if you can cook, come in!

lmkelker1

I am a SAHM with some lousy cooking skills. I can bake sweets all day long because my mom taught me that, but she didn't involve me in the family nightly dinners!  I need help! What is your go to meal?  What do you have that's not from a box, but is easy to make?? Right now our dinners consist of shake and bake chicken, steak and potatoes, and pasta (like pesto sauce and chicken tossed with pasta, or spaghetti). It's getting really old and I want to make yummy dinners!

TIA

SimoneSays22

Oh my! Well first of all, do you have cable? Can you watch the Food Network? I'm telling you that I learned so much from watching cooking shows on that channel.

I would visit the "What's Cooking" board on The Nest. A lot of those ladies have food blogs with great, easy recipes. I get emails from Kraft and Betty Crocker with easy recipe ideas. You can sign up for these on their websites.

I really like https://www.skinnytaste.com/ 

Some recipes are more complex than others, but they are healthy. My DH loves the chicken parmesan from that site and it's super easy! 

I also like https://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/

Her recipes are fairly easy and she has pictures for each step so you can make sure you are doing the recipe right.

Good luck! 

SarahWaggy

My go to meal is Oven Baked BBQ chicken with fresh mashed potatoes, gravy, fresh biscuits, and a salad.

If you have a hard time, there are a lot of websites that can help you fid quick easy meals. Allrecipes & Epicurious are two of my favourites. 

detokiet

Meatloaf is easy. 

1 lb ground beef

1 egg

breadcrumbs

salt & pepper, or any other seasonings you like, such as garlic powder, etc

Parmesan cheese

Mix it all together and bake at 350 for roughly half an hour. (Cut into the middle and check if it's pink or not. If it's pink, bake it a little longer.) 

Sorry there's no measurements on the breadcrumbs or the parmesan. I always eye everything.

You could also toss a beef or pork roast in the crock pot with potatoes, carrots, onion and celery. Use water (or broth) and onion soup mix to season. Let it cook all day. By the time your H gets home from work, the meat should fall apart, the potatoes, carrots and onion should be cooked all the way through and everything will melt in your mouth. 

Also, check out skinnytaste.com. You can find some awesome recipes there. Just follow the recipes to a tee until you're comfortable with them, and that should help. 

JenChrisBabyH

DH is a great cook- but now that I'm a SAHM, I've taken up the spatula!

I'm not good and just 'throwing something together'- and we're really looking at making healthy meals, so I do a weekly menu and get most of my dinners from a great site: fatsecret.com-- they have GREAT recipies and it includes all the nutritional info.

I've made some great ones- dinners that have even impressed DH and he's a TOUGH customer!

GL!

MrsFv20

I have some easy recipes in my blog - they are all husband-approved, lol. It's basically a collection of H's favorites.

GenevaV

I also have a cooking blog with quick and yummy recipes. I hope you can find something your family loves!

www.gslittlekitchen.blogspot.com

lmkelker1

futureteacher:

I'm a little late to answer, but I second the pioneer woman. What I like about her website is that she has step by step pictures so you can see what it's going to look like. That makes me feel a bit better about trying new recipes. I made her steak with burgundy mushroom sauce. It was delish!

I try to make a variety of meals, but sometimes it doesn't always work. Slow cookers can be your best friend. An easy slow cooker meal is pot roast, You can buy the seasoning packets add veg and in 8 hrs its done. Another slow cooker recipe is pot roast, 1 can of coke and 1 can of cream of chicken soup ( I know it sounds gross but it makes a really good gravy) 8 hrs on low serve over egg noodles with a side of vegetable easy.

I have a really easy chicken marsala recipe on my blog, and I was going to add a beef stew and lemon chicken recipe as well. Let me know if that helped. Good luck!

 

Love it. I am already all over the web looking at recipes... I think I can do this! I have a slow cooker and really want to use it a lot.. it seems so easy! Thanks everyone!

LuJackCity

SimoneSays22:

Oh my! Well first of all, do you have cable? Can you watch the Food Network? I'm telling you that I learned so much from watching cooking shows on that channel.

I would visit the "What's Cooking" board on The Nest. A lot of those ladies have food blogs with great, easy recipes. I get emails from Kraft and Betty Crocker with easy recipe ideas. You can sign up for these on their websites.

I really like https://www.skinnytaste.com/ 

Some recipes are more complex than others, but they are healthy. My DH loves the chicken parmesan from that site and it's super easy! 

I also like https://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/

Her recipes are fairly easy and she has pictures for each step so you can make sure you are doing the recipe right.

Good luck! 

The pioneer woman is my personal dinner savior. I own her cookbook and we like every single recipe I've gotten from her.

mooretiggr

fave cookbook- "Cook Yourself Thin"

take a look, it's simple, yummy, and healthy!

JDO

If you can bake, you can cook. It's as simple as following written directions.

When I first started cooking, I'd think of things I liked to eat at restaurants, and look up recipes to find out how to make them. As I got more familiar with the kitchen I started branching out more and trying new ingredients, then eventually cooking without a recipe.

 For looking up simple recipes, I'm a fan of allrecipes.com or cookinglight.com. For something more adventurous my go-to is epicurious.com. I also have a few blogs I like for new ideas, my favorites are smittenkitchen.com and I recently started following skinnytaste.com.