Well I love to cook, usually. Like nearly all women these days I am extremely busy. Nevertheless I really do love to get into the galley and create mouth watering feast for my family. I take great delight in being the talk of the town “If you get invited to Alice’s Place for dinner, don’t say no, she’s an awesome cook”. That is one of the many remarks which have been spread about my cooking prowess. It makes me very happy. I’ve some most-liked cook books and I like to mess with all the recipes . I often revisit the book I got a recipe from years later and see what I am producing is very diverse versus the original recipe. I believe that it is the mark of a excellent 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 from time to time we just need to have something quick and easy to cook. Well there is no way I’d 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 just to tired don’t have time or could not be bothered.

Calling for a Pizza is out of the question, except if it is a code red disaster (which happens sometimes). 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, therefore some of them are really good (some aren’t). I have to say that a not too long ago discovered favourite of mine is the Continental apricot chicken curry. Now usually I would need to add some of my own twist to a packet mix, but that one delivers purely by using the guidelines. A very long time favourite may be 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 really do have to make a little bit of a sacrifice on taste but Passage of India Curry Sauces are worth trying. Now really, none of this is just like cooking yourself, but it works if you are constrained for time and means that you can get something way much better than a frozen TV dinner on the table.