We are currently in the strange position of having our house extremely tidy and clean (because of sales process). In friday the photographer will come and the kitchen should look clean. No no hard frying of meat on the stove, which might cause burned in fat spots which DH just carefully cleaned away.
Last week I warmed up some meatballs (produced by the shop to keep cooking simple for once) in the oven. Together with some cooked chicory and potatoes.
On Monday I fried boneless chicken thighs in the oven and had some stir fried vegetables and cooked rice.
On Tuesday we ate out (pizza), because of an early trip to the theater.
We also have 2 shop-produced pizzas in the freezer. So until Friday, we will eat food that makes the cooking top easy to clean.
Meal plan for next week can be a little more advanced as FIL and his new GF are visiting and staying over for 5 days. I hope I can convince them to cook for us once, as we have to work on most of those days. After their visit, we will have a week to clean the house again, so that should be OK.
One of the dishes we will prepare on Sunday is a bouillabaisse style fish soup, with trout that DH caught in September. He caught quite a few, so one of the drawers in the freezer is full of them. This can easily be made in advance in large quantity and kept in the fridge/freezer for later use. Served with fresh bread and rouille.
For the working days more simple food:
We have a cabbage (cheap seasonal vegetable) that needs to be eaten, so I plan to make stir fried cabbage, with mashed potatoes and fried minced meat. All mixed together with curry powder and maybe some cream to make it smoother. I skip the unions from the original recipe, because my belly responds badly to them. There was some union on my pizza (in the restaurant) yesterday and even that small amount quite bothered me the rest of the evening.
One dish will probably be spagetti with mushrooms, zucchini, but no red peppers (because of FIL's belly), and some other vegetable that I need to think of to replace the pepper. With either tomato sauce or blue cheese sauce.
That are three meals. I hope they can buy and make one meal. Last time we visited FIL, I cooked most of the meals we ate, because he had other things to worry about. Now, that will be the case for us. I generally tend to ask guests to cook if they stay longer than just a few days.