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I decided to port the recipes I had posted to the separate account square_meals to this community instead, because it's easier to add new posts that way.

Baked Fish and Vegetables

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Pumpkin Inspired Pie

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You know how someone will see a foreign recipe in a movie or something and make their own highly inaccurate version missing all the core ingredients?

Well this is that, from an Australian who's never actually eaten pumpkin pie (I did have a dairy free pumpkin pie frappe when I went to Disneyland!). Notably, it does not contain pumpkin, because I don't like it.

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Leftover Vegetable Fritters

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Just realised I can post from the kitchen!
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Tuna Salad Toast

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Based on another American recipe I have never actually eaten. Does contain tuna! And toast!
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Cooked Corn Cob

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Rice Pudding

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Rice Cooker:
1 rice cooker cup short grain rice
2 rice cooker cups oat milk
1 banana
dash ginger, cinnamon
pinch salt
vanilla essence
1.5 Tb brown sugar
1 beaten egg

Everything but sugar and egg in rice cooker. 1 hr 10 mins on soup setting. Mix in egg and sugar.

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Stove Top:

Basically just this recipe, halved. Because I never seem to be able to find the quantities for uncooked rice when I want them.
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South East Asian Inspired Curried Sausage

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With apologies to South East Asia.
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Stewed Apple

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Quasi-pizza and beef stew made with leftovers

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I'm not sure when I'd have these ingredients to hand again but these were both quite nice!
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Puff Pastry Cinnamon Pecan Swirls (in progress)

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Adapted from here, but with like 1/3 of the sugar.
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Sesame Eggplant

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I got these little purple and white eggplants as an extra from my fruit and veg place, so poked around for eggplant recipes and ended up smooshing together Simple Baked Eggplant Recipe and Traditional Baba Ghanoush. It wasn't mind-blowing but I did eat it all without really noticing.
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Leftover puffs and sausage rolls

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These have roughly the same concept: wrap something in puff pastry and cook until done.
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Kinda Fudgey Caramel...Cake Bites?

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Inspired by Dylan Hollis's Pumpkin Quickies, but that's just a tin of pumpkin and a spice cake mix, which if nothing else are not things you can easily buy here. Similar ingredients to my previous cake recipe but I like the way they work together in this form a lot more.
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Two-layer Dairy Free Mango Jelly/Jello

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Make mango jelly/jello with dairy free milk in place of water. It forms two layers naturally.

Not much of a recipe but I kept thinking "I know I've used dairy free milk in jelly before but can't remember what happened", so. It forms an extra creamy layer on top and lightly creamy layer below. This tastes nice if you like the concentrated flavour of the dairy free milk, and terrible if you don't. Mango flavour worked best of the ones I've tried.
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Green pawpaw and bone-in chicken thighs

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Not a specific recipe but:

1) I find I much prefer bone-in chicken thighs to both drumsticks and general "chicken pieces" for both roasting and stewing. They are meatier and tastier than drumsticks imo, and a relatively even size. They produce a lot of fat, so for stews I pull out the meat and veggies with a slotted spoon and let the broth sit for a day in the fridge so the fat solidifies at the top.

2) I tried green pawpaw/papaya in a curry and it wasn't bad. Not something I'd seek out, but an ok way to use up a pawpaw I inadvertently cut open before it was ripe. I used this recipe as a very vague inspiration, specifically the simmering time of 10-15 minutes.

Banana Puffs

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These are only middling but easy and taste ok when I have bananas and crave sweet pastry.

(EDITOR NOTE: This is the point where it occurred to me to wonder if dreamwidth has any sot of automatic importing I could have used. OH WELL)
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Sweet Potato Dip

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Adapted from this recipe for reasons of food intolerance and flavour. This is the first time I've tried subbing citric acid for lemon juice and it wasn't bad!
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Midnight Gourmand

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Watch on YouTube

A fun video about something like my approach to food, I wouldn't cook any of these exactly as described but did get some ideas. Has captions.

Baba ganoush/'cheesy' pasta sauce

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Note: pretty sure this only tastes remotely cheesy to someone who, like me, has not eaten real cheese in over a decade.
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Peanut butter and banana "Icecream" and smoothie

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The classic recipe is just frozen bananas and peanut butter, and that's not bad but I like adding more to it.
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Canned Salmon Pasta

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From 20-Minute Canned Salmon Pasta.

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Big Banana Pancake

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VERY tired but wanted to get this down as much as I can remember with my sleepy brain.
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Sandwiches

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I'm going to start posting from my edited version of Cooking is Terrible, since I never end up using it and I do use this blog. I feel like this is fair use since I cut out the 90% of recipes I can't eat and added some more, and it will plausibly inspire some of you to buy your own copy (it's good!)
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Squash and Bacon Pasta

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Using those little yellow squash, which are apparently "patty pan" or "scallop" squash which really interferes with finding recipes.

Basically just this recipe for Squash and Pancetta Pasta with the ingredients I had to hand.
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Cooking is Terrible: Couscous

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Slightly adapted from Cooking is Terrible
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Sushi from leftover Japanese takeaway

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There's a lot of advice online for making sushi, it's pretty easy in general, but this is a specific half-assed approach I take which is an especially easy and tasty way to use leftover Japanese takeaway. It does require preparation while the rice is still warm.
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Hot apple juice with frozen blueberries

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A low effort way to get a serve of relatively unprocessed fruit from long life ingredients.
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Cooking is Terrible: Rice and Pasta Toppings

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More recipes from Cooking is Terrible. I haven't tried all of these yet.
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Cooking is Terrible: Fried Stuff

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Pumpkin "bolognese"

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This is a very vibes based recipe, so if a quantity seems off it probably is. Follow your heart.

I don't actually like pumpkin very much but it makes a digestible alternative to passata once you add a little citric acid.
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Anzac Biscuits and Dumplings from The Golden Circle Cooking Encyclopedia (1998 edition)

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Cam and I bought this cookbook when we left home in 2001 and used it a bunch, then it ended up under a pile of stuff until I happened upon it while tidying up this weekend. But in the end most of the recipes weren't very good and our tastes have changed. Since it's falling apart I'm going to throw it out but I wanted to record two recipes I remember liking.
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Cake as pancake

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Inspired by this recipe: a runny chocolate cake mix cooked as pancakes in a small greased pan over a medium-low heat with a lid on top for 3 minutes, and then flipped and cooked for another minute. Turned out pretty well! I added pecans to the mix so it's basically a health food.

(EDIT: Last crosspost! Phew! Going to wait a bit before posting anything new so subscribers don't get their reading pages flooded)