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	* Exported from MasterCook * Ideas For Someone Who Loves To Cook But Has No Time Recipe By : Martha Serving Size : Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Volume 6-06 June 2003 Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- No ingredients Rediscover the crock pot. A whole chicken or a beef shoulder roast will be cooking while you're working. Then you have meat for several meals in advance. We've recently discovered those thin spring roll wrappers. you just soak one in a bowl of hot water for a minute or two, then wrap up whatever you'd like. I like to layer a raw mustard leaf or some small spinach leaves first so the bright color shows through and if the wrapper breaks, there is still an inner wrap. If you've cubed up some of the chicken or thinly sliced the roast, you already have the filling. Add some chopped vegetables, and roll tightly. That hot Chinese mustard powder, blended with either white wine, beer or even water makes a good dip for the spring rolls. For a Mexican or SW taste, and you don't want to soak and cook a pot of beans all day, try those 'instant' bean flakes; they've been processed and flaked so all you add is hot water to make refried beans. The black beans are pretty tasty alone, but adding chopped onion and tomato helps them a lot. A side dish we like a lot is onion! I peel a big sweet onion and cut a large X in the top of it. Pat butter down inside the X and season with a little salt and pepper. Put it inside a small bowl that fits the onion closely (when it cooks, it'll kinda fall apart). Then microwave until it's clear and tender. One onion is enough for 2 or 3 people as an aside. Obviously, when you do have the chance to cook, prepare more than for just one meal. If you're having mashed potatoes, cook enough for another meal or so also. You don't have to mash them all, but you can make a quick scallop potato dish or a topping for shepherd's pie another night. The same with rice and it freezes well after it's been cooked. Corn on the cob is almost instant dish if you scrape the kernels off the cob and cook briefly in a little skillet with oil or butter. Yellow squash, zucchini, okra, most of the summertime vegetables take to brief cooking methods also. Add them chopped to penne or other short pasta with a cream sauce and there's a light pasta salad that took little time to prepare. (However long it takes to boil the pasta.) Contributed to the FareShare Gazette by Martha; 27 June 2003. www.fareshare.net - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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