What is your most ridiculously easy dish that draws raves?

[tink_n_pooh]

The 2 ingredient dessert.....

1 box Nabisco Famous Chocolate wafer cookies
Whipped cream (best) or Cool Whip

Take a cookie, put a layer of wc or cw on it, stack another cookie on top, and keep layering like that until you have a large enough log for however many people you need to serve. Cover the entire log with wc or cw, and if you really want to go crazy, you can even shake some chocolate chips on top. Let sit overnight in refrigerator so the cookies soften, and slice it diagonally. It looks like a black and white striped cake and it is delicious.

A real simple dessert that you can make look very elegant with chocolate curls on it as well. People are amazed when you tell them how simple it really is!

My mom taught me how to make this as a kid and it is oh so very good

 

[I_Know_You2!]

Cheapo Aldi brownies. They always get raves.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

This is from the Chez Piggy restaurant in Kingston, Ontario (Canada)

Sooooo easy and elegant for a dinner party. It's also too easy to make for an everyday occasion (but way too bad for you to eat regularly )We often make homemade pasta to go with it, but the restaurant serves it with dried linguini and it is still really, really good. Add a mixed green salad and you have a great vegetarian meal. I couldn't believe it when I found out how easy the recipe actually is.

Sundried tomato cream pasta sauce

1/2. c. sundried tomatoes, cut up (I use scissors to make it faster) - (first rehydrate dried tomatoes if using)
1/2 c. brandy
1 1/2 c. whipping cream
salt and pepper to taste

Put ingredients in pot and cook it until it reduces to about half volume. That's it. Mindless. Don't even have to babysit it; just stir it every couple of minutes, if you remember. If you turn the heat up to medium, it's ready in about the time it takes to heat up and cook the pasta.

The absolute best mixed green salad dressing in the world:

1/4 c. cider vinegar
1/3 c. white sugar
1/2 c. cooking oil (I find olive oil too overpowering with this recipe)
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 tsp. salt

Throw all ingredients in a jar and shake. I usually cheat and just use a 1/2 c. measuring cup and eyeball the vinegar and sugar (I hate washing dishes!) If you have all the ingredients in your house, this one takes less than two minutes and it always draws rave reviews (I think it's the cider vinegar that gives it extra zip).

I usually serve it with mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, a cubed avocado (makes the dressing creamier), toasted pecans, and dried cranberries. I can usually get this made while the pasta and sauce are cooking...the whole main course can be made in about 25 minutes including the time to heat the water for cooking the pasta. I also often serve the salad with cut up roast chicken (from the deli) as a fast main course for my husband and I.

Thanks for all the great recipes! I'm definitely going to be trying some of them soon!

 

[java]

Chocolate covered Graham crackers
pint of Coffee Ice cream

You just make mini ice cream sandwiches- with the cookies and a scoop of ice cream. Stick it back into the freezer until ice cream rehardens then ENJOY! oh they are yummy

 

[abandcsmom]

Ridiculously easy. Ridiculously good!

Kittencal's Best Blasted Rapid-Roast Whole Chicken Recipe #221743
Blasting with high heat will shrink the skin and seal in all the juices to create the most moist tender chicken and will be on your table in about an hour, this method will also work with a larger size chicken but cooking time will need to be increased --- you may adjust all seasonings to taste, if you are not a lemon-lover then you may omit the lemon juice, you really may use whatever seasoning that you like for this, I like to use seasoned salt --- the same method is used for my recipe#271595
by KITTENCAL

1½ hours | 20 min prep

1 whole chicken

* 1 (3-3 1/2 lb) whole chickens
* 2 tablespoons oil
* 2 tablespoons melted margarine or butter
* 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice (can use more lemon juice if desired)
* 1 1/2-2 tablespoons seasoning salt (use as much as desired)
* 1 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 teaspoon black pepper
* 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
* 2 medium onions, quartered

1. Rinse the chicken inside and out well under cold water, then pat dry using a paper towel.
2. In a small bowl mix the lemon juice with oil and melted butter until blended, then rub all over the chicken.
3. Using clean hands rub the inside and outside of the chicken with seasoned salt, garlic powder, black pepper and cayenne (if using, you can season the chicken under the skin also if desired).
4. Place the quartered onions inside the cavity.
5. Place the chicken into a baking dish (you can place the chicken onto a small roasting rack if desired).
6. Using cotton string tie the legs together tightly.
7. At this point you may cover and refrigerate for up to 6 hours (not more than that or the acid in the lemon juice will start to "cook" the chicken).
8. Set oven to 450 degrees.
9. Roast the chicken at 450 degrees for 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 400 degrees and continue roasting for about 40 minutes (or until the internal temperature reaches about 175 to 180 degrees F. about 1 hour or a little less).
10. Cover with foil and let sit for 15 minutes before slicing (do not slice before that time or the juices will flow out!).

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[Cindy's Mom]

Mexican Dip

1 bar (the large one) of cream cheese
16 oz of sour cream
packet taco seasoning
2 cups of shreaded mexican flavored cheese (in the dairy section, I think its usually cheddar and jack, but not sure).
small can of slice black olives


Unwrap cream cheese, put on paper plate

Put in microwave for one minute

While that cooking, but sour cream and taco seasoning in bowl and mix it up.

Your minute should be up now, add melted cream cheese, mix it up

Put mixture in cassarole dish

Add shreaded cheese on top

Add olives.

When you get to the party, put in microwave for 4 minutes (or until all cheese is melted on top)

Serve w/ tortilla chips.

This dip will be the first one gone. I laugh everytime someone asks for the receipe, because its so darn easy its embarrasing.


Sometimes I do this Greek style

Instead of the taco mix, I substitue Good Seasonings Italian (there's one w/ extra garlic that's the one I use)

and into the mixture I add about 8-10 ounces of crumbled Feta cheese.

The cheese on top is mozzerella and the black olives are Kalamata.

That one I serve with sliced baquette bread.

(It took me longer to type these than it does to make them)

 

[Snoozan]

At a Cub Scout pot-luck dinner yearssss ago, we got the recipe for Spaghetti and hamburg. Fry up some hamburg - breaking into small bits. Dump in cans of Franco-American Spaghetti(not Spaghettios) - chop the spaghetti into smaller pieces for ease in eating. Heat and top with shredded cheddar cheese. I usually use about 1/2 lb hamburg to 3 cans of Spaghetti(this fed me,my DH and 2 growing boys). This is a quick and amazingly filling dinner that's very popular with kids.

 

[LaraK]

I made an easy but good one tonight. Get a nice pork roast. stab some holes in it with a sharp knife about an inch apart. Stick a clove of garlic into each of the holes. Season the outside of the roast with Italian seasoning (I use the mix) and a little Kosher salt. Bake at 325 for about an hour and fifteen minutes to an hour and a half depending on the size. Super moist and yummy.

 

[Disney Hot Mama]

My tator tot casserole.

Brown 1 1/2 to 2 pounds hamburger--crumble as fine as possible, drain

Put in bottom of large baking dish sprayed with cooking spray

Mix 1 package frozen peas (let thaw), 1 can cream of chicken soup, 1 can milk. Add chopped onion, salt, pepper and mix well. Pour on top of hamburger.

Add 2 lb package of tator tots. Sometimes I dump them on, other times I will "arrange" them in rows.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees


I rarely bring any home from anyplace I take it. It tastes very good heated up the next day, too.

I just took this out of the oven..... It smells delicious!! I am sure it tastes as good as it smells... very easy to make too.
This thread got me thinking of the next weeks meals..I made two Sheppards Pies with the remaining ground beef I cooked. I am also making chicken enchiladas with some left over chicken I had from a previous dinner. I will freeze most of this and take out for a future dinner....

Keep these ideas coming!

 

[tasha99]

Mix salt and brown sugar one part each to make a rub for chicken. Rub into chicken skin, then bbq over indirect heat on a charcoal grill. The only hard thing about this recipe is you must resist the urge to pack on the rub--it has to be rubbed on pretty sparingly because it's so much salt. The chicken under the skin turns pink (cured?) and it's really delicious for such a simple recipe with only 3 ingredients.

 

[wardfamily1]

Appetizer:

Wheat thin cracker, whipped cream cheese and a piece of sundried tomato on top.


Easy, cheap, and everyone loves them.

 

[Loverly]

My mom taught me how to make this as a kid and it is oh so very good

Help! I can't visualize how you slice this-it's so easy!
So you have a cookie then cool whip then a cookie-long ways like a log right? So let;s say the log is a foot long-do you cut like every 4 inches or so?

 

[C.Ann]

Mashed Cauliflower:

Cook cauliflower, drain, mash it up with potato masher and add a little butter, salt, pepper and garlic powder.

I swear everytime I serve this people say they just have to get the recipe for it; like it is some fantastic, exotic dish.

Equal parts flavored yogurt and cool whip mixed.
Chilled in a grahm cracker pie crust. It takes less then 5 minutes to whip up and is delicous.

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These sound great! I'm going to have to add them to my collection..

 

[ZipaDeeDooDah]

Help! I can't visualize how you slice this-it's so easy!
So you have a cookie then cool whip then a cookie-long ways like a log right? So let;s say the log is a foot long-do you cut like every 4 inches or so?

The great thing about this recipe is that the cookies get soft and cakey if you let them sit for the amount of time that the recipe calls for. It really does not matter how you slice it once the cookies are soft and cakey

The original recipe shows it sliced diagonally, and it really looks impressive if you slice it that way.

 

[ZipaDeeDooDah]

Equal parts flavored yogurt and cool whip mixed.
Chilled in a grahm cracker pie crust. It takes less then 5 minutes to whip up and is delicous.

I said I was going to try this tonight, and I cannot believe that I actually followed through and bought the ingredients and fixed it up for tonight's dessert. It is in the final stages of chilling.

 

[ZipaDeeDooDah]

Originally Posted by LisaR
Mashed Cauliflower:

Cook cauliflower, drain, mash it up with potato masher and add a little butter, salt, pepper and garlic powder.

I swear everytime I serve this people say they just have to get the recipe for it; like it is some fantastic, exotic dish.


I missed this the first time around - this interests me, I am going to give this a try too!

 

[Pea-n-Me]

This is good for the Fall:

Gingerbread Trifle

Gingerbread
Cool Whip
Vanilla Pudding
Gingersnaps (for garnish)

Break up gingerbread by hand. Generously layer first 3 ingredients in trifle bowl, ending with Cool Whip. Add crushed gingersnaps to the top.

Delish, and always a big hit!

 

[K and K's Mommy]

An easy dip, and I have always gotten requests for it.

In a 9X11 spread 2 blocks of softened cream cheese

layer 2 can of rinsed and drained black beans

next, some finely chopped onion (optional)

then, a jar of raspberry salsa (I used to have trouble finding this, but now it is in my supermarket.)

finally, a block of shredded pepper jack cheese (I can only find blocks so I have to shred myself - the only time consuming part.)

Bake at 350 until bubbly.

Serve with LIME tortilla chips. (I have a friend who swears by the lime flavor for this dip!)

 

[ColoradoBuffaloMom]

wow! These all sound so yummy!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[MyManGoofy!]

ANGEL FOOD CHERRY DELIGHT

2 cups cherry pie filling
1 angel food cake
1 cup powdered sugar
1 (8 oz) and 1 (3 oz) pkg of cream cheese
1 lg container Cool Whip

Make sure cream cheese is at room temp before starting. Blend the cream cheese along with the powdered sugar. Mix the Cool Whip with the cream cheese mixture until well blended. Take the angel food cake and tear into pieces and add to the cheese mixture. Mix until well blended and all the cake is coated. Spread into 9X13 dish or pan. Top with cherries. Chill before serving.


Artichoke Dip
1 cup mayo
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1 cup artichoke hearts (chopped)
garlic to your taste.

Mix all together. Put in baking dish and bake til bubbly at 400. Serve with tortilla chips.