Sign up via Facebook!
Now you can use your Facebook account to sign up for HalfHourMeals.com!
Account info
Choose a profile pic

Upload a photo of yourself, or something else equally yummy!
Join our growing community of food lovers! Store your favorite recipes, rate and review other recipes, share them with friends, find helpful information and tips, and much, much more. Signing up is quick, easy and free!
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 15 Minutes |
These appetizer are a huge hit. Make sure to use high quality ingredients especially for the blue cheese, crab meat and bacon. Try to get smoked bacon.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 5 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 15 Minutes |
Here is an excellent lamb dish grilled the sicilian way. For those concerned about the health hazards of charcoal-grilling producing carcinogens called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), no need to worry. Use leaner meats that drip less fat. Fat, wh…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 0 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 20 Minutes |
This was one of mom's dinner tradition, she would make spaghetti with sauce and then the roasted meat to go with it. Now I do this for my family. My husband looks forward to it when I cook this.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 45 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
This is another one of my spur-of-the-moment innovations. I used the same crust as in the "Savory Meat Strudel" and stuffed it with some of my favorite breakfast ingredients (eggs, cheese, and lobster).
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
Anyone who cares about what they eat knows that Ragu is not the sauce that comes out of a jar. This is the classic Italian meat sauce. It can be served with fresh tagliatelle egg pasta, or spaghetti. This is also the same sauce that is used to make a trad…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
This dish was originally given to me by my Italian mother in law as a meatless meatball by using breadcrumbs rather than meat. I took it a step further and added in some bulgar which gave it a meatier texture and was a great healthy substitute for the me…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 40 Minutes |
You will love this super easy, creamy pot pie recipe! Talk about a great way to get your family to eat their vegetables. You can change it up by using ham or turkey instead of chicken, also add fresh vegetables and herbs to give it a homemade touch.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
Garbanzos is a Spanish dish, best discription is a chickpea stew, very popular as a Tapas or a main dish on the Canary Isles. Ideal when entertaining large numbers, the recipe is for 4, but can be increased easily. As with most well flavoured foods, it c…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 70 Minutes |
A friend gave me this recipe years ago and I started making it for my grandkids, when they come home it's always, Nana you going to make me Meat Boats and Peanut Butter Pie. I gave this recipe to one of my grandsons girlfriend and he took it away from he…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 10 Minutes |
I love using Asian inspired ingredients when preparing a steak. The salty/sweetness really takes the flavor of the meat to a whole new level. Flank steak seems to work best because it is a thinner cut of meat, but still has a lot of juiciness to it so…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
In the cold and foggy summers of San Francisco, it is the perfect time to make soups. This soup is called mustava. It is a type of shurpa soup because it includes the typical meat and rice of shurpa except the meat is sautéed in this recipe, which adds…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 25 Minutes |
This evolved from wanting to use up some left over cooked white rice and left over canned pumpkin. I added shrimp to make it a meal but you could add chicken or another meat.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 15 Minutes |
I don't know what they put in Chinese take out that makes it taste so good, but rarely am I able to replicate the flavors in my own kitchen. This fried rice comes pretty close. You can easily substitute with whatever meat and vegetables you have on hand,…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 20 Minutes |
This is a treat with a loaf of Italian bread and a colorful side salad. Enjoy with Love, Catherine
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 15 Minutes |
A simple n fast to prepare chinese stir fry fresh noodle with shrimps, chicken meat, green leafy vegetable and beansprout. Good as lunch or dinner and can be cooked with or without dark soy sauce.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 25 Minutes |
My favorite recipe of all time. It initally was my Mother's and she made a version very similar to this. There were some items my sister didn't like so she added some of her own touches. Years later I was out of some ingredients so I substituted a few thi…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 10 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 10 Minutes |
Sicilians eat very little dark meat. Sicily is an arid island, we don’t have much in the way of pastures. Cows are raised primarily for lactation, and production of cheese. Most meat is imported, except for chicken, goat, rabbit and some other wild gam…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 30 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 30 Minutes |
Nowadays there are more chicken recipes out there than days available to be able to cook each one. It is a very popular and versatile type of meat and it pairs really well with a large variety of ingredients. What I really like about chicken is that you c…
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 25 Minutes |
I was bored one day I was on vacation and decided I had to cook.
| Rating: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 60 Minutes |
This is not a recipe but some great advice from a short order cook in a diner