Recipe Rut - Dinner
brznhabits
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So spring is here and summer is on the way. It's time to update the recipe list but I'm having a dinner recipe rut. I've been browsing and nothing looks/sounds good so I figured I'd ask here.
Here's my wish list:
Thanks in advance!
Here's my wish list:
- For the season, I'm getting ready to re-engineer lunch which will be salads (w/ grains) so probably not salads for dinner too. Also, I actually crave something warm for dinner, even in the summer.
- I do all food prep on the weekend and just heat-up/put-together during the week. I don't have a microwave (and don't want one) so something re-heat stove top/oven friendly would be nice.
- Something with veggies (but I can manage to add veggies to most things).
- Doesn't have to have meat but it can. I'm not a big fan of handling raw chicken (even frozen) but if I can pick up a rotisserie chicken that will work. I also eat sausage, steak, etc.
- I can cook complicated stuff and like a mix for the palate feel free to throw the weird stuff out there.
- I'm open to breakfast for dinner but omelets haven't sounded like fun.
- My not-so-much list: No fish or seafood, black beans, tomatoes, brussel sprouts or mushrooms but if your recipe has any of these, no worries, I might be able to adjust.
- I don't keep bread products in the house. It's a trigger food and I eat it in my sleep. Corn tortillas are a option though.
- Target cals is 500 for dinner.
Thanks in advance!
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Baked ham is the gift that keeps on giving. Seriously, there's so much you can do with it besides the regular ham/potatoes/veg dinner. Use the bone for split pea soup, make ham salad (my family's absolute favorite), ham and eggs, ham with beans, ham and potato breakfast casserole, chicken cordon bleu, make Hawaiian pizza, cheesy ham and corn chowder, grilled ham and cheese sammiches, etc...
Plus cooked ham freezes beautifully, so you don't need to use it all and once and get burned out on it.2 -
@AngryViking1970, Thank you, good thought. I've been thinking maybe chowder!0
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How about something to go with that Chicken you picked up at the grocery. While you are there pick up the following items; 14.5 oz. Seasoned Tom./Okra/Corn, 14.5 oz. Seasoned greens/ 15oz. Seasoned Cabbage , 8 oz. Tomato Sauce, Small onion. Directions; Dice the onion & fry in 1 Tbs. of oil until glassy. Add Tom/Okra/Corn and salt & pepper and fry until most of the liquid has gone from it. Add other items along with 8 oz. water& Italian seasoning or season of choice. Cover and let come to a slow boil and boil for 20-30 minutes. Season to taste and enjoy along with that Chicken. Nutrition facts; Per 1 Cup serving(s), Calories 20.8, Carbs 4.6, Fiber 1.6 * These figures were done by myself from the cans . I admit that my math may not be absolute, but I believe I am well within the ball field.0
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@benelum, thanks. Thoughts on whether that will hold up after cooking in the fridge? I find onions, don't typically.
When I say I don't cook during the week, I totally mean it :-) 5 minutes of put together and heat up (stove top or over) and that's it. I do have corn, peas, broccoli and squash all pre cooked for the week usually.0 -
do you own a slow cooker/crock pot? making dump bags at the weekends may be an idea then all you have to do is have them defrosted by the morning you'll want them and empty into the pot, by evening you have a delicious easy one pot meal.2
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I love the idea!0
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since I do this on a regular basis; it is easier to plan meals; especially homemade soup with plenty of vegetables:
my tip: buy vegetables in quantity on sale or at fresh market, preferably; and take home to chop vegetables, parboil, drain, lay on parchment paper cookie sheet to freeze and bag veggies. Add bone broth for a nutritious soup with vegetables ALWAYS in freezer. Bone broth cooked in slow cooker up to 17 hours; is such a nutritious item to have in freezer on weekend preparations. do a google search for lots of bone broth recipes, again so nutritious0
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