If you can relate to any of this, we’ve got you covered with some quick and delicious recipes from some amazing Black female chefs

Here are easy appetizers that look fancy.

If you’re mixing up a big batch of waffle or pancake batter for friends and family, your wrist will get tired fast.

If you want to make meatballs but don’t have breadcrumbs on hand, dried oatmeal can do the trick. Combine it with your meat, an egg, and your preferred spices, and it will add nice bulk while acting as a binding agent for your meatballs.

It’s the lazy chef’s best friend. There are so many tasks I’ve moved from the cutting board to the blender.

There are a lot of unexpected ways to use beans. They aren’t just for nachos and chili. They work with a big variety of cuisines and flavor profiles. They can be mashed, purred, blended, fried, boiled—you name it. So you don’t need to throw out your surplus. Here are healthy recipes to make with canned beans.

Pasta is more versatile than you think. You can fry it, you can eat it cold, you can turn it into a casserole, and you can put it in a soup. It’s important to be creative with your recipes so you don’t throw away an ingredient, just because you think you’re out of ways to use it.

When the coronavirus is over, you may find yourself with a surplus of canned foods on your hand, the realization that you don’t need to continue hoarding them, and the understanding that you better do something with them to create more space in your kitchen.

Frozen red snapper is more affordable frozen than fresh, and is a wonderfully versatile fish. Make fish tacos, bake it with bread crumbs and Worcester sauce, toss some pesto sauce on it and have it with rice, or batter it and fry it for some fish and chips

I personally never make it through a bag of fresh spinach before it goes bad, and that’s one food you don’t want to eat past its expiration date. But you can use spinach to make puree of spinach soup, add it to minestrone soup, make spinach artichoke dip, feta and spinach omelets, or feta and spinach filo dough puff pastries.