Easy dinner recipes for a beginner?

I'm tired of eating the same thing over and over again. I'm also tired of eating fast food. My dad always comes around 9 o clock, so I usually resort to cooking noodles or my dad will bring home taco bell.





Can anyone give me some easy, tastey dinner recipes that one with little or no cooking experience could make for a family of three? If it takes less than an hour and a half that would be fantastic. Better yet, list a few great sites I could get recipes from.





Please and thank you!Easy dinner recipes for a beginner?
quickandeasy.allrecipes.com


www.easy-kids-recipes.com (yes, it says for kids, but don't knock it 'til you try it.)


www.dinnersinaflash.com


www.foodnetwork.com (may be for a more experienced cook, but I have found many great recipes that are very easy to make.)Easy dinner recipes for a beginner?
I asked the same question about 3 days ago. You have got to got to foodnetwork.com. there are thousands of easy dinner ideas. they are broken down into easy, understable directions. there is also a section for dinner ideas just for begginers (or people looking for somethiing new to try). TRY IT TRUST ME
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Ingredients


2 1/4 teaspoons salt, divided


1 3/4 teaspoons black pepper, divided


4 (4-ounce) cube steaks


38 saltine crackers (1 sleeve), crushed


1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided


1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper


1/2 teaspoon baking powder


4 3/4 cups milk, divided


2 large eggs


3 1/2 cups peanut oil


Garnish: chopped fresh parsley








Preparation


Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper evenly over steaks. Combine cracker crumbs, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, red pepper, and baking powder. Whisk together 3/4 cup milk and eggs. Dredge steaks in cracker mixture; dip in milk mixture, and dredge again in cracker mixture.


Pour oil into a 12-inch skillet; heat to 360掳. (Do not use a nonstick skillet.) Fry steaks 3 to 4 minutes. Turn and fry 2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown. Remove steaks to a wire rack in a jelly-roll pan. Keep steaks warm in a 225掳 oven. Carefully drain hot oil, reserving cooked bits and 1 tablespoon drippings in skillet.





Whisk together remaining 4 cups milk, 1/4 cup flour, remaining 1 teaspoon salt, and remaining 1 teaspoon black pepper. Add milk mixture to reserved drippings in skillet; cook, whisking constantly, over medium-high heat 10 to 12 minutes or until thickened. Serve gravy with steaks. Garnish, if desired.





Yield


Makes 4 servings





Southern Living, JANUARY 2006
Roast rack of lamb with saffron potatoes and caramalised shallots.





This sounds and looks impressive but is really, really easy.





1 rack of lamb (will give 2 cutlets per person)


potatoes


shallots (these are sweeter but onions will do as well)


butter


olive oil


sugar


cider vinegar


garlic puree





1. Season the lamb with salt and pepper and rub on some garlic puree. Cover the roasting dish with tinfoil and back in a pre-heated oven (220C) for 25 minutes.





2. Peel and chop the potatoes into smallish chunks and boil in some salted water (enough to cover the potatoes) with a good pinch of saffron. Boil for about 15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.





3. Peel and slice the shallot and fry gently in some butter. Add some sugar to sweeten and let them fry slowly until they start to change colour (about 5-6 minutes)





4. Add some cider vinegar to the shallots and let it evaporate until the shallots get nice and 'gooey'





5. Drain the potatoes and mash them, adding butter and cream/milk if you like.





6. Remove the lamb from the oven and slice into separate cutlets.





Put a pile of mash onto the middle of the plate and lie the cutlets on top of it. Spoon the shallots over the top.





It's nice to add some green vegetables as well, sugar snap peas or mange tout are nice but ordinary frozen peas taste yummy with it as well.





All done in 25 minutes, very easy and very tasty. Plus, it looks very posh.





Enjoy!!
Spaghetti is always a winner. Add browned meat or some kind of veggies to jarred tomato sauce. I always keep a couple of boxes of frozen chopped spinach in the freezer because it's easy to throw into sauces and soups. I also thaw it, squeeze it dry and throw it on top of pizzas. Mushrooms, chopped zucchini or summer squash are also good things to add.


Pillsbury's web site also has some easy recipes. foodnetwork.com, recipe Zaar and all recipes have good ones too - but I think only Foodnetwork's are tested (important for a beginning cook - you need to be sure the recipe will WORK).


Pizza crusts with jarred sauce and your favorite toppings is another quickie for me.


Kraft Mac-n-cheese with a can of tuna and either some frozen peas or a couple of chopped green onions is good (but kind fattening).


Try roasting a chicken on one of those stands that makes it look like the chicken is sitting up. It's super easy and turns out great. Whole chickens are usually more economical than pieces. Rinse it and pat it dry with paper towels, then rub it with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper (in the cavity too), then add some other herbs or seasoning if you want (cajun seasoning, italian seasoning, tarragon, whatever). Then sit it on the stand and bake it according to the instructions that come with the stand. It always turns out great! Really juicy with crisp skin.
Try some of the 5 ingredient or less recipes.


Maybe you can go to the library and check out some cookbooks. It sounds silly, but it is really kind of fun to browse through and actual book with pics and dog eared pages.





Chicken Drumsticks//// serve with salad and a cooked veggie of choice.





Ingredients:





1/3 cup butter, melted


1 cup crushed saltine crackers


2 Tbsp. dry onion soup mix


8 chicken drumsticks


Preparation:





Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together crackers and onion soup mix. Dip chicken legs into melted butter then coat with cracker mixture. Place remaining butter in 13x9'; baking pan, then top with coated chicken legs. Sprinkle with any remaining crumb mixture.


Bake for 45-55 minutes or until chicken is tender and thoroughly cooked. You can serve these with sour cream and salsa for dipping if desired. 8 servings
easiest thing ever to make is baked chicken


place raw chicken in a glass baking dish, season with pepper or Mrs dash, cover with a can of either cream of mushroom or cream of chicken and bake for 30 minutes in a 375 oven (make sure chicken isn't pink anymore)/serve with minute rice( or noodles) and a vegtable


another thing that's good is tuna noodle or chicken noodle faux-casserole


boil noodles (any kind will do) until done, while they are boiling mix in a microwavable bowl two cans of cream of mushroom soup,a splash of milk,pepper, and two cans of either chicken or tuna place in microwave on high for 3 minutes


take bowl out and stir add 4 slices of American cheese or a small hunk of Velveeta cut in cubes and place back in microwave for 3-4 minutes till cheese is melted, stir once u get out of microwave


serve over noodles along with a vegetable


food network usually has good recipes
I like http://allrecipes.com





Sometime you don't even need a receip...just your basic meat and potato meals are pretty simple. Bake chicken breasts and potatoes, serve with raw baby carrorts and some fresh fruit. They also have great frozen bread that you can pop in for warm, fresh rolls. Can't get any easier than that. Bake extra chicken and use the next night in another dish.
the kind of food your family likes would help a bit...like italian, chinese, american, that kinda thing.
Buy a rice cooker, a small one. It is so easy to use and clean and you can do amazing things with it.





Instead of all water, you can add a can of mixed vegetables and some seasoning salt. If you have leftover chicken or meat you can throw that in too. Some come with a little steamer basket that fits on top to steam veggies while the rice cooks.
1)spaghetti bologneise -all you need is spaghetti, mince, a jar of bologneise sauce and whatever you want to add (i love mushrooms with mine) its easy and quick... (im a student and ive sworn by it for 3 years)





2) chicken curry - again easy and quick... rice, chicken breast fillets, a jar of curry sauce.... simple as!





3) beans on toast topped off with cheese!





4) jacket potatoes (can be microwaved) with whatever takes your fancy, cheesy beans, tuna salad... you name it... you could even use left overs like if you were to make a curry one day you could use it as a filling





***JUST MAKE SURE NO MEAT IS PINK BEFORE SERVING*** you could end up very ill.





good luck!!!
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, very beginner. And delicious. Also stouffers mac and cheese frozen...so good.
Al way keep these things in your pantry.


Gravy Master


Beef Bouillon


Chicken Balloon


Cream of Chicken soup


Cream of Mushroom soup


Rice


Noodles


Spaghetti


Spaghetti Sauce


EASY SPAGHETTI DINNER


1 lb ground beef browned and drained


1 jar of spaghetti sauce


1 small can of mushrooms drained added to beef


chopped onions sauteed added to beef


1 lb of cooked spagetti


mix all together and simmer for 10 min


STROAGNOFF


1lb browned ground beef drained


1 small can mushrooms drained


1 small onion sauted onion


4 oz sour cream


1 can cream of mushroom soup


1tsp gravy master


1 can water


1 pkg noodles boiled and drained


add mushrooms ,onions and cream of mushroom soup to ground beef with gravy master and water add salt %26amp; pepper to taste. simmer add noodles, the last 10 min add sour cream to mixture, cut off flame cover and let set for 5 minutes. Then serve with salad with Dinner Rolls
Cook up a pound of burger scambled style and add some cooked macaroni noodles, 1 can of diced stewed tomatos. And about 1/2 can of corn.





Top with shredded cheese. My Mom called it Johnny Marsetti, it's kinda like gouloush.





Shepards Pie


1 pd burger


1 16 oz bag frozen mixed veggies-thawed


2 cups mashed potatos-homemade or instant


2 cloves garlic minced


4 oz cream cheese


1 1/2 cups shredded cheese, chedder or whatever ya have


2 cups brown gravy-homemade or instant





Brown burger and drain, add the veggies and gravy, mix well. Pour into a 9x9 baking pan.





In the mean time as you are cooking the burger, add the cream cheese, garlic and 1/2 cup of the shredded cheese to the mashed poatatoes.





Pour the potatos on top of the meat mix, smooth, don't worry about getting it perfectly even. Top with remaining cheese. Cover with tin foil, try to not let the foil touch the cheese.





Bake at 375 for about 25-30 min, turn the oven to broil and remove foil. Broil until cheese is browned.





Cook it and add it to your fav spagettie sauce, use it in lasagna.





Make meatloaf. Or make meat balls top with marinera or spagetti sauce, and have meat ball sandwich. Or serve the meatballs with b-b-q sauce, hot sauce or make then into sweedish meatballs.





Make an untilmate buger, mix a little shredded cheese or cream cheese or a mix of both, cooked chopped bacon, chopped onion, and some mushrooms. Make a thin burger patty and place a ';ball'; of the cheese mix in the center and top with another thin burger patty. Press and seal, fry and serve on a bun.


Burger is very versatile.





Also go to kraftfoods.com it's a great web-site and they will even send you a f ree mag every 4 months.
This is one of my favorites. It is pretty easy and takes aound 30 minutes to make. You can use pork chops or chicken but pork chops are better in my opinion. You will need:


1 Med onion chopped up


4 med size pork chops


1 can cream of mushroom soup


soup can of milk


1 1/2 cup of rice


3 cups of water





Get a medium size pot and but the 3 cups of water on high until it starts to boil. Put in some salt and the 1 1/2 cup of rice. Stir and let the rice come to a boil. Lower the heat to low and put a lid on it. The rice should take around 23 minutes. On another burn put it on medium high and put on a skillet with a little oil. (around a teaspon of vegetable or olive is fine, it is just to get the meat from sticking to the pan.) Put in the meat and the onion it until it looks cooked. The onions should be clear and the meat brown. There sould be some grease from the meat so you will need to drain it into the sink. You can either just use a lid to drain it with the meat and onions in it or or take out the meat and onions and drain that way. ut it back on the burner with the onions and meat and pore the can of cream of mushroom soap into it. Fill the can with milk and pore it in too. stir it and bring to a boil. Lover the heat to a simmer and cover for 5-10 minutes. Now you have a meal with rice, meat and mushroom gravy. You can serve it with a salad or you could have added a bag of mixed vegetable with it when you were half way done browning the meat. Good Luck and God Bless.
allrecipes.com is my FAV site! I use it pretty much every day (i'm still a bit new to the site) There's usually a picture of the dish along with several review from other people who've made it! I'll put a couple things I've made before that I thought were easy and good:)





It's good to keep chicken on hand (even the frozen kind work great-they can be thawed in the microwave in minutes or in the fridge overnight). You can also freeze pork chops, steak, etc. Chicken is my main meat choice! I always have fresh garlic, sack of potatoes, and onions on hand. Also, some frozen vegies or canned vegies along with a spice rack or a basic assortment of seasoning/spices, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, butter, flour. I bake a lot so I have the basic baking ingredients stocked also.





http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-Sca鈥?/a>


this was really good if you like garlic - double up on the spices and garlic and serve over spaghetti. Cooks pretty quickly too.





http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Honey鈥?/a>


easy and good again....a bit strong on the mustard side, but good...you could make mashed potatoes with it





http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cheesy-Pota鈥?/a>


this is a great addition to a meal - so yummy





hope this helps a bit





theres always those boxed meals like tuna helper, chicken helper, hamburger helper. also there are those frozen skillet dinners that are super easy





email me if you have any questions...you seem to be a younger person who has taken the charge to cook food for your family...feel free anytime - i'm not too old and cooking is a bit new to me too.
sphagetti....can't get more simplier than that. buy the ground beef or turkey and some dry pasta. While you put the pasts to boil you can cook the meat....add some tomato sauce and pop some garlic bread in the oven....simple and takes less than 30 minutes
Tacos,burittos,hamburgers http://allrecipes.com this is a good site with alot of recipes.