Similar to our American hamburgers, German frikadellen are flat and pan fried. They are also a close cousin to our meatloaf because they have a variety of herbs and spices and use milk, eggs, and breadcrumbs as a binder. Ingredients Use Up Leftovers Traditional frikadellen use up leftover meat, traditionally veal or lamb, but beef…
Bubble pizza is one of those meals from childhood that you just need in your life sometimes. Its simplicity makes it a quick weeknight meal and you can customize it to to please your family’s taste buds. Even though my mom made this frequently when I was growing up, it’s a dish I had forgotten…
One of my favorite foods is chicken pot pie. Not because of the pie itself, but because I love the creamy rich chicken filling. Truth be told, I don’t like pie crust! This recipe is just the filling topped with baked biscuits. It satisfies my soul, especially on cold nights. I cheated and used canned…
My Grandma Raines and her kitchen have a very special place in my heart… and stomach! I could tell you multiple stories about her cooking and our time spent picking vegetables from the garden. I could also tell you how loud she hollered every time I let one of Grandpa’s hunting dogs in the house!…
I have always enjoyed participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. This year, I’m putting a food heritage spin on the 2020 themes and writing monthly instead of weekly. Week 3 of this year’s 52 Ancestors challenge is “Long Line”. This, like many of the weekly themes, can be interpreted in…
Have you ever wondered what we ate 100 years ago? These loaded twice baked potatoes are topped with a gooey cheese sauce remade from a frugal 1920 recipe.
Many years ago, I ran across the Antique American Cookbooks collection printed by Oxmoor House in 1984 when I discovered one of the eight volumes in a resale shop. Since then, I grab one up every chance I get – they aren’t easy to find. One of my favorites is Mme. Begué and Her recipes:…
Egg salad is not fancy or aristocratic. It’s not sexy nor is it particularly attractive. Egg Salad is yellow and served on white bread. And it is my all-time favorite comfort food in sandwich form. It also has a few roots in working-class America. Egg salad sandwiches were a staple at my grandma’s house and…
Oink, Oink! I get tired of the good ole fashioned hamburger … we eat a lot of them in the summer. No matter how much I love them, I like to experiment with what goes between the bun. While searching for some inspiration, I ran across these BBQ Pork Burgers from Leite’s Culinaria. They looked darn…
Slow cooker Italian beef is the perfect meal this time of year. It’s comfort food that feeds a family with plenty left over. Autumn in southern Illinois is when Mother Nature can’t decide if she’s going to be hot or cold. We go from 65 degrees to near 100 degrees over the course of just a…
Waste not, want not. I learned this lesson well! Every time I make Italian beef, I use the leftover broth to make vegetable beef soup. It’s a great way to add rich flavor to this classic soup … and not waste savory broth. When I make soup, I make enough to last several days. I…
Chili has been a staple in my life for as long as I can remember. Every September, as soon as the temperature hit the mid 60s, my dad would whip up a big batch. We’d eat chili all autumn and winter long. We’d feed it to the Pumpkin Patrol and our town’s police officers on…
This is a simple chili recipe that will feed a crowd, or family with some leftover!
It was HOT yesterday … a typical hot and humid sunny Southern Illinois summer day … ewe. Summer time usually means I migrate from oven cooking to grill cooking to keep the kitchen cool, except for the days I get hungry for something like oven roasted meat! Yesterday was one of those day. It…
It’s been raining here for seemingly weeks! I shouldn’t complain, I’d rather have rain than snow, but it definitely puts me in comfort food mode. Beef Stroganoff is one of those meals I fix a little differently every time. It’s one of my favorites, too! In a pinch, I even use ground beef. I’ve also…
I love my Crock-pot. I suppose I could live without it if I had to, but it makes life so much easier on busy week days. Unlike a lot of folks I know, I use mine all year long. It’s great for soup and chili in the winter, but also great for sandwich meat and desserts…
I’m always trying new recipes in my pressure cooker. Some turn out really great, while others just barely pass … but I’m slightly picky about food quality. My shredded Chipotle chicken idea worked beautifully, but I forgot to take photos along the way! This is the end result … so good. I used about two pounds of…
This has been a bit of a rough week for Noodle … and Mom, here, always runs toward comfort food for dinner on those really bad days. Enter, tuna casserole. We all define comfort food differently. For me, it’s food that I remember from childhood. It’s not fancy. It’s not even always pretty. It is,…
Sometimes the smallest of things turn out to be the most remembered traditions. When I was growing up, one of the things my dad and I shared a love for was movies. We liked the same kinds … or maybe he just pretended to like my movies! We’d stay up to the wee hours…
I love pork! I really don’t have to say much more than that! One of my favorite weekend dinners is roasted pork loin. It is easy and can stretch it into several weeknight meals … unless you have your cousin, daughter and 4 other men at the dinner table like I did! Two of them…
I have greatly enjoyed watching Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman show over the years. I ran across her blog several years ago not realizing she had a new TV show at the time. She is one of my favorite Food Network “chefs” … she’s family oriented and down to Earth, and she fixes simple and…
By some grace of a higher power, I was able to catch The Pioneer Woman while the show was actually airing on the Food Network over the weekend … I usually have to catch the DVR version because cartoons and football take precedence in my house! The episode title was Old Friends, New Friends and Ree…
When I think of all the food my daddy loved best, “one-potters” and steak, specifically prime rib, are at the top. Daddy first introduced me to prime rib when I was about 8 years old. This wasn’t something we had very often because of the expense, so it was a true treat when we’d have…
Every year when MPG goes deer hunting, he manages to bring back more than just a freezer full of venison. Usually the bounty includes feed sacks full of turnips that I end up sharing with everyone I know … seriously, nobody can eat that many turnips! Last year, he brought home a turkey breast that…