Easy Chuck Roast Dinner in One Pan | Comfort Food Classic If you grew up in the Appalachian foothills like I did, you know that the scent of a slow‑roasting chuck roast means Sunday is officially underway. My Great‑Aunt Evelyn swore by the “set it and forget it” method—pile veggies high, crown the meat…
Homemade Sun Tea Recipe Sun Tea Recipe Ingredients: 8 tea bags Water Lemon slices (optional) Simple syrup (optional) Instructions: Get out your favorite gallon glass jar. For the foreseeable future, that will be our brewing sanctuary. Drop those eight tea bags into your container. Any flavor will do to suit your palate. Fill the jar…
From Mom’s Recipe Box: Bacon Cornbread Mom’s Original Cornbread with Bacon Enjoy a tasty trip down memory lane with Mom’s famous cornbread recipe. This classic cornbread with a bacon twist has been passed down through generations and developed in a busy home with 16 brothers and sisters. It brings back warm memories of family traditions….
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…
Great Grandma’s Texas Teacakes: A Family Favorite This is the recipe for my great grandmother’s teacakes; I am a sixth generation Texan. I made these as a child, baked them with my daughter every Christmas, and this year I made them for the first time with my granddaughter! With a little glass my great grandmother…
Easy Fry Bread Recipe – Traditional & Delicious Comfort Food Growing up, some of my fondest memories are of my grandmother standing by the stove, expertly flipping pieces of fry bread. The scent alone was enough to draw every kid—and adult—into the kitchen. It was our signal that dinner was close and happiness was only…
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…
Orange Creamsicle Fudge recipe ingredient 3 cups of sugar 1/3 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup butter 1 jar (7 oz) of marshmallow cream One 11-ounce bag of white chocolate chips 3 teaspoons of orange juice 12 drops of yellow food color Using 9 drops of red food color instruction Prepare a 9×13-inch pan by greasing…
Swim Biscuits: Bringing Back the Forgotten Biscuits Way Have you ever made “Swim Biscuits”? It’s a very old recipe but I’m not sure just how old. When I first made them, I wasn’t sure that it would work like the recipe said it would work…but it did! Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups…
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…
