Rachel Ray- Fast, Faster, Fastest

Rachel Ray has a new feature on her show where she takes a recipe and creates three versions to create the dish Fast, Faster and Fastest. These look promising for ideas. Check out her website (www.rachelray.com) or her show for more of these recipes. The dish I saw today was for Chicken and Dumplings. It did rely on pre-sliced mushrooms and store-bought prepared bisquits which would disqualify the dish as a frugal dish. If you worked it into your meal plan, including mushrooms in several dishes, preparing enough for several dishes ahead and storing them pre-sliced and reusing leftover scratch bisquits would bring this more in line with a frugal lifestyle.

Cool idea! See if you can create a faster version of your favorite recipe with a few adjustments or substitutions or rethink the technique. Condensed cooking!