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Are you planning a special dinner for Valentine's Day? I love to cook special dinners, but do not have much prep time (sound familiar?). I have 30-minutes dinner menu suggestions for you! You really can prepare a special dinner in 30 minutes – Flat!

You will find that the use of several cooking methods, mix and match, to put food on the table quickly. The foods I use to accelerate the preparation is indicated in parentheses, they can always replace your favorite made-from scratch recipes when you have more time. Let's get ready …

Poultry Dinner:

Crab stuffed chicken (boneless, skinless chicken)

Pasta with fresh vegetables

Crabapple Salad Pink May (crabapples jar)

Banana Napoleon (puff pastry, instant banana pudding mix)

Glazed Cornish Hens (with microwave brown sugar / mustard glaze)

Pecan Stuffing (box cornbread stuffing mix)

Dillen Carrots (baby carrots pouches)

Mixed greens with cranberries and citrus fruits (green bags, citrus jar)

Pecan Pie with whipped cream (bought cake, whipped cream canned)

Turkey Breast with Cranberry Glaze (crock pot, canned cranberry sauce)

Baked potatoes (microwave oven then to finish)

Red Pepper and Broccoli Medley (mixed bags)

Pound Cake with Ambrosia (bought cake, fruit jar)

Beef, lamb, pork Dinner:

Topper steak with blue cheese (blue cheese, Panko bread crumbs)

Baked potatoes (microwave oven after finishing)

Caesar salad (mixed bags)

Grown Up Smore

Lamb chops Savory Butter

Rice and noodles Mix (boxed rice mix)

Parslied Carrots (baby carrots in bags)

Of beets, Goat Cheese & Walnut Salad (red tip lettuce, beets, canned, bottled vinaigrette)

Minted pear with ice cream and raspberries (pear halves preserved)

Stuffed Fillets Asia

Fried Rice (mixed rice)

Ginger-Sesame Salad (mixed salad bags)

Un-Baked Alaska (bought cake and ice cream, chocolate syrup)

Seafood Dinners:

Surf and Turf (cleaned and deveined shrimp, steak or beef top sirloin cuts)

New Potatoes

Caesar salad (mixed salad bags)

Strawberries with Chocolate Eclairs (puff pastry, instant pudding mix, chocolate syrup)

Shrimp Scampi (cleaned and deveined shrimp)

Linguini

Asparagus

Mandarin Orange Salad (canned mandarin sections of Orange)

Strawberries Romanoff

Grilled salmon with dill butter

Long grain and wild rice (mixed case)

Snow Peas

Mixed salad (bagged salad greens, tossed dressing)

Lemon Affogato (bought sorbet)

Vegetarian Dinner:

Linguini Primavera

Watermelon / Raspberry / Strawberry Salad (jar raspberry vinaigrette)

Fresh Fruit Tart (fruit jar, bought pie shell)

Fresh Tomato and Double Cheese Cake (pastry)

French green beans (French beans canned green)

Pineapple Salad Pineapple (canned and mandarin orange segments, spinach in bags)

Embellished Chocolate Cookies (prepared cookie dough)

French Onion Soup

Winter Mixed green salad (bagged salad greens, tossed dressing)

Cheesecake Pears stuffed with fresh raspberries (canned pears, instant pudding mix cheesecake)

An appetizer course will make your meal even more special. I like elegance hand menu for an elegant home for a wonderful meal: brie with mango chutney, smoked salmon with dill sauce, grapes and a dish of vegetables to be well with dill sauce, crackers, gourmet olives.

I sincerely hope you have fun with your holiday planning and preparation of meals,

Elizabeth Randall and Family

These and other menu and party ideas can be found at http://www.MomsMealConnection.com

The 30-Minute Menus give you instructions for preparing your complete meal in 30 minutes – flat! Party in a Bag offers ideas for 30-minute appetizer courses or cocktail parties.

MomsMealConnection is designed to help busy moms everywhere prepare meals – family meals, holiday celebrations, and special dinners plus entertaining.

I am the mother of five grown children who are now starting families of their own so to say that I have ‘been there, done that’ is an understatement! My trick is to plan weekly menus and grocery shop only once per week. I am a firm believer that once-a-week meal planning and grocery shopping saves a lot of time and money! We can all use more of those commodities.

I sincerely hope you have fun with your meal planning and preparation,

Elizabeth Randall and Family

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