Cooking in your own home

Well I really like to cook at home, most of the time. Like nearly all women these days I’m really active. Nevertheless I really do love to get into the galley and turn out tasty feast for my family. 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 a wonderful cook”. That is one of the many comments that have been passed about my cooking prowess. It makes me very happy. I’ve some favourite cook books and I love to fiddle with all the recipes . I often revisit the book I got a recipe from years later and discover that what I’m making is quite diverse compared to original recipe. I believe that it is the mark of a excellent cook if you can change a recipe to make it work better or make something up on the fly.

The thing is we are all very busy and at times we simply need to have something quick and easy to cook. Well there is certainly no way I would get away with baked beans on toast for dinner in this house, butI do have a few tricks up my sleeve for when I am simply to tired don’t have time or couldn’t be bothered.

Dialing for a Pizza is out of the question, unless of course it is a code red catastrophe (which happens at times). And so i am left with, what will i do that is very quick? These days we are spoilt for choice with a few of the packet mixes and jars that are around, and so many of them are really good (some aren’t). I have to say that a recently discovered favourite of mine is the Continental apricot chicken curry. Now usually I would have to add some of my own , personal twist to a packet mix, but that one delivers purely by following the guidelines. A long time favourite is the quick cook meatballs from Woolworths with a jar of my very favourite Paul Newman’s own pasta sauce along with a can of diced tomatoes. If I want a curry in a rush I truly have to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth a try. Now truly, none of this is as good as cooking from scratch, nonetheless it works when you are constrained for time and means that you can get something way better than a frozen TV dinner on the table.