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October 23, 2016 10:59 AM Subscribe
Can Metafilter please crowdsource our dinner tonight. I'm out of ideas.
About us:
- I eat a low carb, low glycemic index diet.
- My husband loves pasta more than anything.
- My husband prefers not to eat vegetables that are "mixed together"
- My son has a lot of sensory issues with food. He will often refuse to eat new foods. He prefers pastas, and hates chicken more than anything.
What are we having for dinner in 4 hours?? I'm tired of the same five things that meet everyone's needs.
I have to go to the supermarket no matter what, so whatever you suggest I can likely get the ingredients for.
About us:
- I eat a low carb, low glycemic index diet.
- My husband loves pasta more than anything.
- My husband prefers not to eat vegetables that are "mixed together"
- My son has a lot of sensory issues with food. He will often refuse to eat new foods. He prefers pastas, and hates chicken more than anything.
What are we having for dinner in 4 hours?? I'm tired of the same five things that meet everyone's needs.
I have to go to the supermarket no matter what, so whatever you suggest I can likely get the ingredients for.
Make a homemade cheese sauce (butter, flour, milk, grated cheese, salt). Theirs goes on boiled pasta, yours goes on steamed, boiled, or roasted cauliflower, put them in dishes, top with crumbs for them and crushed nuts for you, and bake til hot and bubbly. Serve with coleslaw or steamed broccoli.
posted by pseudostrabismus at 11:06 AM on October 23, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by pseudostrabismus at 11:06 AM on October 23, 2016 [10 favorites]
Buy some Italian sausage, broccoli, garlic, sundried tomatoes, and some gratable cheese like parmesan or pecorino.
Fry the Italian sausage in slices with the garlic, add the broccoli & sundried tomatoes and cook everything together for a bit. Grate some cheese on top.
Separately, cook the pasta - any non-noodle shape is fine, so think penne or flower or spirals or orecchiette.
Take a portion of sausage & broccoli for yourself. Then add in the cooked pasta and mix everything well, grate some extra cheese on top, and that is what everyone else eats.
posted by pravit at 11:18 AM on October 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Fry the Italian sausage in slices with the garlic, add the broccoli & sundried tomatoes and cook everything together for a bit. Grate some cheese on top.
Separately, cook the pasta - any non-noodle shape is fine, so think penne or flower or spirals or orecchiette.
Take a portion of sausage & broccoli for yourself. Then add in the cooked pasta and mix everything well, grate some extra cheese on top, and that is what everyone else eats.
posted by pravit at 11:18 AM on October 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Does everybody like chili? Husband can have his on pasta, you can have it without pasta. You can also boil some potatoes, slice them, ladle on chili, top with cheese, broil and serve as a healthier version of nachos.
Another good fall option is to chunk up any combination of sausage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, winter squash, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, toss with olive oil & salt, roast at 400, tossing several times, @ 45 mins. You can roast things in separate pans, which works well because they take different times, but even mixed, they maintain their identity.
posted by theora55 at 11:41 AM on October 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Another good fall option is to chunk up any combination of sausage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, winter squash, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, toss with olive oil & salt, roast at 400, tossing several times, @ 45 mins. You can roast things in separate pans, which works well because they take different times, but even mixed, they maintain their identity.
posted by theora55 at 11:41 AM on October 23, 2016 [3 favorites]
Spaghetti Squash, it's amazingly just like spaghetti but a vegetable! Microwaves just fine.
posted by sammyo at 2:01 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by sammyo at 2:01 PM on October 23, 2016
If your family also does rice as well as pasta, I'm wondering if a dish with cauliflower rice might go over well? It's cauliflower that has been chopped/grated to as size where it has the texture of rice and I've been loving it since I discovered it recently! I think it's becoming popular so you can either make it yourself with a head of cauliflower OR you can buy it frozen at Trader Joe's. There are a lot of recipes if you search Google.
posted by inatizzy at 2:41 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by inatizzy at 2:41 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
For future reference, Argentinian restaurants are half steak houses and half pasta restaurants (there's been enormous Italian immigration to Argentina, and the cuisine has become part of its culture)
posted by Quisp Lover at 2:51 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Quisp Lover at 2:51 PM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
This only works if there's food in your fridge, but if there's food in your fridge, this works:
Pull all your produce (and any leftovers) and condiments out of the fridge, all the snack type food out of the cupboard. Put it all on the table. Just put it all out there.
Dinner is served. This is one of my favorite meals and it meets everyone's needs.
posted by aniola at 10:35 PM on October 23, 2016
Pull all your produce (and any leftovers) and condiments out of the fridge, all the snack type food out of the cupboard. Put it all on the table. Just put it all out there.
Dinner is served. This is one of my favorite meals and it meets everyone's needs.
posted by aniola at 10:35 PM on October 23, 2016
What did you cook?!
posted by pseudostrabismus at 10:20 PM on October 24, 2016
posted by pseudostrabismus at 10:20 PM on October 24, 2016
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posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 11:04 AM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]