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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 29

Weeknight Winners®

These recipes aren’t all 30-or-fewer-minute meals, although many of them take no time at all. But these are all recipes that REAL home cooks make with REAL ingredients. None of those dump ‘n stir ditties that use 90% packaged ingredients with unpronounceable ingredients. They’re just as quick but infinitely more satisfying.

A metal skillet filled with easy skillet lasagna and garnished with basil leaves.
A pot of smooth mashed potatoes--made with plenty of butter, cream--with a wooden spoon and pat of butter on top

Velvet Mashed Potatoes

35 mins

A white bowl filled with carrot and lentil soup and a wooden bowl of cooked rice beside it.

Carrot and Lentil Soup

40 mins

A person carrying a decorative blue and white serving platter loaded with five-spice grilled pork chops.

Five-Spice Grilled Pork Chops

1 hr 15 mins

Seven oven fried drumsticks with different coatings on a white background.

Oven Fried Drumsticks

50 mins

A wooden cutting board with a carved grilled Greek chicken and a knife resting beside it.

Grilled Greek Chicken

1 d 55 mins

Half of a whole salmon on a cedar plank over glowing coals.

Cedar Plank–Grilled Salmon

40 mins

A cast-iron skillet with 8 whole roasted onions with papery skins and creamy interiors.

Whole Roasted Onions

1 hr

A grilled vegetable and goat cheese sandwich, made with grilled onion, eggplant, and squash on a cutting board being drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette.

Grilled Vegetable and Goat Cheese Sandwiches

1 hr

An open face egg salad sandwich on toasted whole wheat.

Open-Face Egg Salad Sandwich

15 mins

A plate with a trio of deviled eggs - horseradish deviled egg, truffled deviled egg, and smoked salmon deviled egg.

A Trio of Deviled Eggs

20 mins

White bowl of fresh peas with mint.

Fresh Peas with Mint

15 mins

A lamb burger on half a bun topped with grilled Spanish onions.

Lamb Burger ~ Bifteki Arniou

45 mins

Two bowls, one filled with smoked paprika and chickpea soup, with a spoon resting inside, and the other bowl empty.

Smoked Paprika and Chickpea Soup

30 mins

Casserole dish of root vegetable gratin topped with bubbly brown cheese on wood table

Root Vegetable Gratin

2 hrs

A bowl filled with basic polenta next to a mug of tea, a cloth, and a spoon resting on the side of the bowl.

Basic Polenta

30 mins

Three personal pan lasagnas in glass dishes.

Personal Pan Lasagna

1 hr

An earthenware bowl with an open lasagna of mushrooms, pine nuts, and thyme in it and a fork resting in the bowl and a glass of white wine in the background.

Open Mushroom Lasagna

30 mins

A white casserole dish with a roasted, spiced chicken it in, flanked by a dish of avocado salad and a bowl of lime wedges.

Peruvian Roast Chicken

1 hr 45 mins

Nine colorful braised carrots on a white platter.

Braised Carrots with Orange and Rosemary

30 mins

A white bowl of romesco sauce, a slice of bread nearby with the sauce on top.

Romesco Sauce

20 mins

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