Easy Meal Ideas
For Everyday Cooking

COOKING MY FIRST EASY MEAL
I still remember the first easy meal I cooked at the age of thirteen. It was an easy pasta meal that my aunt showed me how to make. It took us less than 30 minutes to prepare and cook this tasty, homemade easy meal of pasta shells with Italian spicy sausage and ground beef in pasta sauce.

Best of all, I had fun doing it and learned the basics of home cooking. This early kitchen "adventure" stirred in me an interest and passion to cook and I continued to learn cooking tips, techniques and family recipes from my mum and grandmas (both paternal and maternal), all of whom were very good cooks.

THE COOKING ADVENTURE CONTINUES

Some twenty five years on (now this is a dead give away of my age!), I still love and enjoy cooking and trying out new recipes, especially easy to cook recipes. By "easy to cook", I mean simple recipes that make use of easy to find ingredients that can be cooked without fuss in your own home kitchen. 

Here's what we had for dinner recently. Sweet and sour fish. And it took me only 20 minutes to cook using a simple sweet and sour sauce recipe. Now that's what I mean by easy to cook recipes.

I just love my weekends! When the weekend comes, its time for something special. It's when we get to try something new and exciting and simply mouthwatering. So, we got out our tagine and cooked this really spicy boneless pork recipe called pork bafat.

 

KEEPING IT ALL TOGETHER WITH FAMILY DINNERS
As busy working parents ourselves, we know and understand how hectic your day can be. Keeping up with the bosses' demands at the workplace plus keeping track of the kids' activities and schoolwork makes you feel like you need eight pairs of hands (and legs!) to keep up.

Add to that the need to put dinner on the table for the family and you can understand why many busy parents prefer to just buy fast food or take outs and TV dinner boxes, rather than prepare a nutritious homecooked meal.

So, how do we take care of the job demands, the kids' activities and school, and still put good, healthy, homecooked meals on the table? In other words, how do we keep it all together?

Our secret to "keeping it all together" is to have dinner together as a family. We owe it to ourselves to have a healthy homecooked family dinner. Not take out food that's loaded with MSG and junk food that's full of cholesterol and oil.

EASY MEAL IDEAS FOR EVERYDAY COOKING
A nutritious homecooked meal does not have to take you the entire evening to prepare and cook. Using our easy meal ideas and meal planning tips, you could have good food on the table for your family in 30 minutes.

That's because our website will focus on easy main dish recipes and basic cooking tips. We won't provide a deluge of recipes on Easy-Meal-Ideas.com that will make you go giddy scrolling through all of them trying to decide which recipe to use.