Food doesn’t get much more straight-forward than this, and autumn is the perfect time for it. Let me introduce you to Baked Apples, something I consider a treat but which makes my husband, an apple-hater of some renown, recoil. Pay him no mind. These are delicious. No bonnet, pinafore, or gingham apron is necessary to make these…
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Ground Beef Stroganoff made with You-Know-What
It’s no secret. I have three cans of the stuff in my pantry right now. I made dinner with it tonight, and it was good. First born texted a request for the recipe; Last born ate a plate of it and took the leftovers home. I made this all through their growing-up years, because their…
Two-Rice Pilaf with Grapes
This night’s dinner was a variation on a theme of green and white. The menu: Cornish game hens roasted with herb butter under the skin Wild and white rice pilaf with green grapes and fresh rosemary Roasted cauliflower Spinach and feta cheese rolls from a great local bakery I love green. The game hens and…
Here’s your other banana bread recipe.
Weren’t you looking for one? This recipe is adapted from a local community cookbook, Rave Reviews by the Junior League of North Little Rock (© 1982). Banana bread recipes are everywhere, but this one has crushed pineapple in it, and that makes it sing. I reduce the fat by substituting a single-serving package of unsweetened…
We call these Seven Layers at my house…
…because we can’t count. There’s a layer of salted, buttery graham cracker crumbs (one); and a layer of coconut mixed with chocolate chips (two), all glued together with sweetened condensed milk that bakes to a chewy gold on the edges. The condensed milk melds with everything else so it can hardly be classified as another…
Chocolate Chip Cookie Two-fer
There’s a chocolate chip cookie recipe I keep in my hip pocket, so to speak. Actually, I keep it rubber-banded to the canister of all-purpose flour in my kitchen cabinet. That’s how close I keep this recipe. Originating in the kitchens of Hershey’s Chocolate Company decades ago, these cookies have been in my family forever,…
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