Family’s favorite home cooked meal

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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.

Don't skip making the green sauce! It is delicious. Try the one from the Once Upon a Chef Peruvian chicken recipe that a NP above included.

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Pork shoulder ragu with either pappardelle or tagliatelle
Red beans and rice with sausage
Brazilian style black beans with rice and sausage
BBQ chicken drums with corn pudding
Crispy skin-on chicken thighs with a Bachan Japanese BBQ sauce/butter sauce served over white rice
Salmon cakes
Any kind of roast chicken/roast beef/braised pork shoulder

All 3 of my kids eat most veggies with these meals, although my youngest prefers raw veggies, so I’ll usually add to his meal!

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Baked potatoes with bacon and broccoli on top. Add indulgent fat of choice (butter, sour cream, or shredded cheese). My family would eat that three times a week if I’d make it - I stick to once a week.

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Chicken picatta

Chicken Feta Burgers

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Oh, we have several. Beef is slowly cooked with veggies, mushrooms, tomato sauce, and peas with mashed potatoes. (A variation of Swiss bliss)
Panang curry chicken.
Roast chicken with oven potatoes cooked in chicken juices.
Homemade chili con carne.
Stew, this is a total favorite of my kids.
Pea soup is green peas, and I cook them in a tomato sauce with onions and garlic.
All these are made by me; of course, I buy frozen peas and either fresh or canned mushrooms.

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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.

DP. I only make turkey meatballs but never thought to do them chicken piccata style! Can't wait to try that one. Thanks