Pimento Cheese Spread
I love pimento cheese. I love it on crackers as a snack. I love it between bread as a sandwich for lunch. It’s the quintessential “munchy” that combines the creamy, smooth…
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Puffed Eggs for Dinner, Anyone?
I love this article and video about puffed eggs from Colonial Williamsburg’s historic food blog. I’ve eaten eggs many ways for many meals, but I haven’t seen eggs made this…
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Coffee Recipes from 1915
This group of interesting coffee recipes was published in the November 15, 1915 edition of the Daily Public Ledger in Maysville, Kentucky. We think of coffee as being that hot…
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Brand Name Recipes: Lemon Freeze
I’ve recently started rifling through my recipe clippings from my mom, grandma, and JD’s grandma. I have recipe boxes … and Christmas shirt boxes full of them! Some are “back…
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5 Scrumptious Weekend Breakfast Ideas
I love breakfast, but only on the weekend when I have time to really cook. I married a bacon and fried egg man, but I prefer breakfast that’s a little…
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Vegetable Beef Soup
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…
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Christmas Granola Recipe
Every year at Christmas time, I try to give something homemade to my “mirror”, Steph. Steph and I exchange yummy goodies all year long, so it’s becoming a tad difficult to find…
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Cinnamon Roll Christmas Tree
Christmas morning is a madhouse … it certainly was when I was a kid and it still is now that I have a kid … and dogs! The last thing…
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Banana Cake with Buttery Almonds
My grandma’s 1963 Good Housekeeping Cookbook is my cooking bible … it has been since I received it as a wedding present. I have adapted my favorite banana bread…
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Bacon and Caramelized Onion Marmalade
So … I jumped on the bacon jam bandwagon … finally … and at the request of one of my best friends. He loves bacon. I mean really loves bacon….
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Chili’s Favorite Hot Chili
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…
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Chili’s Hot Chili
This is a simple chili recipe that will feed a crowd, or family with some leftover!
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Apple Jack Rumtopf in the Midwest
My mom frequently talks about rum pots that the old German women made in the summer months when she was growing up. The traditional German Rumtopf (rum pot) is a…
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Potluck Vegetable Salad Recipe
A simple combination of vegetables, sugar and cider vinegar, this colorful salad recipe is the perfect addition to potluck or picnics. The recipe was given to me by a close…
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Date Butter Sandwiches
I love old cookbooks, especially from the 1950s and 1960s … the decades just before I was born … the decades devoted to Leave it to Beaver, Bewitched, and I…
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Strawberry pie made from fresh local berries
I love when our orchard markets open up in late spring because it means I can make strawberry pie! Almost every weekend finds us on a trek to Flamm Orchards…
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Raisin Pie
If you were to ask me what my favorite pie is, I’d say raisin … or strawberry-rhubarb … or raisin. It’s a toss-up between the two! Raisin was also my…
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Salted Caramel Applesauce
This was the view at Flamm Orchards in Cobden, Illinois last weekend! The Flamm family has owned this orchard for over 120 years… six generations! It’s one of two of…
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Roasted Cornish Game Hens
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…
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White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Pancakes
White chocolate macadamia nut cookies are one of my favorite. I decided to try my hand at making pancakes that mimic the sweet nuttiness of the cookie. They were…
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Strawberry Picking Adventure
One of our first adventures this summer was to Blueberry Hill Farm this past weekend where Noodle was able to pick strawberries for the first time! She also took advantage…
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Weeknight Beef Stroganoff
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…
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Crock-Pot Roast Beef
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…
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Chicken Tostadas
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…
