Easy Recipes, Fast Recipes! Basic Cooking & Meal Planning Tips for Busy People

Whether you love cooking, hate cooking or are ready to learn how, this website is here to provide ideas, information, and above all — FREE RECIPES for you to increase your cooking repertoire and learn more about nutrition. Hopefully you will save some time and aggravation as well with our 30-Minute-Meal section.
The aim of this… [Continue Reading]

Cleanup Tip: Cold Water Unsticks Starches From Sticky Pots

Have you ever tried to wash a pot that has rice, noodles, custard, or some other starchy food in it with hot water, and noticed that you just get a gloopier, stickier, more disgusting mess?
Looking for an easy way to wash sticky pots?
Guess what – if you just fill that pot up with some COLD… [Continue Reading]

EASY Dumplings Recipe

Dumplings (for Stew or Soup)
1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 egg
1/2 cup of milk
Mix dry ingredients together.
Beat the egg in a separate bowl and add the milk.
Stir into dry ingredients.
Drop the dumpling dough by tablespoonful onto your gently boiling thickened stew.
Cook, covered 15 minutes, turning dumplings every… [Continue Reading]

FAST Recipes – Dinner in 30 Minutes

FAST Meal Planning 101
If you don’t already have a bunch of super-fast recipes in your cooking repertoire, it’s time to get some!
Young families with children who swear they are starving to DEATH can be pretty aggravating as you scramble to boil or fry as fast as you can! Let’s face it, we can’t live on… [Continue Reading]

MEAL PLANNING TIP # 1:

UMMMMM… HAVE A PLAN!
Redundant and obvious, and even ridiculous as it may seem, that is where you start — just THINKING about the chore ahead of time and writing it down, is the key to avoiding the work-week-dinner-scrum. Minutes — which seem like hours when you are exhausted from work and the kids are whining – can be shaved off the… [Continue Reading]

MEAL PLANNING TIP # 2:

PREP WORK
On the weekend, when things are less frantic, is a perfect time to do some prep. work. As mundane as it may sound, pre-chopping some frequently-used foods will save you a lot of agony during the week after a hard day of work.
Just try this!
THIS weekend, DEDICATE some space in your refrigerator to a few… [Continue Reading]

FAST Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe – A Classic

Here’s a quick Spaghetti Bolognese recipe  – an old standby – that no one can resist!
Although it’s not much to look at (we were a little horrified to see it up-close-and-personal on the home page!), it’s a delicious & satisfying meal, best enjoyed with any kind of side salad, a glass of red wine, perhaps, … [Continue Reading]