Well I love to cook, most of the time. Like nearly all women nowadays We are really active. Yet I truly do love to get into the galley and produce mouth watering feast for my friends and family. I take great take pleasure in being the talk of the town “If you get invited to Alice’s House for dinner, don’t say no, she is a wonderful cook”. That is among the many opinions which have been propagate about my cooking prowess. It makes me very very pleased. I’ve some much-loved cook books and I enjoy to mess with all the recipes . I often revisit the book I obtained a recipe from years later and realize that what I am creating is quite diverse compared to original recipe. I believe that it is the mark of a great 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 from time to time we simply need to have something quick and easy to cook. Well there is no way I would get away with baked beans on toast for dinner in this house, butI actually do have a few tricks up my sleeve for when I am simply to tired lack time or couldn’t be bothered.

Calling for a Pizza is unthinkable, except if it’s a code red disaster (which happens at times). So I am left with, what can i do that is very quick? Today we have been spoilt for choice with many of the packet mixes and jars which are around, and thus many of them work great (some are not). I have to say that a recently discovered favourite of mine is the Continental apricot chicken curry. Now usually I will have to add some of my own , personal twist to a packet mix, but this one delivers purely using the guidelines. A long time favourite is the quick cook meatballs from Woolworths using 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 need to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth trying. Now actually, none of this is as good as cooking from scratch, however it works if you are pushed for time and will mean that you can get something way a lot better than a frozen TV dinner on the table.