Costco, the members-only wholesale club, sells two types of frozen lasagna under their store brand, Kirkland's Signature, and occasionally offers a fresh version in the deli. These preassembled dinners save time spent precooking the filling and assembling a lasagna from scratch.
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Roasted, sliced almonds offer a healthy and filling alternative to the many unhealthy snacks that might tempt you throughout the day. Try a handful of roasted sliced almonds as a quick snack or as a topper for a fresh garden salad, fruit or cereal.
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Chicken cutlets are boneless, skinless chicken breast pieces with even thickness throughout, making them well-suited for grilling. Grill them with only light salt and pepper to add protein for a salad, or make a marinade with Asian or Latin American ingredients to make an international main dish.
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Throw out everything you think you know about cooking steaks, especially chuck steaks. Chuck steaks come from the portion of beef located in the chest and front leg portion, which is naturally lean and tough. Chuck steak is basically a chuck roast cut into thinner pieces, usually 1 1/2 inches or less.
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Your freezer allows you to store and preserve cooked peppers and onions, whether you've grown a bumper crop or found a sale at the grocery store. The frozen surplus cuts down on food preparation time because you don't need to cut up fresh peppers and onions every time a recipe calls for them.
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Simple buttercream icing is typically flavored with vanilla extract to add something beyond the sugar and butter flavors, but the vanilla extract can be omitted or substituted for a different flavor. You can still use the icing to top cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more.
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Pies from scratch can take several hours to make, when you factor in the time it takes to prepare the dough, make the filling and assemble the dessert. Many home bakers find that it's worth it to make a second pie at the same time.
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Salt often rescues bland dishes. Adding too much salt can make food unbearable, however, leaving you scrambling to reverse a culinary disaster. This may happen when you misread a recipe or if the lid falls off the salt shaker over the pan.
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Thin-sliced bottom round steaks can be cooked in a skillet, but it's easy to over-cook the meat and make the steaks tough. Bottom round steaks come from the beef rump, a tough cut of meat with connective tissue that is best broken down with moist cooking methods such as braising.
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Quinoa is packed with healthy protein, vitamins and minerals, and a batch takes about 15 to 20 minutes to cook. For convenient and fast meals, cook up an extra batch, store it in the refrigerator for as long as four days and reheat it in the microwave as needed.
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Grilled boudin sausage offers a Cajun culinary experience packed with healthy rice, vegetables and pork shoulder meat. Like many other popular grilling sausages, boudins don't take long on the grill because they are usually pre-cooked. You can heat the center and brown the casing of the sausages in about 10 minutes.
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Beef chuck roasts are often irregular in size and shape, which leads to uneven cooking and an unattractive serving display. Chuck roasts are commonly rolled and tied in a uniform round shape to ensure even cooking.
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Crispy potato skins generally take up to two hours to prepare when baked in the oven from start to finish, but you can use the microwave to make quick potato skins.
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Try your microwave as a fast and easy alternative to baking or frying when you want to cook apple slices. You can eat the cooked apples plain right out of the microwave, or use them to make anything from applesauce to microwave apple crisp.
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Kretschmar brand meats, which originated in Europe in 1883, include fully cooked, boneless whole hams that you may serve for a holiday feast or a casual meal.
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Mushrooms sauteed in butter transform from bland and rubbery to soft with a subtle, nutty flavor in a matter of minutes. Use this basic technique to soften mushrooms for cream of mushroom soup or to top a sizzling hot steak, using mushroom varieties such as white mushrooms, portabellas or chanterelles.
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