Recipes
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Classic French Salad Dressing
If you know me, you know that I love to dig for answers and history. Asking where and when recipes originated. With French dressing, there are no definite answers to those questions. The dressing’s origins are not clear, but the consensus points to the United States. One of the first documented references comes from a…
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Momma’s Pumpkin Pie
At Thanksgiving time, there was one pie that Momma always made, and I looked forward to it every year. Pumpkin pie, it’s everything “fall”. This is one of my all-time favorites. It is much easier to make than most people think because it’s so delicious and tastes complex. This is the recipe that I have…
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Never Fail Pie Crust
When our kids were little, money was tight, and there wasn’t always room in the budget for treats. I figured out that if I got excited about something, I could make my family think it was a huge deal, and they would get excited too. I always had flour, shortening, salt, sugar, and cinnamon on…
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Creamy Potato Ham Soup
Growing up in Arizona, I had no clue what potato soup was. If we had soup, it was usually out of a can, like tomato or chicken noodle, unless Momma wanted vegetable beef, which was her favorite. After getting married and moving to Minnesota, I quickly learned that my husband’s favorite soup is potato ham,…
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Instant Pot Roast Beef Dinner
When I was a kid, we had a big meal every Sunday. My favorite was when Momma would make a roast beef, potatoes, carrots and gravy. She used one of those square electric frypans, and I remember that she would “babysit” it all afternoon long so it wouldn’t “run dry”. I owned one of those…
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Taco Ring
Recently my daughter asked me to write some recipes for the “90s meals” that we had when she was a little girl. One of the requests she had was for “Taco Ring”, which is a recipe that came from “Pampered Chef.” It’s a very simple concept, but a fun twist on the normal taco dinner. …
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Momma O’s Lazy Day Pasta
I know I am not alone when I say there are days that just nothing sounds good for a meal. That is when my “go to” recipe for me is a “given”. I will be the first to admit that this is a meal I enjoy; neither my kids nor my husband enjoy it, and…
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Buttermilk Pancakes
Only recently has my husband started requesting pancakes and waffles. I’m not sure why, as he hasn’t wanted them for years. I have found a pretty good pancake recipe Ingredients: Directions: Sift dry ingredients together into a mixing bowl. Add beaten egg, water, and oil. Beat just until the batter is smooth. DO NOT OVERBEAT.…
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Pizza Burgers
This recipe has been in our family since my husband was a teenager, if not longer. When I got the recipe from Grandma O, it originally called for sage, and I don’t care for sage (probably because when I was a kid and rode a horse, our Welsh Mare was mean and pitched me into…
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Homemade Pinto Beans
Growing up in the southeast part of Arizona, and having a mom from Texas, it was only natural that I grew up eating beans, specifically, pinto beans. They were part of weekly meals, along with fried potatoes and corn bread. We affectionately called it “Poor Man’s Supper”. My grandmother lived in the same small town,…