Whenever I'm at a loss, I stew a chicken and then go from there...soup, dumplings, tettrazini, pot pie, sandwiches, right of the pot, salad, whatever. I can usually morph it into a thing or two that all five of us will eat w/o complaint; although one DD and myself are the biggest fans.

After that, pounded chicken breast, breaded and sauteed then jazzed up with a sauce, be it picatta, Marsala, marinara.

Then whole roasted chicken and meatloaf.

Sounds kind of boring, huh? The problem is one picky eater! LOL

Pork Chile Verde
Slow-roasted salmon steaks
Prime Rib
Oven-baked crusty chicken thighs (boneless)

Well, right about now, I want to have dinner with you, Ann! LOL!

Some of my repeated meals are:

soup - taco, butternut squash, mushroom and barley, potato, vegetable burger

Simple Tomato Sauce - with ground beef, sausage or meatballs over spaghetti

Beef Lo Mein

chicken and dumplings

chicken wings and now also turkey wings

breakfast for dinner - usually bacon/sausage/ham, eggs, toast/biscuits and sometimes hash brown potatoes or grits

baked pork chop with a vegetable or two

pizza

enchiladas

Except for the beef lo mein, pizza and enchiladas, these can be found in my freezer usually.

Spaghetti would be one for us also. I go through phases and the one that repeats itself most would be tex-mex. Quesidillas, fajitas, enchiladas, etc. I was getting into the roast chicken thing too but we got a bad one and because I am feeling queasy lately, I will be nixing the chicken thing for awhile. I am going to check this thread out for ideas though because I bet a lot of simple planned things will come up!

Pan seared salmon or pork chops, grilled or breaded are the two big ones for us.

We go through phases too. Right now our thing is cabbage rolls. malna got me hooked. I've always got them in the freezer.

Another frequent meal is split pea soup. Not a main dish, but we have mashed potatoes at least twice a week.

cookie, what do you mean "got a bad one"? Did it make you sick or was something else going on with it?

It had a green spot inside - near the center bone. Shudder.

I guess it would be roast chicken also. I don't make dressing/stuffing though except at the holidays...trying to keep it sorta 'special', I guess. I do make the mashed potatoes but no gravy...that's another once/twice a year thing. We have green beans & corn a lot with chicken. Also, instead of potatoes I often make rice pilaf with chicken.

We go thru gallons of soup every winter but not just one or two favorite kinds. DH could eat soup every night all fall, winter, & spring & be happy.

/tricia

LOL at Shaun!

I think all the rest of you have better repeated meals than we do. Our most common one is garlic pasta (which is why I did NOT make it for the Cookalong!). Mostly because it's quick. I'll change it up by adding artichoke hearts or kalamata olives or marinated red bell peppers or even, when I feel I have a little more time, shredded chicken. But garlic pasta.

Other pastas too - with homemade canned or frozen tomato based sauce.

Lots of soups, mostly frozen during summer harvest (tomato, onion, potato leek, etc).

I was in a pizza phase but haven't made any for awhile. My homemade pizza tends to look a lot like my garlic pasta - artichoke hearts, olives, peppers....

Shrimp or chicken picatta or scampi.

Ann_F

Smoked salmon eggs benedict
Marilyn's Salmon cakes
Pasta with sausage
Asian chicken noodle soup
corn chowder
pork cutlets
arroz con pollo
roast chicken with egg stuffing
pasta salad

Probably a few others, but can't think off the top of my head.

Shelley S.

Most repeated during the course of the year would be roast chicken, spaghetti w/tomato sauce, grilled steaks and pork chops, breakfast for dinner.

I really don't do any one meal more than once every month, except maybe grilling in summer when corn on the cob is available.

Linda

Most often repeated.......

Spaghetti with meat sauce or meatballs - once a week for sure
Spareribs - once every two weeks
Meatloaf -once every two weeks
Lasagna - once every two weeks
Roast Chicken - once every two weeks
Pork tenderloin with a sauce, Picatta, Marsala, Mushroom - once a week
Pizza - once a week

Thats a lot of repeats in 14 days! LOL

Ann, I thought you were asking what meals make you burp the most.

Tri tip on the grill. Probably our favorite meal from the Spring through the Fall...tri tip, rubbed simply with granulated garlic, pepper, onion powder, paprika and oregano, grilled rare to med-rare and thinly sliced against the grain. Sides are easy too, with potato wedges and a mix of veggies rubbed with olive oil and grilled along side the tri tip. Easy, yummy, and healthy. For variety, I might make steamed/roasted new potatoes with herbs from the garden, rice or couscous for the starch and there are so many veggies that do so well on the bbq that we don't get tired there.

We have a Ronco Rotisserie that I never would have bought myself, but by gosh, it makes the best chicken! It is the only thing I use it for, but we love that chicken so much that it's worth the space it takes up in my gadget closet. That's another easy favorite that we have fairly often. The aroma drives the cats to distraction.

Spaghetti with meat sauce is of course one of those things I can put together with my eyes closed, and we love it.

I make all sorts of foods from day to day...Indian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, Italian, etc...but sometimes you just want a roasted chicken or a meatloaf!

Hmmmm.
Probably #1 would be spaghetti with pasta sauce (I am down to only 11 jars of the wonderful pasta sauce that I made last summer (readinglady's recipe?)
#2 port tenderloin
3. very thick and hearty chicken and rice soup

Those are probably the biggies. Here lately though we have had cabbage rolls twice in a week. They were so yummy the first time that we had them a couple days later.

Roast chicken every two weeks
Beef Burgers or Maid Rites every week
Parmesan Chicken Bake every week
Soup...sausage, black bean or baked potato every two weeks
Beef Roast with carrots and potatoes every two weeks
Homemade pizza every week
Deli meat (honey roasted turkey or ham) with cheeses grilled on boule bread

Lots of 5 Minute Artisan bread made into different things such as boule, focaccia, rolls, eggs and bacon cups.

Since it is just two of us for a meal, we will eat lots of left overs.

During summer we have grilled meat of some kind every other day.

Wish hubby liked fish...only way I get fish is a Lean Cusine. We are going to be trying some Costco salmon on the grill this summer...it will be a beginning, I hope.

Most repeated here...

Pork Roast
Meatloaf
Burger's!
Cubed pork cutlets w/milk gravy
Roast Chicken
Chicken Breasts...done in many ways

Nancy

dedtired!!!!!!!!!!!!!! roflmao!!!!!!!!!

My go to repeats are....

Steak on the grill
Chicken breast, lemon and teriyaki being my favorites
Pasta with various sauces
Pot Roast
Meatloaf/stuffed peppers
Pork chops, baked, fried, or on the grill
Chili, various soups, jambalaya
Breakfast for dinner....breakfast too! LOL I've always loved breakfast foods.
Dinner out or take out...lots of options with this one.

David

Pam & Shaun, LOL!!

Ours would be salmon- either grilled, baked or poached with a dill sauce. Chicken breasts-- either baked or as cutlets sauteed as a marsala or piccata. Less frequently we have filets- steak, shrimp, soups, pasta with a tomato/meat sauce, pork tenderloin or burgers. Grilled foods are fast and easy so we tend to throw things on the grill when time is short!

We have grilled fish at least once a week, but the fish changes with the season. In summer it is salmon, but other times of the year it would be Ahi tuna, Opah, or Swordfish. Sometimes I serve it with tartar sauce, and sometimes I make a Japanese style marinade. We usually have it with rice and a green vegetable - I keep frozen baby peas for an emergency vegetable, but frequently it is grilled zucchini. That's our most common week-end meal, although it will be Crab Louis when crab legs are cheap.

During the week, I frequently make charred quesadillas:
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Generally I make them with whole wheat tortillas that I buy, but I'll make the tortillas if we are out. I put a piece of ham or turkey on the tortilla, followed by a vegetable, which could be mushrooms, cooked asparagus, chopped cooked broccoli, etc. along with minced jalapeño, and then grated cheese goes on top, generally Swiss or Jarlsberg. I find those don't upset my stomach as much as cheddar does. I heat it in an iron skillet with a drop of olive oil, cover the pan, and then fold it over when it is done. It's an extremely quick meal, and I often serve it with guacamole and/or my bean dip, which sometimes goes inside the quesadilla. I also often make burritos and enchiladas, especially if I have leftover poached chicken.

I tend to poach chickens instead of roast them because I like to make enchiladas, burritos, and crêpes with the meat and use the broth to make a sauce. But we also frequently have pasta (usually linguine or fettuccine - never spaghetti) with marinara sauce, especially now that I found 6-in-1 tomatoes!

Lars

Does breakfast count as a "meal"? If so, then my most repeated meal would be scrambled eggs. With toast. Usually plain but sometimes a "scramble" of some veggies or leftover meat or both. Second would be fried rice. Well, maybe fried rice would be first.

As far as a dinner meal goes, I am pretty sure I don't make the same thing twice in a year. True. Pasta is a general meal and probably the top "type" but I'm always inventing something new with pasta; never follow a recipe or do some ol' warhorse.

Joe

That's a difficult question for me. I'm funny about not wanting leftovers or the same thing very often. Probably every couple of months I make these more than anything else. In no special order

Chicken Picatta
Salmon Patties
Lemon Salt Marinated Pork Tenderloin
Giada's Chicken Tettrazzini
Dan Dan Mian
Penne with Sausage and Tomato Cream Sauce
Pork Tenderloin Diane
Rocco DiSpirito's Mama's Meatballs
Swedish Meatballs
Baked Pork Chops with Parmesan Sage Crust
Chicken Vera Cruz

In the summer when the garden tomatoes are ready I make Raw Tomato Pasta every week. If it had meat in it I would make it more often. DH doesn't like a meal without meat very much.

Beverly

Ann; Most of my meals are repeated. That's why I take Previcid every day. LOL

I'll go along with your picks
With the Souvlaki, I use Pork Tenderloin.

I like any kind of Seafood in Spaghetti Sauce ( Gravy )
Stuffed Calimare is one of my Favorites, or Crabs, Mussels,
Scallops, Shrimp, Lobster, Clams.Etc. Etc.!!!
Lou's - Baked Salmon Cakes
And " Lou's " Pizza.

What the hell , I like most everything, you people Posted.
LOU

They say the average American family repeats the same meals approximately every 14 days. That being the case they recommend buying the staples to create those meals when they go on sale to save that same family many dollars each year.

DH and I have had that conversation and we agreed that we rarely duplicate the 2 week cycle as we always look for new and interesting ways to do dinner.

I'm boring, my most often repeated meal is eggs. Sometimes with potatoes, sometimes with toast. They're fast, easy, readily accessible, cheap. I have eggs at least four times a week.

Another favorite is a big pan of roasted vegetables, whatever I have on hand, usually cauliflower, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions. Sometimes it includes broccoli, asparagus, whatever I can find in the fridge. I'll eat roasted vegetables every day for 4 or 5 days until the pan of them is gone.

I just don't cook much for myself and seldom cook meat any more unless someone else is here to help me eat it. Add my perpetual diet and cooking just isn't what it used to be.

Annie

Bear in mind that I have munchkins. Here's the rundown:
Monday-salmon in some form
Tuesday-pork or chicken
Wed-Homemade pizza
Thursday-pasta or chicken depending on what we had Tuesday
Friday-Burger night! This is the boys absolute favorite and what I'm convinved they will remember when I am long gone; that mom made cheeseburgers and tator tots and let them eat in front of the tv on Fridays.
Saturday-Usually a big meal so we leftovers for Sunday. Maybe mexican or pasta if we haven't already had that.
Sunday-Mama doesn't cook!

I change out the recipes, but generally follow this basic formula so I don't have to think too hard about what's for dinner.

Tracey

Geez if we include munchkins then the roster is

chix nuggets
hot dogs
chix nuggets
pizza
chix nuggets
spaghetti
chix nuggets
keilbasa

amen

We eat a lot of soup too, Lima Bean is our fav.

Roast chicken is a top favorite here too since it's so versatile.

Pot roast is somewhat of a regular or some sort of beef stew made with the pot roast.

Salads...lots and lots of salads.

We eat a lot of oatmeal for breakfast, whether it's homemade granola or steel cut oats. And yogurt of some form.

I also make a lot of casseroles throughout the year because they're great to take to work for lunch. Our favorite is Tuna Casserole.

We love Curry, so that pops up pretty regularly with some sort of rice to go with it.

I don't repeat very often since I have a HUGE "to try" pile!! Mostly from here.

We do have BBQ pork, spaghetti, meatloaf (sometimes made into patties), lots of green salads, lots of home-canned green beans pretty frequently.

I tend to make large batches of things that freeze well. We'll eat it once or twice and the rest is frozen for meals later. So, I guess that's a repeat.

I rarely use a recipe so even the same dish isn't the same twice! LOL

Deanna

Chili... probably at least one pot a month. Meat, beans, veggies, and fruit... a complete meal in one pot!

Rice and veggies with soy sauce, lemon juice, hot sauce, and fish sauce when I have it. Usually made for lunch at work... low calorie but tasty and filling.

Hamburgers. Often 4-5lbs a week made into burgers. Off the menu for the last few months due to a diet. Powerful craving for a nice burger on a buttery toasted bakery bun with some good cheese the last few hours. Usually dusted with cayenne powder while cooking... sometimes a pinch of cardamon.

: )
lyra

Shrimp marinated in red chili paste
Bolognese/pasta
Chicken breasts sautèed
Sage/Parmesan pork chops
Salisbury steak

Grilled fish; spaghetti; tomato salad, even in winter with lousy tomatoes. This winter, I've made pinto, black and navy beans in the pressure cooker too many times to count. They keep very well and are so versatile. Love 'em!

I make oven-fried chicken about once a month. Though DH is a beef & potatoes guy, he does love his fried chicken. I also rely on chicken breasts a lot, though using many different recipes.

To "ditto" gardenguru, we also have scrambled eggs a lot, with bacon and/or hash browns, grapefruit and toast.

Kathleen

Omelets
Eggs on an English Muffin
Toasted croissant sandwiches
Grilled chicken, burgers, ribs and veggies
Roasted veggies, chicken
Pasta dishes, hot and cold
Pizza
Steak salad
Stir fry
Enchiladas, tostadas
Chicken (or pork) and noodles
Soups (Onion, baked potato, broccoli, tomato)
Twice baked potatoes
A shared bucket of popcorn

We are also great fans of roasted chicken -- at least once a week. Hubby Dubby will eat hamburger anything! We do a lot of meatloaf and spaghetti sauce (which I have over fresh spinach greens instead of pasta, while Hubby does both). Scalloped salmon casserole is another go-to easy favorite as well as chicken caccitore (you know I can't spell); braised pork chops, parmesan chicken and mom's shipwreck casserole.

In fall/winter I roast chickens and make soups, stews and chowders. About twice a month I'll cook up homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs, or a lasagna.

Spring and summer we fire up the grill about 4-5 nights a week. DH likes burgers, steaks, tips and I go for fish, chicken breasts and veggies. I like rice/grain salads as sides. He likes grilled potatoes.

When DH travels for work I roast a bunch of bone-in chicken breasts and have them in various forms for both lunch and dinner with a salad of greens. I could live happily for quite a while on steel cut oatmeal, chicken breasts, vegetables and fruit.

Pasta because you can serve it so many ways. And roasted chicken is a favorite. I usually have pork or a beef roast every week because it is cheap and I get 2 meals out of it.
Clare

My most repeated meat dish (for two) is to sear on each side in a small skillet one of the very thick Costco pork loin chops, then roast it at 400 for 10 minutes. After it has rested a few minutes I slice it thin and pour over it a sauce made in the skillet of chicken stock, balsamic vinegar and a swirl of butter. It's yummy and very tender.

It really depends on the weather.

Now it's soups, stews, pot roast, roast chicken, stuffed cabbage (so, trsinc, you're hooked now, huh? LOL! It is addicting.) - basic winter warm comfort food.

Come spring, I won't be able to eat enough fish, pasta or salad, but right now, they don't appeal to me at all. And I won't eat soup, stew or pot roast 'til fall.

I make a lot of pasta with marinara, ragu bolognese, pesto etc. We just finished having a broccoli, bacon, onion and gruyere quiche for dinner that makes regular appearances around here. Another favorite is stir fry, I make that once a week or so. I also bbq throughout the year because our weather here is relatively mild. Other than that, tacos, nachos, salads, soups, stews and pot pies get made often around here depending on the weather.

Based on the frequency of its appearance in this thread, I'm going to have to work on my roasted chicken method. When I tried Ann's high heat method the results were wonderful, but I spent more time cleaning the oven than I did cooking the bird. Note to self, when remodeling the kitchen get a self cleaning oven! :)

This time of year, cream of cauliflower or broccoli soup, baked vegetable soup with cabbage rolls (golumpki soup), Panini, made with whatever meat and cheese we have waiting to be used in the fridge, stuffed baked acorn squash, and breaded baked chicken breasts (preferably with the squash). Oh, and basic chicken and rice soup made with whichever vegetables caught my eye at the market. I love a big bowl of soup on a cold day!

Joanne

Veggie me eats mostly stir fry with tofu and rice, chili and or nachos, some kind of pasta, usually puttanesca with tunafish or pasta e fagiole, minestrone of some type, and peanut butter and jelly with cottage cheese or some kind of soup. I also eat hummus sandwiches with soup. If I have veggies on hand, a large veggie roast seasoned with rosemary, garlic and balsamic and a little maple syrup. Occasionally I will do some other kind of rice besides stir fry--like beans and greens over rice or some kind of mexican influenced beans and rice dish. Sometimes I am so tired when I get home from work it is a handful of almonds, and apple or bannana and a piece of cheese.

pork/beef roasts w/veggies (slow cooker or oven)
shrimp/scallop/corn chowder
baked potato soup
split pea soup (slow cooker)
chili
bac & eggs
fried chicken
mayo salad (just lettuce, onio, tomato & salt with mayo as
dressing - comfort food from childhood)
bread pudding (using ends of bread machine bread)

Ann, I could roast a chicken twice a week. DH and I both enjoy it. Just today, I roasted a chicken in the roaster that you sent me in a swap. I'll be posting it on my blog later in the week.

has life changed for you in the past few years as far as go-to meals

with the grands, they love grilled cheese … life is a circle, or round, of cheese ...

i like pork loin, rubbed with dry ranch dressing or cole slaw mix … food for days

lasagna

bean soup

comfort food … meat loaf

semi homemade soups

broiled cauliflower

home made rolls and banana bread

bragu, my life has changed, although I ought to get back to the diet and eat more healthy meals.

I do bake all our bread now, and sometimes grind my own grain for the flour, so I bake a lot more bread than I used to.

Since Elery retired, we actually eat breakfast and although his changes daily, I usually have one egg, over easy and one slice of buttered toast, with a cup of black coffee, so I guess that's my most repeated meal, although Elery would be very happy if I made pizza or pasta on a much more regular basis.

Annie

Eggs. Fried, soft boiled, or as omelettes.

Baked chicken thighs or drumsticks.

Roasted pork or lamb chops.

Asparagus, either stir fried or baked.

Salmon, in a skillet or the oven.

Beef sliders, bunless.

Avocado salad.

Lightly simmered spinach.

Vietnamese summer rolls with whatever looks good in the fridge.

I have a black bean and veggie tortilla at least three times per week. I make my own salsa fresca and it's heavenly! Sometimes, I spoon it over sliced avocado sprinkled with sea salt and go to town. Other times I just shovel spoonfuls directly into my mouth.

I learned how to make pizza dough a while back. I swear I made pizza at least once a week for months. It was great - then my clothes started shrinking.

I make a batch of beet or regular hummus once a week. I eat that with fresh veggies almost every day.

I'm really looking forward to summer when I can have tomatoes right of the vine on a daily basis.