Simple Food. Good Ideas. Great Fun.
What I remember about crumble burgers from my childhood is peeking at the buns in the steamer. I do not recall my mother or paternal grandmother fixing the meat, just the buns. I loved the warm, soft buns. Although I never had crumble burgers anywhere else other than our home or my grandmother’s, I never […]
I can not seem to replicate my favorite dishes that family members make even when I have their recipe. Although I always wonder why when it happens, I believe it is because they rarely use/used recipes. They cook/cooked by feel. Thus, when they write/wrote it down it does not/did not always translate. This was the […]
These sweet and sour meatballs have been my “go to” food. It is one of those dishes that I can take to a potluck or other event knowing I probably will not have to deal with any leftovers. This is a great recipe for an party or a potluck because it keeps well in a […]
Today I have a guest chef, my husband. It is New Year’s Day and I am sick, thus he volunteered to cook. 🙂 I am very grateful. He did ask me how to fix everything, but he did a great job. I once made this roast recipe for some friends and now it is what […]
I love this honey, brown sugar coated ham. In fact, I think my daughter and I love it almost as much as Winnie the Pooh loves honey. Even my husband eats this ham,and he does not like ham! This ham is not only very yummy, it is also much cheaper to make than the spiral […]
My mom made this dish often during the sixties and seventies, but not much later because of concerns about problems with locally raised beef livers (a long story that I think was finally answered by questions about local manufacturing involving C8) and cholesterol. She would make it every time my older sister came home because […]
No, city chicken did not originate in the 1970’s. As I mentioned in an earlier post, these are recipes that were introduced and made in my house growing up in the 1970’s. If you are not familiar, city chicken is not chicken at all. It is actually pork and veal or just pork cubes on […]
My husband is from Delaware. He was used to having access to fresh seafood. He could cook it (or buy it cooked) the same day it was caught. Thus, he loves seafood. He loves Maryland style crab cakes, blue crabs, shrimp and Old Bay Seasoning. I am from land-locked West Virginia. My exposure to seafood […]
A standard in repertoire of many home cooks, meatloaf may not be sexy, but it can be good.
My daughter loves fish. Salmon is her favorite non-crustacean. Salmon is one of the few fish I actually like. So, I have learned to cook salmon beyond making salmon cakes. I tried several salmon recipes that did not quite fit my family’s tastes before taking flavors that we liked in some of the recipes and […]
