What your favorite quick dinner? I am in a rut and need inspiration! I am stuck on making black bean tostadas, spaghetti & meatballs, and soups. So boring!
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My quick go-to is salmon (or any other fish), veggies, and rice.
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Tacos - I cook the chicken breasts, throw in sliced peppers and corn with the chicken while it's cooking. Then slice the chicken, add chicken and veggies to tortillas and top with cheese, lettuce, salsa, avocado, greek yogurt (whatever floats your boat)
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One thing I like to do during the week is have a pan of cooked cheese polenta and a bowl of cooked quinoa in the fridge. So in half an hour I can make something like pan-fried pork tenderloin with an apple cider pan sauce, fried polenta slices and mashed sweet potatoes, or a quinoa, sweet potato and bacon hash with over easy eggs cooked on top.
Night before last I made a quick pasta sauce with a can of pumpkin puree, fried rosemary leaves, garlic, shallots, a bit of butter and as a splash of cream.
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Tacos for sure, or BLTs. Or I'll cook up some italian sausages, slice them up then mix with some onions, bell peppers, and pasta with a simple alfredo sauce.
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SEAFOOD!
I always make sure to have some fillets or a bag of shrimp in the freezer. They thaw super quickly I just saute whatever it is with some veggies and we're good. Maybe I'll make some brown-rice pasta on the side? Maybe I'll throw the shrimp with some fettuccine and alfredo sauce into a dish and we'll have alfredo.
I also do steaks in a hurry. I can run out tot he grocery store which is 2 mins away, grab 2 steaks and some fresh mushrooms, and we've got dinner 10 mins later. -
This meal takes me about 15 minutes tops:
Throw chicken breast tenders in pan with Mr. Yoshidas marinade and cooking sauce (tastes even better if you marinate them in the fridge for half an hour first). The tenders are small, so they hardly take any time to cook.
Make cous cous (boil water, throw in cous cous, remove from heat and let sit for 4-5 minutes)
Put chicken on top of cous cous.
Then a green salad or frozen veggies made in the microwave on the side. -
Salmon steaks seasoned with s&p, in the broiler 10-12 min each side. Veggie stir fry with soy sauce, garlic and sesame oil, and rice!
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Here is another vote for salmon. I season with salt, lemon pepper, and dill. Pan sear on a HOT pan about 1-2 minutes a side then I transfer to a preheated oven at 400 degrees and let it finish cooking for another 3-4 minutes. Comes out perfect every time.
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oh, I will say something about the seafood "quick meals"...They make your house smell like seafood. So, I spend an additional 45mins just cleaning the kitchen and airing it out. I hate the smell of fried shrimp in my house!
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@TurtleDoves: I agree....we do make fried shrimp every once and a while and....ack....but the shrimp sure is tasty!
@FutureMrsMcK: That is genius....why didn't I ever think of pre-cooking grains and things....so smart.
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@MediaNaranja: Yeah, I mean it's better fresh, but I can make it up while LO is napping and it's something I don't even have to think about later.
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Stir fry, tacos, shrimp pasta, fish, chicken and rice, anything on the grill, casseroles (make night before and throw in oven when you get home.)
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Steam spaghetti squash for 20 mins (on high heat), scrap out the squash, add a jar of sauce =)
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Fish tacos, very quick and easy.
I also make seafood with stewed tomoatoes over couscous. Takes 20 mins.
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