I always love recipes that not only promise lightning fast results, but give you a very specific time frame in which they will be completed: you will have a steaming hot dish on your table in exactly 20 minutes! they say. And I always wonder, do they take into account how long it takes to assemble your ingredients? To figure out where the heck you left your mustard powder, which you haven't used since the Clinton administration, to find a clean knife, to eye all your bowls and very carefully and with great deliberation select the correct size? Do they take into account, once you are in the thick of things, your average chopping speed, how good you are at, say, separating an egg without sliming your entire kitchen and the dog, the point where you remember oh no, I forgot to measure out three and four quarters teaspoons of sesame seeds while you are in the middle of whisking a sauce that will burn if you stop, even for a split instance. I suspect, in the end, not. But I suspect that even without those very important considerations taken into consideration that these 20 recipes from Cooking Light are going to be lightning fast indeed. Just a few good ingredients, some easy techniques, and bam, you have got chicken dinner on the table tonight. Maybe in 30 minutes, if you can't find your damn zester.
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