Recipes

Pound Cake

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

Simple pound cake. Buttery and just the right amount of sweet. Good for dessert or for breakfast with coffee.

Servings

The nice thing about pound cake is that you can scale all the ratios by weight.

For this recipe, I’ll use 1/4 lb (~110g) as the base weight which is enough to make 2 mini cakes.

Time

Ten minutes prep + 30-40 minutes baking.

Ingredients

2 eggs¹
1/4 lb. flour²
1/4 lb. sugar³ (roughly 1/2 cup, )
1/4 lb. (1 stick) butter, ideally room temperature

Optional add-ons (rough amounts):

Sloppy Joes

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

Sloppy joe sauce. Enough said?

Servings

4-6 sandwiches, depending on how sloppy you get.

Time

Ten minutes prep + 15 minutes cooking. If you’ve got a multicooker, it’s a good make-ahead dish - start on saute/high to brown the meat and get a simmer, then just keep warm for an hour or whatever.

Ingredients

1 lb. ground beef
1 onion, minced¹
3 oz (1/2 a can) tomato paste
1 cup ketchup
3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1/3 cup water
1 tsp yellow mustard
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp onion powder
2 Tbsp brown sugar
8 dashes (1/2 tsp?) of People of the Trees hot sauce, or similar²
Dash of cayenne
Dash of black pepper
1 tsp kosher salt
Buns of your choice³

Make

Brown the ground beef in a medium-sized pot.
Add the onion and cook until the onions are just starting to get soft
Drain any excess fat
Add everything else (except the buns, ha ha - tomato paste, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, water, mustard, garlic, garlic powder, onion powder, brown sugar, hot sauce, cayenne, black pepper, salt)
Simmer 10-15 minutes, adjusting seasonings to taste at the start, halfway through, and near the end⁴

Enjoy

Once it’s simmered to your preferred level of sauciness, dig in! Goes well with coleslaw, crunchy veggie sticks, applesauce, and/or tater tots

Chicken Caesar Crunchwrap Supreme

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

A recipe for a Chicken Caesar Crunchwrap-Supreme-like thing. Source here ¹.

Sizing estimates:

Final size should be about 5 inches smaller than the overall tortilla size. So if you’re using 10-inch tortillas, the final filling should take up the middle 5-6 inches or so.
Unofficial numbers on the official CWSup estimate a 12-inch tortilla and a 7-inch diameter.

Servings

Six I guess? He makes 6 tortillas. He also fries up 6 chicken thighs, so use about 1 thigh per wrap.

Boneless leg of lamb

Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

Mix of a couple of recipes for a fancy yet set-and-forget roast

Sources:

Servings

How many servings are in a 4lb. leg of lamb? Who knows?

Ingredients

1 4lb boneless leg of lamb
1 head garlic (5-6 cloves or whatever)
1/4 cup ghee¹
1/4 cup of whatever spice blend you fancy²
Salt and pepper as needed

Instructions

0. Prep

Preheat the oven to 475
Put the lamb in a baking dish. Keep the netting on.

1. Garlic and spices

Time: 20 minutes

Instant Pot Tzatziki Potato Salad

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

Mix of a couple of recipes to make a quick potato salad with the power of the instant pot.

Sources:

Servings

4-6. The original recipe used 4lb of potatoes - I’ve cut that in half and kept the rest the same.

Ingredients

2lb of potatoes, washed and cut into potato-salad-sized chunks (about 1 inch cubes)
About 2 cups water
1 3/4 cups greek yogurt
1/4 cup sour cream
Juice from half a lemon (about 2 tbsp)
1 tbsp rice vinegar (for potatoes) (white wine vinegar works too)
2 tbsp rice/white wine vinegar (for finishing)
2 tablespoons minced fresh dill
1 minced sprig of mint, optionally
1 medium garlic clove, minced
2 teaspoons kosher salt
Freshly ground black or white pepper
~1 lb cucumber (baby cumcumbers or english work best), unpeeled, grated

Instructions

0. Prep

Chop the potatoes into ~1 inch cubes
Mince the dill
Mince the garlic
Juice the lemon
Grate the cucumber (if there’s a lot of juice, give it a quick squeeze in a colander/cheesecloth/strainer)

1. Potatoes

Time: 25-30 minutes

Stewed Rhubarb

Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

A recipe for when you have fresh rhubarb. I don’t remember how much it makes. About a quart?

Servings

About a quart?

Ingredients

About 700g of rhubarb (5 cups?)
1 cup granulated sugar
About 2 TBSP water
Zest of a small lemon

Instructions

Mix everything together
Put everything in a saucepan/pot and simmer for 15-20 minutes, stirring pretty regularly, until it’s the consistency you want
Bring to a quick boil at the end¹
Let cool
Use²

I don’t know if this is actually needed, I just made it up because it seemed like it should boil at least for a little bit, like an old potion ↩︎

Coleslaw

Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this

Homemade coleslaw recipe. Prep is done the day before, but would work without it.

I like coleslaw and have recently been getting bolder about making my own. Below are my experiments based on multiple sources.

Servings

I’m using half a head of cabbage as a baseline so 4-5 servings or so. Double the amounts if you’re using a full head.

Coleslaw No. 1

This is the section for my regular ol’ coleslaw and will be updated/edited as needed while my tastes change and I perfect the recipe. If I do something drastically different, it’ll be under a different recipe number.

Lemon sour cream cookies

Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

Modified recipe from who knows where. You might say these Lemon Sour Cream Cookies have a unique fluffy, moist, sturdy texture, slightly tangy and not overly sweet.

Takes about 1 1/2 hours, including refrigeration time.

Servings

Makes about 25 cookies?

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter softened (1 stick)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons grated zest and 1/8-1/4 cup juice from 1-2 lemons, depending on how much lemon you like
1 tablespoon cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Prep

Adjust oven racks to upper-middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees
Line baking sheet with parchment paper

2. Dry ingredients

Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl

3. Wet ingredients

On medium-high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes
Add egg and mix until combined
Reduce speed to medium-low and mix in sour cream and zest
Add flour mixture from the Dry Ingredients step and mix until incorporated.

Refrigerate

Refrigerate about an hour. Should be slightly firm.

Chocolate chip cookies

Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

The recipe for my favorite chocolate chip cookies. Original source is here.

Servings

About 16 cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature ¹
2 TBSP granulated sugar
2 TBSP Sugar in the Raw (turbinado sugar, or use brown sugar if not available)
3/4 cup + 2 TBSP packed brown sugar²
1 egg (large is better)
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp baking soda
Heaped 1/4 teaspoon salt (~3/8 tsp)

Manti

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

A favorite recipe of mine. Turkish ravioli/dumplings. Based on a combination of information from three sources. ¹ ² ³

Pronunciation

Kinda like “mahn-tuh”, according to this video.

Servings

Like, four. Maybe six.

Time

A solid afternoon or evening.

A speed run could be 60-90 minutes. I’d budget 2-3 hours.

Dough should rest for 30 minutes. The most time-consuming part by far could be the folding of the dumplings, but that totally depends on how small you make them.

Pork Souvlaki with Tzatziki

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

What’s this?

A favorite recipe of mine.¹

Servings

About 4.

Time

Anywhere from 1 to 3 hours, depending on how long you’re okay with letting the pork marinate.

Ingredients

1 1/4 lbs pork loin
1 large onion
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
3 lemons, plus any extras for garnish
2 tsp dried oregano
3 garlic cloves (or equivalent paste)
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
1 cup Greek whole-milk yogurt
1/2 English/Seedless cucumber
2 Tbsp mint
Warm pita, for serving

Prepare pork

Cut the pork loin into half-inch strips, about 3 inches long.
Cut the onion into half-inch wedges.
Juice the lemons (and cut wedges for garnish if extra)
Mash the garlic cloves into a paste, and divide into 2/3 and 1/3.

In a medium bowl, combine the pork, onion, 2/3 of the garlic paste, lemon juice, olive oil, and oregano. Add 1 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp pepper.