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When I was a little girl, my mom used to make potato pancakes every once in a while. My dad always put maple syrup on them and treated this savory dish as a regular pancake. Always wanting to be like my Daddy, I put syrup on them too....a (read full article)
There is a product in the freezer section that comes in a blue bag with a little dough man on the front. They are ready to bake biscuits. I have tried them and they are mighty convenient for a quick breakfast or dinner. A bag of te (read full article)
It's summertime and times as tough. You have five children, four of them girls between the ages of say, 13 and 6. All of them are bored. Oh, they work hard and do their chores, but there is only so much that needs to be done. (read full article)
Traditional Boston Cream Pie: Homemade Yellow Cake with Homemade Custard in between the layers, with Homemade Chocolate Glaze on top. Harried Homemaker's Cheater Version: Yellow Cake Mix in a 9X13 pan, Cook 'N Serve Vanilla Pudding on top, dri (read full article)
Because I couldn't come up with anything exciting for Thursday 13 this week, I am going to come clean, so to speak, on one of my biggest housekeeping failures. I hate to dust. I especially hate to dust things that are high above everyone' (read full article)
I am sure there is a better name for this dish. My parents went to Mexico and then on a cruise down around the Panama Canal earlier this year, stopping in various places along the way. Mom came back raving about the food and swearing neve (read full article)
Our local grocery stores often run specials on pork loins, those huge logs of lean, boneless meat. At $1.67, sometimes less, per pound, it is about the cheapest way for me to buy good quality cuts of pork. I cut them into chops, I cut th (read full article)
After I posted last week's Saturday Story about my great-great grandmother, I started to really think about my ancestors; about how life was for them. Then I began to think about my parents and grandparents. I was an only child for the fi (read full article)
The problem with searching for the "perfect" chocolate chip cookie, is that opinions are subjective. What I like in a cookie, maybe you don't. A recipe that one person raves over may seem blah to the next. When I saw America's Test (read full article)
As promised, here is part two of an amazing list of Flat Breads of the World. Who new? It appears that just about every region of the world has their own version of a wrap. Some end up being the base, with other foods on top. (read full article)
As a member of Foodbuzz's Tastemaker program, occasionally, I have the opportunity to sample products of the site's sponsors. Recently, I was sent a box containing Eggo's new fruit pizzas. We got one strawberry and one mixed berry pizza. (read full article)
I don't know about you, but I am all about easy in the summer. We sleep in, we stay up, we go to the pool, we forget that in a mere two weeks, we will be getting up between 5-5:30am to get ready for school...until next June. (UGH). Cooki (read full article)
Because I am an oldest child, over achiever, type A personality, I had to find ways to make my Super Easy Pot Roast completely from scratch. To keep the roast easy, of course, you would have made these mixes up ahead of time. 1/8-1/4 cup (read full article)
This is Grandma I. She was Mamie's paternal grandmother (my great-great grandmother). She was born in Scotland in the 1860s and entered the USA through Canada around 1890. (We suspect that it may not have been a l (read full article)
Did you know that July 30th is National Cheesecake Day? Well, neither did I until the folks at Driscoll's Berries pointed it out to me. They sent me some fabulous coupons for raspberries and Albertsons kindly cooperated by putting them on (read full article)
Inspired by a post by Dave over at My Year on the Grill mentioning how many flat breads there are in the world, I decided to do an internet search and see how many I could find. I ended up with a list so long that I am dividing it into two Thur (read full article)
Those folks at Tropical Traditions are great. They have graciously allowed me to offer you another giveaway. Last time, you will recall, it was for their coconut oil. This time it's for a gallon bucket (2 pounds) of organic coconut (read full article)
This is a throw together, not exactly made from scratch recipe, but is it ever tasty. Mouth watering tasty.Served with cream cheese mashed potatoes and dilled carrots, it is comfort food at its best. And is doesn't heat up the house; esp (read full article)
Before I set about writing this post, I did a Google search of "homemade caramels." I found a few other bloggers who posted their adventures with stoves and candy thermometers and caramels that turned into hard toffee like substances. (read full article)
During the 1940s and 1950s, the USA was in a great industrial boom. It was the jet age. Big cities were filled with chrome, cars, trains and department stores. Airports were growing as air travel became more accessible. In a small town in up (read full article)
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