Fast Easy Recipes

Chicken and mushrooms lighten up chili
This easy one-pot chili is perfect for a couple or a crowd. Chili always is a family-pleaser. Using chicken and mushrooms gives a light, tasty result. All of the ingredients cook in a large skillet. It's a meal on its own, or serve quick-cooking rice and a ready-to-eat salad on the side.

Ray: Be heart-healthy and heart-friendly this Valentine's Day
COOKS' CORNERBY SARA RAY Valentine's Day will be here before we know it, with all of the cards, hearts, flowers, perfumes and candy that go along with it. Although often associated with sweethearts, there are valentine cards for plenty of other people in our lives -- mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and perhaps your nephew's mother-in-law's ...

Chicken and mushrooms lighten up game-day chili
This easy one-pot chili is perfect for a couple or a crowd on Super Bowl Sunday. Chili is always a family pleaser. Using chicken and mushrooms gives a light, tasty result. All of the ingredients cook in a large skillet. It’s a meal on its own, or serve quick-cooking rice and a ready-to-eat salad on the side.

Dinner ready in 40 minutes
This quick weeknight recipe features good-for-you grains, courtesy of Massachusetts cooking instructor and food writer Maria Speck. Her "Ancient Grains for Modern Meals" (Ten Speed Press) made The Washington Post food section's list of top 10 cookbooks for 2011.

Hoisin and sherry flavor chicken stir-fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Chinese New Year inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

Hoisin and Sherry Flavor Stir-Fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce are used in this chicken stir-fry meal inspired by the recent start of Chinese New Year. (MCT) Published: Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.

Hoisin flavors quick stir-fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Thoughts of the start of the Chinese New Year next week inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

Salmon Dinner a Refreshing Treat
Ginger-soy sauce seared salmon coated with toasted sesame seeds is a quick dinner to brighten a winter evening.

A stew of a story: How beef bourguignon became the menu instead of coq au vin
Beef bourguignon is a classic French stew and wonderful winter meal. You can make it one pot in the recipe found in "The Pleasures of Cooking for One" by Judith Jones.

Cooking With Herbs: The Alice B. Toklas Recipe That Carole Greenwood Won’t Cook
[WARNING: Do not attempt this at home. Unless maybe you have a qualifying medical condition . If you do, please consult your doctor and/or lawyer as results may vary.]