Cooking & Baking

so if you can't cook, beanie weenie would probably be well received and requires opening a few cans of pork and beans, cutting up and mixing in some hot dogs, and heating it all up. Nobody will complain.

If you can cook a little, lasagna is your friend. It's mostly an assembly job . Pro tip: use hot Italian sausage for part or all of the meat in it, the heat will be tempered by the ricotta cheese and the fennel will come through, making people wonder what magical ingredient you put into it.

If you cook a lot, and especially if you can make your own pie crust, consider a baking dish sized chicken pot pie. If you can't do pie crust, buy a bux of Bisquick, mis it up for drop biscuits, and drop it onto the surface of the filling. It works, and again, nobody will complain. Season the Bisquick before you add liquid with freshly grouund black pepper and finely minced parsley and drop the mixture in small spoonfuls for something that's a cross between a seasoned dumpling and a biscuit. Any extra pot pie filling can be served with rice or over toast or however you like it.


Then there's the total copout, call for pizza to be delivered. Again, nobody will complain although you might get a few pitying looks.