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Quick-Fix Dinners: 100+ Simple Recipes Ready in 10, 20, or 30 Minutes
The dinnertime solution for busy cooks who want delicious, down-home meals without spending hours in the kitchen.
After a long, busy day, the task of cooking a wholesome meal for a hungry crowd can be daunting. While home-style favorites are comforting, the time spent chopping, prepping, cooking, and serving can quickly turn a feel-good dish into a stressful production.
Quick-Fix Dinners comes to the rescue! We've streamlined crowd-pleasing Southern classics and modern fare to bring you recipes that take just 30, 20, or even 10 minutes to prepare, using fresh ingredients, grocery store staples, and easy shortcuts. Bring Big Easy flavor to the table in just 30 minutes with Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya, or whip up a savory Barbecue Mac and Cheese casserole in 20 minutes. There are desserts too, including a Prep & Forget Choc-Cinn Latte Cake that can be prepared in just 10 minutes.
With a calendar for menu planning and the Southern Living Test Kitchen's seal of approval, you can rest assured that these meals are as delicious as they are easy to make.
After a long, busy day, the task of cooking a wholesome meal for a hungry crowd can be daunting. While home-style favorites are comforting, the time spent chopping, prepping, cooking, and serving can quickly turn a feel-good dish into a stressful production.
Quick-Fix Dinners comes to the rescue! We've streamlined crowd-pleasing Southern classics and modern fare to bring you recipes that take just 30, 20, or even 10 minutes to prepare, using fresh ingredients, grocery store staples, and easy shortcuts. Bring Big Easy flavor to the table in just 30 minutes with Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya, or whip up a savory Barbecue Mac and Cheese casserole in 20 minutes. There are desserts too, including a Prep & Forget Choc-Cinn Latte Cake that can be prepared in just 10 minutes.
With a calendar for menu planning and the Southern Living Test Kitchen's seal of approval, you can rest assured that these meals are as delicious as they are easy to make.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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May 21, 2018
The book lives up to its name. Quick recipes with lots of variety. Beautiful, vibrantly colorful pictures on every page. (Reviewed by Julia, Lawrence Branch)
July 16, 2018
This was an excellent cookbook! It had everything I want in a cookbook! Recipes that promise to be quick, that don't have any exotic ingredients, with simple and short instructions, and full-color pictures of each and every dish.
Most cookbooks break up recipes into "breakfast, lunch, dinner" or "vegetables, chicken, beef, dessert" but this one breaks it up into real life categories, like "picky eaters" and "use your pantry." (No fear: there's still a "dessert" category.)
Every recipe gives a time estimate of either 10, 20, or 30 minutes. Then at the end there's an index where you can look up recipes by time to prepare.
I'm going to try:
*The Ultimate Grilled Cheese: WONDERFUL! Tried it with horseradish cheddar from the deli. I'm now forever converted to using mayo instead of butter on my grilled cheeses!
*Quick Buttermilk Biscuits: Meh. Not terrible, but the recipe called for wheat flour, so the biscuits came out pretty dense. A nod in their favor: the recipe makes quite a few biscuits, and there's a note included to tell you how to freeze them.
Most cookbooks break up recipes into "breakfast, lunch, dinner" or "vegetables, chicken, beef, dessert" but this one breaks it up into real life categories, like "picky eaters" and "use your pantry." (No fear: there's still a "dessert" category.)
Every recipe gives a time estimate of either 10, 20, or 30 minutes. Then at the end there's an index where you can look up recipes by time to prepare.
I'm going to try:
*The Ultimate Grilled Cheese: WONDERFUL! Tried it with horseradish cheddar from the deli. I'm now forever converted to using mayo instead of butter on my grilled cheeses!
*Quick Buttermilk Biscuits: Meh. Not terrible, but the recipe called for wheat flour, so the biscuits came out pretty dense. A nod in their favor: the recipe makes quite a few biscuits, and there's a note included to tell you how to freeze them.
October 7, 2017
Southern Living's "Quick-Fix Dinners: 100+ Simple Recipes Ready in 10, 20 or 30 Minutes" is a beautiful cookbook filled with large full page full color photos of each recipe and quick easy directions on how to prep a vast array of meals in 10-30 minutes. The recipes are divided into categories such as comfort food classics, quick go to meals from pantry staples and convenience foods, fancier foods fit for company and desserts. Some of the dishes are slow cooker favorites (pulled pork) others are quick stove top meals, but all are done with a minimum of ingredients and quick to pull together. This cookbook is perfect for beginning cooks, people on the go, people with busy work schedules, as well as traditional cooks looking to spend a little less time in the kitchen.
I have already used five recipes from this book and look forward to trying many more.
I have already used five recipes from this book and look forward to trying many more.
November 17, 2017
I always appreciate cookbooks that have a picture for every recipe. The one thing I was not a fan of in this book is when a 10 minute recipe that had pasta in it did not include the time it takes to boil water (which would about double the time). I know these are "guidelines" for the time amount but I dunno, I just find it irritating. Most of the recipes looked delicious but nothing really jumped out at me that I'd like to make.
October 4, 2017
Beautiful pictures, easy recipes. Instructions are very easy to understand. I can tell i'll be using this cook book a lot. Well Done. I really like that it is obvious how long it should take you to cook each recipe.
October 4, 2017
I love cooking and feel that most cooking books bring the same things over and over. This one brings new ideas, simple meals, uses things on hands, I love it! I am doing my first recipe tonight, yum!
Thank you Goodreads for the book!
Thank you Goodreads for the book!
August 4, 2018
Simple recipes with minimal ingredients and prep time.
January 11, 2021
Great recipes
October 5, 2017
just found out i won this 9 28 2017, thanks goodreads, cant wait for it to arrive!
it sure came fast 10 4 2017!
it has beautiful photos and short, easy, healthy recipes. a keeper for sure!
it sure came fast 10 4 2017!
it has beautiful photos and short, easy, healthy recipes. a keeper for sure!
January 8, 2018
Great and realistic dinner ideas. Can’t wait to get cooking!
March 22, 2018
Great photos & recipes!
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