Simply use cookbooks you love that have easy recipes -- even better, whole meal plans and grocery lists.
Even better is something like this: There was a tiny cookbook I used in the early 1990s that tucked into my purse, that I would pull out on the bus on my way home in Manhattan and choose a recipe, and then get off the bus and tuck into the fabulous West Side Grocers? below our apartment to pick up ingredients. Unfortunately the grocers no longer exists, and the cookbook is no longer to our taste! But one could do something similar, and ever-changing, with recipes on cards...