Your best 3 ingredient dish

Appropriate for the season: pumpkin cake.

1 box spice cake mix
1 15oz can pumpkin pie filling
1 can cream cheese frosting

Pour cake mix into bowl. Pour pumpkin pie filling into same bowl. Mix. Grease a 9x13 baking pan (or a muffin pan if you want 'em cupcake style, works just as well); pour in mixture. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Let cool, spread frosting.

The end result is like pumpkin pie and gooey fudge brownies had a baby, and it tasted like AUTUMN TO THE FACE. Not for everyone, maybe, but you know which camp you fall in just by reading the recipe — whatever your first impression was, you’re right.

I am buying these ingredients tomorrow. I can’t wait to make this! Thank you. :slight_smile:

Five ingredients so sue me.

Mushrooms in port wine sauce with carb of choice

Slice mushrooms and cook in oil with a diced clove of garlic until brown.

Add in about half a cup of port wine and simmer until wine is gone.

Serve by itself or on top of mashed potatoes / rice / grilled bread.

Oh yeah. I’d hit that, and I don’t normally like cake.

Quick quesadillas.

1 tortilla (your choice, corn or flour)
Shredded cheese (whatever’s in the fridge)
Salsa

Toss the tortilla in a skillet or on a griddle, cover with the cheese and heat until the cheese is melty. Fold and eat with the salsa.

Here’s one that I discovered while looking for low salt dishes.

Take a microwave bowl and put in as much butter as you normally like with corn. Add frozen corn and a few frozen pearl onions. Cook in microwave (3 minutes works for me.) Remove, stir and then sprinkle liberally with Mrs. Dash Garlic & Herb seasoning blend. Then eat. The corn and onions both retain their succulence and flavor when frozen. The garlic and herb mix combines well with the melted butter and veggie juices, producing an ungodly good mouthful of flavor. Dish takes about five minutes from deciding to have some to table. The only salt is the relatively reasonable amount in the butter. (Unsalted butter works just FINE with this recipe, as well.) Bon appetit!

Steak, potato, asparagus. You know how to cook it.

Good to know. I’ve always used white onions but I was trying to keep to the 3 ingredient rule and thought if one used sweet onions, they could skip adding a bit of sugar once the onions are soft.

Key Lime Pie, though if you count the pie shell it’s four ingredients. One can sweetened condensed milk, four egg yolks, 1/2 cup fresh lime juice. Mix together, pour in pie shell, bake at 325 for about 15-17 minutes. I one last night to take to work today, our firm is bringing in lunch and we could always use an extra dessert.

Sunnyside up egg over cooked rice. Add a tab of butter.

Yummy.

Pita bread in the frying pan, grate cheddar and a couple of knobs of cream cheese, slap another pita on top. Turn it over a few times. Chop it into pieces with the kitchen scissors.

One banana, a heaping tablespoon of peanut butter, and milk. Blend. It makes a quick, easy, and delicious breakfast. Or snack. Or lunch.

Toast
Butter
Baked Beans

You’re welcome.

Tiger Butter

1 pound of chocolate bark
1 pound of vanilla bark
peanut butter (i usually eyeball it, but two heaping tablespoons is plenty)
optional: almonds or nuts of your choosing

Melt the vanilla bark in the microwave. Remove it, and start melting the chocolate bark. Stir the peanut butter into the vanilla bark and blend well. (optional: Add almonds into one or both of the barks after they are melted). Pour chocolate bark onto a pan lined with parchment paper. Swirl melted vanilla bark on top of chocolate and use a knife to swirl them around and make patterns (don’t blend completely). Put pan in refrigerator and wait till the whole thing is cooled solid. Break into chunks.

Warning: This is nothing but pure sweet sugary sugar. And peanut butter. But mostly sugar.

The thing I love about these is not only the energy boost but they will keep you satiated for hours.

I’m in two minds about this. It does seem to kick-start the caramelization reaction. This guy got the best results by caramelizing the sugar in the pan BEFORE adding the onions. Hmm. I might have to make a bunch. For SCIENCE!

I figured this one out recently:

Tomato soup (I had “roasted red pepper & tomato”)
Leftover cooked white rice
Chopped up avocado.

Mix it all in a pot, heat & enjoy.