A new feature at Jazz Cooking, "Six Easy Dinners" will walk you through planning, shopping, and advance preparation for a week's worth of quick, easy, healthy and tasty weeknight meals. It's perfect for the beginning cook or anyone who works a full day and then must put dinner on the table without relying on takeout pizza or fast food.

We'll offer plans for families, cooking for one, for omnivores and vegetarians, and where possible for those on restricted diets. We'll try to offer a specialized plan just for you, if we can. If you need something in particular, and we'll do our best to put it together for you.

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Bowtie pasta with shrimp and broccoli in "Alfredo" sauce

Taco Salads

Baked Mac and Cheese with Sausage

Hummus Wraps

Rice Pilaf

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Glycemic Index – Take 1!

Good carbs. Bad carbs. No carbs at all? South Beach, Sugar Busters, Atkins, Weight Watchers, The Zone. USDA Food Pyramids - which one?

Type 2 diabetes. Heart disease. Apple shape vs. pear shape. Metabolic Syndrome. What to eat? How to eat? Conflicting information, confusing rules....

It's enough to give anyone a headache.

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Potluck Dinners

In lieu of a well-thought-out and researched topic for tonight, how about an old-fashioned potluck dinner? When I was a kid, potlucks always meant church suppers or family reunions. They always involved homemade fried chicken, potato salad, my grandmother's seven-layer salad (which was ostensibly a garden salad but somehow seemed to have more mayonnaise, green peas, and shredded cheese than anything), and someone always brought a salad/dessert hybrid thing made with green Jello and fruit cocktail and Dream Whip (powdered precursor to Cool Whip and just as vile). The fried chicken was always good, though. Sometimes there was chocolate cake. And lemonade.

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