Poll: Favorite recipes for the whole family?

Re: Poll: Favorite recipes for the whole family?

• caityr

  January 2011

  Pickle Moms Kitchen is a great blog from a nestie, I cannot recall her name, but I have made a bunch of stuff from her and its all good!!! DH's fave is the chicken casserole with tater tots on the top. (I make fun of him because this is a recipe she devised for her toddler:)

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• howleyshell member

  January 2011

  My kids tend to do better with simple things (not casseroles) and DH eats his own weird versions of things.

  We do chicken or fish with bread crumbs frequently.  (dredge in egg then bread crumb and parm cheese mixture)

  I do a few pieces without bread crumbs for DH and the kids usually want yellow sauce on theirs (honey mustard) but it works.

  Simple grilling of salmon, talapia, chicken and occasionally steak hits our rotation heavy in the summer - again they do better with simple.

  I roast a whole chicken on a regular basis and use the left overs to make things like chicken enchiladas or chicken tacos for another night during that week.  Roasted chicken is my kids 100% favorite meal, hands down. 

  We also do spaghetti and meat balls a lot but it's DH's Mom's recipe and is one of the longer meals I cook.

  Shrimp is another HUGE favorite.  They'd eat it every night if I'd let them.

  When I get super sick of simple foods I'll make something more complicated or casserole-ish but when I do I always keep the hand strainer handy because the boys want their meat separate from their veggies, etc and prefer no sauce on things.

  Every night is a simple steamed veggie (sometimes with broth for extra flavor) so they don't expect complicated veggies.

  Every night is also usually a simple starch like whole wheat pasta (or brown rice pasta) or baked sweet potatoes or brown rice.

  Sometimes I'll throw in canned beans to stretch a meal.  You can either rinse them before cooking or buy the no salt added kind.  DH often cooks them from dry by soaking the night before.

  See..... no special recipes except the spaghetti and meatballs.

  We're kinda boring but it works for us!

  And.... most of those things can be double or triple batched for quick freezer meals.

   

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• TxJen1972

  January 2011

  DD loves enchiladas or anything with a little spice to it.  I make cheese or sour cream enchiladas probably once a week.  Sometimes I will do spinach and mushroom enchiladas too. 

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