I've never seen myself as a particularly adventurous cook, but I enjoy cooking and find simple baking relaxing. I love to eat good simple food and consider it important to provide proper nutritious meals for my family. I fell into teaching Food Technology as a second subject alongside Textiles and have taught 11 to 14 year olds to cook for the last ten years.
The idea for the
Easy-Peasy Everyday Recipe File came about after chatting to a friend at a party recently. She was laughing about the fact that she had a lovely new kitchen and cupboards full of kitchen equipment but didn't know how to cook and resorted to living on ready meals. As others joined the conversation and echoed these views, I was shocked. I was brought up cooking with my mum and sister from a very young age, with a kitchen chair pulled up close to the worktop, indeed I do the same with my four year old grandson now! I took this experience for granted and thought every one could cook at least a few basic meals. I decided that night, using my experience as a food teacher, I would create a book of easy to follow recipes for the ordinary everyday meals that I feed my family on.
All my Easy-Peasy Recipes are what they say they are! I'm not claiming to be original and innovative, I just use a few basic ingredients and try to explain how to make each dish clearly and simply. I like to eat healthily most of the time so I can have a few indulgences as treats. Therefore in my recipes, I don't add any fat when I fry, I fry the meat gently first to release the fat then use this to fry the onions etc. I also don't add any additional salt but use lots of black pepper. There is already enough natural salt in the foods we eat and your taste buds soon adjust to a less salty flavour This is far better for you. you can add seasoning as you prefer.
Each recipe card has
Extra Tips where, for example, advice is given on how to batch cook and freeze some recipes. Each recipe card has suggestions for
Alternative Ingredients to suit different tastes or to ring the changes.
I have started the file with a
Cooking Tips page where I give really basic instructions on how to chop vegetables, explanations of cooking terms and suggestions for a basic herb stash for beginners.
Please feel free to download any or all of my recipes and build them into your own
Easy-Peasy Recipe File. They are all available in PDF format. just click on the link below and print them out. I simply ask that you leave a comment when you have tried a recipe to say what you think, I would love your feedback!
Cover page for Easy-Peasy Everyday Recipe File available here
Cooking Tips page available here
Don't forget to leave me a comment to tell me how you got on. Watch this space for regular posts of Easy-Peasy Recipes. I'll be posting 'real' pictures of the dishes too. Happy cooking!
Judith xxx
