There’s no doubt Half Hour Meals is a fabulous quick-cook resource, but we’re certainly not the last word on 30-minute meals. Here are 10 fabulous cookbooks to add to your collection of fast food finds.
1. Dawn Hall - Notice how this isn’t a book, but rather a category Dawn’s signature formula is 7 ingredients and 30 minutes. Each and every one of her books is one you’ll want to have in your collection. Super-Simple 30-Minute Menus is just one of her books that tackles the time issue.
2. Rachael Ray – Likewise, Rachael focuses on getting dinner done in 30 minutes or less. All of her books are worth a look, but her 30-Minute Meals book continues to be a favorite.
3. Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes or Less by Robyn Webb – People can get bogged down quickly when trying to ome up with meals for special health issues. This book gives you two for one!
4. The 30-Minute Vegan by Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray – Yes, you CAN have your vegan cake and eat it, too – in under 30 minutes!
5. The South Beach Diet Quick & Easy Cookook by Arthur Agatston- Yep, even South Beachers can get their meals done in under half an hour.
6. The 5:30 Challenge: 5 Ingredients, 30 Minutes, Dinner on the Table by Jeanne Besser, Susan Puckett – I think that title is self-explanatory and one you don’t want to miss!
7. 30 Minute Asian Meals by Marie Wilson – Asian from a restaurant always seems so fast, but duplicating it at home can be anything but quick. This book is your rescuer!
8. Pillsbury 30-Minute Meals – Pillsbury is a name you can trust, from products to advice, and this book has 230 recipes in it – a sure hit!
9. Bon Appetit 30-Minute Main Courses – From the editors of the all-things-delicious food magazine, this is a book with main courses that are a little more special than your everyday fare.
10. Ciao Italia Pronto!: 30-Minute Recipes from an Italian Kitchen by Mary Ann Esposito – Quik Italian? Yes! This book, from one of the most influential Italian cooks ever, is one you need to have on-hand.
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While right at the moment we’re all gearing up for, or already in the throes of, preparing for the holidays and our individual holiday feasts, there will come a time, very shortly, when we’ll be too full to think of food at all. Here’s a good in-between-holidays dish. It’s not very heavy, uses few ingredients and doesn’t contain turkey OR ham. Really, some of us just can’t take any more leftover recipes.
The quickest way to avoid Thanksgiving Day leftovers is to invite many and send home lots. As Thanksgiving is all about being grateful for what we have and sharing with others, inviting extra folks – a college student far from home, a widowed neighbor, anyone who doesn’t have a family to celebrate with or even an entire family that doesn’t have the means to celebrate – will be the sure cure to having too much food leftover.
I sure do love to find new member recipes to cook and review…what a tasty job! And, with so many great recipes here at HHM, it will be a long time before I run out of new ones to try! This week’s recipe caught my eye because it has two ingredients I love…pasta and capers!
In my family, casserole is a four-letter word. The kids love them, as do I, but the moment that three-syllable word hits dad’s ears, it’s all over. So, when dad isn’t home or doesn’t feel like dinner, I do the quick casserole for the rest of us.
This easy quiche is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner and it comes together in a flash! The perfect “go-to” meal when you have the “what’s for dinner?” blues, quiche is also a smart and economical way to use up leftover meat, veggies and cheese. Add some fruit or a side salad, and you have delicious, thrifty and easy meal your family will love! Just follow the basic recipe, and the sky is the limit as to what you can create! Try these combinations or have fun coming up with your own:
Does your busy lifestyle make it a real challenge to get dinner on the table? Do you find yourself relying more and more on take-out, delivery or the same old handful of recipes? Do you wish there was a way to put a delicious home-cooked meal on the table without spending hours in the kitchen and blowing you budget on dozens of exotic ingredients? If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place! Half Hour Meals was created with people like you in mind!
In my life, the busyness never seems to end. With seven children ranging in age from 20 to 2 and school grades from college to K, I need a really great resource for quick, delicious and healthy recipes. I’m not alone in the hectic day-to-day goings on of life. Whether you have a family or not, chances are you find yourself too tired at the end of the day to want to cook at all. Too often we head for pre-packaged or take-out meals and suffer the consequences of such a diet by being even more tired and a vicious cycle begins. Enter Half Hour Meals!