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 canola oil
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cups chopped peeled apples
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts (I used pecans)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a greased 8x4-in loaf pan with parchment; grease 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.
3. Transfer to prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in each center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool.

My 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.

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

My 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 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)_/¯

Probably got buried until the piles of LLM sludge that started getting churned out over the last couple years