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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the 20 minute turn-around is every night, the first thing that I'd try to do is cut back on activities.

We needed this kind of turn-around twice a week over the summer.  I always planned a crockpot meal for those nights.  Dinner was done as soon as we got home -- faster than grabbing fast food -- and so we could immediately start eating.

We have some good cookbooks with recipes that take 20-30 minutes max for the other nights.[/quote]

what cookbooks?

We use the rice cooker (I have a programmable Zoijurushi (sp?)) a lot - I do a lot of lentils, rice.

I make pasta on the weekends, keep it plain. Come home - throw in a sauce (tomato, or pesto), a protein (or not) and some zapped frozen veggies if you want (or not). a meal!

you can make egg muffins for the car, or PBJ muffins for snacks. I like the idea of prepped trays (Meat, cheese, crackers).

Love the crockpot. Start in morning on your way out, come home to meal. I ONLY look for the 7-8 hr recipes, none of those ones that require a 1000 steps THEN slow cook. Make soup in the morning, come home, make pesto grilled cheese with spinach (if you can sneak it in, my kids are getting hip to this) (I keep purchased pesto in the fridge) and you have a meal. [/quote]

Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express is organized by seasonal ingredients, and everything can be made within about 20 minutes.  He's coming out with another book very soon with quick recipes, and I think I'm going to get that as well.

I also use the America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook really heavily.  A lot of the recipes are NOT fast, but everything comes out great, and they have a key to show you which ones can be made quickly.  I'm just sure to use the quick ones (or the crockpot ones) for weeknights.  They also have a "Quick" version of the family cookbook that's supposed to be all recipes that can be made within 45 minutes, but I haven't tried it.

A lot of recipe websites also have indications of which recipes will cook up pretty quickly.  Depending on the website, they may have a different definition of quick (e.g. 20 minutes versus 45 minutes), but that can also help me to find good, quick recipes.[/quote]

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