"CHILI TODAY AND HOT TAMALE"
You can make a fast and totally satisfying lunch or dinner so easily you could prepare either one with your eyes closed - providing, of course, you know how to operate the can opener blindfolded. Chili Pie Casserole and Chili Stuffed Baked Potatoes - If you already have the recipes in your personal cook book as I do, consider this a reminder of something quick and delicious.
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A KATE HEPBURN BROWNIE BREAKFAST
As luck would have it I came upon Kate Remembered by A. Scott Berg. My mind flashed from Kate Remembered to Brownies Remembered. Amazingly it brought back a memory of a favorite recipe found and cut out of a magazine years earlier - Katherine Hepburn's Brownies. I had made it hundreds of times but like all recipes, maybe due to a change of lifestyle or a vow to lose weight, the recipe had been tucked back into one of my cooking notebook - somehow put aside. How could this be? The BEST Brownies I had ever eaten and I had forgotten them? There were times when I had been known to devour several of them for breakfast in lieu of corn flakes.I dug through my Desserts notebook. Voila, I now had Kate Hepburn's recipe in my hand. No more Katherine or Ms. Hepburn for me. When you've eaten as many of these sensational brownies as I have you feel you know her on a personal level.
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ON SIMPLE SOUTHERN FOODS AND A PERFECT SOUTHERN SUPPER
This is a story about our early Air Force years. In retrospect it’s pretty amusing----especially our New Years Day mandatory Commanders Call at which we arrived half hung over from a New Year’s Eve party to face the Wing Commander, his wife and a decorated hogs head, in that order - but maybe that’s just because I lived it. If you’re a fan of the all important trivia of a military lifestyle read on. If your interest first and foremost is a terrific recipe or two scroll down. You’ll find some that you’ll love----delicious yesterday, just as delicious today and wallet friendly. That really is what this web site is all about.
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HAPPY MEMORIES OF A BEER BREAD RECIPE
New Orleans was a great city for a whirlwind three day vacation with friends. We were living proof of that. We had taken a river boat cruise, eaten our weight in oysters on the half shell, gone crazy over a jazz combo in a Bourbon Street bar and ended up in a night club drinking Brandy Alexanders and watching some scantily clad show girls.
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Eel-egant Corn Chowder
I wanted, no really needed, an idea for a warm and comforting quick fix meal. Admittedly, I didn't really know what I was looking for. I just knew that I was hungry, really hungry. Then... there they were. Lined up before me in a neat glistening row were ears of dewey fresh corn, creamy yellow, bright green, newly and partially peeled and as inviting as an ear of corn could possibly be.
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World's Greatest Meatloaf Dinner
First of all, contrary to some but thankfully not all popular belief, good meat loaf is NOT just part of a mundane Wednesday night budget dinner. It's scrumptious, succulent and simply delicious. It's also easy on your wallet. Think of meat loaf as an American version of a rustic French terrine. The recipe below is a classic and worthy of almost any company dinner..
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Dipping Oil
...As busy as she was she graciously stopped long enough to quickly tell me - which I hurriedly scribbled on a cocktail napkin - the nine seasonings for the oil but had no time for measurements. This, I concluded, was not rocket science...
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