My childhood home didn’t feature any canning or much in the way of cooking at all. My mother was actually famous for her lack of kitchen skills. It was the room that “came with the house, sort of like an appendix”. There was an aunt, however, who was an inspiration to me. Aunt Kaye Diane… Read More
My parents gave this to me for my 9th birthday. I was just working on my Girl Scout Cooking Badge at the time. The previous summer, I had been to Girl Scout day-camp. They taught us an “easy and portable” recipe, which was basically canned Chef-Boyardee spaghetti with a can of corn added to it,… Read More
Did you know that you can grow another complete celery stalk from the bottom piece that you cut off and throw away? This is new to me, too, but I have been doing it this year and it works! I use a lot of celery when cooking and I hope to save quite a bit… Read More
This should be titled Food Disaster Soup. When we grill, I like to cook up a big batch of chicken and use the leftovers in various recipes during the busy weekdays. BUT when things go wrong…. My son grilled a large batch of chicken breasts but overcooked them. After smothering some with BBQ sauce to… Read More
Is your zucchini overflowing? Make milk! Here is yet another way to use that zucchini that seems to flourish regardless of weather, soil composition, or one’s gardening (in)capability. A friend gave me an article from a 1977 Organic Gardening and Farming magazine written by Mary Marvin with the recipe to make zucchini milk. It’s a… Read More
Organic health food has taken off in popularity. More and more we see “organic” labels on the food at the grocery store. We are eating healthier these days in our search for longevity and more energy. Super foods are coming into focus. One of these so-called “super foods” is the goji berry, ostensibly from Tibet… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More
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