Family’s favorite home cooked meal

[Anonymous]

Some of our favorites:

Whole Peruvian chicken with green sauce and roasted potatoes
Swedish meatballs with egg noodles and a vegetable side
Chicken piccata with a green salad
Ma po tofu with pork and mushrooms
Roast pork loin with sage and rosemary
Homemade pasta from scratch with bolognese sauce
Salt and pepper chicken
Grilled kebabs with shrimp, pineapple, chicken, onions and peppers

[Anonymous]

Baked chicken parm, Bolognese sauce with pasta and Butter chicken.

[Anonymous]

Pasta bolognase and steamed broccoli!

Kids would eat it every night if they could. Mine is steak and asparagus - kids like that too.

[Anonymous]

Love seeing the many suggestions....and that other families, like ours, each has their own.

DH -- Steak (with A1, bleh!), Fries (with lots of ketchup), and some sort of veggie.
DC17 -- Pancit (Filipino)
DC15 -- Tacos
Me -- Ham Steak, Mac'n'Cheese, Fresh Green Beans

For all those who mentioned Spaghetti and Meatballs, that's a go-to at our house as well, especially what we call "Magic Meatballs" (from ATK.....where you bake it all in the same pan, no pre-cooking of the noddles or browning of the meatballs). It's truly a one-dish wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rule in our family is that you get a home-cooked meal of your choosing for your birthday.
For ~10 years now, my mother has requested I make shrimp & grits.
DH has asked for Shrimp Diavola 2 years running now.
Apparently I make good shrimp.

The other two that everyone always get excited about are pasta with vodka sauce, and chicken parm meatballs (sometimes I make the vodka sauce and put it on the meatballs).

I'm intrigued by your chicken parm meatballs - can you explain what those are/how those come to exist?

Sure - they came to exist because in the early pandemic, when we were all doing click and collects for groceries, and stores were sold out of half their products, you accepted the substitutions/took what you got even when it wasn't what you ordered. So, I had a recipe that called for one pound of ground chicken. They gave me four pounds. So, I had to explore other uses for ground chicken.

They are a ground chicken meatball, stuffed with bocconcini cheese (you can use one of the bigger cocktail size balls, or a few of the mini minis), browned on stovetop then put into sauce (usually tomato, rarely homemade, sometimes the vodka sauce which is homemade if we're feeling really extra) and baked in the oven to finish.

Also, I have a lot of other chicken meatball recipes post-pandemic as a result of this, but I sort of feel sorry for the rest of them. No one gets excited for the others like they do for the chicken parm.

Would you share your other recipes? I love ground chicken but only ever make burgers with it out of lack of imagination!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My household loves egg roll in a bowl, fajita/burrito bowls and red beans and rice (anything involving beans, really).

Do you have a good recipe for egg roll in a bowl?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of our favorites:

Whole Peruvian chicken with green sauce and roasted potatoes
Swedish meatballs with egg noodles and a vegetable side
Chicken piccata with a green salad
Ma po tofu with pork and mushrooms
Roast pork loin with sage and rosemary
Homemade pasta from scratch with bolognese sauce
Salt and pepper chicken
Grilled kebabs with shrimp, pineapple, chicken, onions and peppers

Looked up Peruvian Chicken w/green sauce- thanks, looks great and not too time consuming. Feel like I could cheat and doctor some Herdez avocado créma sauce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rule in our family is that you get a home-cooked meal of your choosing for your birthday.
For ~10 years now, my mother has requested I make shrimp & grits.
DH has asked for Shrimp Diavola 2 years running now.
Apparently I make good shrimp.

The other two that everyone always get excited about are pasta with vodka sauce, and chicken parm meatballs (sometimes I make the vodka sauce and put it on the meatballs).

I'm intrigued by your chicken parm meatballs - can you explain what those are/how those come to exist?

Sure - they came to exist because in the early pandemic, when we were all doing click and collects for groceries, and stores were sold out of half their products, you accepted the substitutions/took what you got even when it wasn't what you ordered. So, I had a recipe that called for one pound of ground chicken. They gave me four pounds. So, I had to explore other uses for ground chicken.

They are a ground chicken meatball, stuffed with bocconcini cheese (you can use one of the bigger cocktail size balls, or a few of the mini minis), browned on stovetop then put into sauce (usually tomato, rarely homemade, sometimes the vodka sauce which is homemade if we're feeling really extra) and baked in the oven to finish.

Also, I have a lot of other chicken meatball recipes post-pandemic as a result of this, but I sort of feel sorry for the rest of them. No one gets excited for the others like they do for the chicken parm.

Would you share your other recipes? I love ground chicken but only ever make burgers with it out of lack of imagination!

Sure!

Both of these are delicious

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/italian-chicken-meatballs-cream-sauce-broccoli

https://littlespicejar.com/rustic-chicken-piccata-meatballs/

These are really unique, probably not as wide appeal, but good

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022719-moroccan-spiced-chicken-meatballs?unlocked_article_code=1.o00.CpYl.mowQlCgcYd8n&smid=share-url

I have more but the others are better with pork or beef.

[Anonymous]

When I used to make it, thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, everything from scratch, from the cornbread croutons in the stuffing, the cranberry jelly and gravy were homemade, creamed spinach, mashed sweet potatoes and parkerhouse rolls. Now I just don’t have it in me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My household loves egg roll in a bowl, fajita/burrito bowls and red beans and rice (anything involving beans, really).

Do you have a good recipe for egg roll in a bowl?

I think this is the one I normally use. Honestly, it's so forgiving that I kinda wing it and throw in other vegetables we have on hand. I was really suprised my kids liked it so much.
https://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/keto-egg-roll-in-a-bowl/

[Anonymous]

They get most excited for:

-Tamales or enchiladas with Mexican rice
-Eggroll in a bowl
-Stuffed shells (spinach)
-Vegetarian Philly cheesesteaks

[Anonymous]

chicken shawarma with homemade tzatziki, feta, roasted veg and pita

Chicken pot pie

Fettuccini alfredo and Tuscan kale salad

[Anonymous]

Chicken enchiladas (I get from a chef and heat up)
chicken fajitas
pork chops and mashed sweet potatoes
spaghetti Bolognese

I wish my family ate some of the things that have been suggested. One kid and I are adventurous eaters and love trying new things. My husband and another child won't try anything new and will eat a bowl of cereal on nights when I experiment. It's made me dislike cooking.

[Anonymous]

These are hits at our house:

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/sushi-rice-with-miso-caramel-glazed-salmon

(Made with ready made spice blend for ease): https://joythebaker.com/2019/07/one-pot-baharat-chicken-and-rice/

Chicken pot pie

[Anonymous]

Chicken from here: https://www.recipetineats.com/chicken-sharwama-middle-eastern/

Sauce from here: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/peruvian-style-roast-chicken-with-green-sauce.html

Roasted veg of your choice with a bunch of za'atar

Naan from Trader Joe's or rice from here:
https://dinnerthendessert.com/halal-carts-middle-eastern-chicken-and-rice/