Quick-Start Homemade

About Quick Start Homemade

Southern Living Quick-Start Homemade gives moms a jumpstart on making dinner after a long day. Using pantry staples and go-to ingredients like pasta, salad greens, bought pizza dough, eggs, rotisserie chicken and other short-cut essentials easily picked-up from the store, it’s now simple to have a homemade dinner on the table every night of the week.

Each nutritious recipe has been triple-tested by the Southern Living test kitchen and Quick-Start Homemade includes great pasta dishes like Skillet Ziti, made in half the time of baked, and Green Bean Pasta Salad with Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette, a 30-minute recipe with an extra tip for preparing the recipe ahead of time and freshening up before serving. The “Pastry & Pizza Dough” chapter lets fresh pizza dough, piecrust dough or puff pastry do most of the work and features inventive pizza recipes perfect for a mid-week meal, as well as savory hand pies and pot pies. In “Rotisserie Chicken,” crowd-pleasing dinners like Chicken Enchiladas and Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Biscuits are no-hassle, but with a homemade touch.

The first recipe I made was the Pizza Spaghetti Casserole and it has made its way into my regular recipe rotation. Next time I make it I think I’ll make double and freeze one so that I can just defrost and bake it on a really busy night.

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Pizza Spaghetti Casserole-Southern Living Quick Start Homemade

Prep Time 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Servings 6 servings

Author cindy

Ingredients

• 12 oz uncooked spaghetti
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1 lb package mild ground pork sausage
• 2 oz sliced turkey pepperoni
• 26 oz jar tomato-basil pasta sauce
• 1/4 c grated Parmesan cheese
• 8 oz packaged shredded Italian three-cheese blend

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Cook spaghetti with salt according to package directions
• Drain well and place in a lighlty greased 13x9 baking dish
  
• Brown sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat. stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until meat crumbles and is no longer pink
  
• Drain and set aside in a bowl
• Wipe skillet clean
• Add pepperoni to the skillet and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, 4 minutes until slightly crisp
  
• (Place pepperoni on a paper towel lined plate to soak up any grease)
• Top spaghetti in baking dish with sausage
  
• Pour sauce over sausage
  
• Arrange half of pepperoni slices evenly over pasta sauce.
  
• Sprinkle evenly with cheeses
  
• Arrange remaining half of pepperoni slices evenly over cheese.
  
• Cover with nonstick or lightly greased aluminum foil
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
• Remove foil
• Bake 10 more minutes or until cheese is melted and just begins to brown

Notes

1. I used regular pepperoni instead of turkey pepperoni
2. I felt the casserole was a bit dry for my taste so I heated up some additional sauce and pored it over the top of my serving. Others like it just the way it was.

Disclosure: This is a compensated post that includes affiliate links. All opinions are 100% mine.

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I made the Banana-Caramel Ice Cream Pie for my dad for Father’s Day.

Banana-Caramel Ice Cream Pie

Prep time 15 minutes plus freezing time
Serves 12

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups light vanilla ice cream

1 9inch ready to use chocolate cookie pie crust

1/2 cup hot fudge sauce

2 bananas sliced

1 1/2 cups chocolate-chocolate chip ice cream (I just used chocolate ice cream)

2 1/2 cups dulce-de-leche ice cream

1 1/2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed

walnuts for garnish if desired

Directions

1. Spoon vanilla ice cream into cookie crust, spread evenly. Freeze about 15 minutes or until firm.

2. Spoon fudge sauce into ziptop freezer bag, snip 1 corner and pipe sauce in an even layer over ice cream. Top with bananas. Freeze about 30 minutes or until just firm.

3. Spoon chocolate-chocolate chip ice cream over bananas, spreading as evenly as possible. If needed place in freezer to firm. Scoop dulche-de-leche ice cream on top. Spoon dollops of whipped topping around top edge of pie. Freeze until firm, top slices with more dollops of whipped cream and walnuts.

Each serving is about 340 calories.

Banana Caramel Ice Cream Pie

As you can see in my photo album, the pie was well received by kids and adults alike. There are lots of other recipes we want to try like: s’mores ice cream pie, orange-banana pops, and grilled banana splits to name a few. If you give this recipe a try leave me a comment and let me know how it turned out.
Disclosure: I received a copy of the bookazine for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% mine.

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