What do you cook for dinner?

How many of you cook on a regular basis?

& how many recipes do you rotate?

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I can make:
- various Hamburger Helper meals, with a veggie.
- Some form of chicken dinner, like chicken parm,
- baked ziti, lasagne, spaghetti w/ meatballs (I buy turkey meatballs - pretty good), pasta with sausage, etc
- I also get the Rotisserie chicken from Waldbaums occasionally.

That is pretty much what I know how to make.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

Awesome, keep 'em comin' please...

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I make stirfried vegetables with chicken, chicken balls (instead of meatballs), chicken salad

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I cook a lot lately.

Recently I've made:
-corned beef & cabbage (crock pot)
-pot roast (crock pot)
-light meal: big salad (incl kidney beans, chick peas, cheddar cheese, sunflower seeds, cauliflower, etc) and french onion soup
-light meal: grilled cheese and tomato soup
-light meal: big pasta salad, baked pita with hummus
-chicken parm
-rigatoni alla vodka
-meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans
-steak & creamed spinach

That's been the past 2 weeks or so and we live off the leftovers for a while too.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I cook everynight. I make either steak, chicken, pork chops, shrimp, etc. all different ways. I try everynight to make a different recipe that I have.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

i cook everynight.....

whole wheat pasta (with my own sauce)
baked chicken cutlets
teryaki veggies with brown rice
lemon chicken
chicken marsala
broccolli/mushroom quiche
chili
soups

usually on the weekends, i cook a whole chicken with potatoes and veggies.

now that i'm on weight watchers, i cook a lot of their recipes

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I cook 4-5 days a week. Sometimes I make enough so we have leftovers. For sides I switch between side salad, green beans, corn, carrots, roasted or mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes.

Spaghetti with meat sauce
Meatloaf (turkey)
Red Beans and Rice
BBQ Chicken wings/leg quarters
Chicken Parmasan
Tilapia (Broiled or Oven Baked
Catfish (Fried or Oven Baked)
Shrimp Linguine
Chili
Beef Stew
Salisbury Steak
Cajun Fettucine Alfredo
Jambalya with Shrimp and Smoked Sausage
Stuffed Shells
Chicken breast stuffed with spinach
Roasted Chicken
Stir Fry (chicken or beef)
Chicken Fajitas
Enchiladas

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DH and I cook whether we are both home. Here's some of our standards:

-Grilled chicken made on grill pan with different Lawry's sauces
-Chicken Risotto
-Stir Frys
-Pasta
-Skirt Steak marniated in Soy Sauce, Garlic, and Ginger (yummy)
-Chicken Marsala
-Homemade Rice Pilaf and Roasted Potatoes as side dishes
-Ribeye Steaks
-Breaded chicken cutlets

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

usually meals from trader joes or chicken helper.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I live by Racheal Rays 30 minute meals and make a new one almost every night.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I don't cook every night but these are some of the things I usually make during the week when I get home from work:

Chicken - parm, francaise, stuffed, grilled
Penne a la Vodka
Pork Chops - usually marinated and grilled
Enchilladas - The El Paso Kit - I LOVE it
Fajaitas
Hamburgers
Stir fry
Baked Ziti - Lasanga on the weekends
Skillet Chicken - YUMMY!!!!! and made in one pot.

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Thanks for all the responses...

anyone else?

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I cook more often than not and always have leftovers. On nights I don't want to cook, we eat leftovers or I have the bags of Tyson chicken and make that.

My Main dishes are:
meatloaf
pasta w/ homemade sauce
tortellini w/ veggies in a pesto sauce
chicken stir fry
chicken marsala
chicken caccitore
roasted chicken in several ways
BBQ steak
burgers &/or dogs on the grill
tacos
chili (crockpot)
creamy chicken & wild rice (crockpot)
pot roast (crock pot)
sloppy joes

tonight I'm trying pulled pork (it's a southern thing) in the crockpot.

sometimes we'll do cereal or pancakes & eggs for dinner.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I love to cook. I try to cook every morning before I go to work so I can bring dinner to work. And my hubby can eat. I get home too late to cook. I usually make a lot of chicken. Burgers, turkey roast thing. I like to marinate chicken before I go to bed so it's full of flavor when I go to cook. I like teryki, sesame ginger. I make lemon chicken(not from bottle). Macaroni and cheese from scratch. Of course the spaghetti and meatballs. With out jar sauce. Sausage and peppers. Stuffed peppers. chicken parm, eggplant parm. Homemade smashed potatoes. Smash some garlic in with the water and/or in smashing process. For sides I make smashed potatoes, rice pilaf, white rice, stuffing, veggies.

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I hate to cook, but I HATE fastfood even more.
I try to cook 3-4 times a week, more if I'm in the mood. But there are some weeks where I just refuse to cook or go food shopping!

I rotate:

Taco's
Pork Chops (Oven Fry) with side dishes
Chicken Cutlets with side dishes
Chicken Franchese with side dishes
Penne a la Vodka
Chicken & Sausage in Sauce with Capers over pasta
Mexican Spagetti
Beef Strogenoff
Beef Stew (Crock Pot)
Cheesy Chicken Bake with side dishes

Frozen Pizza
Frozen Chicken stuffed Broccoli with side dishes

I like to buy the pre-made Chicken Cordeun Blue (SP?) from the butcher near my job. (YUM) Just have to put it in the oven for 45 min. to cook

Side dishes include Carrots, Corn, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Rice, Mashed Potato's, Cous Cous etc......

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I cook about 60% of the week.

I do hamburger helper meals every now and again and I like the Campbells bakes too.

Other regualrs are:
Ham steaks and mac n' cheese with veg.
Chicket cutlets with a sauce of peppers, onions and canned tomatoes with rice.
Spaghetti bolegnese.
Angel hair pasta with carbonara.
Suffed peppers and rice.
Pork chops with mashed potatoes and veg.
Shepherds Pie.
Manicotti or stuffed shells (from Costco) and salad.

Crockpot:
Coq au Vin.
Stew.
Chili.

I like to make a roast for Sunday dinner like:
Stuffed pork tenderloin
Roast chicken
Boned and rolled turkey
Prime Rib
(Always with potatoes and veg).

We also grill a lot outside, even in the winter.

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I love to cook, and even though right now I don't have kitchen, I still manage between the BBQ, crockpot, and electric skillet!

Here are some of my usuals...

Chicken cutlets
Chicken rollups (DH LOVES these!)
Steak on the BBQ
Taco salad
Meatloaf stuffed with spinach (another of DH's favorites)
Stir frys with chicken or beef (sometimes both)
Stew
Sticky chicken (slow roasted whole chicken)
Meatballs and angel hair pasta
Hamburgers
Flank steak over caesar salad (yum)
grilled chicken over greek salad

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I cook just about every night, unless work ties me up and I end up being there late. Then DH takes over. (He's not too bad.)

*Veggies with every meal*

-Beef Stew (carrots, potatoes. . . you name it, it's in
there!)
-Chicken cultets/Chicken Parm
-Spagitti and meatballs
-Campbell's Home Bakes? (I think that's what they
are called)
-Chicken and Brocolli
-Pieces of beef, w/ beef gravy, with noodles
-Baked Ziti
-BBQ steak (DH job), with baked potatoes
-Chicken and rice
-Hamberger Helper
-Pancakes and French Toast

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Re: What do you cook for dinner?

Both DH and I cook all the time. We have about 12 different recipies that we rotate between. To keep it interesting sometimes we go to the store without any idea what we are going to make and just get random items. Then we ask someone else to suggest another item that we have to use in our meal. Its kinda like our own version of Iron Chef. Definately keeps some of our meals interesting!!!

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

During the week I dont really cook because I get home from work late and hubby gets home way after me.

We do a lot of our cooking on Sundays and Mondays.

I mostly make
Chillie (crock pot)
stuffed shells
monicoti

and thats as much as cooking I can do. Hubby does all the cooking

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I haven't cooked in about a month because we're moving but, I actually made a list of all the things I cook so that I try not to make the same things all the time. This way when I'm stuck for ideas I can look at the list.

Pork Chops (shake-n-bake, grilled, baked in tomato sauce)
Chicken cutlets (in italian dressing, fried or bbq)
Meatloaf
Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
Pasta with sauce (red with meatballs etc or vodka sauce)
Stuffed Shells or Ravioli
Hamburgers
Baked Chicken with lemon potatos
BBQ Ribs or Chicken
London Broil
Roast Beef
Beef Stew
Steak

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I make pot roast in a crock pot
hamburgers and differnt things with chopmeat chicken, pasta, steaks all differnet ways

I'll also buy those meals in a bag like the stirfry and make them

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

We cook 4 nights a week. Fridays i work late, Saturday is takeout night, Sundays we eat out.

Rice and beans
bake ziti
tacos
Spaghetti & meatballs

Re: What do you cook for dinner?

I don't really cook because my DH works nights and I usually don't get home from class until late.

We cook on Sundays and either have:
pasta w/ sausage and meatballs
sausage and peppers
roast beef and baked potatoes
ham and macaroni
fish of some sort


I love easy side dishes like potatoes, rice, pasta and cous cous....