What home-cooked meal do you frequently make and still enjoy?

Tostadas. Make them with seasoned ground beef/chicken, chopped lettuce, tomatoes, onion, and salsa if I have it on hand (usually I do). Delicious every time. Easy to make and filling. Will also add beans if I have them.

I cook most of our meals. My kids would eat ma po tofu every day I think. Husband asks for pierogi and sausage and sauerkraut all the time. Youngest would eat homemade macaroni and cheese probably every day. Yellow rice and chicken with black beans is always well received, as are bean and cheese simple burritos.

I like tilapia fried in garlic olive oil, roasted asparagus, and cous cous. I eat it at least 3x a week for lunch. It's easy and cheap and freezes well.

I do meal prep once a week with my mom. We just get together at her place and cook like 10 or 12 meals and put them in containers and I freeze them. Cheaper than TV dinners and it's easy lunch and dinner for the week.

I absolutely despise cooking, so taking the ingredients to my parents' place forces me to cook. At my house, I can just procrastinate.

I cook most of my food. Lentil curry. Chilli. Apricot Chicken. Are my three meal prep's at the moment. I need a few meal preps or even tasty food can start to feel like a chore if I'm eating the same thing repeatedly.

I just bought a ham hock to make pea and ham soup today to mix it up a bit. I think my next lentil curry will be dal makhani, normally I do red lentils and yellow curry paste.

Fruit, nuts and a protein shake for breakfast. Usually a salad for lunch. Neither of which are particularly "cooking", more assembling.

Tortellini pesto - seems like a lot of steps but it’s simple and fast, little prep time needed

• slice up some chicken and coat with lemon pepper rub
• sear it in the cast iron skillet
• boil the tortellini
• strain it, goddam, forgot to keep some pasta water again
• a couple tablespoons of olive oil in the pan,
• heat garlic and red pepper flakes to infuse the oil
• dump in a small jar of pesto and mix with infused oil, then turn off the burner
• throw in the pasta, a cut up bell pepper and the meat, and mix (effing pasta water would make this perfect)
• fold in some shaved Parmesan and fresh baby spinach leaves, and serve

Edit: this was me discovering wilted spinach is much better than slimy black overcooked spinach that I experienced most of my life, and I haven’t gotten tired of it. If I remember the pasta water, it’s nice and creamy

Burgers and fries

I make my own burgers ... buy about 2kg of lean ground beef when it's on sale .... mix them by hand with salt, spice, Worcester sauce .. measure out about 2oz to 3oz portions, press them in a burger press that is a bit large .... it makes a really thin burger patty. I like the thin patty because it only takes about five to seven minutes to cook. If I feel like having more, I just cook more patties.

I only cook a few at a time, then freeze the rest. Always nice to have a ready made supply of homemade patties.

I also cut my own fries, cover them in a bit of oil, then air fry them. Toss them with a bit of salt at the end.

I used to work as a fast food cook at our family's own burger joint when I was a teen. Homemade burgers and fries just seem like second nature to me at this point.

Lately, I've really got into making sheet-pan dinners. Baked (and marinated) chicken breast surrounded by halved baby potatoes, broccoli, carrots and cauliflower with a little feta cheese sprinkled on after it comes out of the oven. Hearty and delicious! :)

I eat toast with cream cheese and a poached egg almost every morning and there's some synergy between the unctuous yolk, the sour cheese, and my hot sauce that is just about mana from heaven.

Burritos with baked tofu, peanuts and onions, fried and hastily squished beans, brown rice and cheese. 10 mins of work for 6 servings and then I store them in the freezer and just chuck them in the microwave as needed. Great low effort food and much healthier than most other microwave snacks.

I cook dinner virtually every night, but probably my (and my family's) favorite is Lemon Chicken Picatta.

I cut chicken breasts into pieces about nugget sized, then season w/ salt & pepper. Toss them in flour to coat, then pan-fry them in vegetable oil. Basically, home-made chicken nuggets (my wife says they're very similar to Chik-Fil-A nuggets).

When the chicken is done, I use the same pan, which now has a bunch of fond from the meat. Sautee some minced garlic, then add a bunch of chicken broth and thinly sliced lemons. Sautee that for a bit while scraping everything off the bottom of the pan. Add lemon juice and capers. Cook a bit longer. Take off the heat and add butter and parsley. Then pour the sauce over the chicken.

I usually serve it over pearl couscous with a side of air-fried broccoli.

For mother's day, I cooked a piece of fish in some of the sauce. I don't particularly like fish, but my wife said it was delicious.

Beans and rice. I fry onions, bell peppers, garlic, and chili in a pot (sometimes carrots, celery, or leeks), add tomato paste and rice, and after a few minutes of toasting the rice, I add vegetable broth and cook until the rice is done. Then I add cooked beans (I use black beans, pinto beans, or black eyed peas at about a 2:3 ratio of beans to rice), spices, and sometimes tomatoes or nutritional yeast, depending on my mood and grocery stock. I serve it with lime, vegan cheese, or fried onions.

Shakshuka, bean burritos, pizza are generally my most common. All are good, just generally have to plan ahead with a few of them.

• fajitas

• pasta with zucchini jam sauce

• falafel sandwiches (I make all the components in big batches and eat this for days)

• pizza (using a no-cook sauce recipe)

Hashbrowns and eggs with bacon. Cook some thinly sliced bacon, almost like bacon bits, and in the grease cook Hashbrowns. Then, once they're both cooked, crack a few eggs over everything and cook that. Serve with seasoning salt.

Mini pizzas. I use the naan from Costco as the base, par bake it a few minutes first, then top with jar sauce and shredded mozzarella and make everyone come and do the rest of their toppings from little bowls I’ve prepared before going back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Kids like mini pepperoni and pineapple bits from a can. I like pesto, spiced artichoke from a jar, Canadian bacon, and avocado and freshly chiffoned basil (after the baking). Everyone gets two pizzas customized to their liking, it tastes better than any takeout pizza, and it’s inexpensive.

Moksi Alesi with djar pesi or blaka ai pesi and salted fish "bakkeljauw" or salted beef "zoutvlees" with Madame Jeanette pepper. Basically beans and rice. I learned the basic recipe from a friend with Suriname ancestry.

Household spaghetti recipe.

So happy that the spaghetti that was made for me I now get to make for my kid.

Chana masala! It's so tasty and relatively easy to make.

Mac and cheese. It’s the only dish I can eat multiple times a week.

Cajun chicken wraps! Baked chicken with Cajun seasoning, romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, in a slightly salted wrap and then lightly fry the wrap for a little crisp and to keep it sealed shut.

Sandwiches

Tofu scramble, although it's so far diverged from "standard" tofu scramble I'm not sure if I'd even call it that anymore. Basically, it's crumbled tofu (firm or extra firm), fried potatoes (hash brown style), olives, bell peppers, onions, and tomato all thrown in a pan together and cooked on the stovetop. Seasoning is whatever the heck I feel like at the time, plus ketchup.

A roasted chicken. Usually we eat the dark meat for dinner, use the white meat for other meals over the next couple days, and then I use the carcass for stock. Root vegetables underneath the bird while it cooks to get them nice and schmaltzy.

Fried rice with vegetables.

Shrimp, a slightly sweet chile sauce, Korean melon, and peppers. I serve it over noodles. It doesn’t have a name. I love it.

Paprika hendl! Husband told me about it from Dracula, and that he had tried to make it with no recipe and there was none online. I found a recipe online (the author removed it now, but thank you printed paper) and I don't think it's like what modern paprikash is like but at love it! I don't have sour cream currently though, so none this week.

A random dish of pork belly and cabbage and/or frozen veggies, cooked in oyster sauce and kecap manis. Then pair it with rice.

Cassoulet, also osso bucco with polenta, I don't think I'll ever stop making those unless I stop being able to get the ingredients

Risotto. Sometimes I follow a recipe, sometimes I improvise something with whatever I have in the fridge.

Sounds super fancy but it's quite easy.

Also Pa amb tomàquet is a must with some friends.

Chili. Love it every time.