For inspiration - what is for dinner tonight?

Please inspire me with a sauce for penne pasta, please. I am tired of Chicken Arrabiata (husband's "signature" dish)

A quick Pasta dish is just sauté some chopped courgettes/ mushrooms/ peppers/ garlic or any combination , boil the pasta, drain, mix with the veg plus some creme fraiche or Philadelphia soft cheese to make a creamy sauce. Stir whilst warming gently, Serve , top with Parmesan. Whole thing takes about 15 - 20 mins.

How about Penne and vodka sauce?

Penne alla vodka

Apparently the vodka emulsifies the passata and cream so it doesn't split so is an essential ingredient!

Well Wednesday is ladies golf morning (we can play any day but its our social day) so its tuna salad tonight - luckily DH loves it. No he cant cook the dinner but he does do all the housework on Wednesdays when I'm out - properly to pulls all the furniture out.

We are having a Higgidy cheese and bacon quiche with curly fries. Scrummy!

Salmon with new potatoes and a big salad followed by apple crumble and ice cream ?

I'll be reaping the rewards of my recent batch-cooking .... chicken curry from the freezer served with chutney & lime pickle, thick yoghurt with a sprinkling of dried mint, and cauliflower 'rice'.

Low-carb

Not a suggestion I'm sorry to say but a query. Has anyone tried the Charlie Bingham range of ready meals? They seem quite expensive but have been told the risotto is good. I cannot stand for long just now and need to stock up with some ready meals. I have depleted the homemade meals from the freezer.

His meals are lovely annsixty but certainly expensive.
I think I would stock up with ready made chicken with 'extras' like sun dried tomatoes and olives or garlic and mushrooms that can go straight in the oven, and frozen veg and ready prepared veg that can be microwaved.
Waitrose (and others) do microwave casseroles too.

I bought a CB fish pie and it was delicious. I don't think they work out that expensive as the larger packs serve two, cost £7-8.

Look out for offers, Ocado have two packs for £10 so would be £2.50 per meal.

Ocado

Since I'll be having lunch out, I'll settle for garlic mushrooms on toast for my evening meal - plus an apple which I almost always have after a meal.

Tonight will be baked potatoes stuffed with cheese, onion and bacon, and a salad on the side.

Tesco have a lovely range of frozen vegetables now. Also frozen avocado which you can slice and eat with a salad. Try their basic olives in a plastic container. All useful things if you haven't much strength or in a hurry. I used to buy diced swede from Iceland for stews and casseroles but they have stopped selling it. They still do have frozen baby carrots which are useful. All these can go into a casserole and you can have a sit down and glass of Pinot or something else.

I have an ongoing fling with Lloyd Grossman sauces (buy on offer £1). DH likes the tomato and red wine one. Makes easy pasta sauces or in oven with chicken, olives etc. All things which help to keep our old bodies going. Another thing I have taken to recently is boneless and skinless chicken thighs from sainsburys. No waste. You can serve this to visitors without having bones all over the place. The flavour is better than chickens breast.

Good luck to all creaky gransnetters out there.

annsixty I find that they are too much for one but insufficient for two. I may try another as I was not too taken with the curry dish I chose.

What a good idea for a thread.
Tonight it will be fresh haddock pieces, which DH likes cooked in a frying pan with milk, parsley and a dab of butter ( quick and easy too) with some mash and cauliflower cheese ( from Sainsbury)

Brain's faggots

I misread that at first Galen. I want inspiration for some thin pork steaks bought by DH . I did like standing over a frying pan and then serving up feeling as though I'm smelling of fried food.

We're having the beef stew I cooked yesterday just got to add potatoes and dumplings later... Its mostly vegs with just a few ounces of beef for flavour..
Because I've been trying to cut out as much salt as possible I now find ready made sauces too salty , OH loves a cottage pie ready meal now and then and I had a taste and I couldn't even eat it because of the salt, why do they do that?

Smoky hake, greens and beans:
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smoky-hake-beans-greens

Frittata and salad

Tonight I will have a large bowl of self pity !!!!

Lunch out today.....prob omelette and salad as I have a weigh in this afternoon!

What's up grannylyn65 will some help

Grannylyn, season it with the kind thoughts and good wishes of your fellow GN's and it will make you feel better! ?