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Category: FamilyRecipes
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This family recipe reminds me of colder weather: crisp Fall nights, frozen winters, and meatloaf with a baked potato. If our collective memory serves, this recipe came from the Quaker Oats container. While it can be made into individual loaves, which was probably the height of elegance for me, more often than not, one big…
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When we were helping my Mom at her condo recently, I came across several well-worn cookbooks with recipes I remembered from my childhood. More importantly was the discovery of two metal recipe card boxes filled with my Mom’s tried-and-true recipes. There, in her handwriting as well as that of my Aunt Eleanor and Grandmother, I…
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I may have made mention that my family’s favorite flavor is chocolate. This recipe card, in my Mother’s handwriting, is for Mother’s Best Fudge Cake. It was the chocolate cake recipe used for family celebrations. The recipe may have come from my Grandmother, who herself was a phenomenal cook and baker, or it may have…
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Can being a chocoholic be genetic? There is a long line of family members for whom a birthday cake isn’t a celebration unless it includes chocolate in some way, shape, or form. This was especially true of my Dad. With the exception of the one year in which he requested a pineapple upside-down cake for…
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Adapted from Ford, M.W., Hillyard, S., and Koock, M.F. The Deaf Smith country cookbook. (1973). New York: Collier (division of MacMillan). p 150. My Comment: Long ago, Adrien and I read and ate from Vegetarian classics like Diet for a Small Planet, The Vegetarian Epicure, and this classic cookbook. This tidbit either proves that we…
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About 20 years ago, Adrien and I went to a friend’s home for a holiday party — a choose your own topping pizza extravaganza. While I will every so often get sucked in to buying one from the usual suspects and we usually regret it immensely. And while pizza is not generally Weight Watcher territory,…
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