Folks can't always cook the types of fancy meals Julia Child used to explain on her TV show. 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. The Internet is full of food. Cooking show web sites are great, but there's a lot more. Some web sites show healthy meals while others focus on vegetarian food. Every type of meal and food are covered not only by one web site, but by thousands. It would take a life time to read it all.
Simple food doesn't have to be boring food. Simple meals don’t bad taste. Hot dogs are simple, but maybe too mundane. Corn dogs are another story. Kids love them, and they're not hard to prepare. Dip a dog in flour, corn meal, milk, salt and sugar, and then fry it. Add a Popsicle stick to make the experience more like a corn dog at a state fair.
Corn dogs aren't exactly health food. Easy doesn't mean not healthy. Broil a chicken breast, remove the skin, cut it into strips or chunks, and toss it into a salad. Yet another easy meal. It's also delicious and good for you. Make it soup and salad with some chicken soup. Salads can be made from almost anything. Use leftover ham, diced, some hard boiled eggs, and a pre-mixed salad from the store as a supper.
Don't run away, but here's a history lesson. Dinner and supper started out as separate meals in colonial times. Dinner was a lighter late afternoon pick up, needed by people who worked hard at physical labor. A larger meal at the end of the work day was supper. Over time dinner and supper became the same meal. However supper and dinner are still separate for some people in 2008, especially for people who perform physical work.
It's not a must to have separate dinners and suppers. But you can try lighter, traditional dinner style meals at supper time or does your family call it dinner? Who cares? Easy dinner recipes can make it fantastic.
