I’ve been tasked with cooking tonight (it’s a very rare occurrence so I feel like I should make a bit of an effort!) and I am totally lacking in inspiration.
So I figured I would ask the good people of SF and hopefully that might help me swing into chef mode.
Any suggestions please?
Tartiflette? Croziflette, if you prefer pasta to potatoes. Last one I did, I used raclette rather than reblochon.
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I can’t make any useful suggestions but you have my sympathy, I’ve lost total interest in cooking and would be happy to never have to do it again.
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If it’s for French guests try fish and chips.
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I am having a fresh prawn stir fry with those lovely Chinese noodles from Grand Frais that you boil first so they go soft and expand and with a couple of star anises thrown in for flavour. I buy a box of prawns every week from Lidl for €4,99 and they make at least three different meals.
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I agree, tartiflette with a green salad. Grand Frais have a simple recipe. You could do individual dishes of it if you want it to look smarter.
But what kind of cook are you? A straightforward reliable dish is fish (whatever you can get, fillet or a cod back) on a bed of sweated Mediterranean veg (fennel, onion, pepper etc with herbs and olives) and popped into over for 15-25 minutes until fish is cooked. With a knob of butter on top.
Or if you’re confident then something like a smoked haddock soufflé always looks impressive, or a gougère. .
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A reluctant one…
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Chicken breasts fried in butter, topped with grated gruyère and a rashers of bacon, grilled until crispy, served with new potatoes and butter+parsley, or pasta of choice and red pesto. Add diced red pepper for some colour and crunch.
I have a lot of other recipes, but all these things will probably be available in the local hypermarches.
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sounds yummy…. I’m on my way…. 
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Another, meaty possibility: carbonnade flamande. I’ve just done this and it’s cooking in the pressure cooker (an Instant Pot): Carbonades flamandes traditionnelles : Recette de Carbonades flamandes traditionnelles
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How about Chilli? Just right for the shitty weather were having in Normandy right now. Have it with rice, or even better IMHO with baked potatoes .
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Sorry @cat - can only offer my sympathy! I rarely cook either but keep trying to get back to it. It’s not going all that well… 
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Back up from the lab for a coffee break.
Thinly sliced pork steaks marinated with plain yoghurt, lemon juice, garlic, oregano and pepper. Remove the pork from the marinade and fry hard enough to brown a little, reduce the heat and stir in the yoghurt+ a little milk to keep it saucy (don’t boil or it may curdle the yoghurt). Serve with rice or couscous and salad to remind you of Mediterranean days.
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Unless dining partner is French, then either too hot for X or too bland for Cat 
We’re having a curry. Come on over, there’ll be plenty.
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The good thing about chilli is you can make it as mild or as hot as you like, or somewhere in between.
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Actually Monsieur has a very un French palate and likes a bit of heat!
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Ooh la la la la ! 
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Where do you live - I hope it’s near to me (79) 