A Week of Half Hour Meals Part 2

Written Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by Anne Coleman

Last week I posted about making meals for my family completely from Half Hour Meals, and I did. Not only was everyone satisfied, I had no naysayers at all and we've added a few recipes to our usual nightly repertoire as well.

Here's what we had, in no specific order:

Carbonara Pizza - This one went over hugely here. Not only were there no leftovers, I've already had requests for more. I used the cheaper bacon alternative, but other than that there were no changes made and it was perfect.

Arroz on Pollo - Another hit with returns for seconds (and thirds for some!) and one more added to the family recipe pile.

Grandma Nucci's Meatballs - (pictured) This is now my go-to meatball for pasta dishes. This was the most delicious meatball I've had, hands-down! Bursting with flavor and a mere 5 ingredients, it doesn't get any simpler or tastier.

Penne Pasta with Pesto - Two of my absolute favorites together - and the pesto recipe was perfecto! The kids loved it as well and it's gone into our rotation, too.

Sticky Lemon Chicken - So good! Yet another go-to for a quick chicken recipe and one that everyone liked. Any side dish would go well with this, but we made the recommended mashed potatoes and peas & carrots.

Barbecue Bacon Burgers - OK, so I've been doing things like adding potato chips to my sandwich for years, but who'da thunk to add them to a burger? I've been asked to 'please only make this burger from now on' , and I think I'll oblige! Very tasty and something you can serve for family or company.

That was our week  - and next time we'll do meals from appetizer through dessert and report on that, as well. Please give one or two of these a try, they're very worth it!

A Week of Half Hour Meals

Written Sunday, January 24th, 2010 by Anne Coleman

What would your week look like if every dinner meal was done in half an hour? I'll let you know by next week!

I decided on this week's shopping day to choose at least 5 meals from Half Hour Meals to make for our dinners this week. So far we have two in and nobody has been disappointed. On the contrary, the recipes I chose have been big winners and I've already been told that they need to enter the family dinner repertoire.

Would you like to join me in my Half Hour Meals Dinner Week? Drop a comment to let me know and I'll put up an aggregate post of everyone's entry. You don't need to have every meal come from HHM, even one or two is good, and the more we have along for the ride, the merrier!

Don't miss our other challenge currently running. For the chance to win a copy of Rose Levy Beranbaum's newest cookbook, Rose's Heavenly Cakes, see this post: http://www.halfhourmeals.com/food-for-thought/win-a-copy-of-roses-heavenly-cakes/ and get your entry in ASAP, the deadline for this delicious giveaway is Thursday, January 28 at 11:50 PM CST. Go have a look!