If you're just learning or very busy, easy cooking is the way to go.

Easy cooking definitely comes in handy when time is limited but you want to feed your family healthy food.  What I consider easy cooking to be is being able to prepare not just good meals great meals in 30 minutes or less.  How about you? Now the first step to easy cooking is having the right staples in your cabinets.  What I mean is making sure you have items like:  flour, oils, canned beans, pastas, possibly wine, and various spices.  In your fridge you should try to keep milk, butter, and lemons handy as well.  Those are my staples to easy cooking though yours may vary on what you like to make in a crunch.  It may seem like a lot but you can keep small quantities, like getting the 3 cup containers of dry white wine if you don’t drink much wine.  But your kitchen needs to be stocked somewhat if you want to be successful with easy cooking.     You see, for cooking to be truly easy you have to be able to get into the kitchen with an idea of what you want to prepare and just be able to pull out what you need in a snap.  Another step to easy cooking it to measure all your ingredients ahead of time.  If you don’t you will likely burn something like I did. Time to pick on myself this time.  One day I was really tired and didn’t feel like cooking at all so I decided to make something quick and easy.  I like to make up as I go so this night was going to be sautéed pork chops smothered in a white sauce with fresh garlic green beans.  I got to cooking and what started out as easy began to get a little difficult because in my effort to be creative in a quick minute I decided I wanted red onions in my sauce just as I threw my garlic in the hot oil.  I asked my husband to quickly grab the onion for me as I threw in some flour, which should have been done with the onions in it.     Needless to say I burned the garlic as soon as the flour hit the pan and my daughter said, “Did you burn the garlic mommy?”  I laugh now but it wasn’t so funny then.  I tossed my failure in the garbage, set the pan aside, chopped my onion, minced some more garlic, and did it all over again the right way.  I really knew better.  So I hope that my experience will help you to create something scrumptious yet easy to cook, tonight.