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Fixing meal that is quick buy taste homemade is the key to successfully cooking a well balanced dinner on a hectic weeknight. When you get home from a rough day you will want to fix a dinner that will be healthy for you and your family but will also give you a break in the kitchen. How can you do that?
Sandwiches taste great when they are hot. Plan to have a hot sandwich for dinner with a healthy tossed salad. Choose only select meats that are fresh from the deli. You don’t want this to be an ordinary bologna sandwich, not that there is anything wrong with ordinary bologna sandwiches. When you plan to make a hot sandwich make it with meat that you usually don’t make it with. There are different types of salami, ham and more. Use cheeses that you don’t normally use as well. Experimenting with the deli meats and cheeses usually has a positive affect. On a hot grill, place your sandwiches down and allow to heat thoroughly on both sides and melt the cheese slowly over the different layers of meats. When you pull the sandwiches off the heat, allow them to cool and then top with your favorite toppings; lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, mustard, pickle and more.
You can have a great hamburger steak and gravy with some baked French fries. Before you start the meat, prepare your potatoes by cutting them in uniform to look like French Fries. Bake them in an oven set at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes. Covering them with aluminum foil at the beginning will help them to become tender and then uncover for browning. Meanwhile, make hamburger meat in the shape of a patty and add it to a warm pan to simmer. While your hamburger patty is simmering you can open up a packet of gravy mix to have ready when your hamburger patties are done. You may want to chop an onion to add to the hamburger when you are forming a patty. Put the gravy on the stove to warm. You can add mushrooms or anything else you would like to the gravy. When the hamburger patties are done you can pour the gravy over the patties and add some fries to your plate for a delicious meal.
Soups can be a great way to make a meal go a long way. During the week you can save all of your left over vegetables in a baggie so you can add them to soups on the weekend. Then when you get ready to prepare your soup, you can make enough to last for two or three days. Fix some bread to go along with your soup and you will have a great meal that everyone can help themselves too. Soup is good at anytime of the year, especially if it is simmered in a slow cooker throughout the day.
One of the simplest meals to make is pork barbecue. What makes it simple is the fact that you add it to your slow cooker at night before you go to bed. In the morning you can pull the pork apart and then add barbecue sauce over it and set it in the refrigerator. When you get home from work, you just heat the barbeque and make coleslaw that will compliment the dinner and everyone will love this meal.
Another simple idea is to use the crock pot. With a couple of minutes preparation in the morning, then by evening you will have the most delicious meal cooked for your family. The flavors are intense, the aroma amazing and only one dish to wash. These chicken crock pot recipes and beef crock pot recipes are fantastic and easy to prepare; and a simple way to start using more crock pot recipes.
The one thing to remember is that you need to make dinners easy on yourself as well as make them healthy and something that everyone will want to eat.
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