Betty Crocker helps you get dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less in "Quick & Easy."
This collection of 150 recipes helps busy moms and dads get quick dinners ready on weeknights when it would be easy to just grab takeout.
The book is divided into Light Bites, Chicken & Turkey, Beef & Pork, Fish & Shellfish, Meatless and Side Dishes.
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‘Quick & Easy’ Beef ‘n’ Veggie Soup with Mozzarella is a great warming meal for a cold day.
Light Bites are quick snacks and appetizers like BLT Tomato Cups and Caribbean Layered Dip or quick lunch time fare like Beef and Spinach Roll-Ups and Egg Salad-Salami Sandwiches.
Chicken & Turkey recipes range from Taco Chicken with Corn Salsa, Barbecue Chicken and Vegetable Supper, Coconut Curry Chicken and Honey-Dijon Turkey Tenderloins with Fresh Asparagus.
Beef & Pork recipes are ones like Beef Tenderloin and Mushrooms in Garlic Butter Sauce, Italian Steak Sandwiches and Ham and Broccoli Fettuccine.
Fish & Shellfish recipes range from Basil Salmon and Julienne Vegetables to Tuna Melt Sandwiches to Scampi with Fettuccine to Scallops with Red Bell Pepper-Cream Sauce.
Meatless dishes are quick fixes like Butternut Squash Risotto, Mozzarella-Topped Eggplant, Scrambled Egg-Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and Tortilla Green Chili.
Side Dishes range from Spicy Stir-Fried Green Beans to Cranberry-Pistachio Brussels Sprouts.
Winter is the perfect time for soup, so I made Beef 'n' Veggie Soup with Mozzarella. It was a quick fix, just browning the beef, adding canned tomatoes and frozen vegetables and seasonings and letting simmer. It came together really quick and the oldest and I enjoyed it. We both agreed that we thought it might almost be better served over rice as a dish with sauce instead of a soup.
There is a lot of variety to choose from in this book, and it wasn't anything too exotic, so it's family - pleasing.
"Quick & Easy" is published by Wiley. It is $19.99.
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