Your Help, Please.

I'd like to put together a cookbook for myself. If it turns out well, I'd like to make it downloadable for anyone else who would like to have it. Since I am an underachiever when it comes to cooking, I am asking for your help.

Here are the criteria for submitting recipes:

What are your FAVORITE, Go-To recipes?

By "Go-To" I mean that these recipes are your favorites because they're fast, easy, have normal on-hand ingredients, and, above all, are tasty.

I was reading an article at Living On a Dime today called Stop Eating Your Way Into Debt. The article talked about eating out being one of the top five reasons for personal debt. It hit home for me because I am guilty of every excuse she listed.

My two biggest excuses are that I'm not a good cook and that it seems so much easier just to go out. Reading the article, though, made me examine my "excuses" and realize that I need to change.

With that in mind, I'd like to have a collection of several recipes that are full-proof (since I'm not a good cook), practically prepare themselves (because they need to be easier than going out), and TASTE GOOD when all is said and done.

Please take a moment to think about this and send me what you believe to be the ultimate "fast-food" home cooked recipes in your repertoire. Ideally they would not use packaged products as it would be nice for them to be healthy, too! If you do send recipes, please share your thoughts about why you consider it to be high on your list of best recipes. If you'd like to participate (Please? Pretty please?), it would be great to have them by the end of October.

There's a southern expression when someone is struggling with something that should be fairly easy: "For heaven's sake, help the boy!"

Well, "For heaven's sake, help the girl!"

***My contact information is: Haven of Home at Yahoo dot com (Take out spaces and change "at" and "dot" to their symbols.)