Turn Friendsgiving to FriendsLIVING with These Recipes

The archive of EGO recipes is deep and vast. Not really, but even *I* forget about my own recipes sometimes! I felt like it might help you all if I resurfaced old ones or ones you may have missed while we’re all gaming out our Friendsgiving and Thanksgiving menus/offerings. Some of these are free, some of them are for the community of paid subscribers here on Substack. Some of them live on here, and some of them live on my website.

And if you don’t see anything that checks all your boxes on this list, you can peruse the entire EGO RECIPE INDEX. There you can find links to every recipe I’ve published, organized by category, where they are, and whether or not they are paywalled.

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Pumpkin with cream cheese is a classic combination. With these pumpkin whoopie pies, where soft, cake-like pumpkin cookies sandwich tangy cream cheese filling, I’m also giving you the option to experiment with another excellent cheese: mascarpone.

Oatmeal Cream Pies

These oatmeal sandwich cookies are like Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies… if Debbie were 25 years older, recently purchased her first home (in this market??) and is thinking about getting her Ph. D. They are deeper, more mature, and have traded in sweetness for TASTE.

4-Cheese Mac & Cheese

What I wanted: a creamy cheese sauce, baked under a blanked of crusty cheesy breadcrumbs. That was the prompt. And that’s what we got — but read the whole intro to learn about the common pitfalls and pro-tips so you can avoid dry, soupy, grainy and gritty, curdled or BLAND mac and cheese.

And by the way, it’s a 4-cheese mac and cheese thanks to the parmesan-panko breadcrumbs, plus cheddar, fontina and gruyere in the ultra-luxurious sauce.

Everything Bagel Pepper Jelly Puffs

Judges, today I have prepared for you puff pastry cases with an everything bagel seasoning rim, filled with a scallion cream cheese/goat cheese filling and topped with pepper jelly. I really wasn’t prepared to realize, upon first tasting, that these are *so* evocative of crab rangoon. The pepper jelly hits the same notes as a sweet chili sauce, and then it mixes with the cream cheese and the crispiness of the shell.