Your recipe file - Your kitchen
College-style dinner : quick alternatives: 20 to 35 minutes total
Quick-prep dinners : AKA the Mom-chef's handbook: 35 to 70 minutes total
Slow-cooker dinners : for when you're coming in hot or exhausted: 30 to 60 minutes prep
Frozen dinners : when you give yourself a present: 30 to 60 minutes prep
Time-consuming dinners : labors of love and flights of fancy: 2 hours to all day
Accompaniments : mostly vegetables: 10 to 40 minutes total
Breakfast : here we go again!: 25 to 40 minutes total
Baking and candy : comfort and magic: 30 minutes to 8 hours.