Article: Olive oil, garlic and a skillet make miracle meal in minutes

One of the great challenges in this busy life is devising tasty, interesting dinners without spending a fortune on the ingredients or all evening planning and preparing them.

My wife and I both work full time, and neither of us has much time for fancy culinary footwork when we come crashing in the door with hungry kids in tow at 5:30 or 6 p.m. But we do love good food, freshly prepared, and hate to give it up for some microwave mystery meal.

This is one reason we've come to treasure cooking with olive oil and garlic in a big iron skillet. It makes almost anything seem special, even hamburgers. And it's fast.

One recent evening we had a typical madhouse on our hands when we ...

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