dinner
-
I created a soup today! I wanted to begin using vegetables that I have avoided for much of my life. Today, it was fennel that I incorporated into a recipe! I loved it! I’m sorry that I’ve avoided it for so long. But there’s no time like the present to add it into my cooking Read more
-
I kid you not! (Also read this as “I know, I know….we all think we make the best dressing.) This is my family’s recipe from mom’s side of the family, back in NC! Now then, let’s get started, shall we? I watched Meme, that’s mom’s mom, make this and then I watched Mom make it Read more
-
Saturday, October 26, 2024 I’ve been cooking up many dishes lately! I tried to think of what might inspire YOU, to open your fridge and pull out ingredients. I look like a Kroger advertiser! I decided that the recipe that I get the most enjoyment from is this one, lately. I am calling it Chili Read more
-
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Above: Chicken noodle Soup and pizza with veggies and sausage The chicken noodle recipe is below. The pizza is for color. I’ll share that another day! I recently saw a friend’s Facebook post, showing a meal this person loved, which was served at a local restaurant. Since I read the post Read more
-
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Brunswick Stew is a hearty dish! I looked up its origin and found it’s been around since 1898, and most likely first made in Georgia. I remember it as one of my grandmother’s (Meme) dishes. Actually I remember the one time so I really don’t know if she perfected it by Read more
-
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Spanish Rice, the way Barbara Ham Stephens made it! It’s funny: I never think of making this for anyone unless I’m missing Mom. I make it for Dad when I visit, usually. I make it when asked. But my kids don’t know much about it because I make it more for Read more
-
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Have you eaten spaetzle yet? If not, I am recommmending it!! I first found this wonderful pasta/noodle extraordinaire in Germany. Or was it in Austria that I first ate this interesting noodle with its crooked looks and awesome texture? I am not sure about the very first bite, because once I Read more
-
Thursday, March 26, 2009 Today is my mother, Barbara Ham Stephen’s, birthday. She would be 73 today, but she died from lung cancer at 66, Aug. 17, 2002. I woke up thinking about this today so I thought it would be a fitting tribute to her, to write about one of her famous main dishes: Read more
-
Saturday, March 21, 2009 It was more than a dozen years ago that Terry and I last visited New Orleans. We went for T’s PT conference and I love to tag along. My parents came to OK to watch Allie and Steve, who were about 3 and 7 years old. They agreed to stay 6 Read more
Recipes for Grace 