Cooking
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Quick and Easy Tamale Casserole
I like quick and easy recipes because I am not good about meal planning and if I make a plan, we will end up having to go somewhere instead or I get caught up working and don’t have time to do what I had planned. I came up with this recipe one night when I needed something to take to a church potluck that I forgot about. I looked through my cabinets for ideas and decided to try making a tamale casserole. I use canned tamales which of course aren’t as good as the real homemade ones, but work in a pinch. My family love this and it is an…
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Sweet Rice
I don’t know if this is true or not, but I remember having sweet rice every Sunday morning growing up. This is the only kind of rice my mom cooked. It was good, but by the time I left home, I never wanted rice for breakfast. We spent a lot of time with my parents when we were first married and the boys were young, so we still had rice quite often. As the boys got older and more involved in sports and other things, we spent less whole weekends with them. We still eat Sunday lunch there most weeks unless something else is going on or someone is sick. …
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The Perfect Corn Casserole
My husband loves corn casserole, but I had trouble finding a recipe that we both liked. I have made a lot of different ones over the last few years with different levels of success. At Thanksgiving I made one for a family get together. We had one at lunch for my dad’s side of the family and one that evening for John’s side of the family. I found a slow cooker recipe and thought that would be perfect since I wouldn’t be home to cook that afternoon. Before we left for the first event, I dumped it in the slow cooker. It barely fit, but it did, and we left. …
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Pull-Apart Garlic Bread
I didn’t lay out anything for supper tonight, so about 4:45 pm I went to see what I had in the freezer. I had a small family size lasagna so I grabbed it and put it in the oven. It had to cook for 60 minutes, so while it was cooking, I helped my daughter with her homework and then got everything ready for the rest of the meal. I don’t like lasagna, so I cooked a package of spaghetti and made sauce for me and my daughter. I didn’t have any lettuce for a salad, so I was trying to figure out what else to cook. I decided…
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Strawberry Pineapple Trifle
I used to make a punch bowl cake when we were first married, everyone loved it especially my husband. Well somewhere over the years, the recipe disappeared and I have not been able to find it again. I have tried a bunch of recipes over the years but none are the same. They are usually very good, though none are the same. I pulled several elements from different ones over the years and this strawberry pineapple trifle was so good, that it was already gone when I got to the dessert table. People were asking for the recipe and scraping the bowl to get a little taste. I got a…
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Too Many Baked Potatoes?
Have you ever cooked too many baked potatoes? I had a couple large ones left over when my husband and son didn’t come home for supper one night. This is why planning meals ahead of time doesn’t work well for our family. I never know who is going to be home for supper each night. I hate wasting food, so I put them in the fridge after they cooled. The next morning I peeled them and cut them up into chunks about 1/2” square. I fried up a 1 pound roll of sausage, six slices and the rest scrambled. I pulled out the slices and added some oil, the potato…
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Can Baked Chicken be Juicy?
I don’t like to fry foods very often. Not only is it less healthy, but it makes a big mess in my kitchen. The problem with this is that my husband loves fried food especially fried chicken. I have tried cooking chicken in all sorts of ways over the years, but he really never liked them all that much. Another problem is that he likes dark meat and I like white meat, so over the last few years I have been experimenting with different chicken recipes for thighs and legs and I would just throw a breast in for me. Some would be okay but nothing he really liked much…
