Cooking at home

Well I love to cook at home, generally. Like nearly all women nowadays We are quite occupied. Nevertheless I truly do love to get into the kitchen and make tasty feast for my family and friends. I take great delight in being the talk of the town “If you get invited to Alice’s Place for dinner, don’t say no, she is an awesome cook”. That is one of the many comments which have been spread about my cooking prowess. It makes me very happy. I’ve some favorite cook books and I enjoy to fiddle with the recipes . I often return to the book I obtained a recipe from years later and discover that what I am making is very diverse versus the original recipe. I think it is the mark of a good cook when you can change a recipe to make it work better or make something up on the fly.

To be honest we are all very busy and sometimes we must have something simple and fast to cook. Well there’s no way I would get away with baked beans on toast for dinner in this house, butI do possess a few tricks up my sleeve for when I’m simply to tired do not have time or couldn’t be bothered.

Dialing for a Pizza is out of the question, except if it is a code red disaster (which happens sometimes). So I am left with, what will i do that is really quick? Today we are spoilt for choice with a few of the packet mixes and jars which are around, and thus some of them are really good (some aren’t). I have to say that a lately discovered favourite of mine is the Continental apricot chicken curry. Now usually I would have to add some of my own twist to a packet mix, but this one delivers purely by following the directions. A very long time favourite may be the quick cook meatballs from Woolworths using a jar of my very favourite Paul Newman’s own pasta sauce and a can of diced tomatoes. If I want a curry in a hurry I truly do have to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth trying. Now actually, none of this is just like cooking from scratch, nonetheless it works when you are hard pressed for time and will mean you can get something way better than a frozen TV dinner on the table.