Tired of cooking the same old things! What do you cook....?

[chickensioux]

Looking for new menu ideas. Chicken wings, meatloaf, pork chops every week.

What do you out there cook and enjoy?

 

[PlymouthRocker]

I am in the planning stage of cooking meals for a month with two of my girlfriends. We each are going to make a triple batch of our recipe and split and freeze everything. Here's what I have on my list so far:

Pot roast
Chili
Lasagna
Chicken Pot Pie
taco meat
sloppy joe meat
sloppy joe mac & cheese
taco mac & cheese
corned beef
pulled pork

EXTRAS:
pancakes

SNACKS:
oatmeal cookies
cereal bar treats

Tomorrow we are meeting to finalize our plans and make sure there are no duplicates and nothing that the other two families don't like. I know my friend is making beef stew and pizza dough and I'm looking forward to seeing what they will make. On October 2 we are going to use an industrial kitchen at a church to make everything. Should be hard work but a lot of fun!

 

[19Dawn76]

Chicken pasta is easy and good. CHicken cut into pieces cream of mushroom or chicken soup over noodles. I sprinkle cheese on top also. I serve with a salad and garlic cheese bread. Very easy and really good.

If u wanted to get fancy add rotel and velveeta to it.

 

[Katy]

If you go to the recipe section you'll find a wide range of BYC's members favorite recipes.

 

[Chickenmaven]

Chickensioux, Those look like some hearty choices. I would suggest some lighter fare. Also, if there are any "ethnic" types of food that your family likes, it might allow you to get out of the meat & potatoes rut. BTW: Do you like fish at all? Shrimp? They are more expensive per pound, but you serve less per serving. If I were your personal chef, I would cook you a chicken stir-fry for one meal; a veggie pasta sauce with zuchini to serve over penne with a salad for another; talapia Vera Cruz for another. Talapia is very inexpensive fish when you find it frozen. Vera Cruz style is baked with lemon & lime juice and some fresh salsa. Serve it with rice, beans and corn.

 

[OutInTheStiks]

One of my favorite recipe sites is www.kraftfoods.com

Of course all of the recipes feature and promote Kraft products but I substitute with whatever I have on hand. I like the recipes on the site because they are mostly simple recipes that I can throw together with things I already have.

The Bruschetta Chicken bake is one of my stand-by recipes.

The Nilla Praline Cheesecake is good beyond words.

 

[Boyd]

I was going to make lasagna the other day, had the sauce out and bubbly, the water boiling when I discovered I had no lasagna noodles...... Hrm..

I dug around and found I had 2 1/2 boxes of fettuccine noodles. Now all I needed was some meat... scrounged and came up with some breakfast sausage still in the roll. Not patty because I make biscuits n gravy, not biscuits and pattygravy

Fried up the sausage, poured the grease and meat into the sauce and let simmer for a while. Added pepper

Then made it like lasagna except I didn't boil the noodles before hand.

The kids loved it. I went through 2 pans of it in one night. Only thing I did different was the sauce and the noodles

 

[ChikeeMomma]

I put breakfast sausage in my spaghetti/lasagna, too. I actually do half lb of sausage and a half lb of burger and fry it together. Then I add it to a canned sauce and let it cook for a while. Tastes yummy!

 

[deb1]

I have a variety of cookbooks that I cook from. Also I watch Foodnetwork and use some of their recipes. I am always trying something new. Of course, I have flops but I have successes also.

 

[randomchick]

Every grocery day i try to grab a few thing off the shelf that i have never had before or not in a while. Then i type up the name and google it for interesting recipes. This week my family found out they really do love avocados when they are in smoothies, and that I am a cheese freak. I love cheese, all kinds of cheese. Today for lunch I made my husband grilled pears, with gouda, parsnips, and bacon. I wish I could see his face when he opens he lunch box at work today.