What is the best thing to cook for dinner?

Question

I want to cook dinner for my family but don't know what to fix. I've made chicken alfredo before, but that's about it.

Answer 1

Anything with pasta! Plain old spagetti with meatballs is an all time favourite.

Answer 2

It depends on your families preferences.

If your family is big on pasta dishes then cook some pesto
Take a lot of fresh basil (a hand full or more)
1-2 Garlic cloves
a hand full of pinenuts/walnuts
a splash of olive oil.
Grind together into a green paste. Take the freshly boiled pasta and put in a warm frying pan with a pat of butter and a spoonful of pesto, stir together and you have perfection.

If your family likes chicken/steak orientated dishes you can just BBQ it on the grill and have a salad as a side dish!

Answer 3

You could make pepper steak with white rice. It's one of the first meals I ever made for my family when I was growing up, and it's super easy.

What you need:

Stir fry steak (it's just cheap steak cut into thin strips)
two green peppers cut into thin strips
one large onion cut into strips
a pint of sliced mushrooms
two envelopes brown gravy mix or two cans prepared brown gravy
enough servings white rice for your family (prep instructions are on the bag)

What to do:
Saute your peppers, oinions, and mushrooms in a couple tablespoons of butter. Don't let them get soggy, just crisp/tender will do.

Cook your steak strips in a large skillet with a couple tablespoons cooking oil. Dont's let them get completely done. You'll want them with a slight pink center still.

You'll probably have some liquid from cooking the steak. Use this along with the rest of the water you need to prepare the brown gravy envelopes. If you have the canned brown gravy, then you don't have to worry about that part of it.

When you have the veggies, steak, and brown gravy prepped, combine those three into the large skillet you cooked your steak strips in and heat it all together.

Spoon servings of the white rice you prepped onto a plate and top with the pepper steak you just made to serve.

Answer 4

Aztec Calendar (Taco Salad)
Yield: 1 Serving

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef
2 tb chili powder
1 ts ground cumin
3/4 ts salt
1 avocado; cut in 1/2" cubes
2 tb lemon juice
4 c finely shredded lettuce
1 1/2 c finely sliced green onions
1 1/2 c shredded cheddar cheese;
-sharp
1 c cherry tomatoes; quartered
Dressing:
14 oz taco sauce
1/4 c chopped green chilies
2 tb salad oil
1/2 ts grund cumin
2 c tortilla chips
1/2 c sour cream

Instructions

Salad: in a medium skillet cook beef until brown, stirring to break up
meat. Drain off drippins and stir in chili powder, cumin and 1/2 teaspoon
salt. Cook over low heat, stirring 3 minutes. Col. Place avocado in bowl.
sprinkle with lemon juice and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Prepare
remaining ingredients for salad, set aside. in smal bowl combine all
ingredients for dressing.
to serve arrange in concentrice circles, lettuce green onion meat cheese,
avocado and tomaows. Sprinkle chips on top of salad. Serve immedialtely
with dressing and a dollop of sour cream. Makes 6 servings.

Answer 5

How much time are you alloting to cook? Some new dinner suggestions:
Quick Barbecue chicken for sandwiches :
Boil chicken breasts and then chop. Mix with favorite flavor of barbecue sauce in microwave safe bowl, heat for 1 minute. Serve on buns.

Quick and easy potatoes:
Take two cans of sliced or whole new potatoes. Chop a few green onions. Place in microwave safe bowl and salt and pepper to taste. Seasoning salt instead of regular salt also adds a little flare. Mix water, butter, water and a amll amount of milk or cream and place over potatoes. Place covered in microwave eight minutes. Stir and then microwave two more minutes.

Quick salmon:
Cover salmon in maple syrup or honey and terriyaki sauce. Grill in pan or on gill.

Busy Mom's chicken:
Place four chicken breasts (salt and peppered to taste, maybe a little paprika for color and interest) in crock pot. Cover with one can of cream of mushroom mixed with 3/4 can water. Set on low. Cook 3-4 hour. Serve over rice or noodles. Optional add in: stir in 1/2 cup of shredded sharp cheddar or sauteed onions or mushrooms.

If you are looking to spend more time in the kitchen, there are more time consuming recipes. Hope these help a little.

Answer 6

Tuna Noodle Casserole
with lots of oozing cheese
green beans/white potatoes/ Corn on the cob
drenched in butter salt and pepper
A buttery yeast roll
And a big cup of Tropical Punch Koolaid to wash it all down.

Then later on have a nice big piece of double Chocolate Cake
w/chocolate ice cream.

Answer 7

My family likes my homemade chicken pot pies. I take pie crust..just that cheap jiffy pie crust..usually 3 boxes of it and prepair that as directed on the box. Use flower to roll it out flat to the shape of the pan. You want the bottom crust to come up the sides of the pan so you can seal it with the top crust. One and a half box for the bottom crust and one and a half for the top. I cut up boneless/skinless chicken in to small pieces and saute it with onions until its just pink in the middle.
Lay your bottom crust down in a cake pan..at the bottom of the crust, put in a potato cut into small pieces, celery cut into small pieces, a bag of frozen mixxed veggies and your chicken. Then I take chicken gravy..you can either make it or get the package kind that you just ad water too...use 4 packages cause you want alot of gravy. Put that on top of all the veggies and chicken then lay your top crust on and pinch around the edges to seal it. Poke a few holes in the top and put it in a 375 oven for about an hour. It's GOOOOD. My kids love it and so does my husband.

Answer 8

Pineapple Chicken Recipe
sooo yummy over rice! I usually make due with the amount of sauce this makes, but it gets quite thick, so if you like lots of sauce for your rice you may want to consider making extra.
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 egg, slightly beaten
seasoned bread crumbs
1/3 cup oil
Sauce
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 (13 1/2 ounce) can pineapple tidbits, drained (reserve syrup)
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon soya sauce
1/3 cup chopped green peppers
4 servings

1. cut chicken into bite sized pieces.
2. Dip in egg, then coat evenly with seasoned breading mix.
3. In large skillet stir fry a few pieces at a time until golden brown,add oil as needed.
4. Remove chicken and drain on paper towel,drain oil from skillet.
5. Mix cornstarch and sugar,stir in reserved pineapple juice, vinegar and soya sauce until smooth.
6. Pour into skillet, cook over medium heat stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils.
7. Boil and stir one minute,add cooked chicken,pineapple bits and green pepper.
8. Heat through and serve over rice.

Answer 9

Italian Stuffed Pork Chops on a bed of rice with steamed vegetables.

Once the porkchops are pan seared throw them in the oven on 350 and forget about them. The tenderness is unsurpassed.

Answer 10

Meat Loaf
Corn on the Cob
Mashed Potatoes- instead of putting milk in the potatoes put sour cream

Answer 11

Soup Of Bold Head!