One of the many wonderful recipes this momma got from one of her daughters! Both our girls are great cooks and each of them has shared some remarkable recipes with me. This is, hand-down, the best banana bread recipe I’ve ever tasted. The soured milk (note: not sour milk about to be dumped!) and the…
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How To Make Fabulous German-Style Fried Apples
Today I’m gonna tell you about fried apples. When I was just sixteen, my husband took me home to meet the family in his hometown, a tiny farming community of less than 500 hearty souls. I met everyone on both sides of his family that day, but the most memorable were his three precious maiden…
How to Make Perfect Bacon the Fast and Easy Way
Perfect bacon. For most of us, it’s a strip (or three!) with breakfast, an adornment to a cheeseburger or best supporting actor in a BLT. It falls in the category of what I call “naughty food” but since it’s so stinkin’ good, shouldn’t we learn to make it the evenly-crispy-but-not-too-crisp treat it deserves to be?…
Easy Four-Ingredient Crockpot Orange Chicken
Cooks all day while you’re away ! Last time, I wrote about my orange-marmalade making adventure!! It turned out great and I LOVE it! I usually end up giving away most of my jam and I’m doing the same with the marmalade. But still, I can only eat so many slices of toast and I…
Oven Baked Steak with Brown Gravy
Just like Grandma used to make. Wait, what am I saying? I AM the Grandma! I invited one set of our six gorgeous grandkids for dinner and card playing this week. Christmas vacation is almost over and next week, the oldest heads back to college and the other two are back to high school. I…
Mmm, Mmm! GB’s Go-to Meatloaf Dinner!
Hurry, hurry, we’re soooo hungry!! Comfort food doesn’t need to take all day! Here’s a quick and satisfying dinner for four that’s full of old-fashioned flavor and ready in 30 minutes or less! I’ve been a working girl all my life and I’ve learned lots of shortcuts! Think it takes a long time to put…
Be The Winner When You Make Dried Beef Dip In A Bread Boat
Dried Beef Dip will be a winner at the Super Bowl party, no matter which team ends up on top! The unbeatable flavor combination of dried beef, real mayonnaise, Beau Monde, and dill is always a crowd pleaser! Dried beef, sometimes called chipped beef, is a form of beef jerky. Lean beef is salted, pressed,…
Do-Ahead Busy Day Oven Bunwiches
Fasten Your Seatbelt! “The Holidays” are Upon Us! It’s the hap-hap-happiest time of the year, right? So why are we all so exhausted? And why is everyone so hungry? Wouldn’t it be great to pull a rabbit out of your hat about now? How about if you could pull a sandwich out of the freezer…
Festive Cheese Ring. A Wonderful Throwback Recipe
Ah the 70’s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I shudder when I see anything from the 70’s trying to sneak back into the mainstream. The fashions were ghastly. Leisure suits? Nehru jackets, polyester everything. Ick. Mediterranean furniture, avocado and harvest gold appliances, just shoot me, please. OK,…
Leftover Ham? Half Fast Homemade Ham and Bean Soup
There will be happy tummies when you make this yummy soup! Thanksgiving can leave us scratching our heads wondering what to do with all those leftovers, especially when you’re sooo over slaving in the kitchen! I get it! I shared a way to use up leftover turkey but what if you have HAM languishing unused…