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Easy Cooking Recipes Are Not A Cop Out, They Are A LifeStyle
Easy cooking recipes are basically the only way to go. Why would anyone want to spend hours of time and sweat equity in the kitchen to come up with the same dish and no better than what an easy cooking recipe would deliver. Now mind you, easy cooking recipes are not the equivalent of sub standard recipes. Or recipes that don’t measure up or don’t taste good.
No way! Easy cooking recipes are just that, easy. A lot of how the recipe turns out is the cook. If you are able to follow directions and you love cooking and you have some flare and enjoy ingredients, then they will turn out fantastic. That is exactly what this website is all about.
I love cooking. I love baking, I love experimenting with ingredients and coming up with my own slant on things while in the kitchen. But I really love easy cooking recipes because I have little time.
Like most of you dear readers, I am short on time. I have many demands on my day but the fact is I love to eat and so does my husband. And a fast trip to the fast food joint is not going to cut it at our house. So after playing with the recipes and food ingredients I have mastered being able to manage my time and be able to cook enjoyable dishes.
So if you also enjoy being in the kitchen but don’t have all the time you would like, you might benefit from my efforts. I have some of my own recipes I hope to share with you, and I have been looking around the web finding great ideas and putting my own spin on them. I’ll share those too.
Easy cooking recipes are not a cop out. They are a life style. I hope you will enjoy them.
Chunky Tomato Soup Recipe
My Friend Correen has managed to make a wonderful Chunky tomato Soup recipe. It is extra fun because she took a well known and well loved soup recipe from a restaurant and successfully downsized the recipe to a more manageable home portions. And it is delicious!! Tomato Soup is my Favorite Soup and having such a delicious easy cooking recipe right on hand is the best!
Homemade Chunky tomato Soup
Here is what she had to say:
While vacationing in Sunriver, Oregon my mom had lunch at The Village Bar and Grill with her friends. The tomato soup that mom had with her sandwich was so delicious that she asked the waitress for the recipe. Evidently the restaurant had this request a number of times because they had the recipe printed out and ready to hand out to customers. Mom was surprised by the simple ingredients in this soup, she thought for sure it was going to be more involved. Knowing that I love tomato soup, my mom has passed on the recipe to me
Get the rest of this article and chunky tomato soup recipe here.
Black Eyed Peas – What’s Not To Love
I have loved black eyed peas since I was young. My mother made them all the time. Sometimes with cut onion slices and cornbread like she used to serve red beans also known as Pinto beans.
And is there any more healthy food on the planet? These days they bother you about fiber so much it almost seems you just can’t get enough. Well beans are going to solve that problem for you. Excellent source of fiber.
But really back to the taste, I am very happy with black eyed peas in particular. I found a great recipe for Hoppin’ John, which as you will see is just some fancied up black eyed peas. Have a look and of course this is an easy cooking recipe as well.
Hoppin' John
This was the year I fell in love with black eyed peas. (The food. Already loved the band.) They have a wonderful flavor, almost smoky, even without bacon or ham. Earlier this last summer we put them in a salad with feta and spinach. So so good.
The dish that black eyed peas are most famous for is Hoppin’ John. No idea where the name came from. And depending on where you are from you might not even call it that, but simply black eyed peas and rice. Hoppin’ John is one of those classic Southern dishes that come with as many versions, stories and flavors as there are cooks. At its core, however, Hoppin’ John is rice, black-eyed peas (or field peas), smoked pork, and onions. Black eyed peas are supposed to bring you luck if you eat them on New Year’s Day, and it is traditionally eaten with collard greens.
So, for this new year, I offer you a hot plate of Hoppin’ John. May we all enjoy its good luck. Happy New Year!
My Mother’s Best Pancake Recipe
There is no way you can not love pancakes. I have eaten pancakes since I was a toddler. I mean every kind of pancake you can think of. Peanut butter and banana pancakes, peanut butter and jelly pancakes. sweet pancakes, bread pancakes. It really doesn’t matter, they are all so good.
My Mom made really delicious pancakes. I remember them in my school years. Yes, I had the type of Mom that would make breakfast for us everyday before the school bus arrived. We loved it.
Anyway I have written an article about it and it includes the most fabulous recipe and easy cooking recipe around. Just read it and follow the steps. No problem.
Here is an excerpt:
Mom Made the best pancakes for Us Back in the 50′s and 60′s, when Food was Real.
You know how they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Well turns out they were right. But why? You may ask.
Well I’ll tell you. You just have to know how to make it. I am going to share with you the very best pancake recipe ever. No matter where you come from or how many pancakes you’ve eaten. This recipe is from my mother, from back in the 1950′s. You can not beat it. So just take notes and give this a try.
You’ll need three large eggs, separated into whites and yolks.
You’ll need either butt… From: The Best Pancakes Breakfast Recipe My Mother Ever Made I Mean It
A Great Cookie Dough Recipe Can Just Make You Smile
I ask you…Who of us doesn’t love cookies? I find them to be comforting and entertaining. A great snack for company or card playing, and almost always an easy cooking recipe. And a great cookie dough recipe is the best kind of cookie out there. Something fun in the kitchen to grab when you need a snack. They can be healthy or crazy, I just love cookies. And you don’t have to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I have tons of ideas for cookies, in fact I am eating a cookie as I type this. My mom used to just walk into the kitchen a make up a batch of cookies. Right out of her head, no recipe! She was just that gifted in the kitchen. I still need a recipe for baking. But then I usually put my own spin on it. I love to doctor up whatever recipe I am working with and make it more of a “Susan recipe”. I love cooking and I love cookies.
A friend of mine, Beverly Mucha, who is the Winona Cooking examiner over at Examiner.com, is always sharing remarkable and always free recipes with us all. And this week she has a really great one it also fits into the category of easy cooking recipes and it is a cookie recipe! They are called Thumbprint Cookies and they are made from scratch, and talk about a great cookie dough recipe, this is it. And they are the old fashioned kind that has the chocolate kiss in the center. Can you beat that? I hope you’ll enjoy this recipe as much as I do. And let Beverly know you visited.
Bread Machine Baking is a Modern Day Miracle
Back in the day I would make home baked bread from scratch, never even dreaming of bread machine baking. I mean I would do the whole kit and caboodle. I would put it all together, knead it, set it to rise, being careful not to let it be in a draft and making sure it was warm enough. I would then “punch” it down, then let it rise again, and on a really good day I would let it rise a third time. Then I would bake that bread and have the whole neighborhood in the jealous ecstasy because of that wonderful aroma.
And then…
The 21st century happened. That’s got to be it, what other reason is there that I have stopped making that fabulous bread? Oh I and my family didn’t stop loving home baked bread, oh no! In fact, I get complaints about not baking bread often enough.
But who’s got time? I work, I have a home and husband, I have a life that is so busy I can’t find enough hours in any given day. Who’s got time to bake? I ask you!
Well… I do.
Seriously, I love making fresh baked bread, having the house filled with the aroma and pleasing my family. I love it. But how do I do it? I got a bread making machine.
It’s the best invention of any century.
Now bread machine baking has a few tricks to keep in mind. But it is simple and easy cooking. There are basically only a few ways to mess up a bread machine recipe. Having yeast that isn’t fresh will definitely ruin your baking attempt. Your yeast should be within the expiration date. Be sure to measure and be precise with your ingredients especially the flour, too much and you won’t get nice bread. Just gather your ingredients and measure carefully, you’ll have fabulous fresh bread before you know it.
Bread machines can make several types of bread, quick bread that cooks in 2-4 hours, regular bread in 31/2 – 4 hours and even fruit breads or cheese bread. It is all just a matter of timing and when to add the ingredients which all will be told to you in each recipe.
One more really great thing about bread machine baking is the timing of it all. Bread machines have timers and you can set them for basically any number of hours. For instance, how about waking up to fresh baked bread and smells throughout the whole house upon rising. And what if you have to work today but would love some fresh baked bread for dinner just put your bread on in the morning and time it to be ready for dinner. Fresh, wonderful, delicious bread.
Here is a whole list of bread machine baking recipes. Try one or all of them. Just follow your particular bread machines instructions for the order the ingredients are to be added.
