Simple recipes for a beginner?

So one of the very few cons of growing up in the mediterranean is that both our parents did most of the cooking so we are both mid-late 20s and can barely cook!

Now that we have our own apartment, I do most of the cooking but I get home at 7pm exhausted, so I have a hard time coming up with quick, healthy & tasty dinners on a budget.

Can anyone offer some sources for me to find some inspiring simple recipes?? I like the idea of a book with trusty recipes but Im such a newbie its difficult to know what to choose.