A week for a house where dinner is not at one time.
Kids eat at six. Someone else gets home at 8:30. The answer is not cooking twice. It is dishes that sit well, or go back on the heat for ten minutes later.
The week
Every dinner here is a stew, soup, curry or roast, so it can wait for whoever is last.
- Monday
Chicken curry
- 35 min
- 4 portions
- 57 g protein / portion
A curry holds on the stove or in the fridge, so whoever eats at six and whoever eats at nine get the same dinner.
Ingredients & method - Tuesday
Rich fish soup
- 45 min
- 4 portions
- 30 g protein / portion
A soup reheats on its own terms. Ladle out a bowl whenever someone is actually home.
Ingredients & method - Wednesday
Stewed beef
- 90 min
- 4 portions
- 55 g protein / portion
A slow stew that only gets more tender the longer it sits, which is what a staggered dinner needs.
Ingredients & method - Thursday
Caldeirada de Peixe (Portuguese fish stew)
- 45 min
- 4 portions
- 49 g protein / portion
A fish stew, not a fried fillet, so it is still good an hour after it comes off the heat.
Ingredients & method - Friday
Roast chicken legs
- 60 min
- 4 portions
- 52 g protein / portion
Roasted chicken pieces keep warm in a low oven and reheat cleanly for whoever is running late.
Ingredients & method - Saturday
Black bean chilli
- 35 min
- 4 portions
- 24 g protein / portion
A chilli is a stew by another name. A meatless night that holds just as well as the meat ones this week.
Ingredients & method - Sunday
Oven-roast chicken with potatoes
- 80 min
- 4 portions
- 45 g protein / portion
A Sunday roast, easy to keep warm for whoever is last to the table.
Ingredients & method
Cook times, portions and protein come from each recipe as written, and update with it. They are the author's figures, not lab measurements. A leftover night shows the reheat, not the original cook.
Photographs are AI illustrations of the dishes.
The idea
Not every dish survives being reheated an hour or two after it is cooked. A grilled fillet dries out. A stew, soup, curry or roast generally does not, because they start with liquid and gentle heat.
This week only uses those four kinds of dish on purpose. Nothing grilled, pan-fried or sandwich-style made the cut. Claiming those reheat well would not be true.
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Limits
Holds well only applies to stews, soups, curries, chilli and oven roasts. Nothing grilled or pan-fried on this site is described that way.
That does not mean a dish can sit out for hours. It means it is still good when you reheat it properly, on the stove or in the oven.
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