What home cooked meals do you eat?

[RizzoTheRat]

I make everything (except bread and pasta) from scratch.

Get yourself a Kenwood Chef or similar and bread and pasta become really easy. The dough hooks mean I can do all the kneading in the bowl, so no mess, and the powered pasta extruder means spaghetti or tagliatelle are quick to do. Ravioli is a time consuming and messy job whatever you use though.

[EdFred]

Get yourself a Kenwood Chef or similar and bread and pasta become really easy. The dough hooks mean I can do all the kneading in the bowl, so no mess, and the powered pasta extruder means spaghetti or tagliatelle are quick to do. Ravioli is a time consuming and messy job whatever you use though.

I have a commercial grade mixer at home, I just need to get the pasta attachments for it. I've actually been cutting back on breads a bit. I used to (by myself) go through a loaf a week, now it's about the equivalent of one loaf/month.

[Nuke]

We've got a combi microwave. It's really good for whipping up stuff for one. Stick it into convection oven mode and it'll cook bread or baked potatoes much more quickly and efficiently than using the full-sized oven.

Aren't all ovens convection ovens these days though? Can't remember the last time I saw an electric oven that wasn't.

technically yes. but ive never heard the term applied to a full size oven.

[StrandedonEarth]

Tonight will be chicken, spuds, and whatever frozen veggies are on hand. Other typical meals include pasta and (sometimes meat) sauce, farmer sausage and perogies (I can feel my arteries harden), there are some awesome Maui pork chops at the local butcher, Western Family (store brand) frozen pizzas are actually better than Delissio, sometime we even do pancakes for dinner (my 7-year-old's fave). Chili or stews as well, tacos or wraps. Of course there's the occasional hot dogs (I throw on some onions for some nutrition) or hamburgers. Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up, so there'll be turkey and stuffing, yams and other veggies, mashed taters drowned in gravy, and oodles of turkey stew for the next week. My wife also makes some great blueberry (fresh-frozen from the local Fraser Valley farms) muffins that I have for breakfast all week long.

When we get lazy it's Hamburger or Tuna Helper with canned green beans. If we're really lazy it's pizza from Little Caesars, Ricardo's or Panago, or chinese food.

[Red Iron Crown]

This seems appropriate for some (including myself to a large degree):

[RizzoTheRat]

I have a commercial grade mixer at home, I just need to get the pasta attachments for it. I've actually been cutting back on breads a bit. I used to (by myself) go through a loaf a week, now it's about the equivalent of one loaf/month.

I get through a couple of 400g loaves a week, rather than cutting back I took up running to keep the weight down Usually make a 50/50 white/granary mix for sandwiches for work, but make the occasional focaccia, pizza dough or rolls and tried some breakfast rolls (egg in the dough and then mushrooms and bacon added before proving) the other week which were great.

[pslytely psycho]

My wife and I are both excellent cooks, so we rarely dine out unless it is in conjunction with a movie or such.

We like a lot of spice and grow a number of peppers and tomatoes on our balcony. We eat breakfast a couple times a week but mostly have brunch and dinner.

We make nearly everything from scratch except bread, we tend to buy the grainiest 'hippy bread' we can find, we make bread occasionally, but more for the novelty as it's just not as much 'fun.' We do a nice dinner about three times a week, then maybe one or two super simple things like soup or sandwiches and leftovers the rest of the time. Some nights it's you're on your own night.

Some of our highlights this last month were:

Shepherds Pie

Chili and Cornbread

Marinated and grilled Sirloin steaks with steamed veggies and Cherry pie.

Chili Relenos with homemade green and red salsa

BBQ burgers and sausages, with grilled corn on the cob and potato salad

Stuffed Crust pizza with wings

Potato Soup and salad

Crock pot stuffed pork chops cooked with a menagerie of veggies

Roast and chicken cooked in the same manner as the pork chops and of course beef stew (we LOVE our crock pot!)

Huaraches

There were a couple of specialty dishes my wife whipped up after watching Rachael Ray or The Chew....an incredible meatball dish and a crock pot cake come to mind....mmmm!

and of course....leftovers. Unless my youngest son comes to visit, then all the leftovers mysteriously vanish....

Edited October 9, 2014 by pslytely psycho

[goduranus]

Odd things, last month I've started taking on more western foods, and noticed myself taking on a butter/steak-like body odor. Got me thinking.

If other people tried Chinese food for a month, they wouldn't need deodorants any more?

Edited October 14, 2014 by goduranus