Hoisin Pork Wraps: Dinner in under 30 Minutes

By David Hu
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On those days when I come home from work exhausted, I turn to a select group of recipes: those that can be prepped AND cooked in under 30 minutes. These are my go-to meals. Each packs a lot of flavor, yet they can be made with minimal effort.

Among my favorites are pasta carbonara, pork tonkatsu, mint pesto couscous, and pizzetta with California dried plums and caramelized onions. Joining this select group of recipes is Hoisin Pork Wraps.

This recipe has only a handful of ingredients and almost no prep work. The only trick is mastering the technique of searing the pork. When searing meat, once you put it down in the hot pan, don’t mess with it – leave it alone until the meat is seared.

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A Quick Dinner for One

By Lori Powell
For One or Two Bites, a blog for singles and couples

Frozen ravioli is a great shortcut to putting dinner on the table. The key is to find the brand that you like.

Fresh Market in my neighborhood makes some exceptional flavors such as pumpkin, roasted vegetable and a cheese one that is not all about the fillers or preservatives. The dough is thin and tender, and cooks up in no time.

So I have dinner on the table in minutes without any guilt that I’m eating something that’s not healthful. The other great thing is that frozen ravioli are easy to portion out since they are individual pouches of deliciousness.

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Long Day, Short Night

By Lori Powell

Lately I have been working into the evening Monday through Friday and then at least one day on the weekend. So I’m trying to get better at meal planning.

I love leftovers so that’s not the problem. I just don’t love the same dish for three nights in a row.

So I am trying to make things that I can transform easily into something else. One of my tricks is roasting a ton of vegetables -- roasted vegetables are one of fall and winter’s delights. All you need is a little olive oil, salt and pepper, and any fresh or dried herbs that you have kicking around, and you have a meal starter for a week’s worth of dinners.

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Some Quick Meals to Survive the Holiday Frenzy

By Sandy Hu

From Thanksgiving until the New Year, there are never enough hours in the day to get ready for the holidays.  While you’re trimming the tree, shopping for gifts, baking cookies and preparing to host parties, the daily cooking still must get done.

Special Fork, a mobile recipe website, was built to solve what to cook at 4 p.m. when you haven’t yet decided what’s for dinner.  While spur-of-the moment decision-making is fine most of the year, during the holiday frenzy, it’s good to have some quick meals in mind for the week so you can plan ahead and stock up on the ingredients you’ll need.

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Got 30 Minutes? Time Enough to Prep and Cook these Special Fork Recipes

By Sandy Hu

At Special Fork, all our recipes take no more than 30 minutes of prep time. Cooking time is extra. But some of our speediest recipes can be prepped AND cooked in about 30 minutes. Occasionally, I’ll be highlighting some of these recipes from the Special Fork mobile recipe database because we all can use some timesaving dinner ideas in our cooking repertoire.

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