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Danelle O'Shea

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I was married for 14 years, and now have been with my 2nd husband for 8 years and jeebus christmas I am TIRED of making the same damn stuff for dinner. I wondered if you guys would share some of your favorite dinner recipes (ask your wife/lover/significant other if you have to) so I can try some new things. If I put spaghetti on the table one more time, I think I just might get throttled.

Don't give me recipes with 47 ingredients or anything that's spicy.
 
Instead of spaghetti, try a very different shape pasta, like penne or shells, and use butter or olive oil instead of tomato sauce. Serve a little bit as a side dish instead of a whole plateful.

Do you like fish? Get a filet, salmon or even some cheap fish, cut it into strips a couple of inches wide, and roll them around spinach or spinach mixed with cheese, and bake them just long enough for the fish to begin to flake. 10 to 15 minutes, tops.

Serve it with penne with oil on one side and some garden salad on the other.
 
Cut up potato, carrot, and celery into chunks about an inch long. Toss them in a microwavable casserole. Add in broccoli and/or cauliflower, and cut an onion into 8, and toss that over everything. I like to slide a slice or two of fresh lemon along the side of the casserole, and splash some iced tea over it instead of water. Nuke it for 15 to 20 minutes to steam everything.

Serve it with grated cheese and butter. Black pepper and salt is good, too.
 
Cut some chicken breasts into small pieces fry until cooked add a stir through sauce of your choice and veges either fresh or canned and let it simmer for 20 minutes serve with rice.

I like a spicy sauce but there are hundreds out there and I used baby corns, mushrooms small new potatoes etc
 
Take a large fresh salmon filet, put it into a shallow pan.
cover with a f3ew slices of orange (very thin).
pour teriyaki sauce all over it, and put it into the oven, about 4 inches below the broiler. Turn the broiler on.

When the teriyaki sauce starts to crisp, you are done.
(If you like fish well done, wait a little longer, or buy a thinner salmon filet).

Net cook time-- ~5 minutes.
 
Chicken and dumplings.. One whole chicken 1 large onion 2 cups of chopped celery 2 cups of carrots 1 bay leaf, salt and pepper 1 quart of swansons chicken broth 2 potatos cut into large bite size pieces*. Put everything in pot and cook until chick falls off the boneabout 11/2 hours remove bones and skin mix up some Bisquick using the dumpling recipe add spoonfuls of mix to the pot and steam em up until their good and fat and serve.
* Add the potatoes in the last 1/2 hour of cooking
 
Gutbusting easy favorite...

Shepherds Pie
Ingredients:2# Hamburger or Ground Turkey, Instant Mash Potatoes, Cheese (Cheddar)

Layer in a casserole pan Hamburger (I usually put garlic, shallots and a little white wine in the mix), next boil the mash potatoes then add equal layer over the top, finally put about a # of cheese over the top, bake until done.

This is a rustic dish and a gutbuster, best served on a cold night...but of course the best part is leftovers the day after.

Easy Corned Beef stuffed potatoes.

You'll need corned beef and mashed potatoes, an egg, a cup of melted butter...
Preheat oven to 350...mix mash until you have regular, fluffy potatoes, add egg, mix in. Lay out 4x4 squares, put corned beef in the middle, then reshape as potatoes. Wash with butter, throw in the oven till the lighlty golden brown.

These are simple recipes and easy to produce in less than an hour with minimal clean up.
 
Get a couple of boneless, skinless chicken breasts and cut/pound them into thin steaks. Season with salt and pepper and dust them with flour. Dip them into a beaten egg that has been thinned with water and then into bread crumbs, pankko bread crumbs (available in the asian section of your market would be better) and then fry till golden brown. Serve with a lemon butter sauce.
 
Quick & easy Beans & Rice- good Winter meal. This isn't really spicy as such- but it does have flavor... you can adjust to taste.
1/2 lb (or as much as you want) Chorizo Sausage (you can use other sausage if you wish- Italian/Pork- whetever.
3 of the long skinny packets of the Mahatma saffron rice
3 or 4 cans of black, or red kidney beans- best if a combo.
1 large onion, 2 or 3 (or 4 or 17) cloves of garlic. Cilantro. Cheese.
Chop onion, sausage & 1/2 of the amount of garlic cloves & saute in pot, dutch oven or saute pan that can hold all ingredients & has a cover. Cook until sausage & onions are 95 % cooked. Drain most of the fat- amount of fat will vary depending on type of sausage. Add dry rice packets & stir into mix- get the rice to where it has a bit of a vitreous sheen to it & the sausage/onion mix finishes cooking. Add amount of water required by rice packets plus about a half-cup. Stir. Drain & rinse canned beans & add to pot. Add remainder of chopped garlic & reduce heat. Simmer & stir occasionally until water is absorbed- you may wish to add small amounts of water should mixture tighten too much. Finish w/ fresh chopped cilantro & grated cheese (optional).
This is a fairly cheap, rib-sticking meal- you can jazz it up w/ Chipotles, anchos, chopped green chilies, chopped tomatoes- anything.
 
We don't eat a lot of fish, only because we are in Denver and fresh fish is hard to get, and pricey since we're so far away from any shore.

Great ideas - keep em coming.
 
What I like about http://allrecipies.com/ is that they include reader feedback and reviews.

Any recipe there that has 400+ favorable reviews is worth a look. In addition, the majority of recipes there tend to be designed for regular home cooks, so that the use of expensive or exotic ingredients tends to be minimized.

Another good online resource: http://www.foodnetwork.com/
 
MY killer chicken nuggets.
about 3 cups of instant potato flakes
mrs dash table blend, i use about 1 tblspoon
4 chicken breasts with all fat and nasty crap cut away

if you have a coffee grinder, put whatever it will hold until you grind all the potatoes into a medium to fine flour.
a blender can be used if not, just pulse for a few seconds then check it.
the ammount of mrs dash can be adjusted to your taste but you should see a good blend of spices in the mix.
i cut the chicken with the small end to the right and cut top to bottom, not lengthwise but its personal preference.
place the potato flour and spices in a bowl and add chicken a few pieces at a time
i use canola oil and fry at 375 to 400 degrees until golden brown.
 
How about stir-fried chicken and fried rice? This comes out pretty darned good.

Stir fry chicken marinade:

1 cup vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, minced (or chopped garlic from a jar)
1 tablespoon grated ginger (or equivalent ginger powder)
1/3 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon Mrs. Dash seasoning

Combine the ingredients, marinate a bunch of cut up chicken chunks about an hour before cooking if possible. Honestly, this turns out pretty good even if you just let the chicken marinate for 5 minutes. Get a hot skillet going and drop in the pieces one by one. Shake off the pieces good so not too much oil from the marinade gets into the pan. You'll be surprised how tasty this is when it's so easy to make.

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Fried rice

1 egg
Leftover plain rice (or make minute rice & let cool)
Soy sauce
Dash of garlic powder

(You can throw in small pieces of cooked pork, beef or chicken if you want. Not to mention peas and carrots if that's your thing.)

Scramble the egg, put it on a plate and cut it up into small pieces. Now, fry the rice in 1 teaspoon oil (or butter). Add the soy sauce and the egg pieces and as you go you can shake in just a dash of garlic powder if you want. Stir until well heated. Serve with the stir-fried chicken nuggets.
 
The Chef said:
Gutbusting easy favorite...

Shepherds Pie
Ingredients:2# Hamburger or Ground Turkey, Instant Mash Potatoes, Cheese (Cheddar)

Layer in a casserole pan Hamburger (I usually put garlic, shallots and a little white wine in the mix), next boil the mash potatoes then add equal layer over the top, finally put about a # of cheese over the top, bake until done.

This is a rustic dish and a gutbuster, best served on a cold night...but of course the best part is leftovers the day after.

Easy Corned Beef stuffed potatoes.

You'll need corned beef and mashed potatoes, an egg, a cup of melted butter...
Preheat oven to 350...mix mash until you have regular, fluffy potatoes, add egg, mix in. Lay out 4x4 squares, put corned beef in the middle, then reshape as potatoes. Wash with butter, throw in the oven till the lighlty golden brown.

These are simple recipes and easy to produce in less than an hour with minimal clean up.
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Thank you, Chef!! Trying that out this weekend... :thumbup::D

Have asked Mrs. OP to share some of her excellent recipes soon.
 
No, no. I've gotten into enough trouble posting recipes on this site, thank you.
 
How about a sandwich?

Split a loaf of crusty French bread down the middle. Lather on some Jack Daniel's honey dijon mustard on the inside of both halves.

Layer with slices of Black Forest ham, muenster cheese, romaine lettuce, and vine ripened tomatoes.

Add a bowl of your favorite soup, maybe some salad on the side, and you're all set.
 
Crock pot recipes are usually pretty simple. Throw in the 4 or 5 ingredients in the morning and forget about it until dindin time.
 
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