Easy Fast Dinner Recipes

In the golden days of TV moms who stayed home all day vacuuming the house while wearing pearls, cooking special meals, and doling out wise advice to the kids when dad wasn’t around, meals could take all day and could involve intricate steps. That wasn’t just on TV, it was a reflection of real life. But the 21st century world is one of amazing technology and lives that are much more fast paced. Mothers, and fathers who now take on a large part of the cooking chore, look for easy fast dinner recipes that can get the same TV mom results with a lot less real person effort. The Pilgrims didn’t have a good source for such simplicity in food, but they didn’t have the Internet either.  Many web sites deliver a lot of information about good food.

A steak can be a whole week of meals.  Change the sides for different meal experiences.  Take a trip around the world with rotating spices.  A very big flank steak is the base.  For Monday add roasted potatoes and a tossed salad.  On Tuesday add some spices and a little salsa for a taste from south of the border – make it steak Fajitas.  On Wednesday make it Asian with some Teriyaki sauce, rice and vegetables.  Thursday go back to the steak and salad, this time with mashed potatoes and asparagus on the side.  Friday is the day for some pita bread and Greek spices.  That’s right, Gyros.  A whole work day week of meals based on one main meat.

Want more easy fast dinner recipe ideas for that steak? OK, get the plates and forks ready. Try southwestern steak, corn, and black bean wraps; enjoy steak, sun-dried tomato, and mozzarella couscous salad; give mixed bean salad with flank steak a whirl; how about lentil and orzo salad with flank steak and feta cheese; and finally we have steak salad wraps with horseradish sauce. Now add another meat, and the variety is even more endless. Chicken can be fried, broiled with potatoes, cut into strips and added to salad, or cooked into a soup with noodles or dumplings. Talk about meals.

With a little clever planning all the meals for the week can be cooked on the weekend, then heated and served in minutes. Make out the menu for the whole month, buy bulk foods and make sure to use coupons to add extreme savings to the mix. In fact, these menus and meals can also be a great learning experience for young people. Put them in charge for a week. Let the whole family take turns.

Easy fast dinner recipes are just that, both fast and easy.