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A food I like that others do not

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What is a food you like that many people don’t like?

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Honestly, I don’t really know! I can’t recall ever really being in a situation where I discovered that a food a liked is one that many people don’t. I could probably pick out instances of time where I learned that one particular friend disliked something I enjoyed eating.

Specifically, anything flavored vanilla, like ice cream. I have this one friend who thinks that, by itself, vanilla is not a flavor, and so doesn’t like anything that is just plain vanilla. Now, to be clear on my end, I like vanilla ice cream well enough, even if I don’t go out of my way to eat it regularly (because vanilla is boring) but to my friend’s credit, their argument is that vanilla is often used as a base or enhancer for other flavors and therefore isn’t itself a legitimate flavor (so it’s almost kind of like salt in that regard, that’s my interpretation of the situation, at least.)

Family specialties for the holidays

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Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?
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My family has, for a very long time, stuck with more “traditional” holiday meal planning and dishes. Thanksgiving and Christmas are typically turkey’s with stuffing/dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, things like that. There have been a couple of times in the last ten years where we opted for ordering a catered meal that a local/regional grocery store chain offers for the holiday’s and we have ordered prime rib, but this was primarily to reduce the strain on the family trying to coordinate meal planning and expedite cooking so that we could be more efficient with spending time with my stepmom (may she rest in peace) when she was fighting cancer. Anyways, none of these are really “special” dishes.

There have been rare occasions where we opted to make our family recipe of töltött káposzta (Hungarian stuffed cabbage, there are tons of recipes out there with variations, so I won’t go turning this into a recipe blog) but it is more likely that we cook that outside the holiday time frame. So, I can’t really say with any certainty that we have any special dishes we make for the holiday’s.

A favorite recipe of mine

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What’s your favorite recipe?

I feel like I’ve answered this prompt before, or something similar, but I don’t know that I’ve ever considered any particular recipe to be my absolute favorite, as if only one were allowed to be described that way. I’m sure if I truly cared to “put one on a pedestal” then it would come to mind easily and I wouldn’t be writing this part.

So, while I wouldn’t classify the one I’m about to share as my one favorite, it is still  ONE OF my favorites. Although, technically it’s less a recipe and more a simple modification to one.

This is a simple modification for cookie recipes. Take a box of instant pudding mix and an egg, and add them to whatever cookie recipe you’re planning to make.

The trick I’ve found for this is to add the dry pudding mix into the butter and sugar after you’ve creamed those together. Then, when it comes to adding eggs, if your recipe already calls for one, just add a second. You can proceed from there and follow your baking instructions as normal. Usually. You may need to adjust the bake time.

That’s all there is to it!