Well I love to cook at home, more often than not. Like most women today I am really busy. However I do love to get into the galley and make mouth watering feast for my 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’s a wonderful cook”. That is among the many remarks which have been spread about my cooking prowess. It makes me very very pleased. I’ve some much-loved cook books and I like to fiddle with all the recipes . I often revisit the book I got a recipe from years later and see what I’m creating is quite different as opposed to original recipe. I believe 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 sometimes we must have something fast and simple to cook. Well there is certainly 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.

Phoning to get a Pizza is out of the question, except if it’s a code red disaster (which happens occasionally). And so i am left with, what can i do that is very quick? Today we are spoilt for choice with some of the packet mixes and jars which are around, and thus many of them work great (some aren’t). I have to say that a lately 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 instructions. A very long time favourite may be 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 do have to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth trying. Now truly, none of this is just like cooking yourself, nonetheless it works if you are hard pressed for time and means that you can get something way better than a frozen TV dinner on the table.