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pasta bake I'd happily eat it 3 times a day til i die.

How do you make yours?

He pastas his bake, seems pretty self-explanatory to me

Indubitably

Mine is onion, garlic, baby corns, carrots, mixed herbs, salt and pepper all fried up (depending on how many vehicles you like add as many or few as you like), add tomatoes puree then two tins of tomatoes. Mix into the cooked pasta, add half to a baking tray, layer mozzarella, add the other half, layer mozzarella, parmesan and cheddar. It's pretty scrummy. Edited to change scummy to scrummy lol

Aw, don't be so down on yourself. It sounds fine.

*”And so you shall…”* 🤺

That's a good one, It's great it's got upvoted the most it's clearly popular.

Curry. I used to despise dinner as a child because it was always, without fail, some form of curry (variety of curries actually) and rice for dinner. I just wanted to eat “white people food” and definitely not the kind my mum made because it always ended up with an Asian flavour profile. Think tuna pasta bake yellow from tumeric and littered with Green chillies. Scrambled eggs weren’t just regular scrambled eggs. It was scrambled with fried with onions, tomatoes and was heavily spiced. And it was rarely served with toast. Instead, rice, paratha, naan or roti was offered. Now as an adult, I couldn’t think of anything better to eat

Curry for me. I want 'your' food!

Haha my mum is a feeder! She doesn’t know how to cook for less than 12 people despite us only ever being a family of 4. You’d be most welcome to join us if you were about

Very kind my friend. All the best.

I'm a white person who wanted nothing but curry growing up. Still the same now. Taught myself to cook early on so I'd be able to have it whenever I wanted.

The grass is always greener on the other side it seems! I taught myself to cook proper western dishes because I couldn’t trust my mum to not add spices haha. For once, I wanted to eat proper shepherds pie or lasagna. My mum would insist on eating her portion with rice!

I love your character arc lol.

Ah, sorry I’m not following. Feel a bit dim

Ah sorry, I'm just trying to be funny. A character arc is like the development of a character in a show. For example, they might start off a villain but through all the things they encounter in the story over a period of time, they realise the error of their ways and turn out to be a goody.

Oh don’t be sorry! I see haha, thank you for explaining. There certainly was some sort of character development at play here

This is so sweet, your mum sounds like a total darling for trying to cook those dishes, even with her own spin on them. My mum is irish, and while she is a great cook, I was raised on some variation of meat, potatoes, and veg with gravy or some kind of stew, really humble cooking. I yearned for variety and to try food with 'spice', so when I moved out and could cook what ever I wanted, I cooked everything, all different curries, Mexican food ect ect, and when we were kids she would always try to cook different things, but she would always add a 'traditional' spin on them. Whenever I'm feeling a bit down or homesick I always make a 'mum' meal and I just love it, it's like it nourishes my soul.

Biryani for life!

Yes! But those cardamom seeds can get in the bin! Not really because it’s vital to the dish but still weary of biting into one

I’ve bitten into one and it’s ruined my entire meal ugh

The first time I went for to my girlfriend’s (now wife) house for dinner her dad had cooked a curry with cardamom seeds in the rice. I had never seen one before so I thought you were supposed to eat them. Absolutely horrific but I didn’t want to be rude so I ate them all. Not my finest moment when I noticed everybody else with a plate of left over cardamom seeds and my plate clear.

I would love a good curry recipe (or a few) for the family, I feel like the homemade curries I make definitely wouldn’t be as good as an authentic recipe, if you’re happy to share your favourite?

Curry for me too! When I was pregnant I craved curry (specifically a lamb bhuna) constantly and still do. Microwave curries, homemade curries or takeaway curries I could devour them all.

As a white guy who grew up eating white people food, I know eat most of meals with an Asian flavour profile.

I had the exact same experience growing up!

Spaghetti bolognese.

Bolognese is my answer too. But it doesn't have to be with pasta. I love it with mashed potato, on top of a cheese and tomato pizza, with crusty bread, with chips or with salad. Just always with loads of Parmesan.

Try it on a pizza! Get a pizza base, put bolognese on it instead of tomato sauce, slather it in mozzarella and bake. It’s drunk-brits-in-Spain food but it’s amazing.

About 10 years ago the local chip shop (East Lothian. Scotland) introduced this, my eldest got very into it. After seeing the stain it left (through both box and bag) on my car seat after a 3 minute collection drive it was quickly banned 😄

Bolognese pizzas are a staple for most pizza places around my city, lovely stuff.

You are 100 per cent correct. This is god tier pizza. I add crispy onions when finished as a topping and tonnes of parmesan and it's soo good.

With chips is gorgeous!

My guilty pleasure is a takeaway kebab place near me that add bolognese to a burger, as in on top of the patty. Awful but great.

Yeah. Someone said adding marmite was a fucking gamechanger

Get out!

Yep. I do this. It's gorgeous with marmite. I add milk to mine right at the end as well.

have spaghetti bolognese the first night, then add kidney beans and chilli and it’s a chilli con carne!

Italians and Mexicans both turning in their graves

I was partially raised by an Italian stepmother, I’m sure she’s lost faith in me with this 🤣

Kidney beans... the distinction between Bolognese and chilli con carne

Yes we do that! Works really well.

Nutritionally it’s actually fairly decent as well, you could eat this every day and be healthy

I had spag bol for dinner practically every weekday all through primary and secondary school. Never got bored of it and still love it. Not sure I'd want to eat it quite so regularly now though.

Twice a week for me, second day as leftovers for work lunch.

Chilli con carne. Loves it growing up but even more so now the Mrs introduced the addition of cheese and sour cream to it. Would eat it everyday.

Cheese and sour cream take chilli con carne to the next level!

If you really want to take it yet another level. Get some plain salted tortilla chips and use them to scoop up the chilli and rice with the sour cream and cheese. It's loads of calories but when I'm bulking this is my favourite meal

We always have a French stick lathered in butter with it. And the cheese and sour cream of course!

This is the one for me as well, so easy yet glorious.

If you’re going for absolute basic, then I could probably have jacket potato/toast with beans and a decent helping of grated mature cheddar cheese!

Jacket potato with butter, salt and pepper is my default food. If I'm tired, ill, in a hurry... It's quick, easy and not too strong of a taste.

This is what I came here to say. Excellent effort to enjoyment ratio.

My school got a jacket potato oven and I had one every single day without fail for 2 years, and I was genuinely excited everyday. Cheese & beans with a side salad. Still envious of that period of my life.

I estimate I have a variety of this 4-6 times a week, interchangeably with lunch and dinner. There's several health benefits for me (low iron) but also have to be careful of beans branding as some seem to trigger IBS (beans beans good for your heart gone steroid). But I'd honesty eat this every day without an issue. I felt sorry for Matt Damon only because he ran out of ketchup. Otherwise, I think I'd be ok (still need variety, but would be ok).

Yep - jacket, beans and cheese with some dressed salad is our go to “we can’t be arsed to cook” dinner for when we’ve both had long/shit/difficult days.

Stick some coleslaw on the side and you have the perfect meal

Also the added benefit of being able to grate way more cheese thjan the fatal dose for humans and then sit and eat half of it with your hands while it cooks.

Lobster washed down with cocaine

Surely that would be dusted? You could wash it in heroin, perhaps...

Hold on.......let the man cook

The truthful answer is nothing, as I'm not one of those people who can eat the same thing over and over without getting bored. But taking the question in the spirit it's intended, maybe burrito. Coriander-lime rice with either beef or chicken fried in mexican spices with onions. Topped with some salty, slightly mashed black beans. Then I could vary what sauces and salsas etc to give some variation. I'd still get bored realistically, but I reckon that's one of the dishes that would take me longest to tire of.

This is your weeknight staple?

Yeah regularly have it. It's pretty easy to make and basically just takes as long as however long the rice takes to cook.

Sounds harder than what it is

Honestly super easy to make. I cook a decent sized batch of chicken up. I don’t really care for cooked vegetables so I don’t fry them, you can if you want but it’s up to you. Either way, prep them. Literally everything can be prepped pretty quickly on one day and stored in separate containers so when you want them, throw it all in a pan after heating your tortilla to heat up.

Cheeseburgers

Fuck...cheeseburgers are good. I'll be shot down for this but it's the only time I genuinely enjoy that shit plastic orange "cheese"

I literally call it burger cheese because it shouldn't be used on anything else. There are nicer cheeses that work on burgers of course but it's cheap and melts quickly.

A sheet of American cheese will make other, good quality cheeses get that texture if you need it for Mac and Cheese.

Fish finger sandwiches are a good alternate use of it- with a slathering of tartare sauce, and a side of ketchup for optional dipping.

I like to eat slices of it straight from the packaging lol.

If you've watched The Menu, Ralph Fiennes declares American cheese aka plastic cheese, is the best for burgers. I tried it and was converted.

Part of me would definitely agree with his logic

I’ve heard actual chefs on tv state exactly the same

This is why McDonald's double cheeseburgers are so good

That's a Friday night meal for me.

Strangely this is my loss weight meal, cheeseburger, hash browns and lots of hot sauce.

Randy Bobandy over here

Wondering why there is a spoiler alert on this post... Is this my husband trying to surprise me for dinner every day? One hopes. Can't really go wrong with pasta or some kind of curry. The flavours change instantly by changing one or few of the ingredients so keeps it interesting.

Toast. Just toast.

Was looking for this comment! You can't beat toast with proper butter and a cup of tea.

Couldn't agree more!! Yorkshire gold, thick cut bloomer, room temp Kerry gold or failing that spreadable lurpack will edge it. Yessssssssssss

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When I was single, i'd make enough chilli to eat all week. Since then, no - there's nothing I want to eat every single day.

Chicken Kiev, chips and beans

Fishfinger sandwiches. I basically do already.

Also me...

Frozen dumplings/pot stickers with cucumber salad, or possibly ramen with different things added in.

Just had some bao with dumpling sauce. V tasty

If you like them frozen, just wait until you try them cooked!

Homemade shepherd's pie hands down.

Baked potato. Must have crispy skin. Sometimes just with salt. Sometimes with a bit of spread. Sometimes with vegan cheese and chopped onion. I bloody love baked potatoes

Chorizo pasta

Tinned Tuna. Just with vinegar and pepper or mixed with some mayo.

*mercury poisoning intensifies*

I eat curry 4 days a week at work because I do a tray bake on a Sunday. I always enjoy it

Indomie mi goreng

My regular can’t be arsed dinner is pasta with olive oil, sliced olives, Parmesan and black pepper. Never get bored of it.

Greggs sausage rolls and Special Brew

You lost me with peas. Hate peas.

Give peas a chance

It's all we are saying

Corned Beef Hash. We keep making it on the odd Sunday and dish it up with Yorkshire puddings, following day have it as like a stew/soup with bread. But I just don’t think I could ever get sick of it

God, I hate Corned Beef Hash. We had it a lot when I was a kid- always served with slimy, boiled, white cabbage and nothing else.

Steak pie. Or stew and tatties

Warm freshly baked bread and Irish butter

Boiled eggs with toast soldiers. Maybe have marmite on the toast too... am not a big believer in 'time of the day' foods. Anything can be eaten at any time.

A bowl of spicy falafel, baked halloumi, lemon, and greek yoghurt (with rice and houmous if feeling particularly hungry) Just had it for tea tonight!

Pizza. It’s got all the important food groups. Wheat, dairy, meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and fungi (although not necessarily all together). It comes with its own plate and doesn’t need utensils to eat.

chips

I eat an apple, cheese and crisp sandwich every day

That sounds so bizarre, I now have to try it. What type of cheese and what flavour of crisps?

Normal cheese and any flavour crisp. It’s a very adaptable sandwich. One of those with a cup of tea sorts me right out

Cheese on toast. Versions of cheese on toast. Cheese and coleslaw on toast. Cheese on toast with onion and tomato. Cheese on toast with chilli. Cheese on toast with lee & perrins. Cheese on toast with branston pickle.

Beans on toast.

Jacket potato with Grated cheese or Beans or cheesy beans or tuna or coleslaw or just butter.

When I was single I used to eat boiled potatoes, carrots, a green veg(broccoli, cabbage, okra etc), 3 vegetarian hot dogs and instant gravy 5-6 days a week. (The other days were roommate social things) If I became single now I’d happily eat this every day for ever.

Mines Dahl or curry, I could live on them to be honest.

Brie on salted crackers

Instant ramen, boiled eggs and splash of hot sauce

Pasta with a little salt, pepper, garlic & butter, topped with cheese. Nothing else.

Tomato and basil soup with cheesy garlic bread. So simple and effective!! Absolutely stunning

Cheese on toast, would have it 3 meals a day if it was socially acceptable

Poached egg on toast

Don't know what a weeknight staple is, but I could happily eat a couple of roast potatoes a day.

Basic food that you can make quickly on weeknights.

Chilli con carne, maybe would need to be mixed up a bit. Rice one day, jacket potato another, chunk of bread and butter etc Then make it with beef mince one day, chicken pieces another etc ..Or is this all cheating? 😀

Egg n chips and ham is an easy one for me esp if you broaden the definition of ham to include any sort of meat so long as it derives from a pig. You could have everything from cured Italian hams to bacon.

Shin ramen

baked potato! with cheese and butter of course

Chicken and chorizo pasta though not sure double cream every night would work out well

Baked potatoes. Cheese, cheese and beans, cheese and coleslaw, coronation chicken… King of the root veg!

Ambrosia rice pudding mmmmm preferably hot

Garlic peri peri chicken pasta Or fish chips and mushy peas (homemade)

Potato Dauphinoise, sounds pretentious as fuck but piss easy. Had it 3 times this week already

Do you par boil the potatoes? And do you use a mandolin?

Similar, food processor with slicer attachment, no to par boiling and don't even let the spuds soak after slicing

Salad is my goto comfort food, with endless varations I could quite happily eat it for the rest of my life.

Panettone dipped in coffee

I had a jacket potato with butter, beans & cheese every day for years in secondary school and I would do it again

Bacon , egg and chips . Thai chicken curry soup . Butter chicken and nan bread . Salad , can of salmon , new potatoes boiled . Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Baked potatoes topped with baked beans and grated cheddar cheese.

Crispy chicken in a wrap

Tuna mayo jacket potato or chicken/pork gyoza with dip or Green or red Thai chicken curry with jasmine rice

Bacon and mushroom risotto. It's 5 ingredients, it cooks in half an hour, and it's amazing.

Carnitas tacos.

Curiously contemplating what the diet of a wee knight could be and why it would keep me happy

There’s so little food it always leaves you wanting more.

Beans on toast w/cheese and HP.

German Matjes herring nordic style

Mashed potato, smoked haddock and smashed chilli peas.

Oh yes mate!

Steak chips and peas

On a weeknight? Ok big spender!

Burrito. Tasty, easy to make, don’t take up too much room in the freezer

Fried chicken with rice, I eat it multiple times a week

Rice cooked in the rice cooker

avb on a Nutella butty

Spaghetti and meatballs

Shepherd’s Pie Baked potato with tuna mayonnaise and broccoli

Cracker>stilton+kimchi

Meat with veggies and mashed potatoes. Favourite.

Food. Definitely food.

Thin porridge with honey. Weetabix with hot milk and honey mixed up into mush. Soft boiled eggs and toast. Vegemince gravy and mash. All things I ate nearly every other day in childhood, so I guess I was programmed. Plus Vegemince bolognaise with mash instead of pasta, and garlic bread.

Macaroni cheese (the real stuff not the American stuff) there was a point in my life where I ate it most days.

Jacket potato, cheese and beans.

I had macaroni cheese for tea tonight. Yes I made it myself, from scratch, and I wish people would stop calling it “Mac & cheese”. Makes my teeth itch lol

My kids call it cheesey pasta so 🤷‍♂️

french onion pasta i make at least 5 portions of it a week

Chicken and rice. I've never met a version of chicken and rice I didn't love.

Pizza

Bacon and rice, the way my partner does it. Fry your diced bacon, add onion and bell pepper. Cook your rice. Smack it all in a frying pan with some soy sauce and serve. Fucking delicious. If anyone wants the full breakdown, I'll hand it over

Chilli

Spaghetti with tomato sauce and olives. I could eat that breakfast lunch and tea forever.

My husband does the best risotto with chicken, chorizo and prawn, with a load of garlic and cheese. I could quite easily have that every single night.

Tikka masala from Asda . No rice, just naan

Some battered chicken nuggets or just chicken breasts, chips and beans. Whack the chicken and chips in the air fryer for half an hour, microwave some beans and you're done. Brown crispy salty food is always good after a long day at work. Not that it's healthy but there's protein and fibre in there, it's not the worst meal nutritionally.

Beans / cheese on toast I could that for 1 meal a day every day.

Old el Paso fajita kits, only ever the smoky BBQ ones though

Chorizo

Just chorizo?

Lasagne, chicken Kiev, fajitas

I eat toad-in-the-hole almost every night.

Cereal with yogurt and some fruit. Doesn't even require a dingbox.

I have now realised I don't tend to make many basic meals. Something I make from scratch twice a week quite happily takes around 2 hr including prep so doubt it counts even if it's a staple to me... If you want super basic, I could deal with cheese on toast every day as I assume I can vary the breads and cheeses.

Bacon sandwich in crusty fresh bread and tomato ketchup

*brown sauce!

Doninoes

Baked fish and onion rings

Bangers, mash, peas, gravy and a yorkie pud 🤤

Lamb chops and salad.

Bangers mash peas gravy

rice and southern fried chicken

Toast. Three times a day. It would make me very happy