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marriael · 4 years

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Hey @pledisanti I was your seventeen secret santa! I hope you like this, it’s meant to be cute little snippets of Jeonghan and Chan. More Jeonghan than I anticipated :)

It may not be immediately obvious, but it probably is, that Jeonghan has the mind of a 5 year old sometimes. So when he wakes up and finds out that it snowed a bunch overnight he wants to get outside and steppy steppy in the fresh snow. He does not manage to convince everyone to go out but a fair few do agree to come outside.

Everyone is very willing to play nice and they've even started a snowman together but one snowball is all it takes. Chan, somehow unnoticed, makes a solid snowball and takes out the back of Jeonghan's knee. Everyone knew jeans were a bad idea just in case they fell but now everyone knew everyone else's weakness. Just take out their jeans until they get too cold and wet and leave.

That's not to say that it's a free for all. No, no, no. People start making teams based on personal revenge. Temporary truces are made, future backstabbing chances really, and forts are made. A bunch of 20 some year old men get really serious about some snow surprisingly quickly.

The first one to tap out is Joshua who got a solid one in the face. He was not pleased with that and, understandably, no one owned up to throwing that one. Next was Mingyu who was taken out by himself just falling over too much.

Jeonghan was 3rd. He didn’t really get cold or wet he was just tired. He headed inside and saw Joshua lining up cups for the outside peoples coffee and hot chocolate. Jeonghan went right past and to his bed. His tiredness was his “charm” today.

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Jeonghan is easily bored. That is not at all a revolutionary fact. It does lead to some interesting activities when he feels like getting particularly creative though. Boredom was one of the things that got Jeonghan banned from the kitchen the first time and it might just happen again. He wanted cookies and he wanted to make them so here he stands.

Jeonghan’s not nearly stupid enough to do this without a recipe and so he looks up the simplest recipe possible. Surely he can’t screw up chocolate chip cookies?

Jeonghan guarantees he can screw up the simplest of recipes and he’s pretty sure he just did that. Ok, so he didn’t follow the recipe exactly, sue him. They didn’t have all the right ingredients so he took a few… creative liberties. Baking powder and baking soda are the same thing right? Sure he could have googled it, it takes literally less than a second, but Jeonghan is very confident in his ability to make up the rules and make it work.

Jeonghan briefly tests some dough before he puts it in the oven and- he’s going to be kind to himself and say it’s not that bad. The baking stage always makes things better. Confidence is key if Jeonghan is going to convince himself to bake all of this dough one pan at a time.

Jeonghan pulls out the first pan of cookies. The smell while they were baking was not entirely what he was used to but he figured it’d turn out ok. Pulling them out of the oven he has far less surety because the smell is no longer just slightly off it is downright wrong. Not using all the dough would be a waste and so it’s time for a rescue mission. Sugar seems like the obvious answer to make this dough better and Jeonghan measures and tosses in a generous half cup.

When the second batch comes out of the oven not much better than the first all Jeonghan feels is disappointed. Not even frustration or sadness just disappointment. He's made these cookies and if they're not going to taste good the least he can try and do is make them look good. He grabs a plate and starts trying to stack them in some sort of aesthetically pleasing way. He has completed some type of spiral thing when he hears someone come into the kitchen behind him.

Turning around he sees it's Chan, his favourite child! Don't tell anyone else though. Chan looks appropriately confused at whatever is happening on the plate.

"What are those and why did you stack them?" Chan points at the sad cookie stack.

"Those are my cookies. I wanted to make them look pretty. Do you want one?" Jeonghan smiles and asks, even though they both know that those will not taste good.

Chan is not in the habit of being outright rude or denying free food and so he takes one anyways.

'"On a scale of 1 to 10-" Jeonghan starts

"4."

"What! You gave the cookies that I poured my heart and soul into a 4!"

"Mhm, I'm going to go give one to Vernon now!" Chan grabs another cookie and trots off in search of his unknowing victim.

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Seungcheol, ever the family man, suggests (read: insists) they should make some gifts for each other, instead of just buying them. To make it so they wouldn’t take all day each would choose two people to make something for. It’s no perfect system to make sure everyone gets one but it’ll work well enough.

The time is spent largely in silence, as entirely silent as 13 people can be anyways, and small laughs as people look at the projects near to them.

Slowly people place their creations on the table and the room gets progressively louder. Eventually everyone is done and they go around the table explaining the thought process behind every strange creation. A devious smile takes over Jeonghan’s face when he hears Chan say his name.

“Beloved maknae, you chose me!”

“Not just you. I chose Cheol hyung, too.” Chan mutters.

Chan holds up his little white keychain. When he properly looks Jeonghan can tell it’s meant to be a little angel. The little halo and wings are made of folded and glued pipe cleaners. The little decorations with probably fall off but Jeonghan thinks he'll just keep it on anyways.

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It's fairly late but Jeonghan can still hear the sounds of a game being played. He pads out to see who would be doing such a thing when they could sleep. He isn't overly surprised to find it's Chan.

"Oh, could you hear it down the hallway? I should turn that down." Chan turns the corner and jumps as something appears in front of his character.

"I don't care. What is this, I haven't seen this one before."

"This is new one Vernon got me. It's called Resident Evil." Chan struggles a little to speak the unfamiliar name and syllables.

Jeonghan watches blankly as Chan runs around the area for about 10 minutes. When rooms start repeating it's clear that this something is being missed.

"Hey, wait." Chan stops at Jeonghan's words. "Turn around. Yeah, that door. Is there anything in that box?" Chan looks in the crate and sure enough he had missed this box or maybe even the whole room. Now they have to find out where this new key goes.

Chan starts getting tired and missing the most obvious things. Jeonghan is surprised that he himself hasn't just gone to sleep yet but here he sits still. Eventually he starts getting annoyed and takes the controller. After a moment he realizes his mistake, what buttons do which thing? He wings it and manages to get out by the skin of his teeth.

Some time later he looks at the clock and realizes exactly what time it is. He saves and turns it off. He stands and decides that there is only so much he is willing to do for Chan tonight. He's going to leave him on the couch but he'll at least bring a blanket. He does so and goes to sleep without thinking anything more of it.

Later the next day Chan comes up to him.

"Did you play my game last night? I was farther than I remember being and I don't think I could have done that part asleep."

Jeonghan hums. "Yeah, it took a little getting used to but it was kinda fun."

"Well…" Chan hesitates, "come play with me whenever you want then." He hurries off in, presumed, embarrassment.

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glassbangtan · 6 years

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Anniversary Gift {Kim Namjoon}

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Notes: I felt like writing fluff, and I love Namjoon. So here you go.

Summary: You want to do something nice for Namjoon on your third anniversary with him. You forget the part where you’re just as much of a clutz as he is, meaning making pancakes isn’t as simple as everybody says it is.

Warning: Floooooof.

Pairing: Kim Namjoon x Reader

Oftentimes, people wondered what made you and Namjoon so compatible. The two most loved up people in the room – what made you two like each other so much, to the point where you planned on spending the rest of your life with each other?

For a long time, it was a mystery even to the two of you. You loved everything about him; his song writing skills, his perfect laugh that he would always try to cover up with his hand, his dimples which popped even at the slightest quirk of his lips. Maybe it was the way he always managed to call you at least once a day when he was away on tour, or send you the odd ‘Good morning’ tweet, even when your time zones were messed up. You would receive it in the middle of the day, and yet it still meant the world to you.

Other times you would think it was because of his intelligence. The way he spoke English, and the way he translated for the other boys as you watched on in complete admiration of the man you were so happy to call yours.

But it was days like this where the true answer to the complicated question of why really showed through, because it was your anniversary.

Three years together was a long time. Three years of him going on random tours, three years of long distance, three years of craving the other person beyond any other feeling in the world – but at the same time, it was three years of absolute bliss that you wouldn’t trade for anything.

For the first time in three years, Namjoon and you were actually spending your anniversary together. He had cleared his schedule, and you yours, to simply spend the day together. Whether it meant sleeping in each others arms for the entire day or going out and getting completely wasted – it didn’t matter to you. As long as Namjoon was with you, it would be worth it.

All week, you and Yoongi had been planning the surprise anniversary breakfast that you had tried so hard to organise on your own. Yoongi had found you at three am, in the dorms one day with your head in your hands as you ran through a seemingly endless list of breakfast recipes, all of which were either too hard or far too simple for you to even think of making up. Thus the reason Yoongi was now standing beside you, on the morning of your and Namjoon’s third anniversary, pondering over a printed out list of ingredients and a method which haunted you.

“You know,” Yoongi says after a moments silence. “Maybe we should just order food.”

You grunt, snatching the page out of his hand and looking over it yourself. Chocolate chip pancakes didn’t seem like that big of a deal to make – your mother used to make them for you almost every morning with barely even a complaint – but you weren’t your mother, and you certainly weren’t a chef.

In fact, the answer to the previous question as to why you and Namjoon loved each other so much, was most likely because the two of you were so alike in the fact that neither of you could do anything without messing it up at least once first.

“What is so difficult about putting chocolate chips inside of pancake batter?” you ask, keeping your voice low as to not wake Namjoon.

Yoongi shrugs. “I don’t think it’s that difficult. It’s the fact that it’s you cooking with me that is gonna mess it up.”

“Not if you don’t mess around.”

“Also if you don’t trip over your two left feet, just like you always do.” You roll your eyes and shove Yoongi with your shoulder, before setting the recipe down and getting to work. It couldn’t be that difficult, surely. You knew how to make pancake batter, and the only added ingredient was a few chocolate chips popped into each pancake you planned to make.

Namjoon would enjoy it. As you bobbed around the kitchen, dodging Yoongi who had decided to put on an impromptu rap show in the middle of the kitchen, you can’t help but grin at the thought of Namjoon coming down to see the work you had put in. For months you had been telling him you wanted to do something special for him, pay him back for the work he had been doing all this time, but he had always insisted that it wasn’t that big of a problem for him if your anniversary was just spent inside the house. As long as you two were together, nothing could really go wrong.

But the thought of not doing anything plagued you like you couldn’t believe. The least you could do, you thought, was make him breakfast. If you could just get past that small task, that would be okay.

“I really don’t trust you lighting the oven,” Yoongi says when you press the nobs down on the hob to get it to light. You ignore him, waiting for the flames to stay put. Surprisingly, you get it on the first try. Off to a good start.

And so you begin with everything. Making the pancake batter, pouring it into the pan, adding the chocolate chips and soon, everything was cooking. It was all working out well so far, and you couldn’t help but grin at your own work.

Yoongi watched you with a look of amusement on his face, silently giggling that high pitched giggle he always had in the morning. You look at him, raising a brow in question.

“You’re so proud of yourself for making pancakes,” he comments.

“I’ve never made chocolate chip pancakes before.”

“All you did was add chocolate chips to pancake batter.”

You glare. “Please stop underestimating my hard work. This took guts.”

Yoongi scoffs and nods, pushing himself off of the counter. “So now what?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, this isn’t it, is it? A few pancakes and a good morning kiss?”

You blank, staring at the rapper as if he had just slapped you in the face. “I got him some Ryan merch-” You cut yourself off, understanding just how strange you sound. Three years, and the most you could do was make some chocolate chip pancakes.

Three years of being treated like a princess, and the most you could do for the man who blessed you was give him some chocolate chip pancakes?

“Son of a bitch,” you hiss to nobody in particular. Yoongi raises a brow, looking at you as you walk towards the hob and take another utensil out of the bottom drawer. “Help me make a cake.”

Yoongi’s eyes widen, him spluttering on air. “Wait, what?”

“A cake, Yoongi!” you exclaim, clicking your fingers in his direction. “Come on. We haven’t got long before Namjoon wakes up.”

“Y/N, I don’t think this is a good-”

“How do you make cake batter? Does it need to be prepacked?” You’re already zooming around the relatively sizeable kitchen, dragging out every utensil and tool which looks like it could be helpful in cake baking. You had never before baked a cake by yourself – people often told you it wasn’t a good idea due to your clumsiness – but there was a first for everything, and today you were determined to try.

Yoongi doesn’t argue as he pulls up the simplest cake recipe he can find. The two of you read through the ingredients together, silently cursing when you realise that you have no icing to top off the master piece which you were sure you were about to produce.

“I’ll go get some,” Yoongi declares, pulling his keys off of the key holder and tugging his coat on over his shoulders. “Don’t set anything on fire, or so help me God-”

“Hurry up, Min Yoongi!”

He yells his goodbye over his shoulder before the door closes behind him, leaving you alone with the cooking goods and the bubbling sensation of anxiety which is rising in the pit of your stomach with every passing second.

Truth was, you didn’t know when the pancakes were meant to be done. For a few moments you just sit and watch them, gazing down at the bubbling mix as you try to time the moment they could possibly be edible – but it never seems right. You watch the corners go brown, the batter becoming thinner and thinner as the chocolate chips melt into it.

“Flip it,” you outwardly tell yourself. You pull up the sleeves of your fluffy pyjama shirt and grab the handle of the pan. Yoongi had told you not to do anything, but you could hardly just let them burn, right?

You think of all the movies you had seen before, how they had flipped the pancakes with so much grace and without the need of a spatula. You debate on using one, go against it and instead simply turn your body to face the wider area of the kitchen to give you more room. Silently counting down from three, you jolt your arms upwards, sending the barely cooked pancake batter through the air.

You yelp when the tiny remnants of the uncooked batter come splattering down on your exposed skin, making a burning sensation quickly travel up the length of your arms. Tears blur your vision as you drop the pan with a bang which immediately makes you cringe at the volume of it – there was no way Namjoon hadn’t heard that.

You find yourself following it to the floor, your knees buckling beneath you as you scrub at the burn makes which now dot your skin – there only minor, barely noticeable against your tanned complexion, but they still hurt like hell.

You curse to yourself, curling up in a ball against the kitchen cupboards as you cradle your burning arm in your other hand. You’re too worked up in your own pain to notice the fact that you had just thrown a towel in the air, and it had landed on the now open flames of the hob.

It’s the sound of the fire alarm which makes you realise. Your eyes widen, a yell of panic escaping your throat as you bound up, the pain suddenly ignored and replaced with a thick layer of panic, which you don’t make subtle with your yells and cries for assistance.

Because, sure enough, the towel is now in flames and is spreading pretty quickly across the counter top.

“Y/N? Y/N, get away from that!” you hear Namjoon yell behind you before arms are grabbing your waist and hauling you behind the counter. You cover your face, barely able to watch the mess you had created as Namjoon throws water over the minor fire, patting it out with another towel at the same time.

Once the sound of flames has died down, you look at Namjoon through the cracks in your fingers. He’s shirtless this morning, wearing nothing more than plaid pyjama bottoms which hang low on his waist. His pink hair is a mess, if you can even call it that. Namjoon had always managed to make bed head look extremely attractive.

“Aish,” Namjoon finally hisses, turning to look at you with wide eyes. You search his arms for any sign of damage, but nothing shows up. He had simply put the fire out and gotten on with it. “What are you doing?”

You grit your teeth, lowering your hands to reveal a large, rectangular smile. “I was – uh – making breakfast?”

Namjoon raises a brow. “Breakfast?”

“For you. And me. And maybe Yoongi, if he hadn’t left before you got up.”

“Yoongi was here?”

“Yoongi was helping me make breakfast,” you reply, and Namjoon starts to slowly smile, dimples popping. “He was making sure I didn’t set fire to the house.”

“He did a good job.” “He went to get icing,” you explain, trying your hardest to fight your way out of this minor predicament. “If you could just do me a favour and go back to bed so we can pretend this never happened, that would be great.”

Namjoon chuckles, shyly ducking his head down as he does so. You pout, watching him as he approaches you with his arms open wide, beckoning you in for a hug which was purely meant for comfort. He knew you had tried hard. He also knew how long you had wanted to do something for him, though he didn’t understand why. Everything you did was a gift for him, and he never wanted you to go out of your comfort zone just to impress him.

You fall hostage into his arms, letting your head rest underneath his chin as a groan of annoyance escapes your lips. Annoyance at your lack of cooking skills, annoyance at the fact that the world, once again, had to go against you even though you had planned this so well.

Namjoon rests his chin on the top of your head, pressing a firm kiss to your hair. “I love you. You know that, don’t you?”

“Of course I do.” The answer is simple. He never failed to show you just how much he loved you. “I love you, too.”

“Did you get hurt?” he asks. “The flames didn’t touch you, did they?”

“Oh, no,” you reply, pulling away but you keep your arms on his waist as his stay limp on your shoulders. “I was already on the floor from being burned by the pancakes I tried to flip.”

Namjoon closes his eyes, that perfect smile reappearing on his face. “I literally can’t leave you alone for two seconds without you injuring yourself. Let’s see the burns.”

You pull away and show him your arms, letting him drag you over to the tap. He takes great precaution in rubbing the cold water into your skin, the feeling soothing against the previously blistering burns you had suffered.

“Happy anniversary,” you mutter. Namjoon grins.

“It’s off to a great start.”

“You don’t have to flatter me. I’ve fucked it all up, haven’t I?”

Namjoon raises a brow, his fingers still rubbing small circles into your arm as he leans over the counter and presses a chaste and morning kiss to your lips. It shocks you for a moment, but it doesn’t take long for you to melt into the kind gesture.

He pulls away all too soon, a smile still playing on his features. “Honestly, you just being here with me makes it perfect. The best gift you have ever given me is three years with the love of my life. You don’t need to make me gormet breakfasts in bed or buy me expensive gifts – just be there. That’s all I need.”

You open your mouth to reply, a warm feeling bubbling in the pit of your stomach that only Namjoon could ever pull out of you. With his philosophical reasonings behind every event in life to the way he rapped with so much passion, to the way he held your hand, to the way he just did anything. He always managed to make you feel some kind of way that you were almost embarrassed to admit.

But no words come out before the front door is opening, Yoongi yelling as he walks through it with multiple bags of cake-toppers and icing.

“For gods sake, Y/N, you can smell the smoke in the god damn hallway! What did you -” The Daegu boy stops in his tracks when he sees you and Namjoon standing by the sink, your arm submerged in cold water.

He sighs, shaking his head. “I’m leaving. Here’s your cake stuff.” With one final wave, Yoongi throws the grocery bags on the sofa and turns to leave. He halts in the doorway, turns to look at the two of you over his shoulder, before he says, “I can see why you two fit so well together. You’re both hopeless.”

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anonymoususer1997-blog · 7 years

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Find healthy, delicious sole recipes, from the food and nutrition experts at EatingWell. Sole with garlic-almond-caper sauce seasoned fillets of sole are sautéed in a hot skillet and topped with a simple sauce of sautéed garlic, slivered almonds, capers and lemon juice.

Mar 25, 2013 · The simplest preparation of pan fried sole is the best, because it highlights the sole’s delicate texture and flavor. A simple, delicious recipe for pan fried sole that uses just a little butter to enhance the sole…

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Jan 13, 2016 · Sole fillets were used in this recipe but other kinds of white fish may be used as well. The fish fillets were coated with lemon and olive oil first, topped with breadcrumbs, cheese and paprika and then baked in the oven until just cooked.

Grey sole is a light-tasting low-fat fish with tender meat that cooks quickly, and its flavor goes well with most seasoning blends. Adding oil, butter or too much salt quickly transforms a grey sole f…

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Not so long ago, Dover sole meant an overcooked fillet swimming in butter, dotted with tasteless dried herbs and soaked in too much lemon juice. But sole deserves a comeback: it can become a satisfying, sophisticated, one-skillet dinner with very little effort. The recipe can easily be doubled.

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Healthy Sole Fish Recipes 175 Recipes. Would you like any vegetables in the recipe? Vegetables Without Vegetables No Preference. Skip. Last updated Dec 23, 2018. 175 suggested recipes. Fresh Sole Fish with Pea Salad Jo Cooks. 217. … Healthy Baked Lemon Sole Recipes.

Jan 05, 2015 · Baked Sole Fillet, The Mediterranean Way (print-friend recipe to follow): Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. In a small bowl, whisk together lime juice, olive oil and melted butter with a dash of seasoned salt.

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The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. – Julia Child • I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I’d love to open up a restaurant or cafe – Mary-Kate Olsen • I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. – Julia Child • I was aiming for the cooks that I’ve talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking. – Sally Schneider • I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn’t really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. 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That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it’s done. – Devon Werkheiser • I write because I’m a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. – Sybille Bedford • If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong. – Tom Jaine • If I were to tell you that I’m the one who does all the cooking, you’d interpret it as me trying to be some kind of role model. And if I were to say that my husband does all the cooking, you’d say: “Ah, so that’s how it is with family ministers.” – Kristina Schroder • If people are going to be cooking the books, you’re in trouble. – Don Nickles • If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there’s slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. 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Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage. – Paul Prudhomme • In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. – Curnonsky • In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. – Julia Child • In growing up in Seattle, I don’t know a single family that didn’t barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking. – Mario Batali • In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche • In recent years, I’ve been writing because I’m fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business. – Ted Allen • In rowing, you’re always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. 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I’m a cooking teacher. – Martin Yan • I’ve taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors. – Ina Garten • Kissing don’t last: cookery do! – George Meredith • Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. – Doug Larson • My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. – Phyllis Diller • My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats. – Juliet Mills • My hobby is gardening, I love it, it’s my main hobby. I like being at home and I’m very happy being in my house, I love cooking. – Susan Hampshire • My interest in food really began with a months cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew. – Pippa Middleton • My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. – David Dinkins • My mother didn’t really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration. – William of Norwich • My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. – Nora Ephron • My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. – Henny Youngman • My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward… Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together – but if there’s no soul, so to speak, it won’t yield much. – Philippe Claudel • News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. – Rose Macaulay • No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking … it’s awesome. – Mike Trout • no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. – Julia Child • No one who cooks cooks alone. – Laurie Colwin • No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. – Laurie Colwin • Noncooks think it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. – Julia Child • Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle • Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. – Truman Capote • Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found. – Rose Macaulay • Once you understand the foundations of cooking – whatever kind you like, whether it’s French or Italian or Japanese – you really don’t need a cookbook anymore. – Thomas Keller • One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you’re flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed. – Aaron Sorkin • One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don’t do ANY food or cooking shows. – Hank Stuever • One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti • Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. – Lin Yutang • Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature. – David Tudor • Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It’s very difficult. That’s probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here. – Jeremy Miller • Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler – Zero Mostel • Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish – don’t overdo it. – Laozi • She did not so much cook as assassinate food. – Storm Jameson • Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. – Carlo Petrini • So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won’t have the patience to pick them out. – Martin Yan • Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. – Julia Child • Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. – P. J. O’Rourke • The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went. – Hector Hugh Munro • The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. – Loretta Lynn • The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them. – Mary Antin • The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for. – Sophia Loren • The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before. – Nathan Myhrvold • The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. – Julia Child • The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. – Julia Child • The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen. – Gordon Ramsay • The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I’d be more interested in cooking food than eating food. – Ryan Adams • The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. – Jeremy Northam • The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn’t waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. – Mario Batali • There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there’s bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong • There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will. – Robert Frost • They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn’t necessarily make him a good cook. – Stefanie Powers • This is every cook’s opinion – no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled. – Jonathan Swift • This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun! – Julia Child • Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. – William Shakespeare • To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating. – Julia Child • To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ‘home’ might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. – Emily Post • Vegetables to me are – I don’t want to say the most exciting part of cooking, but certainly a very exciting part of cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases. – Thomas Keller • We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc. – Hank Stuever • What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It’s a sure thing! It’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles. – Nora Ephron • What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! – Nora Ephron • What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. – E. V. Lucas • What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature. – Marion Nestle • When I’m not at the keyboard, I’m generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. – Sarah Zettel • When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. 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But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat’s collar before cooking. – Mike Royko • Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy – Nelson Mandela • While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you’re set. – Barton Seaver • Women can spin very well; but they cannot make a good book of cookery. – Samuel Johnson • You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. – Ellen Swallow Richards • You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. 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Vegan School Lunches (and work lunches) with Tips & Recipes! (oil-free, nut-free)

Note Find more vegan school lunch recipes in Plant-Powered Families, plus an entire chapter on packing lunches section. Flip to page 233… and breathe easy!

Does the thought of packing school lunches again make you cringe? Or work lunches?

It can be frustrating to plan and pack vegan school lunches, especially now that most schools require nut-free lunches. I’m here to help relieve some of that stress!

I’ve been packing lunches for our girls (and my hubby) for about ten years now, so I’ve learned some tricks and definitely have a school-year system.

One of my tricks is to rely on key recipes for vegan school lunches. Ones that are easy, quick, that my kids love, and that pack well for school lunches.

Today I’m sharing my top 11 recipes for vegan school lunches, along with tips!

Ready to take notes?

Class begins, now!

1. Chickpea Nibbles

I would be lost without our Chickpea Nibbles. For years I made Tamari Roasted Chickpeas (from ed&bv), and then I needed a recipe even easier. Enter Chickpea Nibbles from PPF.

I make double and triple batches of these. Seriously, my kiddos eat one batch in one sitting – easily. Sometimes I hide away extra for lunches in the fridge, just so they won’t eat them all straight away.

Chickpea Nibbles

Your kids will love nibbling on these tasty chickpeas warm out of the oven, or cooled for lunches and snacks.

Ingredients

2 14 / 15 oz cans chickpeas rinsed and drained

2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 1/2 tbsp tamari

1 - 1 1/2 tsp pure maple syrup

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F (205°C). Toss all ingredients together and place on baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20-25 minutes, tossing chickpeas once or twice during baking, until marinade is absorbed but chickpeas are still a little moist (not dried out).

What to do with them beyond snacking? Add them as a side snack in lunches, or mix into pasta, or rice/quinoa. Mash into a sandwich with your kiddos’ fave condiments. FYI, other kids may also want them. I’ve had requests. 🙂

2. Hummus #hummusisafoodgroup

Hummus must be in your arsenal of vegan school lunch recipes!

Now that the hummus food group movement has officially begun, get started with my Hummus 101 from Plant-Powered Families (page 84)! If you don’t have PPF, try one of these recipes.

And, you know you can FREEZE hummus, right?

Yes, double or triple batch, then freeze in about 2-cup portions. It thaws beautifully, take it out the night before and pop in the fridge.

How to use in vegan school lunches? In sandwiches, slathered in wraps, as a dip for veg and rice crackers or pitas, on pizzas, as a spread for bagels or on pizzas, thinned out and mixed into pasta!

3. Easy, Nut-Free Baked Goods

It’s difficult to choose just one vegan school lunch recipe here! Some of my favorites are Best Banana Bread, Oatmeal Banana Bites, Apple Hemp Muffins, and Pumpkin Snackles. You can find most of those recipes here. Put 4-5 recipes in rotation, double-batch and freeze some if needed.

4. Simple Tofu Recipes

Vegans don’t have to eat tofu. But, yes, vegans often do enjoy tofu! For back-to-school recipes, keep your tofu recipes very easy and with a versatile seasoning.

For years I made my “Lemon Herb Tofu” (from Vive le Vegan). Then our girls went through a phase where they were fussy about the herbs. I created my Simplest Marinated Tofu for PPF, and that has since become my staple recipe.

5. Smoothies

Either before school or after school, they are a brilliant way to nourish and sustain your kiddos in a nutrient-dense drink.

Don’t just fill them up with fruit, balance with some greens and veggies if you can, and also add nutrient-rich hemp seeds, chia seeds, goji berries, or nut butters.

Need tricks for balancing the grassy tones in green smoothies? You can get the full green smoothie tutorial here.

6. Energy Balls

These Cocoa Cookie Dough Balls are sweet enough to be in the cookie category (see 10). Still, I think Energy Balls or squares need their own category.

These are so nutrient-dense and pack a nice burst of energy while sneaking in good stuff like seeds, dried fruit, and oats. A win-win for us and the kids!

The recipe for these Cocoa Cookie Dough Balls follows, but also see the squares linked above and the Protein Power Balls in PPF.

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Cocoa Cookie Dough Balls

Psst, these are really health. No need to tell the kids, or anyone else, for that matter; just eat them up knowing they are filled with almonds (nut-free option included) and oats, and sweetened only with dates and raisins!

Ingredients

1/2 cup raw almonds see note for nut-free option

1/2 cup + 2 tbsp rolled oats

A few pinches of sea salt about a scant 1/8 tsp

1 cup pitted dates

1/4 cup raisins or more dates

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

2 tbsp nondairy chocolate chips or cocoa nibs optional

A few teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa powder unrefined sugar, or a combination of both, for dusting/rolling (optional)

Instructions

In a food processor, process the almods until fine and crumbly. Then add remaining ingredients and (except the optional chocolate chips) pulse or process. Once the mixture starts to become crumbly, process fully for a minute or two. It will appear as if nothing is happening at first, that the mixture is just whirring around in crumbs, but soon it will start to become sticky. When you see it start to become a little sticky, add the chocolate chips and process again. Continue to process until it forms a ball on the blade. Stop the machine and remove the dough. Take small coops of the dough (1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons in size) and roll in your hand. Repeat until you have rolled all of the dough. Toss or roll the balls in the coating, if using,, and refrigerate. Eat and repeat often.

Recipe Notes

Allergy-Free or Bust!: For a nut-free version, replace the almonds with just 1/4 cup of raw pumkin seeds, and add another 1/4 cup of rolled oats.

If This Apron Could Talk: Make a double batch and freeze half. They thaw very well.

Kid-Friendly: These are excellent to pack in school lunches, with a nut-free option for you if nuts aren’t permitted in your school. For a nut-free version, replace the almonds with just 1⁄4 cup of raw pumpkin seeds, and add another 1⁄4 cup of rolled oats.

Savvy Subs and Adds: Replace vanilla with 1/2 teaspoon almond extract or orange oil.

7. Nutritious Soups

Admittedly, soups don’t top my personal list of back-to-school recipes. But I know that so many of you love to pack nutritious, hearty soups so I must include a few.

Sniffle Soup (below) is one of our girls’ favorites, and I hear it’s popular with your families too! Make it for dinner one evening (keep on thicker side), and send it to school in a thermos for the kiddos another day.

Some other soups my girls love include this Sweet Potato Bisque, Tomato Lentil Soup, and this Smoky Bean Chili.

8. Cheesy Sprinkle

This unassuming little recipe with nutritional yeast transforms many of our school lunches from drab to fab. I add it to pasta, and “ta-dah!”, kiddos love it.

Sometimes I’ll use a basic marinara sauce, but more often I’ll do a simple slurry of apple cider vinegar, tamari, and maple syrup (just a touch) – mix it up to taste, toss into pasta, then mix in the cheesy sprinkle. Kids LOVE this for lunch. Add in some veg or beans (there’s those tamari roasted chickpeas again!), cubed tofu or tempeh, and it’s a very satisfying lunch.

I also sprinkle it into wraps for the girls, with things like cubed potatoes and hummus, and into quinoa bowls. Many possibilities! Note that the original version is nut-based, but I offer a nut-free alternative in the recipe. This is the one I use for school lunches, and the girls really haven’t noticed the difference.

9. Healthy Puddings

This may not be something you pack into vegan school lunches – though you certainly could, they are both nut-free.

If not packed, prep for after school. These puddings give a great boost of omega 3’s with chia seeds, and are delicious.

have Chocolate and Pumpkin Chia Chia Puddings posted, and a few more puddings.

10. Chickpea Salad

This chickpea salad mixture has become very popular with all of you. The recipe is in PPF, but you can also find it posted here.

Play around with the add-ins, using raisins instead of apples, omitting the celery or capers, and adding other chopped veg. It’s very versatile – and very delicious!

11. Cookies

With the school year comes school parties. Halloween, Christmas, birthdays… someone lost a tooth, someone has a new baby sister, it’s “party day”!

Yeah, I’m exaggerating a little. Still, school treats flow freely, and we need to have our cookie recipes at the ready for vegan school lunches.

My Homestyle Chocolate Chip Cookies are a classic. Also try my oil-free chippers from PPF (in this post), and the ever-popular nicer krispie squares!

Other Tips for Vegan School Lunches

– Pack lunches the day before. There is already enough chaos in the morning, so pack the lunches during lunch the day before, or the evening before.

– Also fill water bottles! Have them ready in the fridge ready to tote.

– Cook things in batches through the week and weekend. Hummus, tamari roasted chickpeas, muffins, as mentioned above. But also batch-cook potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa, beans, etc. All those staples can be used in wraps, sandwiches, added to soups, pastas, and more.

– Pack plenty of fresh fruit and make it EASY for them to eat. Yes, it feels a nuisance sometimes to peel those mandarins or cut oranges into bite-size pieces and pop into a container. Why not just pack the whole fruit? Because kids have very little time to eat in school, that’s why. So, make it easy for them to eat that fruit. Peel or slice or cut into small pieces and pack in a container along with a fork. They are far more likely to eat it.

– Pack occasional treats – seaweed snacks, baked chips, cookies, a few vegan gummy worms. They have very healthy lunches, let them find a treat once in a while!

– Have stock of different size containers (scroll down to ‘kitchen gear for kids and lunches). I have an entire cupboard with different sizes of containers. Some are ziploc, others are reused containers from nondairy yogurt or store-bought dips, etc. The smaller ones are great for fruit and snacky items, the larger ones for pasta, sandwiches, etc. One day I may reveal my crazy cupboard of containers and lids! If you prefer a bento box, this Planetbox gets top reviews.

– We all need shortcuts. You may not always get to making marinated tofu, making soup, or baking muffins. Get some Amy’s burgers or other veg burgers that you can easily heat and put in a sandwich, and pick up healthier granola bars or snack cookies. Try Amy’s baked beans in a wrap with rice (I always add about 1 cup or more of black or kidney beans to stretch it out) or Amy’s alphabet soup – amp up the nutritional profile by adding beans, cubed potatoes or sweet potatoes, or cubed tofu. Try a pre-marinated tofu which simply needs to be sliced or lightly heated. Keep some quick fixes on hand to avoid mama (or papa) food-prep burnout!

What recipes do you rely on regularly? And, what are your go-to snacks and meals to pack into lunches. Any terrific quick-fixes to share?