Easy Dinner Recipes
By Eddie M
Not many people have time for the type of food Julia Child used to show off on her PBS cooking show. The world has changed. Food television has changed along with it, featuring easy recipes instead of the fancy French cooking Julia made famous. These simple recipes don't have to be bland. In fact, some of the French recipes are so rich that people couldn't even eat them every day. There is more than television as a source for these cooking ideas. The Internet is full of food. That doesn't mean just the cooking show web sites, although they have a lot of terrific information. 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. Simple food doesn't have to be boring food. Easy meals aren't bad meals. Sure hot dogs are easy to make. They're good, but it's a little common or generic. Then try some corn dogs. Kids love them, and they're not hard to prepare. Some corn meal, flour, milk, salt and sugar, coat the dog, fry it. You can even find a stick to make it just like the corn dogs at the amusement park. But corn dogs aren't very healthy. Simple foods don't have to be unhealthy foods. Broil a chicken breast, remove the skin, cut it into strips or chunks, toss it into a salad. That was easy. It's also healthy and delicious. Try it with chicken soup. In fact a lot of soups are very healthy, and salads can be made from almost any ingredients. Use leftover ham, diced, some hard boiled eggs, and a pre-mixed salad from the store as a supper. Here's a little history lesson. Back in colonial times supper and were two meals. Supper was a lighter late afternoon pick up, needed by people who worked hard at physical labor. Dinner was the heavier meal at the end of the long, hard day. As the years went

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by the realities of living and personal taste changed supper and for some people, even combining them into one meal. But physical laborers continued the supper, plan into the 1970's, and many people still follow that formula in the 21st century. You don't have to have a separate supper and dinner. But you can try lighter, traditional supper style meals at time (or does your family call it supper?) Either way, with some easy recipes found online, it can be called delicious.