one with tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese and balsamic vinegar is my fave) and I am digging it. Lettuce has next to no nutritional value anyway (which is why I am a fan of spinach).

i honestly can't remember the last time we had "lettuce" for much of anything. We almost exclusively substitute fresh spinach, as well. By "lettuce," I am talking about the standard head of iceberg lettuce that goes brown 20 minutes after you cut into it.

I am not against lettuce, btw, just noting that we dont use it for much. I will shred iceberg when I make enchiladas. Topping red enchiladas with anything else seems bizarre. We don't even use it for sandwiches. I have been getting into butter lettuce for sannies. The taste is interesting. Grows on you.

The salad you are describing with cheese and cukes, etc.....yes, that is what MMM does. Although the fruit ones I described above all have a spinach component, so they are more akin to your traditional "salad." I will have to ask her for some recipes. I like these "salads" because they are usually very flavorful and add a nice dimension to even a simple meal. You mentioned getting home from work and fending for yourself....I agree. A sandwich at 8PM all of a sudden becomes a mini feast when you have a delish salad on the side that consists of more than lettuce and tomatoes.

[marsupial]

We eat a lot of beans and rice, burritos, etc. I usually make fresh salsa and guac to go with it. Danimal and the kids like baked potatoes quite a bit, so sometimes we just do baked potatoes and a big green salad.

My kids like brinner a lot so we have that a couple of times a month. Our brinner is fairly healthy. I make whole grain waffles and green eggs and ham and sometimes a fruit smoothie. The eggs are green from the spinach in them. I never make this kind of stuff for breakfast, so for all my kids know, brinner is dinner.

I get Allrecipes recipe of the day email. I look at it, if it is something I think we'd like, I add it to my virtual recipe box. Then when I do my grocery list for the week, I peruse my recipe box and look for a new recipe to try. I usually try something new each week. Things we like end up getting into the regular rotation.

[statman]

...anything we can stuff into a costco raw tortilla.

Man I love those things.

[Pheidippides]

i honestly can't remember the last time we had "lettuce" for much of anything. We almost exclusively substitute fresh spinach, as well. By "lettuce," I am talking about the standard head of iceberg lettuce that goes brown 20 minutes after you cut into it.

I am not against lettuce, btw, just noting that we dont use it for much. I will shred iceberg when I make enchiladas. Topping red enchiladas with anything else seems bizarre. We don't even use it for sandwiches. I have been getting into butter lettuce for sannies. The taste is interesting. Grows on you.

The salad you are describing with cheese and cukes, etc.....yes, that is what MMM does. Although the fruit ones I described above all have a spinach component, so they are more akin to your traditional "salad." I will have to ask her for some recipes. I like these "salads" because they are usually very flavorful and add a nice dimension to even a simple meal. You mentioned getting home from work and fending for yourself....I agree. A sandwich at 8PM all of a sudden becomes a mini feast when you have a delish salad on the side that consists of more than lettuce and tomatoes.

The uses you mention for lettuce are about all I use it for too. That includes romaine hearts and iceberg lettuce. Spinach is much more flavorful and welcome. I love the idea of strawberries (doubly so if fresh). Which leads me into my worship of balsamic vinegar: it works well in sweet applications as well as savory, if properly used.

I honestly get lazy when I am home at night, so sometimes I will just make myself a PB&H (unless I have Jalapeno Strawberry J - delish!).

[marsupial]

Asian lettuce wrap is a recent Allrecipe hit at our house.

The slow cook Thai chicken is also pretty good, though I modify it quite a bit. This is what we're having tonight.

[TripletDaddy]

The uses you mention for lettuce are about all I use it for too. That includes romaine hearts and iceberg lettuce. Spinach is much more flavorful and welcome. I love the idea of strawberries (doubly so if fresh). Which leads me into my worship of balsamic vinegar: it works well in sweet applications as well as savory, if properly used.

I honestly get lazy when I am home at night, so sometimes I will just make myself a PB&H (unless I have Jalapeno Strawberry J - delish!).

once again our symbiosis proves uncanny.

I have been dousing everything right and left with balsamic vinegar (not vinaigrette, which is yum but more calories). I can't seem to get enough vinegar these days. It seems to make everything more tasty lately. I am probably pregnant.

what kind do you use? I am not well educated and would be open to suggestions.