Challenge: Cook Every Night This Month

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One of our quick and easy favs? Huevos Rancheros. We always have refried beans and eggs on hand. Everything else (tortillas vs. tortilla chips vs. quick root veggie hash, fresh veg on top, sour cream, salsas, cheeses) is based on what we have in the fridge at the time. Super yummy and can be healthy!

We cook every night, I think it is more the norm in Australia. You should look up some Donna Hay cook books. Beautiful, simple fresh food – she’s changed my cooking. She also has a magazine and an annual kids birthday mag you would love.

http://www.donnahay.com.au/

Look up Eugenia Bone’s recipe in Food and Wine for Smoked Tukey Soup. It is one of the easiest soups and my kids are crazy for it.

Giada De Laurentis recipes (foodtv.com) have never failed me. Her recipes are simple, healthy, and easily altered to your taste.

I also like Real Simple. They have great recipes on their site. Like fish cooked in parchment paper. Fun presentation and super easy.

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/steamed-salmon-asparagus-parchment-10000001038762/index.html

I need to take on this challenge!

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I love this! I’ve been trying to eschew flour/gluten for the month of september to end my dependency on the breads/pastries/tortillas/pizza that were destroying any efforts I made at the gym. So far it’s been great–I feel so clean and have definitely been making strides. I have an Evernote folder piled with recipes, so I’ve been challenging myself to make something new and exciting several nights a week. I made a delicious quinoa salad the other night, chicken noodle soup last night, and tonight I’m trying sweet potatoes stuffed with black beans and corn! Good for you–I imagine it’s easy to eat out a lot in NYC!

Love this recipe: http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2012/01/buffalo-wing-turkey-lettuce-wraps.html

And this recipe:
http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/02/crock-pot-santa-fe-chicken-425-pts.html

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I love cooking at home, but I’ve found that since moving to NY I’m also eating out a lot! Some of my go to, super easy meals are…

chicken sang choy bao (basically minced chicken in iceberg lettuce cups – I like to add minced pork as well… AND it’s a really fun hands-on meal)

tom yum goong (a thai hot and sour prawn soup)

penne with char-grilled capsicums (red bell peppers) and pine nuts

smoked salmon, caper and dill frittata

tuna & tomato salad (chuck in five bean mix, cilantro, lemon and eat with some yummy bread and you’re good to go for a light dinner or lunch!)

spanish omelette

spinach & ricotta cannelloni

spaghetti bolognese (of course!)

fettucine marinara

also, you stir fries are great because at the very least you can just put a bunch of veggies in a wok, stir them around, season, and eat with rice!

I agree with Missy above with http://www.taste.com.au – there are heaps of great recipes there.

Bon appétit!

I love the random things about life in the US that I learn reading this blog. I live in Australia and pretty well everyone cooks dinner 5-7 nights a week so I was very curious when I read the title of this post. I think I’m a bit jealous! I would be eating Mexican all the time too if I had a good restaurant nearby.
http://www.taste.com.au is a great resource if you want to try some easy dinners that are common in Australia.

I find a lot of the work in feeding yourself every night comes from having the right ingredients in – if you need to pop out to the shop then you may as well get take out (or that’s how your mind works sometimes!). We also had to budget as we were spending way too much on food.

So, we make a weekly menu, then a weekly shopping list from the menu. Stops us overspending, stops food waste, stops you having to think about what to make for dinner when you come in from work, and stops those annoying trips out for 1 onion (or whatever)! Works for us.. we don’t follow the menu rigidly (Mondays plan might get swapped with Wednesdays for instance) but it has really helped us.

Chili Con Carne is the best! And also so so fast!

Mackerel and chorizo hot sandwiches in ciabatta rolls with tartar sauce and a crisp salad. So easy my daughter can make them!

We always try to cook Sun-Thurs night unless there is something mid week which interrupts the rhythm. I find making a meal list each weeks keeps things fun and unique at least a handful of nights each week. Some of my favorite easy meals are middle eastern night (grilled lamb, pita, yogurt, hummus and chopped tomato with rice), veggie tacos (corn, potato and zucchini) and pizza!

I’ve been trying these dishes:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/26/magazine/corn-off-the-cob.html
So easy and you don’t have to make anything warm so it’s good for the end of summer!

I cook every night too! Now that I’m living in Japan, I also make lunch box (obento) for my hubby!

Tasty and healthy!

x

Fai @ cosetteblog.blogspot.com

This is a brilliant idea! Sometimes cooking at home feels so overwhelming (especially for one, when I become inundated with leftovers) so I love the idea of generating ideas ahead of time!

2 MUSTS that are healthy and super delicious:

1. Giada’s California Turkey Chili
2. New York Times Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

Both are so fabulous, and enoughnfor leftovers or to freeze so you don’t have to cook one of your nights. Both recipes are fairly easy ifnyou get everything ready first (chopping, spices, ingredients, etc) and then start to cook.

Bon Apetit !

As much as I love cooking and baking I actually hate the whole weekday dinner thing as it’s super tedious.

A go to recipe I love is linguine with chopped toasted nuts of your choice, a bunch of chopped herbs, parmesan cheese and chilli, lemon and garlic infused olive oil. Super easy, healthy and delicious.

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I live in Asia and sometimes it can be really difficult to find ingredients for my go-to recipes from back in the states. Lately I’ve been making shredded chicken, with avocado, mayo, lime juice and garlic powder. Mashing it all up and putting it in a toasted tortilla.

Our favorite easy/quick recipes *almost* always involve a poached/fried or runny egg yolk! MMMM

Bibimbap- (with garden fresh vegetables and herbs, homemade kimchee, over quinoa or brown rice)

Pesto Nicoise salad (complete with soft boiled egg halves, pesto marinated tuna, heirloom tomatoes, arugula, and served with grainy toast)

Vegetable Soups (half blended! served with a poached egg, lots of herbs and many with dots of avocado oil or infused oil & fresh crusty bread)
If I am feeling fancy, I make two (tomato & pea or mushroom and squash etc) of different consistencies and pour them at the same time to make a “half and half” soup. So easy to freeze and save. So satisfying!

i cook almost every night, but i have a great arrangement with my husband. he does prep and cleaning, i do the planning, shopping, and preparing. it works great. also, i feature great recipes on my blog every thursday (with a recap of how last week’s featured recipe went down). check it out sometime: http://www.acomfortablecreature.blogspot.com (the creamy jambalaya pasta dish was a tremendous hit and only cost us about $7 to make).
ciao~
~L

my favorite meal lately is a knock off of a pasta dish i ate at eataly earlier this summer.

spinach ricotta raviolis – or whatever flavor you can score from the grocery store – with a lemon butter sauce {i warmed butter and a dash of lemon juice over the stove top} and sprinkled parmesan and chopped pistachios over top. asparagus too, most times. either in the pasta or on the side.

Life is crazy busy these days for me: I’m 33 weeks pregnant, chasing a 4-year-old, an almost-2-year-old, packing a house for a move (next week!) and cleaning as I go. One dinner solution that’s working for me (when we don’t order in) is breakfast-for-dinner. Usually it’s scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and English muffins. It makes everyone happy and is pretty easy.

The other easy stand-by, of course, is frozen cheese/spinach ravioli with a good pasta sauce (we love Rao’s). I was feeling guilty about the lack of cooking (after all, we already packed up most of the kitchen), but I realized as long as I vary what we eat and make fruit dessert, we’ll be just fine.

That said, I look forward to unpacking my pots, pans and knives after we move.

Also, one of my favorite recipes in the summer (as there is an abundance of zucchini) is Ina Garten’s sauteed zucchini with onions and parm. HEAVEN on a plate.

Open face sardine sandwhiches were my go-to meal this summer.

Toast some sour-dough, spread with humus, open a can and break up one or 2 sardines, and cover with arugula tossed in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Literally takes 5 minutes.

YUM!

i can be pretty kitchen savvy but i would die without TheKitchn. You can plug anything in your fridge into the search and find a great recipe. They also have awesome instruction for basic kitchen skills [knife skills, how to cook eggs any way, etc], ingredient spotlights and product reviews. My first fall purchase — a slow cooker! They have TONS of recipes for slow cookers…

Sicilian Spaghetti is one of my favorite quick meals, with a spinach salad.

Lately, we’ve been making Smitten Kitchen’s zucchini bread pancakes like fiends. They are so, so good. And you can keep them warm in the toaster oven while cooking your scrambled eggs in the same pan and the whole meal dirties so few dishes. The best!

Our go to easy meal is pasta (we usually use whole wheat or quinoa flour pasta) with frozen veggies (there are so many kinds out there now!), and some sausage. We throw the veg and sausage in a pan, then pour our fave sauce over it (or just to olive oil and parmesan), and then voila — easy peasy dinner, that has manages to get some veg in there.

My husband and I just decided to do the same thing. We did our finances and figured that we ate out WAY WAYtoo much! It was mind boggling.(We love to go get sushi a lot, which isnt the cheapest!) Plus we are newlyweds and have hopes to buy a home one day and we need to start saving more money anyway we can!

a great idea! you guys are just too cute. and i love that your husband is the cooker, mine is too :)

as for easy dinners, don’t ever forget BLTs! with some great bread, buttered on both sides and grilled on the stove (not toasted!)… mayo (maybe even basil mayo)… tomatoes (i love green tomatoes)… bacon cooked in the oven instead of on the stove (so much easier!) and some really good greens (i always love butter lettuce or red leaf lettuce). now i’m hungry!

Roast chicken! One meal right there, and then leftovers for at least two other meals (stir fry, salad, soup, etc).

This post is really interesting to me. We cook dinner every night, and I grew up with my mom cooking every day too– eating out is a very rare treat. I tend to assume that everyone does the same! I guess not :)

Lots of easy, medium and hard recipes HERE!
http://loveoflentils.blogspot.com/

Enjoy! xx.

I’ve been taking inspiration from sortedfood.com a group of childhood friends who came together to teach young people how to cook simple yet delicious foods. One of them is a chef and he teaches his inept friends recipes every day! their baking recipes are all metric since they’re english but the ideas are great!

you can cook a whole box of quinoa early in the week and use it for so many things! make sure you use water to cook it in. from one box you can have…

southwest quinoa – avacado, corn, tomatos, black beans, spice of choice, cilantro, salsa if you want :)
breakfast quinoa – milk, bananas, nuts
you can add it to any salad or soup for extra protein or in your yogurt in the mornings