This category could feature classic comfort foods like meatloaf, mac and cheese, casseroles, and stews
Summer Fresh: My Sensation Pasta Salad Recipe Ingredients For the Salad: 1# rotini, boiled 11 minutes and rinsed with cold water 2 mini cucumbers, peeled, seeded and diced 2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and diced 1/2 c. chopped walnuts 1/2 c. mixed and chopped red, orange and yellow bell pepper 1/3 c. chopped Kalamata olives 1/3…
Southern-Style Bacon Tomato Gravy Bacon Tomato Gravy Ingredients: Bacon grease (from cooking bacon) 1-2 cans petite diced tomatoes 2-3 tablespoons drippings Flour (for thickening) Salt and pepper (to taste) Instructions: Cook the Bacon: You have to have bacon grease. That’s key… anything else won’t taste right. I cook my bacon in the oven. Line a…
Easy Spaghetti Meat Sauce There’s something deeply comforting about a rich meat sauce simmering on the stove, filling your kitchen with memories of childhood Sunday suppers. As busy women in our 40s and beyond, we crave those nostalgic flavors but often don’t have hours to spare. Enter this easy spaghetti meat sauce—a no-fuss, crowd-pleasing recipe…
Classic Hobo Dinners: Hamburger Patties and Veggies Hobo Dinner with Hamburger Patties ingredient 1 pound lean ground beef 1 package dry onion soup mix 4 small potatoes, peeled and sliced 1 teaspoon Tony Chachere’s seasoning 2 cups chopped carrots 1 large (or 2 small) onions, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon powdered garlic Salt…
Creative Chicken Dumplings: Kids’ New Favorite I noticed I didn’t have most of the items I required for the dumplings when I tried to prepare my chicken and dumplings tonight after boiling the chicken. When my kids pleaded with me to make them, I improvised and devised a recipe using what I had on hand….
spaghetti Style Yakisoba I’d like to give you this food or recipe! When I was in the US Army for 24 years, they served yakisoba in the mess hall a lot of the time (but not in the traditional Japanese way). It is still one of my favorite meals. It’s so cheap and easy to…
Classic Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast Recipe  how to make it Mixed flour (I use all purpose flour) with milk till smooth (use amount milk you want for the amount of gravy, I used about 2 cups milk, about 1/4 cup flour, there’s just 2 of us), added to beef and stirring continuously till thickens…
Smokey Mountain Chicken sandwiches recipe I whipped up some delicious Smokey Mountain Chicken sandwiches for lunch today, perfect for Hubs and our hardworking ranch hands. It was a total success and I definitely need to do this more often because it was a breeze. If you haven’t tried making these, I hope you’ll have a…
Granny Boyd’s Rocky Mountain Coconut Cake What You Need to Make Granny Boyd’s Rocky Mountain Coconut Cake: Basic 1-2-3-4 Cake: 1 cup (2 sticks) butter that is ready to use 2 cups of sugar 4 eggs Sift 3 cups of self-rising flour. One cup of milk One teaspoon of real vanilla extract Rocky Mountain Filling:…
WV Ham Salad recipe Did anyone else eat what my mom called “WV Ham Salad” as a child? I missed home. Oh, I love bologna salad! My husband from Pennsylvania had never heard of it before he tried it and loved it. Bologna and Egg Salad Recipe Ingredients 2 pounds of sandwich bologna with low…
