Easy Dinner Recipes
People don’t have the time to prepare the food Julia Child used to show on her cooking program. The world has changed. Now instead of the fancy French cooking of Julia’s day, food TV features easy dinner recipes. That doesn’t mean bland. In fact, some of the French recipes are so rich that people couldn’t even eat them every day.
Dinner cooking ideas can be found in other places too. There’s a lot of food online. Cooking show web sites are great, but there’s a lot more. There are sites dedicated to simple meals, sites specializing in cheap meals, sites about quick meals, and sites about healthy meals. Every type of meal and food are covered not only by one web site, but by thousands. Someone who decided to read every food related web site online would never finish in a lifetime.
Easy isn’t bland. Easy meals aren’t bad meals. Sure hot dogs are easy to make. They’re good, but it’s a little common or generic. Eat a corn dog instead. Kids love them, and they’re not hard to prepare. Some corn meal, flour, milk, salt and sugar, coat the dog, fry it. Add a popsicle stick to make the experience more like a corn dog at a state fair.
But corn dogs aren’t very healthy. Easy doesn’t mean not healthy. Broil a chicken breast, remove the skin, cut it into strips or chunks, toss it into a salad. Yet another easy meal. It’s also delicious and good for you. Add a chicken soup appetizer. Salads can be made from almost anything. Some diced ham, hard boiled eggs and lettuce makes a great dinner salad.
Don’t run away, but here’s a history lesson. Back with the Pilgrims there were separate meals called dinner and supper. Physical work required a late afternoon meal, called dinner. A larger meal at the end of the work day was supper. As the years went by the realities of living and personal taste changed supper and dinner for some people, even combining them into one meal. Physical laborers commonly maintained the tradition of separate supper and dinner into the 1970’s, and some people still do it today.
You don’t have to have a separate supper and dinner. However, it might be a good idea to try the traditional lighter dinner meal at supper time, or can we call it sipper? Who cares? Easy dinner recipes can make it fantastic.
