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One of our favorite meals is just to take ahi tuna filets, marinate it in soy sauce and wasabi (can do this overnight) then sear quickly in a cast iron skillet. We eat it with plain steamed rice and steamed broccoli. The rice should fit in your time limit if you start it as soon as you get home, and everything else has a short cooking--an extra bonus in hot weather when you don't want the oven going. Other ideas, buttuming you're not wanting all cbutteroles:
--Quick stir-fry: Might involve either buying the ingredients pre-prepped or doing the prepwork ahead of time, but it's healthy and not too heavy.
--Big salad: Tearing lettuce doesn't take long, but you can buy the pre-bagged greens as well and include any number of additions to make it more of a meal-- fake crab, boiled shrimp, good quality canned salmon or tuna, hard-boiled eggs, cold boiled potatoes sliced thinly, radishes, grated carrot, cucumber, bell peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, grated cheese, olives...
--Pasta with a "fresh" tomato sauce, the kind that requires no cooking. I've heard of people just buttembling fresh diced tomatoes, garlic, basil, oregano, whatever grabs their fancy. Let it sit on the counter for the flavors to meld, then boil up some pasta to go with it, grate some parmesan on top and have at it.
Those are just some ideas...
Ariane
