The Family Dinner Project

[:en]What Meal Does Your Family Love?[:]

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Thanks to the shining sun and blooming flowers, happiness is contagious during this time of year. With that in mind, we want to hear about the meals that bring instant smiles to your family member’s faces. It could be as simple as whole wheat tacos with sour cream or as ambitious as seared scallops in lemon sauce. Whatever your family loves to eat, tell us about it!

To enter, either leave a description of your favorite meal in the comments or email it to us at storiesfamilydinner@gmail.com. Bonus points if you share the recipe!

The winner will receive several dinner-related prizes designed to help your family have even more fun eating together. These include a subscription to the cooking magazine Chop Chop, a deck of fun conversation starter cards, and a selection of kid-sized cooking utensils from the Curious Chef (that’s a $50 value, folks!).

We can’t wait to read about your happiness-making meals! Submissions must be received by May 1st.

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6 responses to “[:en]What Meal Does Your Family Love?[:]”

  1. Jennifer Avatar
    Jennifer

    Pizza Night! Every week we have Friday Night Pizza Night. I have a whole wheat pizza dough recipe that is great. It uses white winter wheat which makes a lighter dough than regular whole wheat.
    https://www.simpliciousmag.com/2012/04/whole-wheat-pizza-dough/

    We make individual sized pizzas. My son’s favorite is cheese (the standard), but mine is this prosciutto and arugula one. Yum! https://www.simpliciousmag.com/2012/04/prosciutto-arugula-pizza/

  2. Julia Avatar
    Julia

    One of our very favorites in this house that the kids love to help with is our gluten free chicken strips and homemade potato chips. Sometimes we do sweet potato fries with it. It is our once a month splurge.

    Also one you might like is our homemade veggie spaghetti sauce that gets our kids to eat veggies that they would not normally eat. We use a frozen veggie blend that has squash, zucchini, green beans, carrots, and we add fresh baby spinach leaves. You cook the veggies until tender (except the spinach leaves). Then throw all the veggies even the spinach into a food processor, pulverize until there is nothing left to it. I mix this with tomato sauce and basil. (it is a blend that I buy at our local GFS store that is really thick so if you are adding just tomato sauce you might need to add some tomato paste to it as well) I always use low salt. I have found that depending on how sweet the veggies are is how much salt and sugar to add to it to make it taste like spaghetti sauce.

    I hope everyone enjoys this.

  3. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Steak tacos with grilled flank steak and fresh pico de gallo- a summer favorite!!!

  4. Kim Avatar
    Kim

    We have different favorite winter and summer meals, but one of the current favorites are black bean and sweet potato burritos! So easy: I just use canned black beans, and spice them up on the stove while I roast the sweet potatoes in the oven, then put sour cream, fresh spinach, cheese, tomato, and whole wheat wraps on the table – it even gets our 2 year old to eat (no small feat these days!).

  5. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    We love most things, but the meal that stands out the most is home-made ranch chicken cutlets with raw veggies and dip. I have never seen my kids eat something so quickly!

    1. John Avatar
      John

      Victoria, This sounds wonderful and I want to try it. Can you post a recipe for the chicken and the dip? I can probably figure out the veggie part. Thanks!

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