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Take frozen wings and put them in the oven at roughly 400 (you want lots of sizzly popping, but I try to keep the smoke to a minimum) for like, an hour. Take 'em out and toss them in melted butter mixed with Franks.

The best part about this is I can make the right number for just me, or I can make a big old batch for a party. I've always eaten wings this way.

Team Cheerios. They don't make them anymore, so I mostly make due with multi-grain and the occasional box of Honey Nut.

But Team Cheerios, man... So fly.

We start with the Pepperidge Farm bags. They're inoffensive, dry, and easy. We then add appropriately sized whomp biscuit (The kind you whomp on the counter to open?) and cornbread chunks. We saute up some onions and celery in butter and toss that in. Then chicken stock, and the right seasonings. I know there's poultry seasoning, pepper, and sage. And then maybe six or seven sliced hard boiled eggs. And we cook it outside the bird, thank you very much. And this is my momma's recipe, but she got it from my father's mother, and who knows where it appeared from there.

On the egg discussion, I've no idea where it originated, but we also do hard boiled, sliced eggs in our gravy.

How do you suppose this would do in a bread machine?

I'm all about some kind of pomegranate soda.

I am inept at frying anything. Anything. I'm also not very good at judging the doneness of meat without cutting it open. I don't have a thermometer (my own fault, I know) but I'm getting better.

Also, not confusing the baking powder and soda. I need to pull down the container and hold it next to the recipe to be sure I'm not going to mess up.

I can make a pretty good biscuit and a swingin' yeast bread. I can cook nearly any kind of veggie at least one way and I am FLY at getting everything on the table at the same time. I started doing it when I was ten or so to help my mom, and got the hang of it quickly.

Depends on my mood. I'm not picky either way, if that's the main question.

My mum makes a nice chicken salad with toasted walnuts and dried I think it's cranberries, but it could be cherries.

Why, yes, my memory is splendid this morning, thanks for asking.

My TJ's folks are super nice. They'll tell me when they're getting new shipments of stuff I like, let me know when things have been discontinued, so on, so forth. But I don't buy their frozen meals. I tend to assume they're going to be not good. But I don't really eat any frozen food, not just TJ's.

But I like a lot of things there. The cookies, veggies and fruit, and they've just started carrying really nice jam. Good cherry jam is hard to find.

Alkohost, did you ever consider she really does like the taste? People disagree on how things taste. I hate peppers and my little sister loves them. She also mixes ranch dressing and barbecue sauce to dip her hot links in. I don't judge. I doubt a store interested in making a profit would choose to market something that tastes just like 'fermented vomit' to every person in the world.

I've made gin and lemon jello shots before. They were all right. It was just before a party, and I just tried one, to make sure they didn't taste like rubbing alcohol before shipping the lot off to the party.

But obviously, I need this book to impress my friends who have only enjoyed mediocre jelly shots.

Beau and I don't really have any outright food quirks or allergies (I'm allergic to soy, but we're both omnivores anyway, so it's a hit, but not a great loss). We also like eating crazy or bad for you stuff together. It's just a treat, not a regular occurrence. He may get a great big butter cake frosted with chocolate sour cream frosting on his birthday. We might make a hamburger fatty melt and split it.

Basically we're both pretty open minded, and nothing is revolting. Makes life easy and fun.

I do not judge man by what he eats, but merely try to enlighten him.

Seriously, I eat a good amount of mediocre chain pizza. They feed us at lunch meetings at school, and pizza is inexpensive and easily made vegetarian. I also work with a youth group who is fed dinner. So sometimes, there's pizza.

Sometimes, I need a fast, cheap dinner during a study session. Chain pizza is an easy answer. If I lived closer to a nice pizza place (the closest is at least twenty minutes away, in a part of the town with poor parking) I'd probably never eat chain pizza without being at school or church.

So, I don't judge. Sometimes I don't have time to flit out to the city or make my own pie. I assume all others are the same way. If someone I know and care about seriously and firmly believes that Little Caesar's is the best pizza ever, I will attempt to correct them. With love. And basil.

Larikatz - My vegetarian friends are actually very much not picky about people eating things that they do not for religious reasons. As a matter of fact for Russian Orthodox Lent they're vegan and I've had them over for nachos. I made a quick nutritional yeast 'cheesy' sauce for them, and topped my own with real cheese and sour cream.

I just like being able to serve something for everyone, and a lot of the budget meals for a group I rely on use cheap cuts of meat cooked for a long time. So that doesn't work so well here. I'm the one cooking for them. I asked for dinner ideas, not ways to snub them, as I am the one inviting them into my home.

CJ McD - You're the best.

I'll certainly report back! I promise. I'll store the nice ideas away in a word document. Thank you all so much!

Ohsorry. I forget to mention it a lot, as I don't want to seem as though I'm making a fuss, but I'm allergic to soy. I can have soy sauce, or things fried in soybean oil, but not tofu or edamame.

That was so dumb of me not to mention. Sorry again.