Recipes, Links and Ideas

Sweet, in a pan

Bread Pudding, with chocolate chips, or not

Breakfast Bread Pudding (savory, not sweet)

Peach Cobbler (peach or cherry or berries)

Small, individual sweets

"MarziPecans" Pecan/marzipan/baharat sweets
There's a recipe for marzipan there, but you can use store-bought.

Bizcochitos (New Mexico Christmas cookies, with lard and brandy, so don't even make them if lard or brandy seem bad to you)

Lemon Cookies (roll and cut, or cookie-press)

Deb Rossing's Peanut Butter Cookies with bananas!

Camping or Party Food

Pancakes
Destiny's peanut butter pancakes

Banana pancakes

Apple pancakes

Pickled Eggs, with beets, a recipe I got from Fran McPherson in the 1980s

Sausage&Cheese Balls, Sausage Cookies, Cheese Savories

Meals / Meat

Chicken and Dumplings with Green Chile (or not)

Chicken and Walnuts in Pita

Labor-intensive, but WAY good.
Start the alfalfa sprouts five or six days before, if you don't have a place to purchase them.

Kate's Easy Meat Pies (Katherine Holford / Marie Heuser)

Side Dish

From the Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cookbook (from a thrift store):


Not on my site, but I don't want to keep trying to find them again:

Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes
I first made those in 2017:



There's also a photo at joaniesimon.com/instant-pot-scalloped-potatoes/, but mine's personal and was still warm.

Protein Ideas for Picky Eaters (vegetarian, by Deb Lewis)

The Full Plate Club—Doesn't "full plate" seem much better than "empty plate"? Give your children the gift of plenty. (Often just a little bit is "plenty.")

Notes for my own self, later: Mystery rolls (canned biscuits, blue cheese, butter)