My college freshman is home for spring break this week. When I asked what he wants for dinner while he's home, his top three answers were:
1. A family casserole that is basically a baked Mac and cheese with diced bacon, shredded chicken, onions, broccoli, and spinach (the exact mix of vegetables varies)
2. Grilled salmon with rice and some kind of steamed vegetable
3. Butter chicken

Amy + Jacky's Beef Stroganoff

Recipe Tin Eats One Pan Chicken and Rice (I think her recipe is Greek style with lemons and such, but I just season the chicken)
It's good (and my family enjoys it as written), but I just heavily season the chicken, and leave the lemons out as I don't enjoy lemony chicken.

Any tacos (carnitas, barbaco, whatever) with pinto or black beans and Skinnytaste's chipotle style rice

Carnitas
Barbacoa
Cilantro Lime Rice

Anonymous wrote:My family's go-tos:

Homemade burritos, everyone chooses their toppings, you must warm up the tortilla so that it wraps nicely.

Japanese curry (which you buy in blocks), with any kind of meat, potatoes and carrots, and maybe another vegetable.

Very basic Bolognese sauce over pasta (not authentic: we do put tomatoes, and generally ground beef, and also I like to hide kale in there).

These are not spectacular options but rather the dishes that survived the kids' rejection of their dinner, over a long period of time. Also fairly easy to make.

I could have posted this. I hide frozen spinach instead of kale though. Also my kids love Japanese “white stew” even more than curry.

NYT crunchy queso wraps

They’re like tacos, but better.

Anonymous wrote:My family's go-tos:

Homemade burritos, everyone chooses their toppings, you must warm up the tortilla so that it wraps nicely.

Japanese curry (which you buy in blocks), with any kind of meat, potatoes and carrots, and maybe another vegetable.

Very basic Bolognese sauce over pasta (not authentic: we do put tomatoes, and generally ground beef, and also I like to hide kale in there).

These are not spectacular options but rather the dishes that survived the kids' rejection of their dinner, over a long period of time. Also fairly easy to make.

This made me LOL. Truth.

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Anonymous wrote:My family loves chicken cutlets like I see many others do as well. But man, it’s one of my most hated things to make. It makes such a mess.

chicken cutlets like thin pieces of breaded and fried chicken?

NP. This is what I make a lot. I usually use chicken breasts that I pound thin, then bread and fry. It's a pain to make, but it's one of our favorite meals. You have to carefully wipe down surfaces since you're working with raw chicken.

ugghhhh the pounding and cleaning is the worst part. I think I need to just hazmat up, go to the shed and pound a years worth of chicken and then freeze.

Meatball tacos

Pasta Alfredo- homemade- with just butter and parmesan cheese

Cheese and bean tortillas

Steak and potatoes

Chicken legs

Meatballs (I find the "meatball mix" that includes pork/beef/veal works really well)

Breaded chicken cutlets (but don't make them that often)

Chili

Anonymous wrote:Our top 3 mains:

1) Beef Wellington
2) Crispy Roast Duck with dried cherries
3) Steak frites

Beef Wellington? That’s a lot of work.

Anonymous wrote:Our top 3 mains:

1) Beef Wellington
2) Crispy Roast Duck with dried cherries
3) Steak frites

Yum!

Our top 3 mains:

1) Beef Wellington
2) Crispy Roast Duck with dried cherries
3) Steak frites

We do bone in roast chicken pieces just about every week. Any leftover chicken gets thrown in a pasta sometime in the next few days. The pasta is something simple like pesto with cherry tomatoes or alfredo sauce with spinach. If we don't have the chicken, we will do a pasta like spaghetti and meatballs or other meat sauce.

Like others, American tacos are in heavy rotation as well. We also do chicken fajitas, which are similar enough the kids like it. I also use these meals to get some beans on the table.

Other things we do on the regular: teriyaki salmon, shrimp scampi on fettucine, chicken cutlets, homemade pizza and boneless chicken with various marinades and side dishes.

All the curry suggestions here are making me think we need to add something like that to our rotation.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who get shrimp regularly - where do you buy consistently good shrimp? A lot of the time shrimp kind of tastes like chemicals so I’m scared to buy it.

I buy the frozen Argentinia shrimp from TJ. They are wild caught, raw, and peeled/deveined

Thank you!

Just note, it isn’t quite as good as buying fresh raw shrimp. But my cooking and time has its limits and I draw the line at peeling and scooping poop out of raw shrimp. The TJ one is the best alternative I can find where I don’t have to do this and it’s farmed.

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Anonymous wrote:For those of you who get shrimp regularly - where do you buy consistently good shrimp? A lot of the time shrimp kind of tastes like chemicals so I’m scared to buy it.

I buy the frozen Argentinia shrimp from TJ. They are wild caught, raw, and peeled/deveined

Thank you!

I buy a lot of my meat and sometimes fish through Crowd Cow. I like their Mexican wild caught shrimp a lot. On the larger side but we like that and they are always tender and good.

For all of you who hate making chicken cutlets-just buy the thin sliced chicken so that you can at least skip the pounding step. That’s what I do.