[tenofspades]

Hello food gurus.
Looking for suggestions of traditional, healthier, simple, easy teatime meals. Thank you.

I have:
Jacket Potato
Stew
Chicken and Rice

[Aarghawasp!]

Thick, hearty homemade soups.
Spag bol with added veg
Chilli with added veg/beans

You can cook these in bulk and freeze in portions for ease when you get home from work.

Ratatoulli type stuff, veg of your choice in tomatoey garlicy sauce. Serve with pasta, rice, baked potato or on lightly toasted ciabatta.

Spanish omelette/tortilla. Potato, onion, peas, spinach, tomato...whatever you fancy really.

Stir fry veg with chilli, garlic and ginger.

Quesadillas.

[Aarghawasp!]

Just spotted this thread.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1644005

[amyawake]

spaghetti carbonara (bacon, eggs, cream)

chicken and chips (bake joints with home made oiled chips on upper shelf)

cheats fish pie (buy mash, place on buttered shallow dish and grill, meanwhile make a parsley sauce and add a pack of mixed fish pieces, added to sauce for 5 mins then some cream)

steak baguette - spread bread with french mustard, add some salad

baked mackerel and chips (as per chicken and chips - above)

mussels and garlic bread (water/wine, crushed garlic, chopped parsley and in with the mussels)

[kimindex]

How traditional? Would pasta and stir-fries and Indian food be OK?

Sausages or pie and mash
Egg, beans/peas and chips or Gammon, egg and chips or sausages, beans/peas and chips
Cottage pie
Lasagne
Chilli and rice or nachos
Fish cake, peas and new potatoes
Pasty and chips

[Swarfega]

Cheese and pickle sandwich
Cheese and tomato sandwich
Cheese and ham/salami and tomato sandwich

And for pudding, a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Or banana butty if wishing to be healthy.

This was essentially my final year diet an Uni.

[That Bloke]

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Originally Posted by Swarfega

Cheese and pickle sandwich
Cheese and tomato sandwich
Cheese and ham/salami and tomato sandwich

And for pudding, a peanut butter and jam sandwich. Or banana butty if wishing to be healthy.

This was essentially my final year diet an Uni.

Sorry to not be adding anything to the thread, but all I can think of now is "Spam. Spam and Egg. Spam, Spam, Spam and Spam....." etc

[stud u like]

Traditional is hardly traditional when the assimilation of invading cultures and their diets over 1000s of years has shaped and added their own great aspect on cooking in the United Kingdom.

Cook a tin of tomatoes and two eggs at the last minute.
Bung into a pot some chicken, butter beans, mustard, herbs and onions and make a taste pie.

[ShreddedParts]

We eat very healthy as a family and here are some of our midweek quick favourites.

Try making a quiche, they are very simple.

I like to make mine using a ready made savory pastry case, which you can buy in the baking aisle.

Gently fry some onions in butter then place into the pastry case with strips of ham. Then in the same pot add salt and pepper, pour in a cup of milk, grate in some cheese and heat gently until it's all liquid, pour into the case ontop of all the onions and ham, then add lots more grated cheese. Pop into the oven for about 15 minutes and you have a simple quiche.

Serve with some salad or boiled new potatoes tossed in melted butter and italian seasoning!

Another great quick meal here is the "Shepherds Stew", cook all the ingredients of a shepherds pie (lamb mince, onions, seasoning and carrots - larger cubes or slices, stock cubes and gravy granules) instead of mashing potato and baking it, just cut the potatoes into chunks and cook in the stew on the hob.

Some fish is always easy, try trout, ask your fish monger to top and tail them to make life easier for you. Season them to your taste (personally I like lots of spice), inside and out. Slice slits into the skin and insert slices of lemon for a real summery flavor, wrap in tinfoil and bake for about 25 minutes. Again serve with salad or potatoes.

Treat yourselves to some very nice rolls and meats from the deli counter as well as cheeses, crackers and cherry tomatoes. Perhaps some coleslaw and beetroot on the side. No cooking is involved but it really is a family favourite in our house!

[Echo Zulu]

Spaghetti with chilli and garlic olive oil:
While the spaghetti is cooking, gently heat/fry some chopped garlic and chilli in some olive oil. Mix through the drained spaghetti, season with salt and pepper and grate a little parmesan over the top. Super quick and super tasty.

There are other variations including:
- Prawns
- Green veg such as broccoli, courgette, sugar snaps, etc.

Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Mash
A nice alternative to regular mash - I cut chunks which I roast in the oven for just under an hour with a drizzle of olive oil and then mash.

You could serve it with sausages, grilled meat and fish or a casserole.

Asparagus, Pea and Parmesan Salad
Cut a bunch of asparagus as you would spring onions, but leaving the spears intact. Add to a pan of boiling water with some peas and cook for a few minutes until almost done. Drain and rinse until cold water to prevent further cooking.
Mix with watercress, a little olive oil, some parmesan shavings and the zest of a lemon.

You could serve that with some cured or grilled meat, an omelette/tortilla or just about anything really. It's very straight forward and fresh tasting.

On reflection, I probably wouldn't classify any of these as 'traditional', but they are simple, tasty and healthy.