Friday, December 5, 2008

Search For Your Easy Dinner Recipes Online

People don't have the time to prepare the food Julia Child used to show on her cooking program.  It's a different world.  Food television has changed along with it, featuring easy dinner recipes instead of the fancy French cooking Julia made famous.  Easy doesn't have to be bland.  In fact it can be quite exciting to eat these easy to prepare foods. 

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.  A person could spend an entire life learning all of it.

Easy isn't bland.  Easy meals aren't bad meals.  Hot dogs are simple, but maybe too mundane.  Eat a corn dog instead.  Lots of people enjoy them and they're not hard to prepare.  Dip a dog in flour, corn meal, milk, salt and sugar, then fry it.  Add a popsicle stick to make the experience more like a corn dog at a state fair. 

Corn dogs aren't healthy.  Just because food is easy doesn't mean it has to be junk.  Try a salad with some broiled chicken strips.  Yet another easy meal.  It's also good for you.  Try it with chicken soup.  Salads can be made from almost anything.  Some diced ham, hard boiled eggs and lettuce makes a great dinner salad. 

Here's a little history lesson.  Dinner and supper started out as separate meals in colonial times.  Hard physical labor meant they needed a light late afternoon meal called dinner.  A larger meal at the end of the work day was supper.  New lifestyles and types of work meant dinner and supper changed over the years until, for many, they merged.  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.  But try a lighter dinner type meal at supper time, or maybe we can call it dupper  Either way, with some easy dinner recipes found online, it can be called delicious.

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