# 'What do you make of this?' (A thread for recipes with stuff you have) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 15, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883 "2025-11-15T22:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/21 "2025-11-16T17:37:40Z")
I think she mashes up the avocados with a little mayo, and she adds salt and garlic powder. That’s how I do my avocado toast, only no mayo; just avocado, salt, and garlic powder. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/22 "2025-11-16T17:46:41Z")
Crush a cardomom pod into a pitcher and add hot water and tea. Cinnamon and cloves are also good in that. Or just boil it to make the house smell amazing. I find it makes iced tea taste sweet without sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/23 "2025-11-17T15:47:18Z")
Another vote for the rice pudding (for the cardamom); a heavenly dish! ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/24 "2025-11-17T16:01:22Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I posted too soon and cannot edit that post cuz the video is in it. Here is the recipe: That’s almost exactly the [guac recipe from Jack White’s concert rider](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/15/386409331/for-musician-jack-white-any-old-guacamole-just-wont-do) (though he also demands diced vine-ripened tomatoes added to his). > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Just remember spices go bad over time. Not rotten…just lose their potency. If that jar has been on the shelf for two years it’s probably not worth keeping. Not a disagreement, just a specification-- spices in whole seed form keep their flavor a _ **lot** _ longer than preground spices. That’s why it’s best to buy spices in whole form and ground when using them, if at all possible. So @Shoeless ’ cardamom pods may still be alright. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/25 "2025-11-17T16:33:19Z")
I was gifted an enormous jar of dried oregano. I use it a lot, (but I wish it was catnip so I could make some cat toys!). ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/26 "2025-11-17T16:44:50Z")
Last weekend I bought a quart of buttermilk for making biscuits. I only used 3/4 cup in the biscuit dough, so I have a bunch left over. What else can I do with it, _besides pancakes_? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/27 "2025-11-17T16:50:06Z")
Great for the breading for fried chicken. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/28 "2025-11-17T16:56:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Avocados, a tomato, and a red onion. If the challenge is to make something with all three (and nothing else) I have no idea. The only use I can think of for the avocado is making avocado dip. Tomatoes and red onion are great for most sandwiches, and a few thick slices of tomato are always good with breakfast eggs along with the usual other fixings. Tomato and red onion are also good additions to homemade or frozen pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/29 "2025-11-17T17:02:51Z")
> [@solost](#): > > That’s almost exactly the [guac recipe from Jack White’s concert rider](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/15/386409331/for-musician-jack-white-any-old-guacamole-just-wont-do) (though he also demands diced vine-ripened tomatoes added to his). Tomatoes would absolutely be a great addition but his spousal unit wants fewer ingredients. But sure…toss some diced tomatoes in there if you want. That’d be great! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/30 "2025-11-17T17:09:51Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > If the challenge is to make something with all three (and nothing else) I have no idea. Use all three, and anything else. But (for my ingredients) not guacamole or on sandwiches. Other posters will have other ingredients and preferences. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/31 "2025-11-17T17:44:47Z")
It’s avocado season here and our tree just keeps on dropping more, so we have way too many. I can’t even give them away, because everyone else is trying to give me _their_ extra avocados. Guac from simple to lavish is good, and so is avocado toast, but one can only consume so much. I freeze a lot of avocado, either mashed, sometimes mixed with lime juice, or full-on guacamole or just sliced. My search for other ways to use avocado brought me to [this recipe](https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a22520594/chocolate-avocado-bread-recipe/), one of many available on line for avocado chocolate bread. I made it with finely grated kabocha instead of zucchini, because we have tons of that from our garden too, and instead of chocolate chips I used chocolate I’d just made from our cocoa pods. It was good, I guess, but awfully rich, even though the chocolate wasn’t TOO sweet (I made 70% dark chocolate). I won’t make it again. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/32 "2025-11-17T19:30:26Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Last weekend I bought a quart of buttermilk for making biscuits. I only used 3/4 cup in the biscuit dough, so I have a bunch left over. What else can I do with it, _besides pancakes_? Well, I for one love using buttermilk as a soaking liquid for protein, especially chicken, because it adds a good bit of tangy flavor even if I’m not going for a fried exterior. Soak the chicken type you like in buttermilk, a bit of salt and pepper, and a generous dollop of a decent mustard for a few hours, then a dredge of seasoned flour and into a cast iron skillet with just a bit of melted butter mixed with oil, and pan fry it. You can do something similar with pork, but there after the soak I normally roll it in panko and bake it, serving with a cream sauce or hot sauce. Or, as you touched on, you can use it in almost any baked good you want to add a bit of twang too. I like it in scones, cheesy biscuits, and even a touch in homemade poundcake where it offsets some of the excess sweetness. > [@CairoCarol](#): > > It’s avocado season here and our tree just keeps on dropping more, so we have way too many. I can’t even give them away, because everyone else is trying to give me _their_ extra avocados. My first thought was an option for avocado brownies, but it looks like your chocolate bread is about 90% the same, and I agree, it’s super rich and would have advised using a similar cacao level. For me, my years of living in the southwest speak to adding copious avocado directly to Mexican style dishes, though not as guac. Sliced avocado with a bit of lime to prevent browning is a wonderful addition to tostadas, stacked (!) enchiladas, or (something I’ll be doing in a week once the chill really sets in) to a made-from-scratch posole. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883/33 "2025-11-19T23:53:32Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Last weekend I bought a quart of buttermilk for making biscuits. I only used 3/4 cup in the biscuit dough, so I have a bunch left over. What else can I do with it, _besides pancakes_? In addition to the previous recommendations, although possibly less in the spirit of the thread, you can freeze the leftover buttermilk for use in future cooking or baking. Freeze in 3/4-cup quantities and you can just pull one out next time you want to make biscuits. Also, a mix of buttermilk, plain yogurt, a bit of simple syrup and fresh or frozen fruit, such as mango or strawberry, makes an awesome lassi/smoothie drink. Yum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-make-of-this-a-thread-for-recipes-with-stuff-you-have/1024883.md?page=1)