What are some traditional style things to make for dinner.?

Question

Maybe traditional isn't the best word... but help me make a list of like, staple dishes to make. You know... spaghetti, tacos, all those things women make all the time.
I am kind-a new at this whole make dinner every night thing. I think I am a good cook, but I never think to make a simple dish like spaghetti... I actually don't think I've ever made it. I want a list of these dishes so that when I have no creativity in my mind I can just make something like that.
Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

Me and my boyfriend recently moved in together, so in the past few months I've learned alot of meals to make. Here are some meals we make often, hope this helps:

Spaghetti
Mostaccoli
Manicotti
Lasanga
Tacos
Enchiladas
Tostadas and rice or tamales
Hamburger helper
Fried veggies - green peppers, onions, mushrooms, garlic and other veggies all fried together topped over rice
Buttered noodles and sausage
Pizza
Stir fry
Baked mac & cheese
Grilled cheese
BLT sandwiches (my fave!)
Hamburgers and homemade fries
Stuffed green peppers
Casseroles
Salad and breadsticks

Answer 2

I like to make a butter shrimp spaghetti any time I go one a date, it's pretty easy to make and very quick and somewhat romantic.

Depends on how many people you are feeding

1 normal sized bag of spaghetti
Italian Dressing
Frozen broccoli
small shrimp preferably with out the tails

Boil the spaghetti until its a bright yellow and soft, put the broccoli in the pot as well

take about 5 table spoons of butter and a 1/4 cup of italian dressing and fry up the shrimp, once the spaghetti is done strain and mix together top with oregano if you want...

bon appetite!

Answer 3

Beef Stew, Chicken And Dumplings, Pork Chops and Scalloped Potato, Beef Roast with veggies, Meatloaf (not my favorite), Shepard's Pie, Lasange, Chilli, Chilli Dogs, Hamburgers, Cabbage Rolls, Tater Tot Casserole

Answer 4

Mac & Cheese (real, homemade, NOT that kraft crap) with a salad

Roasted Chicken with Mashed potatoes & veggies
(you can cook chicken 1,000+ different ways, even simply marinating it with different spices will make a whole new dish. Like marinate it with fresh ginger, teryaki, a squeezed orange & some hot sauce - broil, next saute broccoli in a pan with veri veri teryaki (a really good brand of teryaki sauce - WAY better than kinkoman), and serve over rice)

ceasar salad with chicken

beef stew with crusty french bread

Chili with cheese & onions and cornbread

Pot roast with roasted veggies & potatoes

Chicken soup

Chicken pot pie

Vegetable soup & salad

Pork chops, apple sause, rice pilaf & fresh green beans.

Answer 5

spaghetti
lasagna
tacos/burritos
stuffed peppers
tuna casserole
meat loaf
chili
chicken noodle soup
pot roast
pork ribs
steak and potatoes
fried chicken
chicken sandwiches
roasted chicken
fish fry

good idea would be to invest in a good all meal cook book and try different recipes each week, that way you can mark in your book which ones you liked-which ones you didn't like- and maybe what you would change to the recipe next time! keeps the variety going

Answer 6

hi- believe it or not, most hotels (either one of their restaurants or the hotel kitchen itself) offer Thanksgiving dinner (not crap-o hotels/motels.) I ate a few Thanksgiving dinners in hotels when I was small because my mom was in the hospital. Call better hotels in your area and I think you'll be surprised by how many are willing to accommodate you. And it will be traditional and you won't have to do any dishes! Happy Thanksgiving!

Answer 7

Some here is making talapia (fish) with potatoe and broccoli.

Chicken pot pie. It takes some time to make but it's pretty easy. Meatloaf. Quesadillas. Chicken with marinade. Steak with marinade. Lasagne (lazy man's lasagna). Beef Pot Roast. American chop suey. Chicken or beef stir fry.

Answer 8

salmon
spaghetti
chicken or shrimp fettuccine
homemade soups with grilled cheese
chicken (fixed a variety of ways)
homemade pizza
lasagna
unstuffed cabbage (like cabbage rolls without all the fuss--it's thrown into one pot)
cabbage and kielbasa
tuna casserole
pot roast
salisbury steak

Answer 9

to satisfy a good nothing beats good old meat and potatoes in any way shap or form

chicken w/rice
hamburgers w/fries
spaghetti and meatballs
wild game meat with mashed potatoes
vegies with all meals
pizza always works
taco salad
good old soup and sanwhiches

Answer 10

There are many comfort foods that we had repeatedly in our family of eight.

Those you named Spaghetti, and tacos and meatloaf all basic ground hambuger meals only when we were kids it was taco crunch with fritos under the rest. We ate lots of chili, stuffed cabbage rolls, and sweet and sour meatballs and just great plain old hamburgers on the grill. My two favorites are short ribs and cornbeef and cabbage. But a chunked up chuck roast worked just as well with bayleaf and cloves and onions.

We ate those big old hog caseing hot dogs or chunk balonga in buns and sliced up in baked beans and split and fried (we called it fried racehorse) these two were interchangable and chunks of cheddar cheese to go with it. We grew mountains of tomatos and onions and bought head lettece and fresh garlic. We cook our franks with beer and garlic and sliced onions.

We had pork chops, pork roast, sausage or bacon on sandwiches and dinners of kilbasa with pineapple and sweet potatos and green peppers and a light sprinkle of brown sugar to glaze it all.

Fried Chicken and baked chicken and stewed chicken with homemade egg noodles. My grandmother raise big fat grain fed poultry and we always washed the feet and threw them in the pot because they add such good flavor.

Then there was fried perch which is ten times sweeter than catfish. And we loved boiled spicy shrimp which we bought at the nearby tavern. We ate a lot of cassaroles and pot pies and our dad liked Pickled pigs feet and sardines with crackers but us kids did not.

Mother was one of 11 and she loved beef tounge but my husband will not tolerate it on our table. For them juicy tender Spare ribs were the treat of their childhoods. And dont forget to chill the melons, plural!

I still love to make salt pork and navy beans and cornbread with just a touch of sugar in the batter.
Diced onion and a green salad and I am in heaven. My mom also taught us this shellroni tomato soup and bacon dish that is good old country cooking to me. And we fried corn meal mush for breakfast.

And then there are the soups! Warm thick potato soup with canned chicken broth and diced celery and onions and rich half and half (or canned milk)and now microwaved potatos which makes this my emergancy dish. I make chili soup with left over chili which get two large cans of vegetable soup, undiluted, a can or two each of green beans , corn and tomatos and serves our sunday group of 17 nicely.

And I still dont think I mentioned great tuna salads and egg salads, or grilled cheese or grillled ham and cheeses. Or rice with cream and cinnamon and a side of bacon and hot tea on a icey day. This world is delightful!