This is a very old dish that’s been updated very little over the years. I’m not sure where it came from. This is just something our mothers put together. It seems to be a dish a farm wife might have put together for the men helping at haying time.
It’s not something that’s been written down [...]
My goal in this blog is to share recipes that have become memorable for one reason or another. I especially like the old recipes from my childhood and early married life. The best ones have lasted all these years. This one is the first meal I made for my husband.
There’s nothing new or unusual [...]
I love soup. It’s one of my favorite comfort foods. In addition, it’s a great comfortable food. Have you notice that people always seem relaxed and at ease with a soup? Well, maybe not the hoity-doity types, but, you know, normal people. Maybe it’s the casualness of the one bowl and one utensil. I think [...]
My family and I are big garlic fans. Except for desserts, we use it in almost everything. We like it chopped up fresh, minced in everything from meats to veggies. It’s also easy and fun to grow – especially the big elephant garlic.
But we also love it roasted and I discovered an easy way to [...]
Got any turkey leftover? Turkey Tetrazinni is a dish we like almost as much as the big bird just out of the oven on Thanksgiving Day. Leftover turkey is great on nice crunchy rolls with all the other goodies. But my husband usually requests this dish if I have at least two cups of leftover turkey. [...]
Cheap. Fast. Good!
By Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross
Workman Publishing, 2005
This is my new favorite food book. Yes, there are tons of recipes in here but it’s so much fun to read that I won’t call it a cookbook. The basic premise of the author’s is that good food can be inexpensive without [...]
What works for me is ROUND STEAK. It is almost as versatile as hamburger and chicken. And, for me, it’s about the same price or less.
I always shop the section of the meat department that is called “reduced meat” or “must-sell meat”. Almost every meat market has one of these sections. I’m retired and traveling [...]