Pasta Szechuan is a quick and easy weeknight pasta recipe that might bear some resemblance to Asian food if you stand far away and look at it in bad lighting. The recipe comes to me by way of Open House, a 1995 cookbook supporting the National Alliance to End Homelessness. A few recipes in Open……
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Sweet Sour Cream Cornbread (adapted from Open House, 1995)
Sweet Sour Cream Cornbread is a quick and dirty instant cornbread recipe perfect for beginner cooks. If I were twenty years younger I might call this a “hack” or “cheat code”. The key ingredient is Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, already a shortcut to better-than-it-ought-to-be cornbread. For those unfamiliar, Jiffy Corn Muffins are usually prepared the……
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili (adapted from Open House, 1995)
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili is a hearty vegan dinner perfect for a busy meat-free weeknight. This recipe comes to me from an unlikely source: the 1995 cookbook Open House, prepared by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. It’s a weird little cookbook. On the outside it looks like a run-of-the-mill community cookbook, down to the……