You know how it is — you get home from work, you're tired and hungry, and need something tasty and quick to cook for two. These simple recipes are all ready in 40 minutes or less, so you can spend more time relaxing after a long day instead of slaving over a stovetop. With options for beef, chicken, and veggies, you're sure to find a dinner for everyone to love.
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Simple Lemon Herb Chicken
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Ready in 25 minutes: This simple pan-fried lemon and herb chicken breast is a tasty quick meal. Serve with some salad, or whatever vegetables you can forage from your fridge/freezer.
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Baked Macaroni Cheese
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Ready in 40 minutes: Comfort food at its best. This five-ingredient recipe is particularly easy to make.
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Filet Mignon with Rich Balsamic Glaze
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Ready in 20 minutes: An impressive dinner for two, all you need is a side of potatoes and green beans to round out the plates.
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Egg Curry
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Ready in 35 minutes: Raid the spice drawer to make this simple Indian egg curry.
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Chef John's BLT Pasta
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Ready in 40 minutes: Your favorite BLT favor combo, but with pasta.
Ready in 30 minutes: A can of chickpeas is the primary protein in this super satisfying vegetarian curry.
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Chicken with Lemon-Caper Sauce
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Ready in 30 minutes: "This recipe is not only easy but does not require many items. I added a clove of garlic to the boiling wine sauce and used salted butter because I felt it needed more zing. I didn't measure the lemon. It was very simple and really good. Will go into my rotation," reviewer nskiddo21 says.
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Salmon Fillets with Spinach for Two
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Ready in 35 minutes: Here's a quick, healthy salmon dinner for two that's as easy as it is elegant. "Frozen spinach and garden vegetable cream cheese combine with salmon fillets!" says Bibi." This is easy to double, if you need 4 servings. Created for a regular oven, this recipe is easily prepared in an air fryer by reducing the temperature by 25 degrees and reducing the time by five minutes. Be sure to monitor for doneness, because overcooking will dry out the salmon."
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Italian White Bean Chicken
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Ready in 40 minutes: Home cook Jacque Andrade Metzler added a pound of pasta to stretch the meal. "I think my husband went back for thirds," she says. "I didn't have fresh basil, so I used Italian seasoning instead. I also added a little salt to taste."
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Pork Fried Rice
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Ready in 30 minutes: Reviewers consider this recipe an excellent use for leftovers, whether that's leftover pork chops, turkey (as a sub for pork), or rice.
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Delicious Black Bean Burritos
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Ready in 25 minutes: This vegetarian-friendly dinner will be your new go-to when Tex-Mex is what you're craving. Serve with a side of Spanish rice.
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Garlic Chicken Fried Brown Rice
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Ready in 35 minutes: "Leftover brown rice is reborn in this chicken fried rice with peppers and onions. Black pepper, paprika, or dried parsley may be used to season after this is cooked," says recipe creator Joyce.
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Pork Tenderloin Diablo
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Ready in 40 minutes: "How can you go wrong with pork and mustard? This recipe just puts it over the top. One of our favorites, and part of the regular rotation," says reviewer aputler.
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Chef John's Cashew Chicken
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Ready in 30 minutes: "This is a fantastic way to use up some leftover grilled chicken breasts. This will work with any kind of cooked chicken, but leftover grilled chicken has that little bit of smokiness that adds something special to this quick recipe. Serve over hot cooked rice," Chef John says.
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Bucatini All'Amatriciana
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Ready in 40 minutes: Make a stunning Italian dinner at home with this delicious pasta recipe. Salty pancetta, rich tomatoes, and tangy pecorino cheese combine for a world of flavors.
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Spicy Thai Basil Chicken (Pad Krapow Gai)
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Ready in 25 minutes: Featuring flavorful Thai ingredients like fish sauce, shallots, and green chiles, this chicken and rice dish is sure to become a household favorite.
Choose meals that can be prepared in one pot. We have an instant pot that replaced our crock pot and rice cooker. It's a pressure cooker that dramatically shortens the cooking time! Some of our favorite go-to one pot meals are black bean soup, leek and potato soup, veggie tortilla soup, and budae jjigae.
Four 8-foot tables combine to make seating for 20-22 people (depending on if you add a seat where the tables join along the sides). This arrangement of tables may also be conducive for a large family meal, a conference or meeting, or to maximize space for seating up to 22.
In modern usage "supper" may refer to, on largely class-based distinctions, either a late-evening snack (working- and middle-class usage) or else to make a distinction between "supper" as an informal family meal (which would be eaten in the kitchen or family dining room) as opposed to "dinner", especially as a "dinner ...
Creating the perfect dinner date doesn't have to be intimidating, as long as you give it enough thought. Start by finding the best restaurant for a date: Something affordable and unique.Then make sure it is a fun place to eat, preferably with activities you can do in addition to eating.
Generally, an adult will eat about 1lb of food per seating. So if you are serving 4 portions of food, you need about 1/4 lb per person. If you are offering 3 portions of food, you need about 1/3 lb per person of each item.
Lasagna will always be an entertaining crowd-pleaser—all the work is done ahead of time, it feeds a million people and everyone loves it. This extra-flavorful version is a twist on the classic, and it has a hearty meat sauce and pesto-packed ricotta filling instead of the usual tomato.
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