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Thursdays Are For Cooking

| June 18, 2020 | 10 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking

Biscuits Supreme from the Good Old Days In this case, it’s a 1953 recipe titled “Biscuits Supreme” from Better Homes & Gardens. My dad used to make these, and pecan rolls, and they are really good on a cold winter weekend morning. When you split them open in the winter, the steam rising out of […]

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Simple Sunday Dinner From the Hillbilly Kitchen

| June 14, 2020 | 9 Comments
Simple Sunday Dinner From the Hillbilly Kitchen

Here we have a group of videos from a young lady (and Mama) who calls her type of cooking ‘hillbilly cooking’.  After watching all those episodes of the 90+ lady who showed us how her family survived the Great Depression, I’m glad that we have someone who can follow in her footsteps with simple, inexpensive […]

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Friday’s Recipe

| June 12, 2020 | 14 Comments
Friday’s Recipe

What to do with that bumper crop of ‘maters you have growing in the garden? I came across this at a little harbor cafe in Crete, and it followed me home. It’s been a family staple ever since, and when served with buttered Sliver Queen corn-on-the-cob and The World’s Best Crab Cakes, just shouts “Summer!” […]

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Friday’s Recipe

| June 5, 2020 | 18 Comments
Friday’s Recipe

Best Grilled Pork Chops In before the whining, cool. Pork chops are among the easier cuts to foul up- the swine these days are bred low fat, so the chops are very lean. Two ways around this, and I’m going to show you both. Fire up the grill, becauses here’s… The Best Grilled Pork Chops […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking

| June 4, 2020 | 18 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking

Again from the 1952-1960 Better Homes & Gardens cookbook comes this holiday treat, although I’ve always thought it was good any time of the year from early Autumn into early Summer.  Frankly, it’s good any time of year, but when my Dad made it, he always started in the early Autumn. Fall Flying Time may […]

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Another Resource for the Pantry

| May 30, 2020 | 24 Comments
Another Resource for the Pantry

After that lengthy discussion on why cornbread should not have sugar in it, I went hunting for the reasons behind not putting sugar into cornbread batter. The author of the article below is as serious about his food as are all of the rest of us. This Real Southern Cornbread recipe comes from Serious Eats. […]

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Friday’s Recipe

| May 29, 2020 | 21 Comments
Friday’s Recipe

Baked Beans While still looking for that spare time I have to throw a weekly Friday Recipe together, I decided to follow Ex’s lead from yesterday and provide a side, namely Baked Beans. Can’t have a respectable East coast cook-out without them, and there are several ways to attack the critter. I’m going for easy […]

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Thursdays Are For Cooking….

| May 28, 2020 | 10 Comments
Thursdays Are For Cooking….

This comes to us from Feast and Farm (link below): the traditional southern recipe for a chilled summer salad that is filling and nearly a full meal in itself. Be prepared to make a lot of it. Since it does best in a glass bowl, that is where you start. If you don’t have one, […]

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