Every year for the past 6 years that we’ve been married my husband and I have alternated celebrating Thanksgiving with my family in Virginia or his in St. Louis. And each year I have to figure what to make to add to the meal. Not that folks require me to bring a dish, I just…
A few posts back I wrote a short entry on apple picking and apple butter, asking for a good recipe. Well thanks to Calandra (good lookin out cuz!) a recipe was sent, which I tried out a few weeks back. It’s a slow-cooker recipe and when they say slow cook, they mean slow cook! It…
I learned to appreciate good home cooking from my dad. He cooked dinner about 4 times a week, pancakes on a weekday and a full Sunday dinner. He also had a couple of fun cooking gadgets like a cookie press. He recieved a bread machine one year & everyone got bread the following Christmas. I…
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is apples. Last weekend my family went apple-picking. Being a fan of food and where it comes from I wanted my daughter to learn that apples come from trees, just like we showed her in May that strawberries can be picked off of low bushes. But apples brought me back to North Carolina, where my…
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