The New York Times has posted an article featuring 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less [via]. It’s not really a list of detailed recipes, because the meals are straight forward and common sense to cook, but it’s a nice prompt for quick ideas when you’re feeling like something different but don’t want to dig out a cookbook.

Another good reference list is the lifehack.org article Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods. It’s a list of recipes they gathered from recipesia.com, categorized by course.

I didn’t want to go shopping tonight, so I made my own quick and easy meal.

Spaghetti with Crab and Parsley

Ingredients:

• Spaghetti
• Fresh parsley
• Crab meat (I used canned, but fresh from the deli would obviously be a million times tastier)
• Garlic
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Capers
• Crushed red peppers
• Pepper
• Salt

Boil the spaghetti in salted water until al dente and scoop out into a bowl. Mince a clove of garlic and gently fry it in some olive oil. Mix the garlic oil with the crab meat, a tablespoon of capers, red chili pepper flakes, and ground pepper. Toss the mixture over the pasta, throw on a handful of chopped parsley, and toss it all together.

My cooking skills are fairly basic. I have a few staple dishes that I do over and over, and I don’t really branch out much from those. Maybe I’ll start posting recipes on here as a way to experiment a little. Who knows, maybe there are cooks as green as I am who will get something out of it.