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Dear Friends, I chuckled to myself as I sat down to write to you. The irony that I’m sharing a cake recipe just two days after Jack LaLanne told us to go easy on the sweets is not lost on me. The truth is, I baked this cake on Sunday and I think Mr. LaLanne . . . → Read More: Peach Upside Down Cake Meat loaf conjures up images of tables laden with “comfort food.” It seems to me that one of the reasons it is so popular is because of all of the ways it can be made to avoid monotony while stretching the food dollar to feed six or more people. For some reason, for me, there . . . → Read More: Favorite Meat Loaf Now that I’m on summer vacation, I can catch up on posting all sorts of interesting recipes that I’ve tried over the past few months. That is, of course, if I can remember where to find the original recipes! Today’s recipe can be filed under “Oh, those crazy home economists!” The recipe is called “Mock . . . → Read More: Mock Chicken Pie A world famous chef has advised women to be daring and experiment with herbs and other seasonings. Better yet, you can have a wonderful time trying sauces others have found add to the enjoyment of desserts, vegetables, and meats. In these pages we have tried to give you a wide variety of the best known . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Getting Sauced When I first started cooking for my family as a young teenager, there were usually seven or more people eating dinner. I learned quickly how to double and triple recipes! And then My Honey and I set up house and it was just the two of us. It took me a while but I finally . . . → Read More: American Favorite Dishes, circa 1958 Old Cowboy At The Fall Stew-pendous and Chili Cook-off on the Fairgrounds of historic Crawfordville, Georgia…I saw the photo and just HAD to use it! I was reading Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of the American Cuisine by food studies professor Andrew F. Smith when he mentioned that chili con carne . . . → Read More: The Secret Chili Cookoff Ingredient My first experience with broiling was when I was a child and I made an open faced cheese sandwich. Of course, I called it a grilled cheese sandwich. I didn’t know that there was a difference between grilling and broiling…or that most grilled cheese sandwiches are actually fried cheese sandwiches. After commenting on the Facebook . . . → Read More: It Says BROIL Not Boil! Betty Crocker’s You Share cookbook with “52 menus, 226 recipes, and 369 hints on food buying, preparation, meal planning, and serving” was published in 1943 to help women cope with food rationing during World War II. “Betty” tells us that we have to make a little do where there was an abundance before…we must prepare . . . → Read More: Your Share: Pinwheel Meat Roll Meal planning can seem daunting, especially if you get psyched out by the thought of having to organize it around The Basic Seven. However, our mentor Betty Crocker tells us in the first edition of The Picture Cookbook (first published in 1950): “The basic seven is easy if you follow this pattern…” For Adequate Meals: . . . → Read More: Meal Planning in Action: Braised Chicken I hadn’t seen my big sister for a couple of years so I was quite excited that she would be visiting So. California (she said it was to visit family and meet our new niece, but I know it was to escape the dreary upper Midwest March weather). My sister and her husband also enjoy . . . → Read More: Oh Betty! You FAILED Me! |
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