Welcome Home 30-Minute Cookbook: Quick & Easy Everyday Meals
By Hope Comerford and Bonnie Matthews
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About this ebook
You want to put a delicious home-cooked meal on the table but you don't have a lot of time. Welcome Home 30-Minute Cookbook has your back! Each of the 127 recipes take 30 minutes or less from prep to food on the table. Whether you prefer to use your stovetop, oven, Instant Pot, or slow cooker, there are plenty of options in this book for you.
Find dishes such as:
- Berry-Topped Wheat Pancakes
- Easy Chicken Fajitas
- Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Soup
- Barbecue Chicken Pizza
- BLT Pasta Salad
- Easy Enchilada Chicken
- Creamy Broccoli Soup
- Maple-Glazed Salmon
- Chicken Alfredo
- And more!
Hope Comerford
Hope Comerford is the blogger behind A Busy Mom’s Slow Cooker Adventures and is the author of The Gluten-Free Slow Cooker and editor or author of several Fix-It and Forget-It books including Fix-It and Forget-It Lazy and Slow Cookbook, Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking for Two, and Welcome Home Cookbook. She is passionate about slow-cooking and writing easy, delicious recipes. She lives in Clinton Township, Michigan.
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Welcome Home 30-Minute Cookbook - Hope Comerford
Breakfast
Greek Eggs
STOVETOP
Rosanne Hankins, Stevensville, MD
Makes 4 servings
Prep. Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 12–15 minutes
2 cloves garlic, sliced
¼ cup sliced white onion
1 Tbsp. oil
1 lb. fresh chopped spinach
8 eggs, beaten
1 Tbsp. fresh chopped oregano
4 oz. feta cheese
1.In large skillet, sauté garlic and onion in oil for 3–4 minutes.
2.Stir in spinach and let wilt.
3.Pour eggs and oregano into hot skillet.
4.Cook, turning 2–3 times, until eggs are lightly cooked, about 5 minutes.
5.Turn off heat; crumble cheese over top of spinach-egg mixture. Cover and let set for 2 minutes, or until cheese melts into eggs.
Variations:
1. For added color and flavor, stir half a sweet red bell pepper, chopped, into Step 1.
2. For additional flavor, add ¼ tsp. black or white pepper and ⅛ tsp. salt in Step 3.
Delicious Shirred Eggs
INSTANT POT
Hope Comerford, Clinton Township, MI
Makes 6 servings
Prep. Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 2–3 minutes
2 Tbsp. fresh minced onion
1 clove garlic, minced
6 Tbsp. skim milk, divided
6 jumbo eggs
6 Tbsp. fresh Parmesan cheese, grated, divided
Fresh cracked pepper
1 cup water
1.Spray 6 ramekins with nonstick cooking spray.
2.Evenly divide the minced onion and garlic between the 6 ramekins.
3.Pour 1 Tbsp. of milk into each ramekin.
4.Break an egg into each ramekin.
5.Top each egg with 1 Tbsp. freshly grated cheese.
6.Season with fresh cracked pepper.
7.Pour the water into the bottom of the Instant Pot. Place the trivet on top.
8.Arrange 3 ramekins on top of the trivet, then carefully stack the remaining 3 ramekins on top, staggering their positions so each ramekin on top is sitting between 2 on the bottom layer.
9.Secure the lid and set the vent to sealing.
10.Set the Instant Pot to low pressure and manually set the cook time to 2 minutes for runny yolks or 3 minutes for hard yolks.
11.When the cook time is over, manually release the pressure and remove the lid. Serve immediately.
Elegant Scrambled Eggs
STOVETOP
John D. Allen, Rye, CO
Makes 6–8 servings
Prep. Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes
12 eggs
½ tsp. salt
⅛ tsp. pepper
2 Tbsp. butter
2 Tbsp. whipping cream
1.Combine the first three ingredients in a large bowl. Beat until well mixed.
2.Melt butter in a skillet, making sure the bottom is covered. Add eggs. Set the heat at medium.
3.Stir constantly until eggs firm up but are not dry. Remove from heat.
4.Stir in the cream. Serve immediately.
Old-Timey French Toast
STOVETOP
Jennifer Kellogg, Whately, MA
Makes 4–6 servings
Prep. Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 5–8 minutes
1 cup milk
2 whole eggs
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp. grated nutmeg, divided
16-oz. loaf of sliced bread, white or wheat
1.In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs, sugar, and half of the nutmeg.
2.Spray bottom of skillet with cooking spray.
3.Dip individual slices of bread into milk mixture and place in hot skillet. Cook until golden brown.
4.Sprinkle each slice with remaining nutmeg. Flip over to brown the other side.
5.Serve immediately.
Oven French Toast
OVEN
Rhoda Nissley, Parkesburg, PA
Makes 6–8 servings
Prep. Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes
1 cup orange juice
6 beaten eggs
¼ tsp. ground cardamom, optional
1 stick (½ cup) butter
12 slices sturdy white bread
½–1 cup maple syrup, warmed
1.Preheat oven to 450°F.
2.In a shallow bowl, combine orange juice and eggs. Blend well.
3.Add cardamom if you wish.
4.Divide butter between two 10 × 15-inch jelly roll pans.
5.Place pans in oven to melt butter. Remove from oven when butter is melted.
6.One by one, dip bread slices in egg mixture to coat both sides. Place 6 slices on each pan.
7.Bake at 450°F for 5 minutes. Turn each slice over and bake 5 more minutes.
8.Drizzle with syrup before serving.
Strawberry Pancakes
STOVETOP
Becky Frey, Lebanon, PA
Makes 15 medium-sized pancakes, or 4–5 servings
Prep. Time: 10–15 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup crushed strawberries*
¼ cup oil
1 tsp. almond extract
2 cups whole wheat (or white) flour
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1.In large mixing bowl beat eggs until fluffy.
2.Stir buttermilk, strawberries, oil, and almond extract into eggs.
3.In a separate bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and baking soda. Add to wet ingredients. Beat together with whisk just until smooth.
4.Heat skillet or griddle until a few drops of water sizzle when sprinkled on top. Fry pancakes until bubbly on top. Flip and continue cooking until browned. Strawberries can scorch, so keep checking to make sure they’re not burning. Turn the heat lower if necessary.
Serving suggestion:
Top finished pancakes with vanilla yogurt and fruit sauce and serve for breakfast, brunch, a light lunch, or supper, or as a dessert.
* You can use fresh or frozen berries. If frozen, thaw them and drain them well before mixing into batter.
Berry-Topped Wheat Pancakes
STOVETOP
Anne Nolt, Thompsontown, PA
Makes 6 servings
Prep. Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15–20 minutes
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
½ cup wheat germ
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. baking soda
¾ cup orange juice
¾ cup plain yogurt
2 Tbsp. canola oil
1 large egg, or 2 egg whites
2 cups blueberries
Blueberry Sauce:
¼ cup sugar
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 cup water
4 cups blueberries
1.In medium bowl, combine dry ingredients. Mix well.
2.In small bowl, combine orange juice, yogurt, oil, and egg. Blend well.
3.Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients.
4.Add 2 cups blueberries.
5.Stir everything together gently, just until dry ingredients are moistened.
6.Pour batter by ¼ cupfuls onto hot, lightly greased griddle or into large skillet.
7.Turn when bubbles form on top.
8.Cook until second side is golden brown. Continue this process until all the batter is cooked.
9.Meanwhile, make the blueberry sauce. In a medium saucepan combine sugar and cornstarch. Gradually stir in water. Add the blueberries.
10.Bring to a boil over medium heat, and let boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
11.Remove from the heat. Serve with pancakes.
Apple Cinnamon Pan Biscuits
OVEN
Gretchen Maust, Keezletown, VA
Makes 20 servings
Prep. Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15–20 minutes
3½ cups self-rising flour
½ tsp. cinnamon
⅔ cup shortening
1 large apple
1¼ cups milk
1.In a mixing bowl, stir the flour and cinnamon to combine. Cut in the shortening with a pastry cutter until thoroughly mixed.
2.Grate the apple and stir it gently into mixture.
3.Add the milk and mix lightly. Too much stirring will cause the biscuits to be tough.
4.Pat the dough into a greased jelly-roll pan. Bake at 400°F just until lightly browned.
5.Add Topping (recipe below) if you wish. Cut into squares