Everyday Menus
Seasonal Cooking Recipes
Appliances For The Busy Cook
Back to School Recipes Hints Tips
Beginning Cooks Lessons - Information
Blogs - Favorite Recipe Food Blogs
Cook Once A Month And Freeze!
Chicken - Quick Recipes One Dish Recipes
Cookbook Reviews For The Busy Cook
Cooking Tips and Methods
Course By Course Recipes
Crockpot Recipes and Tips
Easy Entree Recipes - Main Dish Recipes
Easiest Recipes - Quick Few Ingredients
Entertaining For The Busy Cook
Five Ingredients Or Less Recipes
Food Safety, Storage, Handling
Freezer Recipes
Kitchen Reference
Leftovers, Planned or Not
Low Fat Quick and Easy Recipes
Magic With Mixes
Make Ahead Meal Recipes
Methods For Cooking Quick Meals
Microwave Information, Recommendations
One Dish Recipes and Meals
Pantry Supplies For Meals In Minutes
Pasta, Rice, and Grains
Product Reviews
Quick Recipe Collections
Step By Step Cooking Lessons
Stock Your Freezer For Everyday Cooking
Twenty Or Less ... Minutes, That Is
Web Cooking Lessons With Video Streaming
Discoveries, Assorted Newish
Everyday menus is just what it sounds like! Every single day, I'll post a new breakfast, lunch, or dinner menu that is quick, easy, and delicious. Join me and get inspiration every day of the year.
The calendar keeps turning, and holidays and special events happen regularly. Many of these days have traditional menus and recipes your family counts on. These links offer easy and fun recipes and ideas for every holiday during the year.
Take advantage of technology, and put these appliances to work for you. From the bread machine to the pressure cooker, you will probably fall in love with a gadget, and it will change your life! Well, not really, but it will get you out of the kitchen faster. And that's the point.
Back to school time is almost here. Learn about the best ways to safely store and tote those brown bag lunches, get recipes and ideas for make ahead breakfasts, and crockpot dinners that will be ready when you get home after a day of learning.
Beginning cooks need special help in the kitchen. Laying a strong foundation of kitchen knowledge is important. Learn how to read a recipe, how to use a crockpot, how to cook pasta, and find the easiest recipes. Follow these steps and you will become a confident and accomplished cook and baker.
A list of some of my favorite blogs musing about food, recipes, cooking, eating out, new products, and life in the kitchen in general.
Once a month cooking (OAMC) is a fabulous concept that allows you to buy foods in bulk (especially when they're on sale), spend one day cooking different 'plans' based on the meat you're using, then stocking your freezer. For the rest of the month, just pull out your carefully labeled packages and dinner will be ready in minutes.
Everybody loves chicken. It's delicious, easy to cook, inexpensive, and readily available. Choose from these great collections of quick chicken recipes and you won't serve the same meal twice in months! You'll find crockpot recipes, oven and skillet meals, and microwave recipes too.
Cookbook publishers put out hundreds of books every year. The trick is knowing which ones are useful, with excellent recipes that work, reliable cooking hints and tips, and relevant information. These books meet every criteria, and are your Guide's favorites.
There are many tips for cooking fast meals, and excellent easy methods available to the Busy Cook. Stir frying, slow cooking, oven meals, skillet meals, microwave cooking, pressure cooking, and grilling are all good methods, but what tips have experienced cooks gathered to make them even better?
When you think about courses, you likely think of a complicated, elegant meal served by a butler wearing a stiff uniform. Courses are simply parts of a meal. If you serve a salad, a main dish, and a vegetable, your meal consists of three courses. Learn about great recipes for each course in your next meal.
The crock pot, or slow cooker, is one of the essential appliances for the Busy Cook. There's nothing better than coming home after a hard day at work to a house filled with the aroma of a delicious dinner simmering away. These crockpot recipes are some of the best on the internet.
Once the entree is made, dinner is almost ready. Just add a salad and some bread to these easy and delicious entree recipes and enjoy a great meal with your family. Recipes for beef, chicken, pork and ham, seafood, and vegetarian entrees are included.
If you can read a book, drive a car, or type, you can make these recipes! All you have to do is put ingredients in a bowl, pan, baking dish, or pot, mix, and perhaps apply some heat. Then you are ready to serve some delicious foods.
Entertaining is always a challenge. What recipes are delicious, yet quick and easy? What type of party will you have? How many guests? These resources will help you have a wonderful time at your own party and make your guests happy too.
One of the best ways to get in and out of the kitchen quickly is to limit the number of ingredients in each recipe. Five ingredients seems to be the magic number! All of these sites specialize in recipes featuring fewer ingredients.
No matter how efficient you are in the kitchen, if you don't understand and apply the basics of food safety all your work will be for nothing. Learn how to properly buy, store, cook, and handle food, about leftovers, temperatures, and the importance of washing your hands!
This collection of freezer recipes covers all courses, from entrees to desserts. Learn which foods freeze best, those to avoid, and lots of hints and tips on packaging so your freezer meals stay fresh and delicious.
Links to handy conversion charts, equivalent measures, glossaries, substitutions, and other kitchen reference resources.
Do you have lots of food left over from a holiday or special celebration? Get ideas and great recipes from these sources. Or, cook on the weekend and eat all week with planned leftovers.
All of the recipes I offer on this site are healthy. But if you or a member of your family is on a very low fat diet, these recipes will come to your rescue. I firmly believe that you can eat a very healthy diet without spending extra time in the kitchen or money in the grocery store. Try these recipes, and you may convert to them even though you don't need to, because they are so delicious!
Mixes are a staple in anyone's pantry, but for the Busy Cook, they are a lifesaver. Learn how to make your own mixes, what to add to make mixes taste even better, lots of recipes using mixes, and tips and tricks for any mix recipe.
Planning and making meals ahead of time gives you a wonderful feeling of security! Having dinners ready and waiting in the refrigerator or freezer is like having money in the bank. These great ideas, recipes and tips will keep you way ahead of the game.
There are many methods available to the Busy Cook. Learn more about stir frying, slow cooking, baking, skillet meals, pressure cooking, microwave cooking and baking, grilling, and other great methods and tools.
The microwave was going to revolutionize the kitchen and cooking techniques. But how many of you use it to melt butter or reheat coffee? Learn how to make the most of this wonderful appliance.
One of the best ways to get dinner on the table in a hurry is to make a one dish meal - like one of Minnesota's famous hot dishes. These recipes combine grains or legumes, vegetables or fruit, and perhaps some meat all in one, so with just a glass of milk you have dinner.
A well-stocked pantry is not only comforting, but it can make your life much easier. Just think of coming home, checking your pantry list, pulling out a few wonderful items, and having dinner on the table in minutes. It will happen when you learn from these great sources.
According to the FDA's Food Pyramid, we should all be basing our diet on pasta, rice and grains. That's an easy task for most people, because these foods cook quickly and everybody loves them. Learn some wonderful recipes for using these products in the quickest, easiest ways.
When you want to cook quick and easy recipes, having the right tools, cookbooks, and ingredients are an important part of the task. These product reviews will help you decide which ones you need, which are the best, and those that are the best value for your money.
These are some of the best collections of quick and easy recipes from sites all over the Web, for entrees, side dishes, desserts, appetizers, salads, and more.
Cooking lessons are everywhere on the internet. This collection of step by step instructions, some with wonderful photos, will take you by the hand (not literally!) and teach you how to cook just about anything.
The freezer is a very important piece of the Busy Cook equation. When it's organized, with everything neatly labeled and a running list of contents, you can literally shave hours off your cooking times during the week. Learn how to make the best use of this underused appliance by visiting these resources.
Even if a recipe has only a few ingredients, it can still take a fairly long time to cook. This collection of recipes will be finished and ready to eat in twenty minutes or less. Choose from one dish meals, salads, meats, appetizers, desserts, and more.
There’s no way to learn like actually seeing a task performed. Cooking shows are so popular because, unlike a cookbook, seeing is believing. And now the internet is in on the fun. These on-line cooking videos use a technique called ‘video streaming’. They literally take you by the hand and show you, step by step, how to cook.
These new products, gadgets, utensils and foods are those I found to be simply wonderful. These products will either save you a ton of time in the kitchen, or they are so innovative and delicious that you have to try them, at least once.