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Tag: easy recipe

  • Hot Mushroom Dip

    This is a delicious and easy favorite recipe of mine for a mushroom dip. You can vary the flavor by the variety of mushroom you use. It’s a real crowd pleaser. Ingredients 1 pound sliced mushrooms 3 Tablespoons butter 1 cup sour cream 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 onion, finely chopped 2 Tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon…

  • COPIA Hot Chocolate

    COPIA was a center for wine, food and arts in Napa, CA. Unfortunately it is now closed. I was there a few years ago on Valentine’s Day and the focus was chocolate. We went to a chocolate class and tasted many degrees of chocolate. In my opinion, the darker the better. This is a favorite…

  • Grandma’s Old Fashioned Red Velvet Cake

    Red Velvet Cake is making a comeback. This was the recipe that my Grandma and my Mom used to make. It was always a favorite recipe of ours. These directions are a bit odd, but I am posting just as the original recipe reads. Cake Ingredients 1 cup shortening (they always used Crisco) 1 1/2…

  • Chocolate Cherry Bars

    I think this is a recipe that won the Pillsbury Bake-Off many, many years ago. It was indeed a family favorite recipe of my Mom’s. We loved it when she made these rich, gooey bars. They are easy and one of those recipes that you can whip up on a minute’s notice. Ingredients for Cake…

  • Old Fashioned Date Turtles

    This is a really old favorite recipe of my Mom’s. If you like dates these are really scrumptious. They are easy and require no cooking. My Mom used to add paraffin to chocolate chips, but that is not recommended nowadays. So I use dipping chocolate for the coating. Ingredients 1 cup sifted powdered sugar 1…

  • Seeduction Bread

    My daughter lived in Washington D.C. and we used to go to a whole food market by her house, I think it was Wild Oats. We would buy a bread there that we loved, called Seeduction Bread. I found a similar recipe online and revised it a bit and make it in my bread machine.…

  • Grandma’s Old Fashioned Au Gratin Potatoes

    This is an old family favorite recipes for au gratin potatoes.  My Grandma used to make them and they would quickly disappear.  There were no seconds as everyone took very generous helpings on the first round! Ingredients 8 to 10 medium potatoes, cooked and chilled with skins on ¼ pound butter 1 pint half and half…

  • Russian Teacakes or Mexican Wedding Cakes

    This is my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. Unfortunately my family is not too crazy about them, so when I make them, I end up eating them all. So I don’t make them too often! They are really an old fashioned cookie that has been around for a long time. Some people call them Russian Teacakes…

  • Old Fashioned Norwegian and Swedish Cookies

    Years ago I belonged to this little country Norwegian Lutheran Church. Every fall the ladies put on a Norwegian dinner. It consisted of meatballs, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, rutabagas, and lutefisk. In other words a very White Norwegian Dinner. The highlight was the assortment of homemade Norwegian and Swedish sweets. They were all homemade by…