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Post your favorites please.

I'm looking for something new to try this year. I'm not much of a cook but we have a slew of potlucks coming up at work and I thought I'd try to do more than 'bring bread and butter'.

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Pumpkin Pie

1 Person who can cook make Pumpkin Pie
$20
A little bit of persuasion

Take $20, give to person who can make Pumpkin Pie and persuade them to get the ingredients and make a pie.

Eat. Enjoy.

Lol but in seriousness, I'll try to find some recipes when I get home from work. I have a cider one, one for a crock pot style chicken, rice and veggie mixture and a few others I can't think of without resorting to my excel file.

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Yeah Rafael, your recipe is one I've tried with varying results many times over the years. There is a bakery in town that makes great pies. Still, I really feel like I should get better at this cooking thing.

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I'll dig out my recipes but one of the easiest involves stuffing a cornish game hen with rondelé and baking until the leg wiggles. It's a single-serve, but it sizes up beautifully.

How about butternut squash with black beans? Pecan pie? Beef barley stew and onion focaccia? Split pea soup? Corn pudding? Baked apples? Poached pears? Pot roast with root veggies? Braised lamb with cous cous? Pork roast with apple chutney?

You ough to read Outlaw Cook, it's about learning how to eat let your cooking be led by your appetite rather than a recipe.

Quiche. If you don't make the crust yourself, it's really pretty simple. Make it the afternoon before you go, let it cool a bit, serve it warm. Chicks dig it.

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My...well, they are my father's cousins, I don't exactly know what that makes them to me, but whatever...they make some absolutely delicious pumpkin bread. I eagerly look forward to this time of the year all year long because it is the absolute best for food. I swear to god.

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Copied from my family recipebook:

Swedish Apple Dressing

Saute in ¼” butter (3 large onions chopped fine, 3 stalks celery + leaves chopped fine)
Crumble 3 dozen parker house rolls
Add 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sage leaf, ½ tsp poultry seasoning, 12 medium size eating apples (peeled and cubed)

Pour over mixture ½ # melted butter or margarine

You can stuff a turkey with it at that point, or bake it, covered, in a casserole dish. I want to say 350 degrees for 90 minutes, but that's off the top of my head; check it after 60.

It's the traditional turkey dressing in my family. It's "Swedish" by virtue of it originating from my Swedish-immigrant great-grandmother (who was a personal cook for some family that was faring well in the Great Depression in Cleveland), not because it's somehow traditionally Swedish, to my knowledge. I cooked it for a Christmas party at work last year since there was going to be turkey. It went over well. Comes out pretty moist. It's delicious. My grandfather had a bunch of siblings, so that's sized well to share.

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even the crust is pretty easy. And you can call it egg pie if your masculinity requires.

Yeah, I pride myself on my pie crusts, but I figure that doing it freaks out a lot of people.

IF you do it, Micheal, throw a couple of ice cubes in the water. That helps.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge