Light chicken salad sandwich filling with shredded carrots, celery, grated onion, and light mayo. Make it ahead and stash it in the fridge for quick lunches all week.
Southern yellow squash casserole with sauteed onions, green chiles, crushed saltines, and a bubbly cheddar cheese top. A quick, comforting side dish that puts summer squash to work.
Flank steak stir fry with bell peppers, onion, celery, and fresh ginger in a soy-cornstarch sauce. Thin-sliced beef stays tender with a quick two-stage cook.
Mexican almond red sauce with ground toasted almonds, tomato, onion, garlic, paprika, and dried chiles. A quick 15-minute sauce that uses almonds as a thickener for rich, nutty heat.
Boiled wontons tossed in oyster sauce, light soy sauce, and sesame oil with green onion garnish. A quick 10-minute Chinese appetizer or side dish with bold umami flavor.
No-cook Tex-Mex tuna salad tossed in a creamy picante-cumin dressing with olives and green onions. Serve in taco shells or over chips for a quick lunch.
Salmon Basel Style is a traditional Swiss preparation - flour-dredged fillets pan-fried in butter, topped with golden onion rings, and finished with a quick fish stock pan sauce.
Japanese cucumber pickles: thin-sliced cucumber and red onion in a sweet-tart rice vinegar brine with chili and cilantro. A quick no-cook refrigerator pickle, crisp and bright, ready to serve alongside grilled meats, chicken or fish.
Quick herbed brown sauce simmered with chopped onion, parsley, tarragon, thyme, and a splash of vinegar. A savory, tangy pan sauce for chicken or roasted meats in just 15 minutes.
Szechuan mapo tofu with ground beef, green onions, and garlic in a spicy sesame-soy sauce. A quick 15-minute high-protein stir-fry that's low-carb and diabetic-friendly.
Cherry tomato and grilled onion salad tossed in a double vinegar dressing with white wine and balsamic vinegar, olive oil, garlic, and Italian parsley. A quick warm-cool side dish.
Salm nach Basler Art (Basel-style salmon): Swiss-inspired pan-fried salmon fillets topped with crisp browned onion rings and a quick fish-stock pan sauce. Served with boiled potatoes.
Mushroom steak pan-sears lean steaks and finishes them with a quick pan sauce of mushrooms, onion, Worcestershire, and beef stock. Pub-style steak dinner ready in under 20 minutes.
Drunken pioneers pasta: wagon wheels topped with sauteed peppers and onions in a quick red wine and beef-stock sauce with basil and rosemary. Pantry weeknight pasta in 25 minutes.
Country-style sandwich maker pockets stuffed with egg, grated cheese, zucchini, and onion, toasted in a sandwich press. A quick hot snack from the toastie-maker era of home cooking.
Okra shoyu-zuke quick-pickles thinly sliced raw okra and onion in rice vinegar and soy sauce. Three-ingredient Japanese refrigerator pickle ready in minutes for rice bowls and bento.
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