Give Me 20 Minutes And I’ll Give You Real Comfort Food It seems like I am always running late. Oh, I know smarty-pants, I might be able to solve that problem if I got an earlier start, right? Well, yes and no. I can only control my part of the equation. Just me, my own [...]
There’s A Big Compliment Hidden In This Dessert! Everybody has a favorite cookie. The Number 1 Favorite cookie of everyone here is the US is the chocolate chip cookie. That makes perfect sense, because there is enough variety in the chocolate chip cookie genre that there is some type of chocolate chip cookie to please [...]
Little Known Ways To Cook A Roast Beef Dinner Has this ever happened to you? You are planning a small dinner party and you want to fix a home-style meal for your guests. So you go to the market and buy a nice-sized chuck or round roast and some beautiful fresh veggies to cook in [...]
Why One Method Fails And Another Succeeds – Which Will You Choose? I have no idea how things were, growing up in your house. In my family, we were just working-class poor, with way too many mouths to feed on limited income. At one point, there were 7 kids and 2 adults. A family of [...]
How I Made These Awesome Rolls Even Though I Can’t Bake From Scratch! Let me tell you, right off the bat, that these are NOT what you probably think they are. Just looking at them, you might be drooling and conjuring up childhood memories of Sunday morning breakfasts when your mother cracked open that shiny [...]
Here’s A Quick Way To Turn Out A Twisted Thanksgiving Treat Ah, the lengths we cooks will go to in impressing our friends, family and other assorted hangers-on during the holidays! It isn’t proof enough of our loving kindness and witless devotion that we spend sometimes the better part of two days preparing a bountiful [...]
There’s Big Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie Taste In These Little Layered Bars! Oh, joy unbounded! Thanksgiving is here, and it is that time of year when the annual frenzy of holiday baking begins. I generally refrain from becoming heavily involved with this. One memorable year, I had the crazy notion that joining a cookie exchange would [...]
How To Turn A Lonely Thanksgiving Into A Special Treat, Just For You! Everybody loves Thanksgiving, right? What’s not to love about an annual gathering of family and friends, to celebrate all they are thankful for, before devouring a veritable feast, then entering tryptophan-induced comas and snoring in front of the TV as they sleep [...]
Little Known Ways To Use Thanksgiving Leftovers How many times have you ever sat down to any Thanksgiving dinner, whether it was one with a plethora of family, a few close friends or even just by yourself, and eaten the entire meal that was fixed – every last scrap and crumb – in one sitting? [...]
Why I Eat Pasta Salads All Year Round (And Maybe You Should, Too) Okay, let’s just get this right out in the open. Nearly everybody loves pasta salads. I know that I do, and I eat them all spring and summer long at family gatherings, pot lucks, church socials and any other kind of gathering [...]