Simple Cheesy Broccoli Casserole
This classic Cheesy Broccoli Casserole is super simple, only requires a few ingredients, and is quick to make. Thus, I used to make this dish a lot for potlucks and guests when I was in graduate school and first working The recipe calls for Velveeta Cheese. If you don’t want to use a processed cheese, [...]
Mom’s Creamed Peas and Baby Potatoes
My mom loved creamed spring peas and baby potatoes fresh from the garden. She made the best that I have ever eaten. She did not fix them very often, which made them even more of a treat. Despite my best attempts to make them the same way she did, I can not get mine to [...]
Simple Pea Salad
A super simple, flexible side dish that is perfect for spring, summer, and salad bars is pea salad. Although there are many, many variations, I like to start with the basic salad bar standard. From the basic recipe, I can add ingredients to fit the meal and the occasion. Other ingredients that go well in [...]
How to Roast Peppers
Until recently, I did not roast my own peppers. I only purchased roasted red peppers once or twice as I rarely used them in my cooking. Well, no more….it is so simple and they taste so much better than jarred. A super easy way to roast peppers is under the oven’s broiler. You just place [...]
Sweet and Sour Green Beans
I was reading through some of my cookbooks looking for a new way to fix mushrooms and instead found a recipe for “pickled” green beans. It was in one of my favorite cookbooks, A Taste of Toronto (Ohio, that is). So, I decided to give them a try. Although they were called pickled green beans, [...]
Pineapple Casserole
I ran across a recipe in myThe Blue Willow Inn Cookbook: Discover Why the Best Small-Town Restaurant in the South is in Social Circle, Georgia cookbook for pineapple casserole. I had never heard of pineapple casserole before reading this recipe, but I was intrigued…especially since I just purchased a dozen cans of pineapple on sale [...]
Mom’s Glazed Sweet Potatoes
I think one of the most requested dishes of my mom for extended family holiday gatherings was her sweet potatoes (her minced meat pie was the other). It was also one of the messiest dishes to transport as the sauce had a tendency to spill out on some turn or hill as we went; however, [...]
Mashed Potato Pancakes a.k.a. Potato Cakes
There were very few things my mom refused to eat and many of them had some childhood memory associated with them. Cold mashed potatoes were one of those things. She said that by the time the got to eat the mashed potatoes they were often cold. Thus at our house, mashed potatoes were one of [...]
Simply Mashed Potatoes
Although there are times when I want to make mashed potatoes ahead or to change their texture or taste, I find myself most often making the basic mashed potatoes that my mom used to make. The ones that are smooth (or mostly smooth) and creamy. The ones that go great with gravy. Sure, they are [...]
Cooked Rhubarb
Whether you call it stewed rhubarb, rhubarb compote, or any other name, this simple, delicious preparation of rhubarb reminds me of my mom. She just called it cooked rhubarb. She often made it from the fresh rhubarb in my parents yard or what she had frozen during the growing season. In fact, she often served [...]
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