Dishes for everyday... of the edible kind.

One of or favourites is twice-cooked jackets; bake jacket potatoes until soft, then halve, scoop out the flesh and mix with a good dollop of Garlic & Herb soft cheese, plenty of grated Cheddar cheese and some softly-fried sliced leeks. Pile back into the potato skins and put under a hot grill until nicely browned. We have this with a big mixed salad and a nice glass of Argentinian Malbec ....

jusnoneed..weve just had the eggs in cheese sauce,with french beans and roasted potatoes, garlic,rosemary, red onions and red and yellow tomatoes...it was yummy...definitely one we will have again?

My dinner tonight is faff free! OH is cooking mushroom risotto!

Make up and cook a packet of Batchelors Pasta'n'Sauce (I like the cheese and broccoli one) with double the quantity of liquid. Place in greased baking/serving dish and cover with a mix of panko breadcrumbs and grated cheese. Dot with butter and bake for 20 minutes at 200C.
Makes a tasty easy peasy dish.

Ninarosa. They are low carb too. So good all round. My DH and GDs love them

BBbevan, guess what nine month old granddaughter and I are having for our regular Friday at Grandma's brekkie ? Thankyou!

Easy pancakes

1 banana.
Tblsp of peanut butter
2eggs
Mix together to make a batter.
Fry in dollops.

Lovely with berries and maple syrup for breakfast

I like that Ninarosa (smile)
Reminds me of another good standby - 'spanish' omelette -
Fry up in a little veg. oil leftover potatoes and other veg.
Pour over forked up eggs + s&p and fry gently until set.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and brown off under the grill.
Very filling.

I call this my cheat's omelette, I make it when I'm too tired to do anything much else than eat.
Crack two eggs onto the plate you will be eating off. Slice or grate a good handful of your favourite cheese, I like Applewood. Break eggs and mix into cheese. Pop into microwave for about two minutes, then fold the mixture into a semi circle, no need to be too precise. Whack plate under a hot grill for three minutes until browned.
Only problem is you now have a very hot plate to eat off! . It's nice with humble baked beans.

Similar idea to JackieB we sometimes have eggs in cheese sauce. Quick to prep and can easily be done ahead of time. Hard boil eggs, halve and lay cut side down in shallow oven dish. Pour cheese sauce over the top and brown under the grill. Serve with mashed potatoes and salad.

Red peppers halved, filled with chopped tomatoes, garlic (optional) and a couple of fillets of anchovy, drizzled with olive oil and baked in the oven for 50 minutes. Serve with crusty bread, makes a good starter, or with a salad for a main.

Or for real simplicity, we found this company in a Londis whilst on holiday. www.cookfood.net/. Wonderful meals for about £8.50 for a two person main, puddings for two around £4, a treat for when you you need a rest from cooking altogether. In fact I know a member of the clergy who hates cooking and almost lives off these (but his salary is considerably more than my pension!)

All in one tray bakes like morethan2's are brilliant. I do a similar one with chopped up sweet potatoes, cherry tomatoes red onions and garlic. Do a large trayful and it makes enough for several meals, or can be frozen.

My granddaughter loves this so much she makes it herself at home for her dad.
Peppers (red,orange,yellow are best) filled with lumps of feta cheese.sprinkle oregano, thyme, mint and a really good slosh of garlic infused olive oil(obviously you can use fresh garlic) roasted in the oven
The beauty of it it can be an accompaniment to oven baked fish or meat all in the oven at the same time.

A German storecupboard meal - a favourite of my (German) DH is Eggs in Mustard Sauce. Hard-boiled eggs, peeled, halved and still warm, on a bed of rice, with a simple white sauce, flavoured strongly with mustard. I prefer to flavour the sauce with curry, however, and he's quite happy with that, too.

As for the "adding stuff to Philly" trick, I recently tried out a recipe which mixed pesto with cream cheese. The actual recipe was a bit of a faff, but the DGC enjoyed it:

Kebabs made with

- tiny, boiled and peeled potatoes, cooled right down. These are then wrapped in strips of Black Forest or Serrano ham, which has been spread with the cream cheese and pesto mixture.
- cherry tomatoes
- basil leaves

As I say, the kebab lark was an awful faff. The potatoes hadn't cooled right down, so I just rolled up the ham and cheese spread and stuck them on the skewers separately, or the cream cheese would have melted and run out. But the taste of the pesto mixed with the cream cheese was fantastic.

Pesto on its own is too intense for my taste. We have loads of basil in the garden and I have already frozen 20 small packs of pesto this year.

I do like rather an overkill of nutmeg in mine, peppered with fat juicy sultanas too.

Hmmm! Basmati rice and coconut milk? I've got copious quantities of both in the cupboard Ninarosa so that's a good idea. Cheers!

I've cooked a rice pudd using Basmati rice and coconut milk and its was heavenly Chewbacca: no crinkly brown skin though.

I've done soups and a rice pudding in the slow cooker but never anything more adventurous.

Does anyone use their slow cooker for something a little different to the usual stews, gammon joints etc ?
I think Ive read that some sort of frittata can be baked in one.
I haven't got an oven for two weeks so I'm looking to diversify!

I like the sound of your faff free salmon and pasta recipe geekesse, everything in there that I like and with a green salad, that would make a nice lunch for friends.

I mostly don't use recipes. I just prepare each item as simply as possible and dish each up separately.
eg today we had salmon fillet baked in foil. With various veg cooked separately, some with dressing, or plain green salad.. We had the same yesterday except baked chicken portions instead of salmon.
Today I tried a new idea of rice salad with mushrooms which was good.
Still got some salmon left for tomorrow - maybe with oven chips and salad.

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Easy pasta - found the recipe card -

NinaRosa I use a shop mix because I ve no great interest in cooking but yes you could easily make your own
I m the stir fry queen cos everything just goes in the wok for ten minutes, different flavours, different spices, different veg bingo jingo
Nice and easy fill my tum one pot to wash what could be better

When we’re away in our Campervan, we often have easy pasta meals. One is cooked pasta, mixed with cooked leeks (I steam them, sliced) and cooked chestnut mushrooms, with soft cheese, like Philly, stirred in. The original recipe was on a Waitrose leaflet and used Mascarpone cheese - we did that once or twice, but soft cheese is cheaper.

BlueBelle, is the satay sauce a ready made bought one or can peanut butter and something ie.creme fraiche mixed together achieve similar result ? Never really done stir fry but love noodles in sauces.