What is your dinner?

[Dora1]

Any fellow mummies here who have a headache deciding what to cook for dinner everyday, esp FTWM? I only have 20-30 min from reaching home and serving dinner. I think I am running out of menu which are quick, and doesn't make a mess out of the kitchen so that minimal cleaning is required. There's only 2A1C, so we don't cook a lot also. So far, I have been cooking the following:


Soups using thermal pots (lotus, corn, pear, watercress, old cucumber, etc)
Rice washed and left in the rice cooker with timer to cook.
Mains:
1) stew chicken in black sauce (pre-marinated the night before, just dump everything in the wok, cover and cook)
2) steam fish (prepared the night before, just remove from fridge and steam)
3) non spicy ma po tofu with prawns, mushroom and corn (everything prepared the night before and kept in fridge)
4) pan fry fish (salmon/ batang)
5)fried silver fish omelette
6) chicken/beef stew (thermal pot)
7)Japanese curry (thermal pot)
9)Sliced pork with enoki mushroom

Then I'll always have a stir fried veg (xiao bai cai, kang kong, spinach etc)

One dish meals: Fried rice, fried noodles, fried udon, fish soup with rice.

Any other ideas??? Anything that I can prepare the night before and have minimal preparation in the morning (like the thermal pot) and cooking in the evening??
Any ideas would be much appreciated! I'm getting sick of my own food :slapshead:

[durianlove1974]

Can try


1) minced pork with chopped mushrooms - marinade day before and just steam it

if not can fry it too

2) sliced pork marinade with dark soya sauce stir fry with ginger & sesame oil.

[ammonite]

Pasta is very fast and easy. Use different sauces.

[SAHM_TAN]

Tonite is pizza fr Sarpino

[Funz]

Agree that pastas are easy. You can bulk prepare the sauce or use store bought. Can also make meatballs, freeze them and use when you want.


Miso soup base, add choice of vege, meat, tofu, eat with rice/udon
Steam tofu, topped with spring onions, fried shallots and soya sauce. Or stir fry mince meat with diced mushroom, with a bit of garlic and oyster sauce as topping.
stir fry mince meat with mix frozen veg and onions
braise pork with tofu and eggs. Add mei cai to the leftover gravy and you have another dish that goes well with porridge
marinate sliced pork (muscle meat or shoulder butt) in dark soya sauce, a bit of sugar and pepper. Heat up some oil and fry.
yong tau hu soup/in gravy
steamed stuffed tofu
zha jiang mian
bulk prepare jiaozi and freeze them

[Jennifer]

New ice cream parlour at Lor Kilat.


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We got a Nuts about you - nougat+hazelnut+almond. kinda of sweet

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[Jennifer]

The younger boy is hungry today, so menu changes these photos taken after the boys started eating, so portion seems miserable


Miso soup+silken tofu+pork slices

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French beans with shiitake mushrooms

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Fry eggs with chives

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Cold appetizer - cucumber (in sushi vinegar+2 chilli padi+minced garlic), Japanese seaweed with Japanese sesame dressing

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[vinegar]

Dora1:

Any fellow mummies here who have a headache deciding what to cook for dinner everyday, esp FTWM? I only have 20-30 min from reaching home and serving dinner. I think I am running out of menu which are quick, and doesn't make a mess out of the kitchen so that minimal cleaning is required. There's only 2A1C, so we don't cook a lot also. So far, I have been cooking the following:


Soups using thermal pots (lotus, corn, pear, watercress, old cucumber, etc)
Rice washed and left in the rice cooker with timer to cook.
Mains:
1) stew chicken in black sauce (pre-marinated the night before, just dump everything in the wok, cover and cook)
2) steam fish (prepared the night before, just remove from fridge and steam)
3) non spicy ma po tofu with prawns, mushroom and corn (everything prepared the night before and kept in fridge)
4) pan fry fish (salmon/ batang)
5)fried silver fish omelette
6) chicken/beef stew (thermal pot)
7)Japanese curry (thermal pot)
9)Sliced pork with enoki mushroom

Then I'll always have a stir fried veg (xiao bai cai, kang kong, spinach etc)

One dish meals: Fried rice, fried noodles, fried udon, fish soup with rice.

Any other ideas??? Anything that I can prepare the night before and have minimal preparation in the morning (like the thermal pot) and cooking in the evening??
Any ideas would be much appreciated! I'm getting sick of my own food :slapshead:

here r some one pot dishes i make,no frying required,so no nid to clean stove:
1) Yong Tau Foo with brocolli & tomato soup
To make soup=>add in Sze Chuan Chye,ikan bilis

2) Mashed potato,baked salmon(with cheese & mayoneise)

3) fish soup(toman,sheng yu)

4) steamed egg tofu with minced pork

5) steam fish with kiam chye,ginger shreds,tomato

6) curry chicken noodles (I use A1 instant curry sauce)
fuss free version: boil chicken breast,shred it.Throw in Tau Pok,noodles,fish cake,curry leaves(shld fry wf the paste but sometx i lazy) ,hard boiled egg & coconut milk.

7) laksa (i use Prima Deli),add in shrimp, chicken and fish balls

Bak Ku Teh

[Dora1]

Dear all


Thanks for all your suggestions. All your suggestions seem very yummy. I think part of the problem is DD is a picky eater that’s why I’m cracking my head on what to cook. She’s a rice noodle type of person.
She doesn’t like pasta but I’ll slowly try to intro to her cos I’m really sian of the food already.

Last night we have braised oyster sauce chicken with fresh mushroom, with baby spinach in ikan bilis soup.
Today we ate out, cos really dunno what to cook liao. char Siew, roast pork, roast duck rice/ noodles

[peapot]

Looking at all your menu suddenly realise that I have been eating the same dish for 3 months and I didn’t really take notice. My dinner is usually veg and chicken or veg with fish or veg with pork. That’s it. No rice for me. Only my girl eats rice with the veggie. The only time I had variety is during CNY when I cook.