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Easy Made Meals
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How to make life easier, serve tasty meals, and keep it healthy
September is such a busy month for everyone.
Knowing this, we scanned resources for family food favorites that used new techniques and shortcuts. We jotted down quality supermarket shortcuts and even streamlined recipes using variations so we could share them with you.
Shortcut Suggestions and New Techniques
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Easy Recipes
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Pan Roasted Salmon with Fresh Cherry Tomato Vinaigrette
Farm fresh tomato essence enhances crisp salmon fillets
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About the Recipe: Sautéed sweet cherry tomatoes are paired with capers, shallots, and cumin in a fresh flavored tomato vinaigrette. The chunky cherry dressing sauce is drizzled over crisp salmon fillets. It’s an easy and quick way to make a healthy dinner.
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Self-Layering Fudge Topped Brownies
It layers itself into a cake crust with an addictive fudge topping
About the Recipe: No frosting is necessary for these brownies. They have a top fudgy rich layer that bakes on top of a soft chocolate cake brownie. The brownies are rich, full of chocolate, and perfect to serve topped with fresh chopped strawberries or fruit. One of the easiest brownie cakes to make since it forms its own layers. Yah!
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Brined & Butter Basted Pork Chops
Brine in the morning; quick baste for dinner
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About the Recipe: This is a mouthwatering way to cook pork chops. Brining creates moist, mild flavored chops. Pan roasting is an efficient way to quick cook the meat. If using thicker chops, just finish baking in 450 F degree oven. The flavor trick is butter basting since it smothers the meat with flavor.
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Welcome to the World of Easy Bread
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Judith Fertig
Novelist and award-winning cookbook author Judith Fertig, grew up in the Midwest, attended cooking school in London and Paris, and now lives in the Kansas City
Use of Photo: Permission of Judith Fertig
She loves writing novels you can read like cookbooks and weaving storytelling into her books. Her most recent, just released cookbook is Easy Bread, which will change the way you think about baking bread. She skips the traditional rounds of kneading and rising and offers a way that you can create a dough that is always ready to go and waiting in the refrigerator. It’s a simplified, step-by-step technique with easy recipes with lots of pictures
Easy Bread available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other fine bookstores nationwide.
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Easy Recipes with Shortcuts and New Techniques
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Stir-Together Crusty Pizza with Smoked Salmon
Make ahead dough is ready for snacking when you are
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About the Recipe: This is such an easy way to make pizza or flatbread dough. Just stir up the ingredients, raise once, store in the refrigerator until you want to bake, grill a snack, or make a quick supper. The sauce uses two ingredients and is loaded with flavor. Top with dill cured smoked salmon, tasty popping capers, sprinkles of chives, and some curly parsley. It’s a full-of-flavor pizza that makes a delightful snack or even breakfast meal.
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Warm Antipasto Zucchini Zoodle Salad
It’s a double delight – an antipasto and a salad
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About the Recipe: The salad is an explosion of vibrant flavors, pickled peppers, cured meat, salty olives, savory tomatoes, and creamy cheese.
They are stirred into a fresh warm crunchy salad of zucchini sliced noodles and zesty pesto. It’s perfect as a light supper with slices of artisan bread or warm muffins.
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Make-Ahead BBQ Glazed Meatloaf‘
Grandma used panades (soft bread mixture) as her secret ingredient
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About the Recipe: Old fashioned Italian flavored meatloaf is enhanced with a panade made with bone broth, adding a rich texture. Mixing in some grated cheese provides the meatloaf with extra moisture and body. The glaze will make it look attractive and taste BBQ delicious. Grandma knew a few tricks for making that outstanding meatloaf.
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Fast & Fresh Pan Charred Corn Salad
Capture the flavor of grilling without a grill
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About the Recipe: Grill charred sweet corn has an addictive flavor and pairs well with so many meals. The only problem is if you don’t have a grill. This recipe solves that problem since a skillet is used to brown those corn kernels and then just sprinkle them with lightly smoked black pepper. It’s instantly grill flavored! Just mix in red onion, peppers, cherry tomato halves, toss with lime vinaigrette, finish with smooth avocados and a touch of fresh basil. That means you can even have grill flavored corn in the winter.
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Smoky Sweet Corn Fritters
Crispy pancakes almost impossible to resist
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About the Recipe: The secret ingredient in this recipe is the fresh sweet corn that makes the pancakes “pop” with flavor and have a robust texture. They are surprisingly light yet dense with thick corn kernels. These griddle fritters are delightful smothered with fresh tomato jam but would also be welcome with melting butter and syrup. Yes, it’s corn and pancakes, the perfect team for deliciousness.
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Italian Flavored Lentil Stew
Loaded with chunks of fresh vegetables and tomatoes
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About the Recipe: Serve this vegetarian stew, thickened as a side dish, or add more liquid to make it into a soup. It is especially delicious topped with a piece of rustic toasted bread and melting cheese.
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Scratch-Made Baking Master Mix
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“Make ‘em Your Way” Muffins – Using Master Mix
Like magic, they can be savory or sweet
About the Recipe: Using a Scratch Made Master Mix makes baking muffins easier. Master Mix is a combination of fresh ingredients that can be used to prepare savory as well as sweet muffins. I loved the idea that I could add or subtract different flavor combinations. It was fun to serve two different variations that I made from one muffin recipe. The best part was that in 30 minutes, they were on the table
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Morning Glory Pancakes – Using Master Mix
Light, crisp, and brown outside; moist and tender inside.
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Prepare Batter: Combine Master Mix and sugar in a medium bowl. Mix well.
Combine egg and milk or water in a small bowl.
Add all at once to dry ingredients. Blend well. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Cook on a hot oiled griddle about 3 to 4 minutes, until browned on both sides.
Makes 8 five-inch pancakes.
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Classic Apple Walnut Cobbler
So simple to make and the perfect recipe for those fresh apples
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About the Recipe: The recipe is a deep-dish apple dessert with a thick pastry crust. It’s simple to make, seasoned with cinnamon and sugar and combined with crunchy chopped walnuts. Using a Master Mix makes the recipe extra easy to make.
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Crispy Coconut Lazy Daisy Cake – Make it from Scratch|
Simple vanilla flavored cake with a brown sugar coconut topping
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About the Recipe: This easy-to-make cake is topped with a delicious boiled crisp coconut topping. The vanilla flavored cake has a fluffy texture that would be perfect to serve with a fresh fruit sauce or fruit compote.
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