99 ragged recipes

Oven bag Italian chicken baked in spaghetti sauce with green peppers. Just 5 ingredients and 30 minutes for a hands-off weeknight chicken dinner served over spaghetti.

Broiled venison steaks slathered in a sweet-tangy plum barbecue sauce. Just two ingredients and 25 minutes stand between you and a wild game dinner worth bragging about.

Refreshing iced tea float with almond-flavored herbal tea and scoops of lemon or orange sherbet. Light, cooling beverage perfect for summer afternoons.

Today's pot roast braises rump roast with potatoes, carrots, stewed tomatoes, and onion soup mix in a sealed oven bag. Hands-off Sunday supper with no pot to scrub.

Homemade chili sauce for canning made from 25 fresh tomatoes, red peppers, onions, and apple cider vinegar with allspice and brown sugar. A tangy-sweet condiment for preserving summer's harvest.

When you taste these homemade gingersnap cookies, you will fall in love with them, and never buy the store-bought bagged or boxed stuff any more. They are so delicious.

Homemade oven-baked croutons from day-old bread, slow-dried at low heat until golden and crunchy. One ingredient, any herbs you like, and better than anything from a bag.

Classic vanilla meringue kisses filled with silky chocolate ganache: crisp shells piped from star-tipped pastry bags, slow-baked low, then thumbed open and spooned full of melted bittersweet cream.

Homemade jelly combining tart apples and fragrant quinces in equal proportions. Cook the fruits separately, strain through a jelly bag, then boil the blended juices until they sheet from a spoon.

Light and crisp egg-whipped anise biscotti made with cornstarch for extra snap. Nut-free, piped from a pastry bag, and twice-baked golden. The ideal dunking cookie for coffee or tea.

Easy pasta salad tosses cooked pasta with frozen mixed vegetables, sweet potato, and low-fat dressing for a five-minute brown bag lunch. Pantry-staple weeknight side or work-from-home meal.

Penn & Teller dessert is a theatrical bleeding Jell-O mold for Halloween: thick red gelatin and whipped topping hiding a bag of fake blood that gushes when you cut in. A gory, show-stopping party prank dessert.

Microwave turkey method roasts a whole stuffed bird in a floured roasting bag at 70 percent power, rotating and flipping every quarter of the cook time. A fast holiday option without the oven.

Rosehip, Hibiscus & Currant Pie or Cake Filling recipe

Sugar sugar and more sugar is the main ingredient in most cranberry sauces. Following the paleo diet gives you the healthier upper hand for making your own sugar-free sauce with fresh cranberries.

A warm non-alcoholic grog blending cranberry juice, orange juice, fresh lemon, strong tea, and sugar. Serve hot with cinnamon sticks or chilled over ice for a refreshing punch.