Overwinter's cookbook

Explanation

Hello! Welcome to my cookbook page :] Before we get into the recipes, I want to make it very clear that they are not my own. This is a collection of recipes I have tried online which will all be credited accordingly. I just want an easy place to keep all of them, especially any alterations I make to the recipe. The whole point of this is that I don't have a ton of money, time to go to the store, stock, cooking expertise, or space in my kitchen and I'm also only feeding one person (myself) so I'm trying to collect recipes I can make under those circumstances even if I have to alter them slightly. I wanted to share this online as well as I figured it could be helpful for others in the same situation as me :]

Also! I know how frustrating it is to see a recipe that says it is "made with stuff you have in the house", so I'm going to be upfront. I don't have most "kitchen basics". If a recipe is marked "leftovers" or "kitchen staples" that means A. can be made using a very wide range of leftovers (if you can switch out any meat or veg for example) B. is made using items that are often "leftover" from main purchases such as bread ends or C. Is made using salt, pepper, margarine, or olive oil.



Croutons

Active Time: 2 minutes | Cook Time: 14 minutes | Total: 16 minutes | Cost: Made using leftovers | Equipment: Oven, Oven-safe dish/sheet/etc.

How To Make Homemade Croutons

Recipe by June Xie on Delish

Original recipe: X

Non-Negotiable Ingredients

-Bread (I use the ends of the loaf)
-Olive Oil and/or Butter/Margarine
-Salt

Bonus Ingredients

-Pepper
-Other seasonings
-Cheese(?)

Notes

-I don't have a bread knife so I just kind of tear up my bread ends. They don't need to look nice they just need to taste good lol
-I use both olive oil and margarine. Recipe says 1 tablespoon per cup of bread but I just kind of go with what my heart wants
-I mostly just use salt and pepper because that's what I consistantly have in the house, but I have garlic seasoning now! Will update with if they taste good with garlic seasoning
-I haven't tried them with cheese because I don't buy cheese but damn that sounds good
-The responsible thing to do is to eat these with soup or salad but also consider: these make a great snack when you don't have chips or crackers in the house.

I love these so much being so for real. They're so easy to make you can't fuck this up and they're made with things I actually have around the house. If you don't just kind of have margarine/oil, salt, and bread I honestly can't justify buying them just to make this, but I use margarine and bread like daily so this is a good one for me. Canned soup is also a major staple for me and these make it feel so much nicer haha.