Favourite meals to cook

[Gemini]

What are your time tested favourites which you enjoy cooking and enjoy to eat? The standbys we all use regularly
I can't honestly say I ever enjoy cooking, but there are few favourites which I don't mind cooking and which seem to turn out well and I enjoy eating.

Top of my list is Shepherds Pie. Made with minced lamb and plenty of grated cheese on top of the mashed potato before it goes into the oven.
Sausages, mash, and onion gravy, with veg or baked beans is another,
Chicken casserole is the other main one, and salmon in foil, which is so easy its hardly worth mentioning, I do love it though!
We eat lots of pasta meals too, veggie ones and ones with chicken.

[Nanto2girls]

I hate cooking. My favourite meal is one i've made previously and frozen.
Seriously, we do have our favourites.
Like you Gem, we like sausage and mash, with onion gravy.
I don't mind making chips. They have to be homemade not frozen, and cooked until they are brown,not pale.
Beef/chicken casserole is easy, i just put everything in the slow cooker and let it do its thing.
I use frozen veg,unless i am using cabbage or mushrooms.
A roast meal is easy for me,not hubbys favourite but he eats it.
Neither of us likes pasta.

[Sunshine]

Bolognese or casserole. I make a big batch and divide it up to make ready meals for the freezer.

[Oma]

Chicken in BBQ sauce with green beans and Roast potatoes ,
Chicken in Honey and Mustard sauce ,
Home made soup and dumplings this time of year
Toad in the hole ,
Bangers and mash ,
Sauerkraut and German Sausage has to be a top one ,

It differs with the season
But nothing can top Chips egg and beans

[Plantaholic]

Salmon with roasted veg is so easy, Omlette with veg, Stir fry with chicken or prawns. Now I only cook for one, meals are very different.

[Daisy]

I honestly can't think of a favourite meal to cook. It has to be something quick and easy that's pretty fool-proof.

I suppose my 'fall back' meal is salmon (in the microwave if I'm really being lazy), jacket potatoes and salad. The other favourite as far as cooking goes is the second of a batch of 2 of anything made earlier. Tonight we'll have the rest of the chicken casserole I made yesterday lunch-time. It just needs heating up.

[WeeGranny]

Depends if I'm in the mood for cooking or not! But asked for meals are roast chicken with all the trimmings; curry ( I make my own curry spice mix); Beef stroganoff; moussaka ( made with beef mince and potatoes); meatballs.

Tonight it's chicken casserole with mash and I may make myself a couple of dumplings instead of the mash.

[Mimi]

I only cook because we have to eat. I don’t enjoy cooking at all but when we were a family of 5 with dad very often being with us I didn’t complain, I just got on with it.
I would cook most things from scratch. Stews, pies, roasts , pizza, just about anything, in fact I have been known to even make my own salad cream .

Now there is just the two of us I don’t go to all that trouble, my second favourite thing to cook is anything that can be put into one pot and left for several hours to cook away to it’s heart content. My first favourite thing to cook is.... not to cook at all but to go out for a meal , let some other poor soul do all the hard work .

[Gemini]

I agree Mimi, cooking is much easier with just two of you, when you have cooked for a family for years.
5 of us in the family , and 7 every Friday as mum and dad always ate with us on Fridays. My ex OH was fantastic cook, and I never cooked a Christmas dinner all the years we were married. He did all the special cooking, but worked away frequently and late when in the office, which didn't fit in with feeding children, so I did 80% of the cooking, and found it a chore.

[Plantaholic]

Those are some very gourmet meals you cook Wee Granny. I have never cooked a moussaka, stroganoff etc and your own spice mix! When can I come to dinner?

[WeeGranny]

They sound very gourmet Plant but are actually quite simple and all very tasty!

OH has bought sausages for tonight, so it'll be sausages, beans and fried potatoes I think!

[Daisy]

Mimi - I agree - going out for a meal is number one, but OH is usually very reluctant. I often point out that he'd been keener to eat out if he had to cook 7 nights a week, but it falls on deaf ears. At least he isn't fussy, and will make short work of whatever I put on his plate.

[Glammanana]

I do admit that I enjoy cooking but do a lot less now that the family have all left home even when working full time I would make a two course meal for them every night helped by OH if I was late home from work.
Now we enjoy much lighter meals a quick omelette or sausage & mash with onions & mushrooms we are lucky to have the most fabulous butcher who makes his own sausages in every combination you can think off his lamb & mint are to die for.I like to do a pan of scouse and reheat it next day with crusty bread to soak up the gravy.
I am not adverse to calling into M&S for the odd takeaway when I have fallen out with my cooker they do so many yummy ideas which are just the right size for the two of us.

[Gemini]

Glamma we like a break from cooking with the odd M&S meal. Affordable for 2 in a way they weren't for a family.
Charlie Bigham meals are very good too.

[Nana]

I used to do all the cooking but OH tends to do it now. Basics but tasty. Think my fave is sausage, chips, eggs & beans. Ooo, I also like a fish finger sarni. A meal out is Morrison's most weeks but we've not long since found a pub about 1/2hr away. Their grub is super. I just have a child portion tho as they're generous portions.

Gem I've never heard of Charlie Bigham's meals.