24 Dishes That Minimize Cooking Times for Busy Moms

Braised vegatables are a wonderful accompaniment, perfect to serve with all types of roasted meats and poultry, especially with grilled rotisserie – with deliciously crisp skin – or slowly simmered or braised poultry in a casserole.

This pan fried sea bass is prepared in 30 minutes! Frankly I am amazed by the lack of ingredients, quick preparation, appearance and taste!

This dish is a complete meal: fish, vegetable, dairy, starch. This is too good … Do it to enjoy your family, you’ll tell me the news!

Here is a vegetables recipe I used to make for a very long time since I inherited the cast iron pot of my grandmother. I love this pot for simmering vegetables and especially baby carrots.

These little custard jars are a classic. Here they are scented with vanilla, chocolate and coffee. With the same milk, eggs and sugar, you can make as many variations as you like: with pistachio, lavender and so on…

Easy and very tasty, this recipe is prepared in two steps and three movements.

Here is a chicken puff pastry recipe that may be a good idea to offer as an appetizer or starter.

This recipe is called Zaalouk: a kind of eggplant caviar in Morocco which is associated with tomatoes, cumin and fragrant fresh herbs like parsley and cilantro. It is eaten cold with small pieces of Moroccan bread or on toast as an appetizer! That’s very good!
And it’s very easy to do…

A recipe high in flavor, not too rich –if you don’t finish your meal white chocolate-caramel with salted butter dessert… like me … sad!– and simple to make. It’s really fun to do: if it’s your first time trying cooking “in foil”, you absolutely won’t be disappointed!

Discover this exquisite quiche recipe with leeks baked in an egg, cream and bacon mixture with a crispy paste. Originally from Alsace, the french leek quiche recipe can be appreciated with various interpretations.

Who wants simplicity, authenticity and fragrances will be filled with this recipe. Ideal for a summer barbecue accompaniment, a snack or just a moment of pure greed… This recipe can be eaten hot or cold

Fresh vegetables, fish, oranges: it does not take longer to achieve these colored baked foils. They are simple to make, can be kept refrigerated until ready to put in the oven and are ideal for those who are attentive to their balanced diet.Indeed, foil cooking is healthy!

In these tartlets, dried fruits are predominant and cooked in a good amount of honey to enjoy them at their fair value. Then, just pour the mixture on a shortbread pastry and bake in the oven. Honey does not caramelize and the fruit is not welding and gives a soft texture. We can also prepare this dessert as a pie that we cut in parts..

ere’s an original and healthy way to cook poultry: a plastic wrap, a steaming and that stands alone by itself! It’s a change form cooking poultry in a pan or oven.

As we are on a quest for quick, easy and cheap recipes – but without sacrifying quality – not talking about omelets would be such a shame. The purpose of this recipe is to present the omelet in a unconventionnal way: rolled up and sliced like a yule. This presentation is perfect for apperitives and starters.

The parmentier of duck confit is certainly not from the ”sophisticated recipes family”. You only have to bake these mashed potatoes and duck confit delicacies in the oven while finishing the appetizers. Guaranteed success and without the fuss with this confit de canard recipe!

The principle of this recipe is simple: a large melting potato is hollowed along its length with an apple corer. Unlike our previous braided stuffed vegetable recipe, we will work on a whole potato. The stuffing is made of cheese, herbs and possibly ham then enclosed with a plug of potato.

How to look sophisticated when making a very simple dish? The answer lies in this recipe! Then a little baking the oven and that’s a recipe idea to finish a good day to accompany a salad.

The fresh pasta with crunchy vegetables is a fresh, light recipe that is perfect for a healthy brunch! Simple and quick to make if it accompanies white meat or fish.

This soup was a great surprise for me. Keep the idea because it can have its place on the menu for your next holiday meals… You can choose to offer it as a “true” entry or served warm in small glasses for a dinner aperitif, just like a hot salmon verrine

As we all know the classic tatin pie with apples, we’ll experiment with a coming seasonal fruit: orange! Let’s rool out our skills to make a great orange tatin pie. It’s promished, it’s not difficult at all.

Here is a wonderful dessert: like a fruity and fragrant crème brûlée… but much simpler! This one will please children as well as their parents.

Apple and salmon Verrine, a easy appetizers ideas recipes for gourmets: grainy, light and colored.