Kogels ring baloney and Kraft mac and cheese.

DH's favorite is lasagna. Toddler's fav is macaroni and cheese. He'd eat it 3 times a day if it were offered. My favorite meal to make is saucy, cheesy, spicy chicken enchiladas. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Dh's favorite is Pasta e Fagioli. One of the best dishes my MIL taught me. That and a salad = great meatless meal!

My favorite meal to serve company, especially during the Summer months, is Armenian shish kebob that I make using beef steak, couscous, a big Greek salad and Cherry Clafoutis for dessert. I'm making it again this weekend for friends. It's one of those dinners that's easy to make and everybody loves.
Lynn

I forgot to mention that the couscous recipe I use now is the one Golddust posted here a while back. It's, by far, the best couscous I've ever tasted and my family now begs for it. Thanks again, Golddust!

I love to do several dishes if I have the time, if not tater tot casserole will work.

Best Recipe?
Water-Mato salad- I could live off it.

DH favorite?
Monte cristo sandwiches- but they have to have blackberry preserves.

I've made more than my share of complex, gazillion-course, full days of pre-preparation meals and I'm pretty much done with them. I don't even much care to eat them anymore. While DH can certainly appreciate the snootypoo stuffed-stuff-with-heavy and contentedly ate rather a lot of it while he was doing the hotshot consulting gig, and has learned to make many "foodie" dishes (he does make a mean creme brulee), he'd honestly rather have what we call "bowl food". That's exactly what it sounds like - relaxing, unfussy food you can serve up in a bowl and just chill out kind of like you're a kid again. In the winter we're BIG on soup/stew-and-bread, "refrigerator velcro risotto", stuffed baked potatoes, a baked rotini glop I make with ricotta cheese and vegetables and chicken sausage that kind of looks like someone upchucked in a bowl but MAN does it taste good with your eyes closed. LOL In the summer the bowls contain stuff like the sorta-Greek couscous salad or shrimp and white bean salad recipes I recently posted.

Sandwiches of many kinds make a lot of appearances in the warm months, but I try for more interesting ones than the dreary lunchbox fare. Monday night I made a great "chicken cordon bleu burger" that I didn't think was quite going to work but it was great. WAY better than Rachael Ray's version (which I didn't even know existed until after I made mine) if I may say so myself. I think we'll have it again as soon as the chicken patties go on sale again - for some reason the preformed ground chicken patties don't go all catfoody-textured like most ground poultry stuff does. :-) DH will eat almost anything if it's in a wrap or a pita... it's supposed to be hot and sticky on Monday so maybe I'll play the pita card and talk him into trying the Lebanese takeout that's in a local gas station (I kid you not!), because I could really go for some falafel and I HATE making it.

The local grocery store had a loss-leader sale on boneless pork loin this week so I bought a half loin, cut it up for different uses and DH grilled it all at once this evening - pork is by far our favorite meat to have cold. Some thin slices were julienned up for a tasty wrap sandwich of pork, guacamole (I cheat, I buy the fantastic "Wholly Guacamole" because the avocados tend to be terrible here), and some chopped-up leftover vegetables mixed with a little salsa to hold them together in a whole-grain tortilla. DH has been hankering for a classic Waldorf salad for ages - a little nostalgia thing, I think - so tomorrow night's supper will be Waldorf salad and cold sliced pork with Stonewall Kitchen roasted garlic and onion jam (I warm it up and drizzle it on; I live near the factory store and so can get it cheap). I think next week is going to be a chicken week, though, because boneless skinless chicken thighs are on major sale and can also be grilled in quantity.

I don't have a personal favorite that I myself cook, although I do bake a nice piece of chicken with allspice, orange juice and a bit of lime juice. My favorite to cook is what DH loves. And his fave is my crocked pot roast, served with grilled asparagus, tomato and cukes in a bit of plain yogurt, and cornbread.

I can no longer cook as I once did, because of my back. I do a bit throughout the day. This afternoon I made salad in the den while sitting and watching The Sopranos - lugged in the veggies, knives, cutting board and trash bin. There's no room in our tiny kitchen for a chair!

Roast duck with a spicy apricot glaze served with coconut rice and a pear & watercress salad. Guests feel like it's a treat because they don't normally have duck at home.

DH would be pleased as punch if he could have hot dogs and mac & cheese (out of the blue box - not even homemade)for every meal. He's a giant kid. DS2 on the other hand will order a spinach & artichoke strata out of the glass case from the bookstore cafe instead of the giant cookie or cupcake that all the other 4yos order.

I still like to serve the basic rib eye steaks w/salad and baked pototo.

Golddust- can you repost your couscous recipe?

Newdawn: that's what I ask DH to make every year for my Mother's Day dinner! It's simple but fantastic and I love it!

When DH's parents were still with us, his mom would make me (us) fried okra, pinto beans with chowchow; corn bread, sliced tomatoes and iced tea every time we visited them in Oklahoma. THAT was my favorite meal . . . heavenly! I make it several times every summer still and thank my lucky stars for the great MIL I had.

Me too Lynn, basic but delious.

LOL Lynn, that was our dinner last night, minus the chowchow, plus homemade macaronie & cheese. Oh and cukes. We are really enjoying our small garden.

tina

Maybe the one we had for lunch today.

Hot Sweet Potato Salad & fresh corn-on- the-cob. Plus cold beer.

Cheap, quick & easy.