Archive for March, 2010

Fun Family Activities For St Patrick’s Day

Make or buy sugar cookies, and decorate them for St. Patrick’s Day. Spread them with white frosting, and then use tubes of decorating gel and colored candies to add shamrocks, rainbows, and pots of gold. This is also a good opportunity to teach your kids the order of colors in a [...]

Budget Meal Planning – 7 Clever Ideas For Meal Planning in March

In our hectic lives there is very little time to be creative when it comes to cooking on a daily basis. When do you get the time to peruse all those glorious cook books and glossy magazines for new ideas? With a little clever meal planning, you can put a new meal [...]

Skillet Dinners Are Quick and Easy

For the busy cook, skillet meals or dinners can be a lifesaver. These meals are easy, quick, tasty, and combine several food groups into one pan. Clean-up is reduced which is also important to busy cooks. Here are some choices for easy skillet meals. Try the German Skillet Dinner which features [...]

Prepare Ahead to Make Quick Easy Meals at Night More Enjoyable

Meal times can be hectic if the family is busy rushing in all directions at the end of the day. Mum sometimes doesn’t know which way is up so I am going to give you some tips for quick easy meals so that you can be more prepared and also less stressed when you get [...]

Quick Meals for the Microwave or Toaster Oven

Too busy to cook? Good Housekeeping offers three quick dinner ideas you can make in the microwave or toaster oven.

Easy Weeknight Dinners: Salmon Pockets with Potatoes and Rocket Salad

Simple, quick, healthy and cheap recipes that take under 30 minutes from start to finish.
This is a modern european recipe for salmon baked with potatoes and thyme in a foil parcel.
Ingredients: Salmon fillets, baking potatoes, thyme, lemon, wild rocket, garlic, olive oil, vinegar (I used balsamic), and salt and pepper

Easy Recipe for Weeknight Dinner: Black Eyed Peas and Pasta

An easy, tasty weeknight dinner recipes that take under 30 minutes from start to finish. Simple, healthy and cheap food for people who want ideas for quick meals to cook on weeknights.
This is a pasta dish with a middle-eastern flavour.
Ingredients: pasta, onion, garlic, mixed spice and cinamon (either or both, can also [...]

How to Get a Healthy and Tasty Breakfast

Healthy cooking of meals and subsequently eating healthy are the main things which people can do to stay healthy. However, many people, owing to their fast paced life skip their very first meal – breakfast. Therefore, it is necessary for you to master the art of healthy cooking when preparing your family’s breakfast.
It is mandatory [...]

Quick & Easy Vegetarian 30 Minute Meal: Garlic Chili Vegetables

Cat McDonald demonstrates a quick and easy 30 minute vegetarian meal with fresh raw vegetables and garlic chili marinade. Do you want dinner ideas that taste great? Watch how easy a simple vegetarian meal can be with the right ingredients.

Quick & Easy: 5 Ingredient Lemon Pepper Salmon and Salmon Salad

Robin Miller demonstrates how to make a 5 ingredient Lemon Pepper Salmon, making extra to use for a second meal: Salmon Salad with Chickpeas over Mirin Rice.