The weather over the next few days is going to over 100 degrees here and is supposed to stay there for a while. When it gets that hot I look for things to make for dinner that satisfy and yet don’t heat up the house even more than usual. Tonight as the sun went down [...]
Food Product Review
My Favorite Beef Bouillon
A few years ago on one of my road trips I came accross this package in a store and picked up a few of them. I can’t remember what store it was in or in what state that was, back then I was doing lots of driving and stopping along the way into local shops [...]
Recipes
Beef and Rice
The heat has been brutal down here in the deep south and they are saying it will get even worse. I would be quite content with a nice large salad and some grilled chicken for dinner but hubby likes to have something more substantial and I like making things he likes. It’s days like these [...]
Recipes
Cheesecake for Desert!
Hubby loves cheesecake, not a store purchased but but the one I make for him. I’ve been making it for him now for almost 40 years and he really enjoys it but it is very rare for him to ask for it. He seems to think he shouldn’t request me to make anything for him, [...]
Food Product Review
Pork Tenderloin with Mashed Potatoes and Spinach
When it is hot out you still need to prepare a dinner for your family, none of us I don’t think stop eating just because the temperature rises although we might wish we could! Sometimes it is too hot to stand outside and cook on the grill too, or we may not have access to [...]
Recipes
Meatloaf for Hubby
I don’t have a picture yet because it is still in the oven. I am doing a kind of experiment tonight on one of hubbys favorite things…..meatloaf. If you have been keeping up with this blog of mine you might remember that I said meatloaf is not one of my favorite things, I do like [...]
Food Product Review
Maggi Seasoning
On my recipes you will see the use of this seasoning. I have been using this since I started cooking more than 40 years ago. I grew up in a blue collar immigrant neighborhood of mainly german and irish and so our foods naturally used the ingredients that our elders had used in their [...]
Equipment Review
Kuhn Rikon Corn Zipper
See this little smiley faced gadget? I love this thing! It is made by one of my favorite kitchen gadget makers, Kuhn Rikon, and makes getting that wonderful fresh corn off the cob with no problems or struggle. Really, just pull this along the cob and it removes the corn beautifully. If you get [...]
Equipment Review
Meat Tenderizers
I thought I would start going through all the gadgets I have collected in my 40 years of playing in the kitchen and listing some of my favorites and tossing those that don’t perform well enough to earn the space they take up. First up are the tenderizers I use with meats and poultry, [...]
Recipes
Rib Roast Dinner
What a nice dinner we had tonight! It really did come out as close to perfect as you can get. Hubby really enjoyed it and son is still eating, he says he is savoring his mama’s cooking! Our favorite local market had whole rib roasts on sale and after we tried the first one we [...]
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