Say hello to tsmith from Arizona! Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I love to cook and bake. My favorite things to cook are one dish meals for the easy clean up. Q. How/when did you learn to cook? I grew up watching my Mom and Grandma cook. My Grandparents would come stay… Read More
Suzanne’s Grandmother Bread can be used a billion and one ways. I doubt I could list all the different ways, even if I was creative enough to think of them. Suzanne could. I would webstalk her like she was Nora Roberts, given the chance. Moving on– By adding an egg to the basic Grandmother Bread… Read More
I ‘did my time’ many years back on the juice-to-make-grape-jelly process. Wash, stew, dump hot messy fruit in a jelly bag, wait …drip…wait. THEN start the jelly making. Whew! Fast forward 10 years and a co-worker has tons of Concord grapes. A friend is dying to make them into jelly. Oh, please, oh please will… Read More
Tortillas (particularly flour ones) are a staple at our house and not just because we eat a lot of Mexican food. They are inexpensive to buy and easy to make. We eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and even dessert! The possibilities are limitless when you realize how versatile they are–and there need not… Read More
Once you make these, you will never buy store-bought again! (The pictures below show a quadruple batch.) 2-3/4 to 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup water 1/2 cup sourdough starter 1/3 cup nonfat dry milk 1 tablespoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup cornmeal (or as needed) The night prior, in… Read More
So I was going to jam up the 16-plus pounds of onions I got for less than $2, plus all the onions from the garden at the same time I was trying to wrap up this year’s canning craziness. I had batches of cantaloupe jam, watermelon jelly, pickled limes, and peaches all cooking at the… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More
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