Thursday, July 26, 2007

Cooking: Speed up dinner preparation

 
 

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via LH -mac -news -roundup -sponsors by Gina Trapani on Jul 16, 2007

speeddinner.jpgReal Simple magazine offers 10 ways to speed up dinner preparation by using 5 minute windows throughout the day to get parts of it done, like pre-cooking pasta, chopping vegetables, and sorting groceries before you get home.

Measure (ingredients) ahead of time, combining all the spices you need for a dish in a plastic bag or a small bowl. This gives you a head start and helps keep you from forgetting a spice or a garnish when you're rushing to put the meal together. "When you're ready to cook, you just dump, dump, dump," says chef Jennifer Bushman.
How do you make dinner time easier? Let us know in the comments.


 
 

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