Dinner ideas for 7

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Scalloped potatoes and ham.
Fresh fruit salad.

Roasted romaine salad - cut romaine hearts in half and roast them cut side down for 7 minutes or so in a 400 degree oven, until they start to brown on the edges of the leaves. Flip them over on each plate and drizzle with a vinaigrette and goat cheese crumble or Caesar and grated Parmesan.

Scalloped potatoes and green beans and a good bread and green salad

If it is a festive meal and you wanted to add an extra vegetable I would add something with a bitter note such as charred cabbage, roast brussel sprouts or roast endive.
https://www.thinknourished.com/example-recipes/roast-hispi-cabbage-recipe/
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015377-roasted-belgian-endive
http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/roasted-brussels-sprouts.html?utm_source=foodnetwork.com&utm_medium=domestic

We're Irish. My mom did scalloped potatoes with ham. If you want a potato dish less labor intensive, baked or mashed. Or you can buy premade potato salad.

Mac and cheese is also nice with ham, but if it's a big ham, might want to save that for the leftovers.

For veggies, green beans would indeed be nice, or the big tub of premade salad from a store with different salad dressings on the side mentioned above would be easy.

are you looking for fancy or just dinner? If it's just dinner then there are plenty of crock pot options.

There is also the option of cooking the ham beforehand, and slicing cold. Then you can concentrate on the sides on the day. Not a bad idea if you want to spend time with guests instead of slaving in the kitchen.

kshama2001 wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

The choices of side dishes that go with ham are endless which is why there is probably nothing on whatever pinterest is. You can just google side dishes and just about everything will go.

I would not make the ham into a casserole though. Casseroles are not a good idea for a dinner party and especially not one with 7 people.

I would go with a warm beet and goat cheese salad, roasted red potatoes, yeast rolls, and asparagus.

I can conceive of getting inspiration from pinterest, but I'm not convinced that it is a great medium for learning.

https://www.infront.com/blog/the-blog/what-is-pinterest-and-how-does-it-work

Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as 'pinning') images or videos to their own or others' boards (i.e. a collection of 'pins,' usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned.

Seems like a good way to torture criminals into confessing crimes.

I grew up in a house of 7. My mother cooked every meal we ever ate in our lives. We never went out to eat. So, I'll share some other ideas on meals as well.
As far as the ham I'd add green beans and rolls, maybe corn.
Weekly ideas:
spaghetti with garlic bread and salad
ham, turkey or large chicken with baked beans, broccoli and roasted potatoes
pork chops, rice and beans
tacos/fajitas/burritos- any variety
salmon patties (canned salmon) with fried taters
roast with onions, potatoes (cooked in crock pot) and green beans
chicken and rice in crock pot with rolls and something green
one dish meals- like sloppy joes, turkey biryani, chicken verde, SOUPS

Let us know what you decided and how it went!