Today in 1920: Mrs. Wilson’s Cheese Sauce
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.
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Cooking Shrimp Jambalaya with Mme. Bégué
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…
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Sweet Potato Balls with Coconut
Thanksgiving is nearing and I, like many, am in planning mode. Admittedly, I’m a traditionalist when it comes to Thanksgiving foods. For me, Thanksgiving is a time for taking in…
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Spiced Honey Glazed Cashews
This is the time of year when guests descend on our homes in the form of family, friends, friends of our kids, and neighbors. Having a few snacks and easy…
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Creamy Grilled Corn and Jalapeño Salad
A combination of sweet grilled corn and spicy jalapeños with an herbaceous creamy dressing, this salad is perfect as a side dish for your next backyard bbq.
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Summer vegetables make a tasty Ratatouille
A few weeks ago, my daughter and I took a trip to our local bookstore. She wanted to check out the Stephen King section and I had an urge for…
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Warm Green Bean Salad with Mustard Dressing
One of my favorite things about doing cooking demonstrations at the Murphysboro Farmers’ Market is creating something on the fly with ingredients the vendors provide. This warm green bean salad…
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Cabbage and Flower Sprout Slaw
My favorite summertime side dish is cabbage slaw and I have a new favorite vegetable to add – flower sprout! Slaw is one of the most versatile sides I know….
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Grilled Ceasar Pasta Salad
One of my favorite things about doing cooking demonstrations at the Murphysboro Farmer’s Market is arriving, gathering up goodies, and coming up with a recipe somewhat on the spot. It…
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Wilted Lettuce with Hot Bacon Dressing
Wilted lettuce was my daddy’s favorite salad. He was definitely one who believed adding bacon make everything better. In this case, adding more bacon makes wilted lettuce even better! We…
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Sous Vide Steak Salad
I was immediately smitten when sous vide circulators appeared on Food Network’s Iron Chef in 2010 because I had never seen one before. At that time, home-use circulators weren’t on…
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German Red Cabbage with Apples
When I cook my Grandma’s red cabbage recipe, it always brings memories flooding back of times long forgotten. We didn’t eat it a lot – it wasn’t a favorite, in…
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Pimento Cheese Wontons
My girlfriends and I took a weekend trek to Tennessee to visit part of the whiskey trail. On a weekend trek, we only managed to get to two distilleries! We…
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Eggless Chocolate Pudding
During WWI, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created a program to help provide food for US troops and those of our allies. This rationing program heavily relied on…
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Holiday Cookie Swap
I survived hosting my first holiday cookie swap! Whew … it was a whirlwind of getting the house cleaned up, decorations put up, and cookies baked. Oh, who am I…
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Birchermüesli is the First Overnight Oats Recipe
I fell in love with Birchermüesli in 2012 when I visited Germany for the first time. That was a few years before the overnight oats trend really took off in…
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Old-Fashioned Macaroni with Stewed Tomatoes
Macaroni with stewed tomatoes brings back fond childhood memories. My grandpa loved it, so my grandma cooked a lot of it. My daddy love it, too, so we had it…
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Egg Salad is Old-fashioned Good Eats
Egg salad is not fancy or aristocratic. It’s not sexy nor is it particularly attractive. Classic egg salad is yellow and served on white bread, and it is my all-time…
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Breakfast Frittata – the Ultimate Leftovers Dish
My family loves breakfast! On the weekends, I tend to cook a big farm breakfast. In the summer, however, I don’t want to eat that much food, let alone stand…
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Peanut Chicken Salad
Every time I go to the bookstore, I pick up a cookbook or two from the bargain bin section. This is why I have more cookbooks than I need ……
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Basic Sweet and Sour Vinaigrette
Salad dressing is one of the things I learned to make early in my life. This vinaigrette is what my grandma and mom would “whip up” for every type of…
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Grilled Asparagus with Smoked Salt
I will only eat asparagus two ways … grilled and roasted. Asparagus was one of my least favorite vegetables when I was a kid. In fact, I wouldn’t touch it…
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Pork Burgers with Grilled Pineapple
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…
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Slow Cooker Italian Beef or Venison
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…
