Weeknight Dinners: Prepared in 30 Minutes (Easy Recipes from Scratch) [Kindle Edition]

Marie L'Esperance (Author), Nicole L'Esperance (Author), John Sailors (Editor)

Book Description

When life gets busy, eating good, nutritious food can be a challenge. The goal of this book is to offer some healthy and delicious meal ideas for quick Weeknight Dinners that are 30 minutes or less to prepare.

Our mission was to keep these recipes simple, affordable, quick-to-make, healthy, and practical. The collection includes a wide range of noodle and rice dishes that can be quickly cooked on the stovetop, quick breads, tasty baked main dishes, and of course, some desserts for mid-week treats. All of the recipes use easy-to-make ingredients from scratch.

As a child, I remember my mom preparing homemade food from scratch for us every night for dinner. She made it seem effortless. I learned from her that the secret to easy weeknight cooking was having a reliable and easily adaptable collection of recipes to turn to when you have little time. We hope Weeknight Dinners is your secret to healthy, quick home cooking.

This collection of quick and healthy Weeknight Dinner recipes includes:

Salads and Veggies:
Strawberry Spinach Salad with Feta and Sweet Pecans
Minty Greens with Homemade Herb Dressing
Build-a-Salad Guide
Yummy Yam Fries with Fresh Aioli
Roasted Asparagus Tips with Mustard Yogurt Dip
Spinach Garlic Stir-Fry

Quick-to-Make Breads:
Homemade Biscuits
Biscuit Idea 1: Jalapeno Bread
Biscuit Idea 2: Spinach Feta Bread
Biscuit Idea 3: Pigs in a Blanket
Quick No-Yeast No-Knead Pizza
Yeast Pizza Crust in a Flash
Cream Cheese Cornmeal Loaf

Stove-Top Noodle Dishes:
Asian Noodle Salad
8-Minute Sesame Noodles
Easy Macaroni Tuna Salad with Fresh Mayonnaise
Fusilli with Havarti and Spinach
Quick Tomato and Basil Spaghettini
No-Cook Alfredo Sauce with Noodles
Quick Beef Stroganoff

Stove-Top Rice Dishes:
Healthy Chicken and Beans over Rice
Lentil Chickpea Curry on Rice
Ground Beef Curry on Rice

Baked Main Dishes:
Crunchy Parmesan Chicken Fingers
Easy Chicken Pot Pie
Dill Salmon Pouches
Crustless Broccoli Quiche
Tuna Pinwheels with Mushroom Sauce

Quick Weeknight Desserts:
Double Chocolate Pudding Cake
Cherry Sage Cobbler
Quick Phyllo Pears


We hope these recipes find a permanent place on your cookbook shelf! Enjoy!

~Nicole and Marie

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This cookbook is one of my special go-to books. I know that every recipe is trustworthy and that I will be delighted with all the results." ~Angela Victory

" . . . a mouth watering collection of gourmet midweek dinners that anyone can make, and everyone will love." ~Daniel Wiggs

 ". . . a wonderful read as well as great cookbooks." ~Rhonda

Product Details

• File Size: 1154 KB
• Print Length: 101 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Two Green Onions Studios, Inc; 2 edition (March 7, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007IL90V4
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #185,949 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #100 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Culinary Arts & Techniques

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars No more takeouts for me March 17, 2012

By D. C. Wiggs

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Wow - this is no hastily cobbled together collection of tired recipes requiring canned soup or other quick fix ingredients, but instead a mouth watering collection of gourmet midweek dinners that anyone can make, and everyone will love.

Beautifully photographed and formatted for the Kindle, this recipe book is one of the finest I have purchased, and should be the standard that all other Kindle cookery authors should aspire to.

I rather liked it!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Surprise March 23, 2012

By Lucy Ditty TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

There is a nicely formatted and hyperlinked table of contents.

The pictures are lovely, the text is clean and formatted well, and I did not spot any egregious errors. There are amusing quotes sprinkled throughout, and I particularly liked the Wilde quote at the beginning of the salad section.

The introduction contains a major plus: "None of the recipes expect you to have cooked meat or sauces prepared ahead of time, nor do we cook with canned soups." The cobbler filling is made from cherries, not canned filling. The pot pie has no canned soup. The cake has no cake mix.

The recipes are simple yet appear luxurious in the pictures and sound very appealing. I know it's a good cookbook when my mouth starts watering and I want to head for the kitchen and fire up the stove. Even recipes similar to those I've seen before have some interesting variations, like some additional vegetables in the Chicken and Beans Over Rice recipe.

I like it a lot. This one's a keeper.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Passion For Food!!! March 14, 2012

By C. J. Hitz

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Nicole and Marie know what it takes to put together a tasty meal. Weeknight Dinners will not disappoint anyone looking to expand their weekly menu and wow their families with wonderfully creative food combinations. I appreciated the clear directions (also known as "method") the authors provide for each recipe. Being a salad lover, I especially found the "Build-a-Salad Guide" to be a nice tool to refer to. Passion for food is a must for any quality cookbook writer and these ladies have it!