Do you make the same 10 dinners over and over?
Posted by isaytomatoes on Aug 31, 2010 · Member since Jun 2009 · 209 posts
Somewhere I heard that people tend to have a core group of about 10 (?) dinner recipes they tend to make over and over. I started looking at the recipes I make over and over, and it turns out there are about ten of them, sure enough. I try new things, but these are the ones that we have over and over throughout the years. Do you do this, too? What are your ten?
Koshari, spanakopita, chilaquiles, Sudanese cickpeas, gluten ribs, noodles with veggies and tofu, tamale pie, tofu steaks, matzoballs and mushroom gravy, jiaoze.
(I left out soups, salads, and sandwich type items, even though we are prone to eating those for dinner, too, so maybe I can't keep the list at 10 for real. there goes the theory!)
Only when I'm stressed or unhappy do I repeat meals over and over. I love to iron-chef, and now that DH is doing more cooking, he does too. We fly by the seat of our pants a lot in the kitchen, so we never know from one day to the next what's on the menu. A lot depends on what's seasonal in the market, too. I love all cuisines so there's a lot of variety.
I think we do.
Spaghetti with bruschetta, beans with cous cous and steamed collard greens, veggie burgers with fries (sometimes homemade), Fakeburger helper, curry with jasmine rice...
I can't think of any more at the moment. I heard playing cookbook roulette really helps.
Randomly flip to a few recipes and make them for the week!
I might do the same types of meals (chickpea curries, pizza, tacos), but I'm usually trying a new recipe.....when I make my bi-weekly menu, I might included one or two staples if I've run out of new recipes that sound good, but generally I'm always making something new....
but the staples that I never mess with - lasagna and spicy peanut noodles!
no but i do put a lot of the same things in , tahini, lots of pepper or parkia...
but its good to try a new recipe or ingredient every week. it helps. Something simple.
I'm guilty of being repetitive....raw tacos, zucchini noodles with marinara, gazpacho, avo-cucumber soup, kale wraps..... When I eat cooked food I try new things, but on raw....I'm a repeater.
I don't know about that. Food in my house tends to have an evolving pattern, where I'll eat a lot of the same thing for maybe a week or so and then drift into something else. For example, I may get stuck on tomatoes and I'll eat lots of things with tomatoes until I realise I'm sick of tomatoes, or my boyfriend will buy me way too much veggie ground and I'll use that in a variety of ways over the next week until I'm really sick of it, or maybe it's turning into a pasta week.
But some of the things I always tend to return to would include: Lentil Spaghetti with garlic bread; tacos; and mashed potatoes, peas, and stir-fried mushrooms with maybe a piece of french bread. I also eat lots of beans on toast with molasses for breakfast or a quick dinner, and oatmeal is really popular in winter for breaky. Veggie burgers and fries happen every few weeks it seems.
Spaghetti, portobello mushrooms w/ sides, tofu and mushrooms, stirfry, burritos, beans and rice, chana masala, black bean soup, minestrone... I totally need to try something new. I have a recipe book with 1000 vegan recipes and I've tried about four - shame on me! I'm gonna find something new and delicious to make. :3
many recipes out of the cookbook Viva Vegan I make over and over... Red and White Seitan, Pinto Gallo...
on vegweb: cauliflower poppers, garbanzo bean salad sandwich spreads
in real life: stirfrys, stirfys, stirfrys, and vegan sushi
I totally do this.
adobe black beans &veggies, orange tofu stir fry (i think the recipe on here is called general tso's or something similar), homemade veggie burgers, veggie soup, Italian veggie bakes (usually zucchini/mushrooms/carrots in a red sauce with nooch), chickpea curries, things over couscous, baked tofu sandwiches.. these are pretty much the only dishes i make on a regular basis. unless you count blueberry waffles on Sundays or fruit all day.
Not really. There are recipes that I make over and over, but a lot more than ten. I also try new stuff fairly often. Some dishes I make a lot for a while, then make very rarely and then start making more often again.
My mother was a repeater...but in a way it was comforting because she was a good cook.
I also tend to repeat the same core foods: tofu, tempeh, beans, lentils, chickpeas, brown rice and whole grain pasta. However, I have so many cookbooks I rarely cook them the same way twice. In fact I put a checkmark in my cookbooks so I'm sure to try something new and not repeat.
I do eat a large raw food salad several times a week, as well as a bowl of berries several times a week. I eat a lot of fruit for snacks, but it tends to be oranages, grapefuit, papapya and bannanas. Breakfast is definately a repeat: cereal or oatmeal and fruit.
I'm a terrible repeater--I probably don't even have 10!
Steamed rice+ veggies and tofu, salad, banana smoothies, raw veggies and hummus, tabbouleh, raw fruit.
If I cook for other people then I go all out--make big, big 3, 4, maybe even 5 course meals with all the fixings and lots of new stuff--I really break out the recipes...but at home, day to day...just give me a smoothie.
I do a lot of repeats, though it varies with the season. Over the summer I made a ton of bulgur salad and vietnamese salad. Some of my heartier go-to recipes are tofu pot pie, vw's bean and cheese enchiladas, chili, pizza!, and red lentil soup. I was making a lot of new recipes when I wasn't working but it definitely requires extra effort.