Category: Nostalgia
Sourdough Coffee Cake
For this installment of Cookbook of the Week I delved into the family archives. What I found was a great sourdough recipe that is delicious for breakfast.
Grandma’s Orange Slice Cake
Here’s a recipe that I remember fondly from my youth, a 6-week process that Grandma would start after Halloween.
National Ice Tea Day
I am recycling, re-purposing, and reusing today. This post was originally done as a guest post for Food Stories way back in 2012. Here it is again in all its glory to celebrate National Ice Tea Day.
Restaurant Style Salsa
Today, I recreate a favorite restaurant’s salsa. This recipe makes a huge batch so be prepared to invite over lots of friends to your next fiesta!
A Good & Spicy Bloody Mary for A Place at the Table
An 80s vintage recipe for a Bloody Mary as inspired by this month’s Cook the Books round for “A Place at the Table”
Blue Hawaiian for #PartyLikeAMadMan
Giveaway alert! Win a copy of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook as we celebrate the season finale.
Bundles of Insane Apple Goodness
I have three points to make on today’s post. When a favorite blogger quits blogging it is like an old friend moved away to a third world country. Sometimes, I do use a tube of prepared bread-like substance. I refuse to name a recipe “dumplins.” To address my first point… Who else misses Jen at Juanita’s…
Christmas Fudge
Oh, FUDGE!!!!! Today I am posting a classic family fudge recipe in honor of sweet Ralphie in “A Christmas Story” (and for December’s Food ‘n Flix).
Grandma’s Apple Butter
I vowed to make the family’s favorite apple butter with part of our bushel of Jonathan apples. Here is an heirloom recipe that just might be in your family, too.
Okie Peasant Potato Soup
For my last post, I presented a recipe for “French Peasant Bread” and mentioned how wonderful this bread was to accompany soup. I teased you with an upcoming potato soup and decided to continue my peasant theme. Growing up we had some go-to quick suppers that my sister and I loved. One…