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[runerinrun]

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question. I'm always scouring sites for recipes that I can make during the week. But, I get home at 5:00 and we need to be sitting down to eat by 5:30, so criteria is strict. I find a lot of recipes that I think would be good, except they need to bake for 30 minutes or 45 minutes, or whatever the case may be. Any

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[mitajoey]

I used to do roasts and ribs all the time a few years ago. However, I wasn't working a full 8 hour day when I did it. I'd put the oven on 200 and just season the roast with salt/pepper/etc and maybe onions. Cover with foil and I'd be home in 5 hours tops though.

I'd be afraid to try that with anything else though, but that's more a fear of it burning or the oven malfuntioning while I was away.

You say you have a crock pot, have you thought of doing more dishes that way? I know the girls don't eat a lot of different things now, but it might be a way for you to slow cook some meats safely.

[runerinrun]

I actually just made a crockpot meal today! And I love doing it, I just haven't found a very wide variety of recipes out there for the crockpot. But, I need to do a pork roast again soon because the girls loved that, and I want to do ribs as well.

[fifteenthirty]

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

A year of slow cooking. Woman decided she was going to make something in her crock pot EVERY DAY for a year. Some recipes don't look so awesome but a lot of them look really good, and most are not the typical some-kind-of-meat-plus-canned-cream-soup variety.

I believe she turned the blog into a book, too, but I haven't seen it yet.

[topaz119]

My mom used to do the time-bake thing all the time, with just about everything. I don't remember the last time I did it though; I'm way more likely to fiddle with a recipe so I can make it almost all the way the night before & then finish it off when I need it--not quite reheating, more like cooking it for the final 15 minutes.

[runerinrun]

With the nanny, I would make the dish the night before and have her take it out of the fridge 30 minutes before I wanted her to pop it in the oven. Man that was convenient. But, I think I could do something similar, maybe just reheat a small portion so it would reheat quickly. Thanks!

[hp5010]

Given you work a full day, I'd also be skeptical with leaving a dish in the oven all day. I've used the time bake before, but it was usually Sunday morning and wasn't in the oven that long before it cooked.

I would think your safer (and I'm talking food borne illness not unattended oven) option would be to prepare it the night before and keep it in the fridge. Then set the oven to start heating at 4:30 and that way by the time you get home, it's at temp and you can pop the dish in and it'd be ready by 5:30/5:45.

[runerinrun]

That's definitely a good idea! Because even if it has to bake for 30 minutes, I lose a good 5-10 preheating the oven. Thanks!