Well I love to prepare food, most of the time. Like majority of the women today I’m quite occupied. But I really do love to get into the galley and create mouth-watering feast for my friends and family. I take great delight in being the talk of the town “If you get invited to Alice’s House for dinner, don’t say no, she is an awesome cook”. That is one of the many remarks that have been spread about my cooking prowess. It makes me very happy. I’ve some much-loved cook books and I like to mess with all the recipes . I often revisit the book I got a recipe from years later and realize that what I am making is fairly different than the original recipe. I believe it is the mark of a good cook when you can change a recipe to make it work better or make something up on the fly.

To be honest we are all very busy and often we must have something fast and simple to cook. Well there’s no way I would get away with baked beans on toast for dinner in this house, butI do possess a few tricks up my sleeve for when I’m simply to tired do not have time or couldn’t be bothered.

Dialing to get a Pizza is out of the question, unless of course it is a code red disaster (which happens sometimes). And so i am left with, what will i do that is very quick? Nowadays we have been spoilt for choice with many of the packet mixes and jars which are around, and thus some of them are really good (some are not). I have to say that a not too long ago discovered favourite of mine is the Continental apricot chicken curry. Now usually I would have to add some of my own twist to a packet mix, but this one delivers purely using the directions. A very long time favourite is 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 need to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth a try. Now truly, none of this is just like cooking from scratch, however it works whenever you are pushed for time and will mean that you may get something way superior to a frozen TV dinner on the table.