Favorite go-to dinner meal?

[Rhiannon]

I'm just curious.  If you are like me, you may have a favorite dinner meal or two that you make all the time.  For me, it's a variation of crack slaw.  Mine is cabbage and sausage, and I always have the necessary ingredients on hand.  I have this dish at least once every week and usually twice.

Now that the weather has cooled down, I am making a creamy bacon, broccoli and cheddar cheese soup about once a week also.  It is so easy and very filling!

[skb]

We eat standardised meals which are planned well in advance. It's usually eggs in the morning and meat/chicken/fish in the evenings. So we keep playing with the ingredients for change in taste.

[rocky]

For me, that would be a soup & some salad with lot of greens.

[starsign]

I grind meat and make some meatballs and keep them in the deep freeze. That would be our Go-To meal cooked any which way. Or kebabs if it is from a take-away.

[walkerwally1]

Crack Slaw is my favorite also but I like my home made chili and then Zoodles (Zucchini noodles) with my home made spaghetti sauce.

[Grammabear]

Crack Slaw is my favorite also but I like my home made chili and then Zoodles (Zucchini noodles) with my home made spaghetti sauce.

Wally - How do you fix the Zoodles so they don't have a lot of 'water' on the plate when you serve them?  I bought one of those "gadgets" that make the zoodles, and was not impressed with the moisture still left in the finished product.  Clearly I did something wrong, but I don't know how to fix it. 

I must admit I've not yet tried the crack slaw because I can't seem to find the right spot in our store where they sell the sauce that goes over the slaw.

[walkerwally1]

Crack Slaw is my favorite also but I like my home made chili and then Zoodles (Zucchini noodles) with my home made spaghetti sauce.

Wally - How do you fix the Zoodles so they don't have a lot of 'water' on the plate when you serve them?  I bought one of those "gadgets" that make the zoodles, and was not impressed with the moisture still left in the finished product.  Clearly I did something wrong, but I don't know how to fix it. 

I must admit I've not yet tried the crack slaw because I can't seem to find the right spot in our store where they sell the sauce that goes over the slaw.

I cook the Zucchini noodles in butter in a frying pan and any water seems to evaporate so I haven't had that problem.

The only thing I leave out of Crack Slaw is the  Sriracha sauce as I don't do well with hot stuff.  Every thing else I have not had a problem.  The first time I made it I used ginger root but I found ginger paste in the market and that works better and is much easier.

[Shanny]

I do the same as Wally - the sriracha sauce is too hot for us, so we leave it out. Otherwise, I always have soy sauce and tabasco in the cupboard, and I keep a jar of minced ginger in the fridge.

My quickest go-to meal is pork chops. I buy boneless pork loin roasts when they go on sale, slice them up into inch-thick chops and freeze two of these chops in a package. They thaw quickly and I just fry them in the skillet until nicely browned.  They even make a nice sandwich using low-carb sandwich rounds.

[bigskygal]

I love sriracha and Sambal Olek!! I can eat them on a spoon!!

Crack slaw is a favorite of mine, nice and spicy!! A quick meal us a chop, pork, lamb or ribeye steak with sautéed cauliflower or zucchini with some garlic and onions.

[Grammabear]

I do the same as Wally - the sriracha sauce is too hot for us, so we leave it out. Otherwise, I always have soy sauce and tabasco in the cupboard, and I keep a jar of minced ginger in the fridge.

My quickest go-to meal is pork chops. I buy boneless pork loin roasts when they go on sale, slice them up into inch-thick chops and freeze two of these chops in a package. They thaw quickly and I just fry them in the skillet until nicely browned.  They even make a nice sandwich using low-carb sandwich rounds.

Can you tell me where I should be looking in a grocery store for minced ginger or ginger paste?  I looked for the sauce and gave up because the only variety I found was the "hot" stuff and hubby likes it - I don't.  I made this crack slaw tonight and the only regret I have now is that there isn't much left over for another meal   

[Shanny]

Over here there are jars of chopped & minced stuff like garlic, shallots, jalapeños, etc., in the produce sections . . . this is my chopped ginger. Mine happens to be Christopher Ranch brand, but there are others like Spice World.

[Grammabear]

Over here there are jars of chopped & minced stuff like garlic, shallots, jalapeños, etc., in the produce sections . . . this is my chopped ginger. Mine happens to be Christopher Ranch brand, but there are others like Spice World.

Thanks Shanny.  We do have a section in our store where they have jars of minced garlic, but maybe I need to look closer now that I have new 'spectacles' that allow me to see far and close up.  Talk about getting old.,,,,

[Shanny]

This thread got me jonesing for crack slaw & I realized I had 3/4 head of cabbage in the fridge needing to be used up. I upped the seasonings as I usually do - making it hotter & sweeter - and yep! There'll be no leftovers!   

[Grammabear]

This thread got me jonesing for crack slaw & I realized I had 3/4 head of cabbage in the fridge needing to be used up. I upped the seasonings as I usually do - making it hotter & sweeter - and yep! There'll be no leftovers! 

Do you find it works better when you use freshly chopped cabbage in place of the bagged variety the store sells?  I also thought that it might taste good if there was more cabbage in my crack slaw.  In addition to loving the crack slaw, anyone that uses insulin should be careful.  I had no idea on how much insulin to use for this dish, so I "guesstimated" and it was wrong.  I ended up with a low of 38 (2.1) and it took a bit of orange juice, 3-4 glucose tablets and 4 ritz crackers before I could get it up again.  That was a lesson well learned.

[Shanny]

I just don't normally have the bagged cabbage mix, but a head of cabbage keeps a long time in the fridge, so I'm more likely to have that.

And I've known for a long time that cabbage will actually drop my blood sugar. I guess because it's so fibrous . . . one whole cup of shredded raw cabbage is only 4g of carbs, and there's 2g of fiber.