now that Wife is pregnant and I end up doing the cooking...

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what recipe would you recommend, that is healthy, doesn't take a lot of time, doesn't call for raw eggs or other stuff pregnant women cannot eat, doesn't make lots of odors, and can be cooked by an amateur chef like me?

please just name the recipe, and I'll google it later.

Thanks!!!

[clay]

how about breakfast foods?

Baked oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, etc

Or soups:

Potato soup, Chicken noodle soup, Cream of Broccoli soup, Minestrone, etc

[mikebw]

I don't have names for what I make.

I often find myself just cutting up a couple red/green peppers, an onion, and maybe some eggplant, tossing them all into a skillet and cooking them down with some soy or some thai curry sauce, then add that to rice. Really easy. Only as smelly as you want it to be in terms of adding spices and sauces. You can also add chicken or tofu depending on your intended audience.

[freeradical]

Lemon curd
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Steak with garlic butter
Lobster with butter
Chocolate eclairs

etc...

[dmann]

Chili (turkey or chicken based rather than beef)
Enchiladas
Stir Fry
Oven "fried" chicken
Baked Ziti with home made sauce and whole wheat pasta
Peppers stuffed with couscous, veggies and feta cheese
Baked fish (fresh fish should not be stinky) with roasted veggies and rice
Minestrone Soup
Home made pizza with whole wheat crust

DM

[ztirffritz]

I wish you luck. Basically, my wife is living off of oatmeal, soy milk, cereal, the occasional piece of beef, and lots of raw veggies. Her newly enhanced bionic nose is driving me crazy. Everything smells wrong or bad to her. She is ALWAYS cold.

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ztirffritz wrote:
I wish you luck. Basically, my wife is living off of oatmeal, soy milk, cereal, the occasional piece of beef, and lots of raw veggies. Her newly enhanced bionic nose is driving me crazy. Everything smells wrong or bad to her. She is ALWAYS cold.

I know, for us it's the second pregnancy. What's worse is now we have a toddler that needs our attention, and sometimes she feels so bad she can't even stand up.

[cbelt3]

I survived on the ability to make breakfast foods, spaghetti sauce, and the phone numbers for the local chinese and pizza joints.

[andypie48]

steamers and george forman grills both come with recipe books. hardly ever use the stove.

george forman makes great rubins or grilled cheese.

[Michael]

Incredibly easy dinner:

2 cups of rice (uncooked), 3 cups of chicken broth, an appropriate amount of pineapple chunks (pour in some juice--what the heck), some peas, some corn, and cut up chicken breasts. Stir it all together in a casserole dish and bake at 350 it for 45 min-1 hour.

The amounts of various things depends on what you like. Toss in other veggies if you'd like--we've tossed in a variety of things, often leftovers from previous dinners. When my wife was pregnant, the things that went in were rather different than they are now.

Takes a couple of minutes to get ready and is tasty.