Quick Recipes - When Time is Short and Appetite is Long
Quick recipes all to often involve shortcuts. Such recipes sacrifice flavor and nutrition for expediency, but this needn't be the case. These recipes seldom take more than 30 minutes to make and often less and yet they're made from scratch and packed with flavor. Perfect for those nights when the two of you arrive home late, tired, and hungry.
Strawberry Trifle: Elegant Simplicity
Quick and easy, this Strawberry Trifle is an excellent last-minute dessert suitable for just the two of you or for company. Serves 2.
Quick and easy, this Strawberry Trifle is an excellent last-minute dessert suitable for just the two of you or for company. Serves 2.
Lime Icebox Pie: Tartly Satisfying
This Lime Icebox Pie is pleasantly tart, only takes about 5 minutes of hands-on effort and is ready to eat in 3 hours.
This Lime Icebox Pie is pleasantly tart, only takes about 5 minutes of hands-on effort and is ready to eat in 3 hours.
Smoked Salmon Bruschetta
This recipe for smoked salmon bruschetta can be prepped hours in advance and refrigerated, but are quick enough to make and serve in 15 minutes. Serves 2.
This recipe for smoked salmon bruschetta can be prepped hours in advance and refrigerated, but are quick enough to make and serve in 15 minutes. Serves 2.
Grilled Meat Salad
Soy sauce gives the salad dressing a hearty flavor that makes it perfect for salads featuring grilled meat.
Soy sauce gives the salad dressing a hearty flavor that makes it perfect for salads featuring grilled meat.
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.
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>
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>
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.
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.
Asparagus Vinaigrette
Despite its seeming delicacy, asparagus is quite capable of standing up to strong flavors. This recipe for asparagus vinaigrette uses a sweet vinegar, which complements the asparagus quite nicely. Serves 2.
Despite its seeming delicacy, asparagus is quite capable of standing up to strong flavors. This recipe for asparagus vinaigrette uses a sweet vinegar, which complements the asparagus quite nicely. Serves 2.
Tuna Salad Parmesan
This version of tuna salad includes bell peppers, capers, red onions, and the shredded. Serves 2.
This version of tuna salad includes bell peppers, capers, red onions, and the shredded. Serves 2.
Potatoes Parmigiano
Potatoes Parmigiano is yet another of those recipes that demonstrate that simple and easy is often also best. Serves 2.
Potatoes Parmigiano is yet another of those recipes that demonstrate that simple and easy is often also best. Serves 2.
Glazed Carrots
This recipe is simple, fairly quick, definitely easy, and spins the classic dish of glazed carrots in a new direction. Serves 2.
This recipe is simple, fairly quick, definitely easy, and spins the classic dish of glazed carrots in a new direction. Serves 2.