Easy Recipes

Finding easy vegetarian recipes to serve during the holidays can be tough, but if you're hosting someone who doesn't eat meat, it's a nice gesture. Simple vegetable dishes like green beans with almonds or corn casserole are easily kept vegetarian; but often dishes like soups, dressings and gravies are made with added chicken or beef stock. Here are a few easy vegetarian recipes for the holiday table that use simple substitutions and yield tasty results.

After a long day at work, cooking for two may not seem worth the effort. Put away those take-out menus and prepare these easy recipes for two instead.

Easy Salad Recipes for Two: Fast food chains like McDonald's sell salads which are popular with working couples. Skip the drive-thru and make your own delicious dinner salad.

• One of my favorite easy food recipes is Campbell's Southwest Salsa Chicken with Fresh Greens. It takes less than twenty minutes to make these spicy blackened chicken strips and salad.


• Another easy recipe for two is Melon, Shrimp and Feta Salad. Purchase cooked shrimp, and you'll be able to make this no-cook man dish salad in less than 20 minutes. If you slice your melons in advance, you can whip together this easy recipe for two in just minutes. (Sliced melon will keep for several days in your refrigerator.)

When colder weather arrives, warm and hearty meals are what we crave. Soup recipes for fall dinners are quick, healthy and affordable means for us to warm our autumn nights. Vegetables in season, such as butternut squash, or chunks of meat or poultry are the ingredients we desire. When we're in a hurry or we want something simple to prepare, a basic but delicious onion soup will satisfy. Pumpkin, which also comes into season in the fall, is a good option for simple soup recipes. It's a vegetable with a slightly sweet taste that combines well with spices such as ginger. Tomato soup is a favorite for fall dinner, but the variations on the basic means it doesn't have to be bland. Of course, a good homemade chicken soup recipe is a comfort meal for all ages to enjoy.

Try some of these simple soup recipes next time you want to warm up a cool autumn evening:

Many athletes load up on carbs before a big race or other endurance competition. One of the best and tastiest ways to carb load is by preparing easy pasta recipes. There are many simple pasta recipes for athletes to keep dinners interesting, and here are a few for you to try.

Shrimp and Pesto Pasta – This is a unique example of easy pasta recipes. There are asparagus spears, roasted red peppers, basil pesto, and shrimp cooked in white wine. It is then added to healthy whole-wheat fettuccine pasta and seasoned. Approximate total cooking time for this first of these recipes for athletes is 35 minutes, making it a fast and simple pasta recipe.

It's easy for dinner to fall off of the family radar on a weeknight. What between after-school practice, extracurricular pick-ups and homework, it can be difficult to squeeze in time to eat, let alone prepare a meal. During busy times, it's more important ever to have easy food recipes for weeknight dinners.

Here are a few easy recipes: