Hamburger soup is a nice warm dish for the cold winter months. I hope to try it out in the next few weeks. It tends to take a little longer, but also seems to make quite a lot of food for your effort. It is easily scalable based on your pot or pressure cooker.

Beef stroganoff was one of my favorite dinners growing up. This is a good meal to start in the crock pot in the morning and come home to dinner in the evening. However, I have since discovered it can also be made in a frying pan or even with different red meats.

This dish requires noodles, a creamy soup like cream of mushroom, stew beef or your choice of red meat, and carrots and mushrooms as desired.

This is my favorite recipe right now. It is so easy to make and typically takes me about half an hour to an hour. Scones don't even require yeast! These pastries are slightly sweet and perfect to go with tea or just for a get together with your friends. Although I have been known to eat them all myself on occasion.

I usually follow a recipe from stuck on sweet which makes about 8 scones per batch. I wouldn't recommend shrinking the recipe, but you can make as many batches as you wish. The scones are fine with or without the frosting. However, if you do make the frosting it does harden if you try to keep it. It is still usable, just has a very different texture and heating it up in the microwave for 10 seconds may be helpful.

This dish usually requires yeast. However, I only have self rising flour on hand today so I found a different recipe.

Blueberries are a delicious simple berry that grows in bushes. They are often good to add to various baked good such as muffins or scones. The key with blueberries is to rinse them very well before adding to a dish in order to prevent the dish from turning as blue as your blueberries. I haven't had too much issue with this, however, rinsing my frozen blueberries before adding them to my scones often helps them defrost to the point where they squish while I try to fold them into the batter. Just remember to cut back on the amount of liquids you use when you add the berries as especially frozen berries can contain a lot of moisture.

Bilberries are often called European blueberries. They are smaller berries than blueberries and often are found in northern climates. They have a more complex flavor than the simple sweetness of blueberries with a greater tartness. They also have a red interior as opposed to the white innards of a blueberry.

Although I have never known anyone to cook with Rambutan, this spikey fruit can be quite tasty. Although it may be intimidating, just tear open the outer shell and bite into the sweet grape-like fruit inside. Just be careful of the pit inside, although not as hard as a peach pit, most people still prefer not to eat it.