Staple Suppers

[livingdeb]

Today I made taco soup again, now a favorite staple meal.

I actually have hardly any recipes for savory main dishes with four or more servings that I make on a regular basis:

* taco soup
* spaghetti
* chili
* chimichangas
* tacos

Other recipes I like but hardly ever make for some reason:

* cheese/rice casserole
* ham/egg quiche
* hamburger quiche
* taco salad
* King Ranch chicken
* chicken tetrazini
* tuna biscuit bake
* pasta with peanut sauce

Other recipes I like but hardly ever make because they are time consuming:

* lasagna
* chicken parmesan
* meatballs with a sour cream mushroom sauce, over rice
* teriaki meatballs
* sweet and sour chicken
* fried rice

Mostly I make dinners that are only 1-2 servings or already prepared:

* macaroni and cheese
* scrambled eggs or omelets
* soup from a can
* enchiladas from a can (with refried beans from a can)
* fried fish from the freezer
* re-heated restaurant leftovers

What are your favorite family-sized meals to cook?

Comments

Too many to list

[sallini.livejournal.com]

But some favorites of the cook once, eat a couple of times variety include:
Lasagna (it's worth the work, really)
Pasta with turkey sauce
Red beans and rice with turkey sausage (Tam's recipe)
Tuna noodle casserole
Chicken enchilada casserole
Turkey and wild rice "soup" (I make it very thick)
Black bean chilaquiles (extra points for being fun to say)
Chicken tetrazzini
Many kinds of meat loaf (esp turkey chipotle)
Penne with salmon
Rosemary beef and noodles
Tofu with peanut sauce (Tam's recipe)
Various kinds of chili and chili mac
Black beans and rice (Cubano style)

And I have to ask...enchiladas in a CAN?! I hope you are screwing with us because, um, that sounds very, deeply wrong. (And I say this as a person who fully admits to having enjoyed me some frito pie, cool whip with instant pudding, frozen chimichangas, and other such culinary low points, so I have zero gourmet credibility here; I'm just boggled.)

Re: Too many to list

[sallini.livejournal.com]

Oh, I also have a bean soup recipe from my mom that is delicious, but I have not yet gotten in the habit of making it. This post reminded me that I need to cook it before summer strikes with full force. Note to self.

Re: Too many to list

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Enchiladas in can. Did I say that out loud?

Plus I meant tamales in a can. Just as bad sounding. They taste a little like tamales, better mixed in with beans and cheese.

Turkey sauce? I bet that sounds worse than it really is, too!

I'm happy to have reminded you of bean soup in the nick of time.

I once tasted the best meatloaf ever. And I got the recipe. But it involved a particular brand of vegetarian fake meat that tastes like sausage, which I could never find, and now I can't find the recipe either. Someday, I'll have to settle for a new meatloaf recipe. It's certainly easy to grate extra vegetables into that and still have it be tasty (and if it isn't quite tasty, then just eat it with ketchup).

Re: Too many to list

[sallini.livejournal.com]

LOL on the turkey sauce. It's my standard pasta dish that I only ever call "pasta," so it was awkward to try to give it a more descriptive name. It really isn't so weird as it sounds - it does not feature a reduction of turkey blood or contain gizzards or anything nasty; it's just a standard tomato sauce with ground turkey in it.

thank you

[(Anonymous)]

omg.. good work, man