Not necessarily “wow”, but delicious and easy: bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs sprinkled on both sides with a seasoning mix like Italian seasoning or herbs de Provence, kosher salt, and fresh ground pepper. Bake skin side up at 350 for an hour. Really good with almost zero effort.

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Anonymous wrote:Mango mousse if you have a bunch of ripe mangos.

Recipe please. I like the sound of this!

Me, too. Please post.

Banana split cake dessert- no bake

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Anonymous wrote:One dish meals, like a great lasagna or (fill in the blank delicious thing) over plain old pasta. Like scampi or clam sauce or carbonara...

Lasagna is a fair amount of work.

And, what is "wow" about lasagna? It is basic suburban mom made food.

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Anonymous wrote:Spaghetti carbonara-use guanciale

Do you have a good recipe? I have 2 friends who throw this together as an easy dinner with friends, but neither uses a recipe. I’d love a good recipe to try. I’ve tried a few and they haven’t been great

Google the Marcella Hazan recipe, it’s classic.

A little like the seared scallops, shrimp scampi is incredibly quick and has like 4 ingredients

If you time your cookies right... 5 mins out of the oven, throw on a scoop of ice cream & store-bought fudge sauce, everyone loses their mind, "warm cookie sundae!"

Poundcake. Just sacrifice the 8 eggs or so, and it is basically foolproof & no fiddling over the rise or decoration...

Anonymous wrote:Spaghetti carbonara-use guanciale

Do you have a good recipe? I have 2 friends who throw this together as an easy dinner with friends, but neither uses a recipe. I’d love a good recipe to try. I’ve tried a few and they haven’t been great

Anonymous wrote:Any well-presented salad with an "unusual" ingredient or two. As long as it looks pretty and is something other than a garden or caesar salad, people seem to comment.

those little fish packets wrapped in parchment with a nice sauce to drizzle (pesto or chimichurri or something)

I do these all the time and people are always impressed, but it is so easy! I use a thicker cut of fish like Chilean seabass. Top with garlic butter from WF and lemon slices. In the same parchment I put chopped up asparagus, halved baby tomatoes, shallots, and sliced zucchini and summer squash, but you could really use whatever veg you want. Seal up 90 percent and toss some white wine in before closing. 20 minutes at 430 degrees and it's done. I usually serve with rice, orzo, or pearled couscous. With the white wine and butter, you don't even really need a sauce. The sauce created in the parchment is great.

A beautiful quiche
Popovers
Roasted asparagus
Steelhead trout filets
Bundt cake with coordinating drizzle and fruit in the hole

Anonymous wrote:frozen pizza with a bullshit salad trader joe's dressing

What ingredients are in a bullshit salad?

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Anonymous wrote:One dish meals, like a great lasagna or (fill in the blank delicious thing) over plain old pasta. Like scampi or clam sauce or carbonara...

Lasagna is a fair amount of work.

Also not a one-dish meal.

Anonymous wrote:Mango mousse if you have a bunch of ripe mangos.

Recipe please. I like the sound of this!

Anonymous wrote:One dish meals, like a great lasagna or (fill in the blank delicious thing) over plain old pasta. Like scampi or clam sauce or carbonara...

Lasagna is a fair amount of work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Handmade pasta.
High hydration pizza dough with crest ingredients
Grilled fruits
Anything with fresh figs
Risotto

She said EASY!!!!!! I make fresh pasta (time consuming) and risotto…and while risotto isn’t difficult it’s not the same as searing scallops for 5 min!

I agree. I think the first PP has confused simple with easy. Simple is relatively few steps. Easy is less time intensive. Handmade pasta is simple, but not easy. Same with Risotto.

Risotto in an instant pot is extremely easy.
https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-miso-risotto-recipe