20-40-60-Minute Dinners: Meals to Match the Time You Have

Whether you only have twenty minutes or an hour--or something in between--you can deliver a delicious entrée and side dish to the table with these quick, easy, and crowd-pleasing recipes. Organized by "available time" rather than by "kind of dish," this unique cookbook is designed to help the time-conscious cook with dinner planning.

Enjoy "Mac and Cheese with Candied Sausage and Green Peas" from the "20-Minutes or Less" section. You can create a hearty "Vegetable Stew with Blue Corn Chips and Poached Egg" in forty minutes. If you have sixty minutes in the morning to prep, you can make "Sweet and Spicy Turkey Taco Salad" in a slow cooker. And if you've got more time, plan ahead by making easy-to-freeze dinners on the weekend for a quick bake-and-serve weeknight meal.

As a busy mother of four, Kate Otterstrom also makes dinnertime fun with recipes you might not expect could work for dinner--including "Toothpick Appetizers for Dinner" and breakfast favorites like "Slow-Cooker Cheese, Sausage, and Mushroom Strata."

With the ingredients paired side-by-side with the instructions, it is easy to learn a new recipe or pick up where you left off after an interruption. Since Kate is gluten-intolerant herself, each recipe also includes instructions on how to adapt it for a gluten-free option, along with a dedicated space for you to jot down notes for additional variations.

In today's busy world, time is precious, and this cookbook can help you get dinner on the table with however much time you have.

Table of Contents
Welcome to the Table!
Your Recipe File
Your Kitchen
The Cast

College-Style Dinner: Drive-Thru, Quick Alternatives
The Essential Pantry
Supermarket Small Bites (Or, a Great Picnic)
Deli Soup with Cornbread and Green Salad
Mac and Cheese with Candied Sausage and Green Peas
Corn Chips and Chili with Vegetables and Dip
Club Sandwiches with Potato Chips
Chicken in the Park with Deli Sides, Chips, and Cookies
Cheesy Scrambled Eggs with Fruit, Bacon, Pickles, and Toasted English Muffins

Quick-Prep Dinners: Aka the Mom-Chef's Handbook
Toothpick Dinner with Sausage, Roasted Potatoes and Onions, Tomatoes and Feta, and Salted Caramel Apple Slices
Vegetable Stew That Even My Kids Like
Asian-Style Chicken Salad Bar with Steamed Rice
Pasta alla Carbonara with Green Peas
"Hawaiian" Haystacks with Orange Tofu
Lox and Cream Cheese Bagels with Classic Caesar Salad
Pancakes with Homemade Syrup and Smokey Carrots

Slow-Cooker Dinners: For When You're Coming In Hot or Exhausted
Seven-Layer Dip with Tortilla Chips and Crudité
Tortilla Soup
Sweet and Spicy Turkey Carnitas Taco Salad
Green and Gold Bean Stew
Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Crunchy Potato Chips
Swedish Meatballs with Roasted Potatoes and Green Peas
Slow-Cooker Strata with Green Salad

Frozen Dinners: When You Give Yourself a Present
Party Appetizers for No Particular Reason
Chicken and Corn Casserole with Sauteed Cabbage
Navy Bean Chili with Cheesy Gorditas and Honey Butter
English Muffin Mini Pizzas with Green Salad
Meatloaf with Steamed Broccoli and Mashed Potatoes

Time-Consuming Dinners: Labors of Love and Flights of Fancy
Sushi Rolls
Homemade Noodle Soup with Mashed Potatoes and Green Peas
Classic Salad Bar with Chickpea Socca
Thai-Style Noodles with Cucumber Salad, Sticky Rice, and Peanut Sauce
Moroccan-Style Chickpea Stew with Bread and Preserved Lemon Salsa
Focaccia-Style Pizza with Greek Salad
Brazilian Dinner

Accompaniments: Mostly Vegetables
Green Pea Salad
Marinated Kale Salad
Sweet Onion Green Beans
Roasted Cauliflower with Thyme
Breakfast: Here We Go Again!
Granola
Crunchy Granola Bars
Waffles
Poached Eggs on Toast
Baking: Comfort and Magic
Gluten-Free Flour Blend (Gf Blend)

Quick Breads
Biscuits for Dinner or Shortcake
Gluten-Free Almond Poppy Seed Muffins
Gluten-Free Applesauce Doughnuts
Yeast Breads
Flatbread
Rolls: Dinner or Cinnamon
Gluten-Free Baguette
Pastry
Pie Pastry
Raspberry Cobbler
Cakes
Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Almond Texas Sheet Cake
Brownies
Cookies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
Candies: Or, What I Learned from My Grandmother
English Toffee
Peanut Butter Brittle
Index