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Spinach puffs. 20 minutes in the oven for a quick and dirty not unhealthy meal. It’s delicious. It’s filling. It’s relatively cheap…. And for some reason I only make it once a month despite having some laying around in my freezer pretty much at all times.
Wait, spinach puffs up when you put it in the oven?!? Oil and spices or just straight-up frozen spinach directly in the oven?
A spinach puff is a pastry filled with spinach.
French tacos; there is only one place that makes them near me and it’s at a train station i rarely need to go to for work; but if i need to go there you can bet i’m gonna eat that for lunch.
Salmon pate
try rainbow trout pate
Green olives. None of my cooking use them as an ingredient, so once in a blue moon I remember that I like them, so I eat an entire jar with a toothpick.
My “salads” are technically that due to having cucumber in them. But other than that it’s mostly just cheese which I don’t like with olives.
Have you tried Sicilian olives specifically? They almost have an umami flavour
I may have, I don’t know enough about olives to tell. I usually just buy the biggest jar of castrated green olives that I can find here in scandinavialand.
Disappointed I didn’t find the “30 to 40 olives” meme in the comments.
I guess I’ll have to link to it myself.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hungry-but-too-tired-to-cook-try-30-to-40-olives
I make sure I always have an unopened jar. As soon as I open it, I put another jar on the shopping list. Check out some Puerto Rican dishes. Arroz con Gandules, etc. Great use of green olives in those.
Pick up a box on sale and put it in the cupboard. It’s a useful base for some chicken pieces, or to make some vegetables into a casserole. Excellent with mushrooms. (Take into account the liquid that will be released by the cooking veggies, or else saute them first, before mixing with the stuffing)
This year, instead of a whole bird, I made Turkey Balls using 2 lbs ground turkey, 2 raw eggs, stuffing mix, then sauteed onion, celery, apple, mushrooms, (let cool before adding) Chardonnay, and cool broth. I added the usual spices, keeping in mind there’s already some in the stuffing. I piled them in a lidded casserole, but you can also bake them on a sheet pan and serve with dips.
Plus there’s the opportunity for jokes
I made a bunch of stuffing not on Thanksgiving a few years ago. Was addicted to it and kept making it. But then ate it too often I got tired of it. This always happens to me though. I get excited about some food. Then I make it until I get tired of it and move on to the next thing.
This is me, but also with like people and hobbies and my career
I love other people’s stuffing. I made stuffing and gave myself food poisoning.
When I make it rather than “mashed potatoes made of bread” it’s more like “slightly moist croutons”. Breaks my heart.
Yeah, I put it inside the turkey. I used a friend’s recipe, but it must have been a bigger bird and took too long to cook or something.
Okay, I just Googled it:
When you place stuffing inside a turkey, it comes into contact with raw meat and juices that may contain harmful bacteria such as salmonella.
Try microwaving it on high for several minutes (until it’s basically too hot to handle) before stuffing the bird.
It also helps if you don’t pack it in. It should get to 165°F to be considered safe.
In fairness, it’s not like you see it at the store all year round to remind you. Maybe get a couple boxes to have throughout the year? It’s certainly on sale right now, or at least will be at the end of December.
Unfrosted Blueberry pop tarts
Strawberry or gtfo aha. You ever try freezing first, glass of milk to dip optional but recommended
Edit: + break them in half vertically to optimize dipping
My stepson does that
He’s right ;) Its funny cuz i know its all fake but strawberry is best flavor, in real life prefer others but they got it right here
I gotta go blueberry. I’ve never been a big strawberry fan
Try yoir stepson’s trick tho, best is with homogenized milk or the highest fat you can stomach
Persimmons. I love persimmons so much.
Fruits. I don’t have the habit of eating any fruit. It’s super unhealthy and when I do remember to buy fruit when grocery shopping, I am always surprised how good it tastes, only to forget about it for a couple more months…
You and me both! Or I get into a fruit kick, then slow down after a bit, and what I have starts to go bad so I stop buying them all together.
Are you me
No, we are legion. I’m sure oodles of people fall into this fruit trap.
Yeah I guess that makes sense. I wonder what would be a way to fix it
Frozen fruits? They don’t taste as good but you can still throw them in your smoothies and then safely forget about the rest for 2 months
I suppose I could try that, if the store has any
Especially oranges for me, every time I’m like " damn I should buy this mf more often"
I’m basically a toddler when it comes to fruit. It can sit around on the counter looking all pretty for days and I won’t touch it. But the moment my wife cuts some up, I’ll devour it.
Maybe you just need a wife who likes to chop things 🤔
Eggnog. Probably best for my health that it’s only readily available for a few weeks of the year. We make our own but still, we don’t do that but til we’re reminded it’s eggnog season.
Eggnog is really easy to make and is way better than store bought. Ingredients are readily available year round. ✨️
Perhaps a bit of a tangent: I’m pegnant and have been craving something all day but couldn’t work out what I wanted. I tried pico de gallo, bacon, mango. No luck. Eventually I realised: it was tap water with ice. That’s all I’ve wanted all day
A classic!
It’s an absolute classic.
Is there a hydrohomies here?
Yes. I’ve definitely seen it, but don’t remember which instance it’s on.
Gonna be honest, I still don’t know how instances even work
An “instance” is a techie way of saying it’s a copy of that thing
(disclaimer: I’m not a lemmy expert, just techie.)
A Lemmy instance is just the server where accounts and set of communities lives. e.g, Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml, etc. Each instance can “federate” content from other instances, which is a way of publishing content to servers you otherwise wouldn’t see. You can see content and communities from other instances as well as comment on those other instances even though you don’t have an account on each one.
You are probably looking for
But there are also:
and
You could subscribe to all three, or just the one on your home instance, or whatever.
Thanks, that was a really clear ELI5
So there’s this amazing Chinese deli in San Francisco. We eat there like twice a year and every time we say we need to eat there more. It’s not like we forget, it’s just that we’re busy. They were our main course Thursday. And then leftovers until yesterday. Godsdamn amazing char siu pork. Best I’ve ever had. I gotta order their bacon and their ribs next time.
Care to share name.
Go duck yourself (yes that’s the name)
What is the deli called? I’d like to check it out.
Go duck yourself
I had to Google it to believe it 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah me too. Short line, great pork. I haven’t had the duck yet, but it smells awesome.
Brie. I never buy it on my own free will, but I am an absolute goblin when I see it at a party
The French secret for brie - leave it out before you eat it. I’m talking like a day or two. It’s bland otherwise but takes on a camembert quality as it rapidly ages
I ONE TIME bought a Camembert with the plan to bake it. I very seriously thought that something was rotting in my kitchen and actually cleaned out the fridge. When I discovered that it was the cheese, I put the whole thing into a sealed container and the kitchen STILL smelled rotten.
Don’t get me wrong, that baked Camembert was amazing. But not worth the smell lol.
TJ’s triple cream is sinful and basically the same price as normal cheese.
I was at the Del Mar Fair once and got some super green falafel. It was awesome. I’ve spent 30 years chasing that high.
