Various recipes I've collected over the past several years

Apple Bread

Recipe by Phyllis Herlocker, as shared by Mackenzie Stratton on Taste of Home

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 1/2 cup neutral oil or butter
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 - 2 cups chopped peeled apples
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (I used pecans)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 8x4 inch (or similar) loaf pan; lay down parchment paper; grease the paper.
2. Whisk together first 6 ingredients. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, oil and vanilla; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moistened (batter will be thick). Fold in apples and walnuts.
• You can also just throw in all the ingredients at once into a stand mixer, it'll be fine
3. Transfer to prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in each center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing by lifting it by the parchment paper.
• If it's not coming out, run a knife along the edge

Description:

Very nice bread. Wanted to bake a bread over the weekend and needed to use up some apples, and this recipe turned out quite well for that purpose

Poor Skunk's Risotto

Recipe from Post-Self, made by True Name and May Then My Name

Ingredients:

• 1/4 – 1/3 cup white rice (more rice makes for a thicker dish)
• 2 cups stock (chicken, veggie, whatever)
• 1 small yellow onion, diced
• A protein such as chicken breast, seitan, or fried tofu cut into small chunks
• Veggies such as string beans, carrots, celery
• 1/4 cup grated aged cheese such as parmesan, asiago, or gruyère

Instructions:

1. Combine everything but the cheese in a medium sauce pan and bring to a boil.
2. Immediately turn down to a simmer and place a lid mostly covering the pot.
3. Simmer for half an hour, stirring every five minutes.
4. Remove from the heat and stir in the cheese.

Original Description:

"Some veggies and proteins cook faster or slower, so you may wish to stagger adding them. For instance, carrots go in at the start, onions halfway through, tofu just at the end. If, however, you add everything at the beginning because you are a tired woman trying to get by on a public school teacher's wages in a capitalist society, just waiting until you can log on and be a skunk on the internet, no one will fault you."

My Description:

Extremely nice tasting recipe! Very cozy tasting, makes one feel warm. Not the kind of comfort food I usually make, as I tend to just throw together a pot of mac and cheese, but this is very good.

Tex-Mex Lasagna

Ingredients

• Ground meat or veggie equivalent (we used vegan chorizo)
• Taco seasoning
• 16oz refried beans
• 16oz salsa
• Standard lasagna noodles (you don't need to pre-boil them, and "oven-ready" ones make no difference)
• 16oz queso (or alfredo sauce, or any other cheesy sauce)
• 2 cups shredded cheese

The portion sizes are a starting point. Just use whatever ratios you like

Instructions

1. Preheat over to 350°F (175°C)
2. In a large saucepan over medium heat, brown the ground meat or meat equivalent
3. Add the taco seasoning, refried beans, and cheese/alfredo sauce to the pot. Stir until everything is at a nice temperature
4. Grab a 9x13 baking dish (or whatever you're happy to eat you're lasagna in)
5. Add a layer of salsa on the bottom, about 1/4 cup
6. Add a layer of lasagna noodles
7. Add a layer of the cheese/meat mixture on top of the noodles
8. Add a layer of shredded cheese
9. Repeat steps 5-8 until you've reached the top of the baking dish
10. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 35-45 minutes
11. Enjoy the lasagna! Recommended toppings include hot sauce, salsa, sour cream, black olives, jalapenos, and really anything you could see yourself putting on a taco

Description:

Generally just a very good tasting concept. Very much enjoy that we came to the idea of making this, and found a recipe we were able to tweak into working for this

I'd link to the original recipe, but the author is being kinda weird about copyright stuff on their page, despite the fact recipes are public domain by default.

Pandemic Cookies

Original Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp flour
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp butter
• 1/2 tbsp milk

8x Quantity Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/4 cup milk

Instructions:

1. Mix flour, sugar, and baking powder
2. Cream in butter (either cold or melted)
3. Mix in milk
4. Bake at 350°F (175°C) oven for 10 minutes or until golden

Description:

Pretty good cookies! Named after the fact I discovered these right as the pandemic hit the US back in March 2020

Original recipe called them something like "single serving cookies", hence the reason the ingredient list has very small portions, and the reason why I've got an 8x variant I normally cook when making these

I cannot for the life of me though find the source of this cookie recipe. If I find it I'll add it to here. I do know it was submitted by someone named "TEMPESTE", but I can't get any results with that, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Usage Rights: All images, words, and instructions on this page are under Creative Commons. Feel free to do whatever you please with them. All I'd ask is that I'd prefer my stuff not end up in an LLM

Additional Copyright Note: Despite what any of the pages I link to may say on their usage rights, the basic procedures and ingredients for a recipe legally cannot be copywritten, only the images and specific sequence of instructions and words. All recipes are written in my own words unless otherwise noted