These are favorite recipes from my box, family, and friends. They are my special recipes, often made or much requested. These are the recipes I want to pass down.
There isn’t really anything that signals summer’s beginning more than Rhubarb. I’m just crazy about it ever since I was a kid and we’d sit under the honeysuckle bushes dipping stalks of rhubarb into our blue melamine sugar bowl. And I’m even crazier about this Two Layer Rhubarb Custard Pie.
Two Layer Rhubarb Custard Pie
I have really fond memories of this recipe, Chicken Bordeaux from the New York Times Cookbook, in Craig Claiborne’s day. He was a food writer and editor, way back when, highly associated with the New York Times. This harkens back to when I was young, late 70s, early 80s.
Chicken Bourdeaux
My Grandma’s Refrigerator Pickled Beets are a simple, classic pickled beet that makes just enough to fill a jar or two, depending on the size of the jar, of course.
Grandma’s Refrigerator Pickled Beets
Let’s talk about Dad’s Traditional Welsh Cheese Rarebit. On a rare occasion when we were children, my Dad would cook for us. It was kind of a big deal, always on a Saturday, and probably always when Mom was gone, maybe running errands or something. It was a novelty, but really, the reason we kids remember it was because Dad made it fun. Like an adventure.
Welsh Cheese Rarebit
If you grew up in the Midwest or any area with German (or Eastern European) roots, you might have grown up with this hearty & healthy soup. And you already know that Smoked Sausage and Cabbage Soup is absolute comfort food. A bowl of this will warm you up from the inside out even on the coldest days.
Smoked Sausage & Cabbage Soup
