Quick and Easy Main Dishes
Recipe: Pasta with Shrimp and Tomato Cream Sauce
This recipe for two servings of pasta and shrimp with tomato cream sauce makes a great weeknight dinner for two.
Barbequed Shrimp: No Barbie Required
A long-time New Orleans treat, barbequed shrimp mighty good eating and quick and easy enough for a week night meal. Serves 2.
Lamb Tikka Masala
Tikka Masala is reportedly the most popular restaurant dish in England. It's an easy dish to make and if you discount the time it spends marinating in the refrigerator it's also quick to make, meaning you can serve it within 30 minutes. Serves 2.
Chicken Tikka Masala: Made in Britain
Tikka Masala is reportedly the most popular restaurant dish in England. It's an easy dish to make and if you discount the time it spends marinating in the refrigerator it's also quick to make, meaning you can serve it within 30 minutes. Serves 2.
Egg Salad: A Childhood Favorite
Egg salad has long been one of my favorite sandwich fillings. In fact, as a kid I never like peanut butter and jelly, but loved egg salad. This version has a nice kick. Makes 2 cups.
Mayonnaise Grilled Salmon: Simple, Savory, Succulent
Spreading mayo on fish before grilling it may seem odd, but mayo is mostly oil flavored with lemon juice, salt, and sometimes mustard and herbs - exactly the sort of ingredients you might ordinarily coat fish with before grilling it. Serves 2.
Rib Eye with Pan Sauce: Red Wine and Blue
This recipe for rib eye steak with pan sauce features a red wine reduction and blue cheese. It's extraordinarily good and deadl easy to make. Serves 2.
Chicken Stir Fry: Leftovers go Lightly
Chicken Stir Fry is one of my favorite recipes for leftovers. In this case leftover roast chicken was transformed into an Asian meal in 30 minutes. Serves 2.
Hawaiian Pork Chops - Sweet and Salty
Hawaiian Pork is one of my favorite quick meals taking only about 15 minutes to make. with a wonderful sweet and salty taste. Serves 2.
Veal with Artichoke Hearts: Italian Love
I stopped into a little Italian joint in a strip center expecting almost nothing of the meal except enough calories to keep me going until lunch the next day. Instead I had an extraordinarily good veal dish and discovered what became my favorite Italian restaurant in the world. Serves 2.
Pepper Steak: A Stir-fry Staple
Although packed with beefy flavor, this recipe for pepper steak only uses a little meat and so is quite economical. Serves 2.
Glazed Ham Steak: Sweet, Salty, Savory
This recipe offers most of the satisfaction of a glazed ham without having to spend a month eating it. The flavor profile is a tasty balance of salty, sweet, hot, sour and savory and so it touches effects every almost every taste bud in your mouth. Serves 2.
Chicken Parmesan: Delight at Day's End
Chicken Parmesan is another of those great quick-and-easy weeknight dinners. It takes only 20 minutes of hands-on time to make - start to finish. Serves 2.
Lamb Steak with Gremolata
This recipe for lamb steak with gremolata is quick, easy and works equally well with lamb chops. Serves 2.
Spanish Sauteed Lamb (Cochifrito)
This Spanish recipe for sauteed lamb is quick and easy to make. Packed with Mediterranean flavors, it's exotic enough for a special weekend and simple enough for an ordinary weeknight. Serves 2.
Chicken with Procuitto and Cheese Recipe: A Genuine Mouth-Jumper
Saltimbocca is an Italian word meaning "jump in the mouth" and is the name of a Roman dish classically made with veal, prosciutto, and sage. It's also sometimes made with chicken or pork and cheese is a frequent addition. I've had it a few times made with either chicken or veal and although it was good, I can't say it jumped in my mouth. So I...
Herb Broiled Trout
The best thing about this recipe for herbed broiled trout is how delicious it is. The second best thing is how quick and easy it is. Serves 2.
Welsh Rabbit (Rarebit): An English Treat
Welsh rabbit (or Welsh rarebit) is a sort of English version of fondue combining melted cheddar and beer with either English muffins or toast. Serves 2.
Smoked Salmon Pimiento: Tangy, Smoky, Savory
This recipe for smoked salmon is tangy, smoky, and wonderfully savory with a Spanish twist. Although it can be cooked on a grill, it's intended for use with a stove-top smoker. Serves 2.
Pork Cutlets: A Southern Favorite
An old southern favorite, this recipes for pork cutlets leaves out the traditional white gravy and it's load of calories, opting instead for a fresh and bright squirt of lemon juice. Serves 2.
Greek Veal Scaloppini
This recipe for veal scaloppini with a feta cheese sauce is wonderfully quick and easy. It only takes minutes to make and yet is quite a treat. <i>Serves 2.</i>
Curried Shrimp in Puff Pastry
Curried shrimp is a quick, easy, and even elegant main dish suitable for a special occasion. Serves 2.
Chicken Piccata
Piccata is typically a dish made with veal scaloppini, but it's just as good when made with chicken breasts, something I almost always have in the freezer. Serves 2.
Broiled Trout with Lemon Cream Sauce
Broiled trout is a great dinner option. Quick and easy, it's perfect for a weeknight meal and because trout is usually farm-raised it doesn't cause harm to declining wild fish stocks. Serves 2.
Spicy Moorish Chicken in Pita
I typically serve this spicy Moorish Chicken recipe in pita bread, but it's also great served on rice or couscous. It's quick, easy and delicious. Serves 2.
Pork Cutlets: A Southern Favorite
An old southern favorite, this recipes for pork cutlets leaves out the traditional white gravy and it's load of calories, opting instead for a fresh and bright squirt of lemon juice. Serves 2.
Minute Steak Medley: 15-minute Meal
Minute Steak Medley is a fun, easy, quick and cheap weeknight meal. It consists of a couple of quickly cooked cube steaks and an assortment of sauces.
Six 30-Minute Chicken Recipes
I probably eat more chicken than any other meat. It cooks quickly, is adaptable to all sorts of cooking techniques, and fits into cuisines ranging from Mexican to Chinese. I usually have a few bone-less breasts and thighs in my freezer and both will thaw in 30 minutes in hot water (this is safe as long as you cook the chicken immediately) but if...
Grilled Swordfish Steak: Succulent Seafood
Grilled swordfish steaks take 30 minutes to marinate and 10 minutes to cook. So take off your coat, squeeze some lemon juice on the steaks, and relax with a cocktail. No muss, no fuss, mighty good eating.
Broiled Mahi-mahi: Sweet and Smoky
This paprika mahi-mahi is a perfect weeknight meal - it only takes 8 - 10 minutes to cook. The Spanish smoked paprika provides a nice smoky flavor that accents the fish's sweetness.
Jerked Mahi-Mahi: Pacific Fish, Atlantic Spice
This jerked mahi-mahi turned out beautifully. It's delightfully spicy with both the spice and lime juice contributing to the fish's sweetness.
Trout Meuniere: French Simplicity
This French style of trout (they also make it with sole and you can use tilapia) takes no more than 10 minutes, start to finish.
Philly Cheesesteak: Plain and Fancy
The Philly Cheesesteak is an iconic American sandwich and deservedly so. Consisting in it's most fundamental version as grilled, sliced steak with Cheez Whiz on a hoagie roll (a five-minute effort), more sophisticated versions are also common. You can find two recipes here.
Pork Medallions with Mustard/Cream Sauce
Pork Medallions with Mustard/Cream Sauce offers the wonderful savor of pork cooked in butter and then topped with rich cream, pungent mustard, and tangy capers. Serve on fettucini with Parmesan Tomatoes on the side dish.
Pork Fajitas: Taste the Real Sizzle
When I lived in Eugene, Oregon there was a Mexican place that served pork fajitas. I loved them, so when I left Oregon I had to figure out how to make them myself.
Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe
I seldom make Asian dishes, but sweet and sour chicken is one of my favorites and this recipe is particularly quick and easy, perfect for a week night meal. Serves 2.
Raclette: Alpine Appetites
Raclette is traditionally cheese melted before a campfire and scraped onto boiled potatoes. That's great fun, but it's easier and every bit as tasty to use your oven's broiler to melt the cheese onto the potatoes.
Peel-and-Eat Shrimp
For a while peel-and-eat shrimp were a popular happy-hour buffet item. Then chefs found people were eating pounds of shrimp - it was just to expensive to give away. But although you may have to buy and make your own, it's still a favorite.
Fettucini Alfredo: From the Cafes of Rome
Traditionally Alfredo was just butter, cheese, and pasta. Today the dish usually involves less butter and some heavy cream – which is a bit healthier and results in sauce that has a more appealing mouth feel.
Veal with Calvados and Chevre
My mother gave me a partial bottle of Calvados, a French apple brandy, and after a bit of thought I decided to fixe veal and make a Calvados/chevre sauce to enhance it.