Recipes and food ideas

toasted english muffin with marmalade and cheddar

rice, avocado, sesame oil, soy, chili oil (+egg)

I made a new meal yesterday that was incredibly good. sauteed onions, honey garlic sausage removed from casing and broken up, slow roasted tomato, roasted sweet potato chunks, rice noodles, curried peanut sauce, sriacha, mayo

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Mine is definitely a cheese + deli meat roll up, of any kind…can have pickles, or no pickles, with lettuce, mustard, or just a piece of meat and a piece of cheese. Whenever I am stressed or emotional and need a comfort food that is what I will likely be eating.

I also love congee with chicken, or rice ramen noodles in broth with an egg poached in the broth

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I love to eat tuna salad with lots of dill in it with Triscuits, not as a sandwich, and have it with a glass of chocolate milk. My husband thinks I’m weird but it is pure comfort to me.

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White rice with butter, salt, pepper.

Shin ramyun with full packet and only a little water, crack in an egg, add sweet soy sauce, yum.

Your pickle/cheese/cracker bowl sounds so good

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A baked potato (or, let’s be honest, a microwaved potato), with an obscene ammount of butter and salt and pepper.

gnocchi with supermarket tomato and mascarpone sauce

oatcakes with brie and chutney

Now I’m hungry! :drooling_face:

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This, yes, but also good with olive oil and curry powder. I forgot that one.

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Ohhhh that sounds right up my alley!


I’m loving all these answers!!!

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“Lutheran Funeral Hot dish” basically a tomato based pasta with ground beef. I usually add onions and garlic. Pour it all in a baking dish and top with cheese. Then bake or broil to get the cheese all melty.

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Favorite simple dessert bar recipes that could transform into a big batch (half sheet pan)? I found a good looking recipe for large batch lemon bars but don’t want to limit my options.

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Smitten Kitchen has a bunch!! She calls them slab pies. I am eyeing this one:

But there are several of you search her blog.

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I make these a lot and they are always gone in like, minutes. Super easy too and you can definitely double or triple or change the chocolate type/add more toppings.

Aunt Ginger’s Hershey Squares

Makes one pan, perfect for doubling.

1 cup butter

1 egg yolk

2 cups flour

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

6 plain hershey chocolate bars

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolk and vanilla and combine. Gradually add flour and combine.

Spread mixture evenly on greased cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Once done, quickly arrange chocolate bars on the top and spread as they melt with a butter knife or the back of a spoon. Let cool completely for chocolate to harden before cutting.

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I love these date squares: https://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/date-squares/3990/
oh, but that is for a 9x9, not a half sheet

I’d probably do a free form tart, or something with puff pastry if all I had was a half sheet.

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Everyone should make this!

It’s so good. We had it tonight as a side for tofu pad thai.

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Agreed! So good!

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I swear everything on that site is amazing.

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Everything I’ve made from there has been delicious. I love that they have so many veggie recipes, and their guide to Chinese leafy greens is a treasure.

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my co-op group had 40 pound boxes of organic apples for $33, so now I possess 40 pounds of delicious pink lady apples! Does anyone have any must try apple recipes? I’m going to make a lot of apple butter, and apple chips in the dehydrator, but I’m sure I’ll still have plenty left for other things

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I love apple crisp! Put some fresh or candied ginger in with the apples, and/or some craisins! NOM!

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Chunky cinnamon apples (and they freeze well- I like to freeze a couple servings worth in a Sandwich size Ziploc bag, fairly flat, so if I was really easily and I can have a quick tasty fruit at the ready all year round. Also delicious to add cranberries or rhubarb depending on the season)

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If you find you need to preserve a bunch and you have the space, chopped up, untreated apples can be frozen and work well for cobblers, baking, pie filling, etc. Or sauce later.

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