Quick/easy recipes for every day dinners???!


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Quick/easy recipes for every day dinners???

I am looking for some new recipes for every day dinners. We don't like seafood, but we are pretty much open otherwise. We can only do hot dogs, mac 'n cheese, frozen pizzas, and pesto so much before we are tired of it. I don't mind prepping a little bit, but I don't want to spend hours prepping. I have found some recipes at different cooking sites lately that I have tried, but I was just wondering what others do for the every day dinner at home. Any ideas would be wonderful. Thanks in advance!


Answers:
here are a couple of ideas
Seafood Pasta Recipe

8 oz. small pasta such as elbows, shells or twists
2 T. butter or margarine
1/2 C. chopped leeks, onions or shallots
12 to 14 oz. canned tuna or salmon
1/4 t. crushed red pepper flakes
1 t. dried basil
2 T. all-purpose flour
2 C. milk or cream
1/4 C. freshly grated parmesan cheese

Cook the pasta, drain and set aside.

Melt butter in a large, nonstick skillet. Add leeks or onions and saute until tender. Add the fish and cook until leeks are tender-crisp. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes and basil. Stir flour into milk and then stir that mixture into skillet. Cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened.

Add pasta. Sprinkle with parmesan before serving.

Makes 4 servings.


South-of-the-Border Chicken Skillet Recipe

4 small, skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 t. cooking oil
1/3 C. sliced green onions
1 clove garlic, minced
1 T. chili powder
1/8 t. ground cumin
1/8 t. pepper
1 14 1/2 oz. can tomatoes, cut up
1 1/4 C. chicken broth
3/4 C. long-grain rice
1/4 C. picante sauce or salsa
sour cream

In a large skillet, quickly brown chicken breast halves in hot cooking oil over medium-high heat, turning once. Remove chicken from skillet. Add green onions, garlic, chili powder, cinnamon, cumin and pepper to skillet. Cook and stir for 1 minute.

Remove skillet from heat. Carefully stir undrained tomatoes, chicken broth and long-grain rice into vegetables in skillet. Return skillet to heat and bring to boiling. Arrange chicken breast halves on top of rice mixture. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until rice is tender and liquid is absorbed.

Spoon picante sauce or salsa over chicken. Cover and heat for 1 minute more. Serve with sour cream.

Makes 4 servings.


Mexican Casserole

2 lbs. lean Ground beef
1 Onion (Chopped fine)
1 can 14.5 oz Stewed Tomatoes
2 cans 15.5 oz. Mexican Style Chili Beans
1 cup uncooked rice
1 small can green chilies
1/2 Pkg. 1.25 oz. Chili Seasoning or
2 cups Cheddar Cheese (grated)

Brown the lean ground beef and onion in a large skillet.

Puree the Stewed tomatoes and cook the rice according to the directions on box or pkg of rice while the meat is browning.

Drain any excess grease from the ground beef mixture, then add the pureed tomatoes, chili beans, green chilies, cooked rice, and 1/2 of the pkg of chili seasoning to the meat mixture.

Mix thoroughly, then simmer for about 20 minutes.

Source(s):
lots more ideas here, I love this web site
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/quick...

skin, deseed and chop 600g tomatoes
roast and skin and slice 5 peppers
dice 4 chicken breasts

heat 2tbsp olive oil and add 2 crushed garlic cloves until brown
add chicken and stir until brown
add 175ml white wine - allow to evaporate
add tomatoes and peppers cook on medium for 20min

this is delicious

ps skin tomaotos by cutting a cross into the base and placing in hot water to lift part of the skin

roast pepper until charred either under a grill or over the ring itslef

Here's a quick one: Boil a pot of regular spaghetti - al dente. Place drained spaghetti into a casserole dish. Dump some spaghetti sauce on top of it. Place pepperoni on sauce and then sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Bake at 350 until cheese is golden brown.

1. Brown chicken breasts in frying pan. Then add a cup or two of water, just covering the chicken, and put it on simmer. After about 20 minutes, add a cup of rice and let that continue to simmer until done.

2. Layer in a baking dish: Corn tortillas, refried beans, grated cheese, onions and/or peppers if you like them, rice if you want, enchilada sauce. Do a couple of layers, can be in any combination. Cover & bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

3. Buy bagged salad mix, add grated cheese & cubed chicken breast. Eat cold as a salad.

4. Buy a roast beef (raw), put it in baking dish, add water to just covering it, add cut up potatoes & carrots, bake 350 for about an hour. Then add any other veggies you like and cook for another half hour or however long it takes to be done.

all you have to do is get enough meat, starch, and vegetables for one week. be creative!

by starch, i mean pasta and bread and stuff.

Chech out Kraftcanada.com. There is a link for Express Checkout which will list out a weeks worth of recipies that are quick and easy. You also get the shopping list for the week.

i usually make my own receipts up as i go. today i made a simple salad with burp less cumbers onions and balsamic vinegar and a little olive oil salt and pepper. to go with it i sauteed some olive oil garlic onions and tomatoes. diced from a can. seered off some skinned boned and de-fatted chicken thighs put it all on a low heat covered and am just waiting. always try to use a low heat people use to high of a heat all the time and become discouraged when everything burns so fast.

Blue Cheese Burgers
Qty Unit Ingredient
4 ea Thin pre-formed hamburger patties
1/3 C Blue cheese, crumbled
2 ea Hamburger Buns
Hamburger condiments; lettuce - tomato - mayonnaise - ketchup



Instructions

In a bowl, crumble blue cheese with a fork until crumbles are small. Sandwich half the crumbles betweens pairs of thin pre-formed patties leave a half inch border around to get a good seal. Press patties firmly to seal in cheese. In a skillet over medium high heat, cook the burgers about 5 minutes per side or until desired doneness. Serve on hamburger buns with hamburger condiments, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, and ketchup.

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