What is your 'go to' meal

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What is it that you cook the most often.....the meal that always turns
out.....when you don't feel particulary creative but want a good
meal......that you always have the ingredients for.....
that you know will always be a crowd pleaser?

Anyone have their go to meal?

Mine is braised beef, either long braised on top of the stove or in a
pressure cooker. Not
just pot roast, but braised with red wine, herbs, more a bourguignon
style. Braised beef
is probably my most favorite food of all.
 
ImStillMags wrote:



ImStillMags,

"Green Death." My tuna salad sandwich invention with jalapeno, celery
and avocado mixed in.

And optionally with Monterey Jack cheese.

On whole wheat toast.

Best,

Andy
 
ImStillMags wrote:

I don't really have one. I tend to make different things. I made nachos
tonight just because they are quick to make.

If my parents are coming to eat, I'll do chicken and noodles just because it
is something everyone can eat.

If extended family is coming to dinner I'll do a salad bar. Everyone in my
family has some kind of food issues except for my husband. If I do the
salad bar I know there will be something everyone can and will eat there.

If cooking for my inlaws I would do a very large pot roast with potatoes and
carrots. Large family and also various food issues there. But that is one
meal they will all eat. Or I might also do the chicken and noodles because
they will all eat that as well.
 
I don't often cook for other people, just myself and a girlfriend or
two.


A couple of my 'repeat offenders' are going to be:

Chili - cheap, easy, good. It's also the best garbage disposal... all
the odds and ends of stuff in the fridge get cleared out and go into
the pot. When I make it, i make about 2 gallons of it at a time and
freeze a bunch.

Curry something- The boxes of Japanese curry you can buy in the
supermarket. Some meat, some vegetables and some rice, and it's
pretty good and pretty foolproof for minimal effort.

Spaghetti, with meatballs, meaty sauce, sausage, or a combination.
Hard to mess this up, and it's pretty cheap and easy.

Marinated chicken breasts into the George Foreman + couscous + steamed
broccoli, carrot, cauliflower. Awesome in the summer.

Bigos. The recipe I use, I got from this ng. I haven't shared it
with anyone, but I love the stuff, personally.

Various slow cooker things, like pot roast, pulled pork, beans and
hamhocks.

-J
 
phaeton wrote:

I love making chili! I used to make it when I lived alone and I could eat
just that all week. Alas, my family isn't into chili of any kind.
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:59:43 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
wrote:


For the times I'm feeling uninspired and uncreative, I "goto" chicken
and rice... the kind where the rice has a nice crunchy, golden crust.

That's a different kind of cooking and not a "goto" meal for me.


--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:21:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
wrote:


What is your version of chicken & noodles? Does it have a sauce?

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
"ImStillMags" wrote in message
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What is it that you cook the most often.....the meal that always turns
out.....when you don't feel particulary creative but want a good
meal......that you always have the ingredients for.....
that you know will always be a crowd pleaser?

Anyone have their go to meal?

Mine is braised beef, either long braised on top of the stove or in a
pressure cooker. Not
just pot roast, but braised with red wine, herbs, more a bourguignon
style. Braised beef
is probably my most favorite food of all.


Mine is 'Lamb', every time........I have a particularly nice way of baking
Lamb Chops, usually 'chump' chops that I make a topping for and bake them on
a rack...I have made them now for going on 30 years and always a favourite
with family and visitors, none of us have gotten sick of having them.....I
love Lamb!

Bigbazza (Barry) Oz
 
Chicken Diane. I usually have all the ingreeds on hand.

Then, of course, I always have meatballs and sauce in the fridge - get
some ziti going and I'm set. That's my usual lunch.
 
Julie Bove wrote:


Oh yes he does. Based on your description of his demands for food the
second he arrives and you've written of him eating like a pig. So, I'd
say he's got plenty of food issues. Just not the same as your issues.
 
ImStillMags;1608705 Wrote:
Grilled rib eye with steamed broccoli or asparagus - whichever is in the
fridge. If there's no steak, pork chops will do just as well.




--
Noemi
 
On 4/26/2011 8:59 PM, ImStillMags wrote:

Moroccan Chicken with preserved lemons and olives and maybe potatoes.

I make this year round at least once a month if not more often.
Sometimes the potatoes are homemade french fries and sometimes they
cooked with the chicken.

Tracy
 
On 2011-04-27, Ed Pawlowski wrote:


I'm gonna start messing around with roast chicken. We have several in
the deep freeze and I'm no longer sick to death of chicken, as I was
for several years. I'll try Thomas Keller's basic approach, then when
I get the hang of it, start experimenting with spice exotica.

nb
 
In article ,
notbob wrote:


I really love chicken with just salt and pepper, stuffed with an
onion and half a lemon, roasted at high heat with lots of potatoes
cooked along side to soak up the fat and juices. Wonderful!

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
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