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Rachel’s Favorite Quick Crepes (takes like a half hour, makes like 4)

Ingredients:

1 cup AP flour (sifted if you wanna be fancy but I don’t really do that)

2 eggs, beaten

½ cup milk

½ cup water

2 tbsp melted butter or oil of your choice

Instructions:

Combine it all in a bowl. Squish any lumps.

Heat pan on medium high.

Pour ¼-½ cup of batter onto center of the pan and tilt in all directions to spread batter thinly across the bottom. Flip after ~2 mins when bottom is lightly browned. Serve with savory or sweet filling!

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Mom’s Buttermilk Oat Pancakes

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 tbsp aluminum free baking powder

¼ cup wheat germ

3 cups quick oats

3 cups buttermilk

3 cups water

2 eggs

½ cup canola/vegetable oil

Instructions:

Combine flour, baking powder, and wheat germ in small bowl.

Combine oats, buttermilk, and water in large bowl.

Beat eggs and oil.

Add dry to wet, delumping as you go.

Stir in eggs.

Cook on non-stick pan.

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Mom’s French Toast (makes 9 slices)

Ingredients:

1 loaf sesame semolina bread, ideally sort of dry/old

3 eggs

½ cup milk

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

1 tbsp maple sugar

Approx. 2 tsp butter for cooking

Instructions:

Slice bread into 9 ½ to ⅔ inch thick slices (mom says precisely ⅝ inch thick)

Whisk together spices, then whisk in eggs, then mix in milk

Heat non-stick pan to medium

Dip bread in (both sides) but don’t leave it in too long or it will get soggy and crumbly

Add a little butter over the surface and put soaked bread slices in pan. Cook ‘em like they’re pancakes!

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Classic Beef Stew

Ingredients:

2 pounds lean, boneless chuck roast (or as little as one pound of stew beef in chunks)

2 tablespoons flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon dried whole oregano

1/2 teaspoon dried whole thyme

1/2 teaspoon pepper

2 teaspoons canola oil

12 boiling onions, peeling and halved (or approximately 1 pound or 4 cups coarsely chopped onions)

5 cups (approximately 1 pound) mushrooms (Crimini or Baby Bella best) quartered or chopped

1 3/4 cups water

1/2 cup Burgundy or other dry red wine (or beef broth, if preferred)

12 small unpeeled red potatoes, quartered (about 1 1/2 pounds, fingerling potatoes also good)

6 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch chunks (approximately 1 pound)

1 small package of frozen peas

Instructions:

Cut meat in 1-inch or smaller cubes and set aside.

Combine flour and next four seasonings in a small bowl and set aside.

Heat one teaspoon of oil in a large, heavy “Dutch oven” iron pot over med-high heat.

Add onions and sauté 5 minutes, stirring occasionally (will start to brown).

Remove onions and set aside. Add remaining teaspoon of oil to pot and heat over high heat. When hot, add meat and cook 3 minutes or until meat loses its pink color.

Return onions to pot and add flour mixture, stirring to coat.

Add mushrooms, water, and wine, and stir well.

Cover and bake at 300F for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. (I wash, cut veggies now).

Add potatoes and carrots, cover and bake another 1 hour, stirring in peas near end.

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Oatmeal Pancakes

Ingredients:

2 cups of flour

2 tablespoons of baking powder

1/4 cup of wheat germ

3 cups of quick oats

3 cups of buttermilk

3 cups of water

1/2 cup of oil

2 eggs

Instructions:

Mix the flour, baking powder, and wheat germ in a bowl.

Mix the quick oats, buttermilk, and water in a second bowl.

Scramble eggs and oil together in a third bowl.

Mix them all together. If the batter is too thick, add another 1/2 cup of water.

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Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

2 carrots, thinly sliced

3 sticks of chopped celery

2 32 ounce containers of chicken broth (or substitute one with water)

2 medium chopped onions (or 1 large one)

1 pound of chicken breast meat

1/2 point of frozen green peas

1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley

6 ounces of egg noodles

Olive oil

Instructions:

Boil one container of chicken broth (optional bay leaf for flavor).

Turn down the heat on the broth, add the chicken breast meat and cook until white and opaque.

While the chicken is cooking, sauté the onions in a pan with some olive oil.

Wait a bit, add celery to onions, wait a bit, then add carrots.

Take chicken out when done, let it cool, then cut it into chunks.

After about a half hour, add both containers of broth, noodles, parsley, and chicken into pot.

Cook more, then add frozen peas last.

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Cooked Thing

Instructions:

Obtain a thing

Put thing in pan with oil

Wait a bit

Eat thing

To shake it up a bit, replace thing with a different thing.