Seasoned Cooking: 30 March 2012 Announcements

Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but with busy schedules and hectic lunch hours, our mid-day meal often gets overlooked or stuffed between meetings and a mad dash to drop stuff off at the dry cleaners. No more. You don't have to devote hours or even more than a few minutes to making sure there's a healthy lunch in front of you when the clock strikes noon. It just takes a little planning.

Spring is such a fantastic season. Not only do the flowers bloom and the grass turns bright green but the weather is simply gorgeous, not too hot and never too cold. It's the perfect excuse to get some friends together on a sunny afternoon and have a picnic.

Spring -- and especially the season of Lent -- is a great time to enjoy seafood. Enjoy a variety of your favorites in an elegant, yet simple to assemble seafood paella and find yourself feeling like you've landed in the middle of a vacation in Spain. Pour yourself a tall glass of sangria and enjoy this classic Spanish dish without needing to spend all of your time in front of the stove!

Not having a lot of time or energy for lunch doesn't mean it can't be healthy. Get ideas for lunches on the go and a simple recipe for a healthy lunch with a great resources for many more!

It's time to end another week with a couple food-related articles. The first is a fun piece on how making pasta doesn't require lots of water and doesn't even require boiling water. Also, don't oil your pasta or pasta water. You'll never make it the same way again. Then we look at an article about what our kitchen say about us and a project in Cuba that captures kitchens and gives us a peek into the lives of their owners.