Cradle us with crescents and bury us in biscuits

We're taking it easy today!

The Nice 'n Easy Cook Book is undated, but it must be from the late 1960s since it advertises Time Saver Cook Book and Pillsbury's Bake Off Cookie Book, both of which are from 1967, and it has recipes calling for Sweet*10, which contained cyclamate, an ingredient that was banned in 1970.

If your family consists of the floating disembodied heads of a man and boy willing to gaze endlessly into the middle distance as the Pillsbury Doughboy tries to interest them in a Cherry Cookie Torte made of Pillsbury Refrigerated Butterscotch Nut Cookies topped with canned cherry pie filling, then this is the book for you!

According to Poppin' Fresh, the best way to take it nice 'n easy is to use lots and lots of Pillsbury refrigerated doughs. To escape from our frigid winter wonderland, I'm going to look ahead to the spring brunch menu:

The main course is Ham Crescents with Raisin Sauce-- meaning ham lunch meat rolled up in crescent rolls and topped with canned raisin pie filling. Yum!

If you're not a fan of ham 'n raisin pie filling, the alternative is Chicken Delicious on Flaky Biscuits:

That's canned cream of chicken soup fancied up with extra chicken, pimiento, and green pepper, slopped over Pillsbury biscuits.

Is there any better way of ending a crescent roll/ biscuit-centric meal than topping it off with more pastries?

Of course not!

Spring Log a la Mode uses a technique common in the booklet to mask the fact that so many dishes are gussied-up canned dough. It presses all the Quick Orange Danish Rolls together to form an (always-appetizing-sounding) log. Just cover the orange roll log with coconut, icing, and ice cream in a further attempt to hide the fact that dinner is almost entirely Pillsbury refrigerated breads.

Ta da!

The most egregious overreach for the dough just might be this little number:

What is this thing? It looks like rows of very orderly caterpillars migrating across a lake of melted cheese. It's no surprise that the caterpillars are Pillsbury biscuits, but what lies beneath that vast expanse of cheese?

It's lasagne (lasagna?)! With biscuits instead of noodles! I get leaving out noodles for diet versions. (I'm not saying it sounds lovely-- just that I get it.) But replacing the noodles with biscuits and still calling it straight-up lasagne just seems wrong somehow. Maybe I'd be okay with "Lasagna Pot Pie" or something like that, but I just feel like this is a Pillsbury bait-and-switch scam. Am I wrong to get this worked up over a minor (and probably tasty) variation of the iconic casserole? Of course! But hey, it's winter, and I'd rather be obsessing about a weird-looking lasagna and researching cyclamates than trudging through the snow in sub-zero windchills. Thanks for giving me an excuse to get my mind off my least favorite season!