Cook it Up! 365 Great 20 Minute Recipes

For my January Cook it Up! Challenge book I selected 365 Great 20-Minute Recipes by Beverly Cox. I chose it because I was anticipating a busy January and I turned out to be right. We did end up making four new recipes from the book. There were a lot more that I marked as possibilities and didn't get to. I will try to remember to go back to this book as I liked the results and the speed of preparation was great.

• #26: Tortellini en Brodo Florentine -- I loved this and would make it all the time except that my husband won't eat spinach (he was out of town for a week so I could eat all the spinach I wanted)
• #84: Spaghettini with Quick Bolognese Sauce -- my husband made this and it was tasty. He used mini penne instead of the spaghettini. 
• #278: Barcelona Chicken with Rice and Spanish Olives -- this was good, and I would make it again, but it needed some spices added to it. It used quick-cooking rice which was a new ingredient for me. My Cooking Light page-a-day calendar had a similar recipe later in the month that used the same technique with shrimp and quick-cooking rice but added spices. I liked the calendar recipe more, but will continue to play with this base recipe as I think it has a lot of potential and was super fast to put together.
• #301: Hamburger Stroganoff -- this dish is a standard in our house, but our usual recipe comes from 365 Ways to Cook Hamburger (recipe #192). This version was a little different (more creamy) than the usual one. It was good and I would use either recipe next time, depending on which book I came across first. 

February's book, chosen based on how my upcoming schedule looks, is Fix-it and Forget-it Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round by Phyllis Pellman Good and Dawn J. Ranck.  I have used the original Fix-it and Forget-it book for years and have several go-to recipes from it. Several years ago my husband got me the "for Entertaining" version and I haven't cooked from it yet, though I dog-eared a ton of pages that had yummy sounding stuff on them. This month I hope to give this book the attention it deserves. 

I'm linking this up with Cook it Up! and Weekend Cooking