How to Cook Tomato Dumplings with Meatballs
Tomato Dumplings are hearty & full flavored – perfect for any day of the week. An acquaintance revealed that one of her favorite & most delicious dishes made by her mom, they named tomato dumplings. Whenever her own family visited her mother, she requested tomato dumplings. In reviewing the recipe, I have found that it is much more than just tomato dumplings! How to Cook Tomato Dumplings with Meatballs: We, too, have...
How to Cook Smoked Paprika Acadian Rappie Pie + Video
Smoked Paprika Acadian Rappie Pie is a hearty Eastern Canadian dish. Rappie pie is part of traditional Acadian cookery, and the main part of the dish is comprised of a grated potato puree called rapure. The rapure or grated puree is a commercial product that is readily available at most Nova Scotia supermarkets, and is made specially for rappie pie and potato dumplings. However, this Nova Scotian ingredient isn’t easily found in...
Ode to Chicken Wings: Tailgating Central
What a delicious dish…Chicken Wings! They can be prepared in a myriad of ways & paired with any number of dips & sauces. The standard BBQ or Buffalo wings, while very tasty, leads us to expand our horizons by customizing the original recipes to something more for those adventurous palates out there. Chicken wings were considered to be the most inexpensive part of the chicken & frugal cooks would be most likely to...
How to Make Pierogi Dough
Pierogi Dough is a necessity when making these Central & Eastern European filled tidbits. There are many varied recipes for pierogi, pyrohy or varenyky dough, as varied as the spellings for perogies. Making perogies is a food-of-love thing, as they can be time intensive and a bit fiddly, but they are worth it. Show your family the love you put into these. My Mom’s recipe for this dough is quite simple and can be used for...
How to Cook Roasted Turkey Broth from Scratch + Video
Whenever I hear the sniffles or a cough in my household, I’m cooking up some soup. Turkey Broth is perfect for just those times, since you usually roast off a turkey a few times every Holiday season. Save those turkey carcasses and bones that have had the meat removed, not eaten off, and either freeze them in a resealable, plastic bag or refrigerate and use quickly. There is a ton of flavor & goodness left in those bones,...
How to Cook Chicken Soup: National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day is November 12th, and it’s time to share the recipe for my Mom’s Chicken Soup. What would make you feel more loved than a steaming bowl of chicken soup made by the hands of your Mom or Grandmother? My Mom’s chicken soup was beyond delicious, and on top of that, she made her own delicious noodles or light, fluffy dumplings. I could smell it as I walked down the lane leading to...
How to Make Cottage Cheese Perogies: National Pierogi Day
National Pierogi Day is October 8th, and these tasty, filled dumplings of Central & Eastern European origin are something our family traditionally makes, and these Cottage Cheese Perogies are my favorite. Pierogi can be filled with a number of delicious fillings. Savory or sweet, such as cheese & potatoes, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, plums, sour cherries or berries. Fillings can be made well in advance & refrigerated. How...
National Noodle Day: Oodles of Noodles
Every culture, past & present, has an ethnic love of noodles. Such noodle dishes include lo mein, spaetzle, pastas like linguine & penne, dumplings and more. These dishes make up one of the richest & largest categories of the world’s cooking history. There is no doubt that Italy has made the greatest contribution to noodle history. Pasta, the Italian word for noodles, has become part of our every day language, as...
National Apple Dumpling Day: Memories of Mom
Fond memories of Mom’s home cooking go along with National Apple Dumpling Day… Not that she would necessarily bake them on September 17th, but that she made dumplings in a variety of ways, in different shapes and sizes, and using different ingredients. Fluffy Apple Dumplings…The aroma of apples, a touch of cinnamon wafting through the kitchen window, and then to see a huge platter of golden dumplings on the kitchen...
Why Do We Eat So Much Sushi Until We Can’t Move?
This is yet another food phenomenon… Why is it that we keep eating copious amounts of sushi until we feel like we’ll need to be rolled out to our car? Well, that’s my experience anyway. Maybe it’s that there’s so much to try, and everything looks so darn cute & yummy! Maybe I need to go get sushi more often and the novelty will wear off a bit. When I get there, my eyes are always bigger than my...
How to Cook Edwards Family German Seven Layer Dinner
This dish includes traditionally German ingredients for a full meal in a baking dish. It’s lovely for a family dinner or for a smorgasbord buffet. ~ Kimberly Edwards 🙂 Type: Main Serve With: Nothing…It’s perfect all by itself! Prep Time: 15 min Cook Time: 1 hr, 40 min Yield: 9 x 13′ casserole dish Ingredients: Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. 2. Grease baking dish with butter. 3. Thinly slice...
How to Bake Yummy Yorkshire Pudding
These are my favorite! I just adore these…My mother has to make double every time, just for me! ~ Kimberly Edwards 😀 Type: Bread Serve With: Prime rib, gravy, mashed potatoes Prep Time: ~ 8 min Cook Time: ~ 30 min Yield: 12 regular muffin-sized Yorkshire puddings Ingredients: Instructions: 1. With a hand mixer, beat water, milk, eggs, flour and salt, all of which should be room temperature. * Tip: It works much better at room...
How to Cook Heavenly Breakfast Hash
Plan ahead for the weekend, by saving this recipe for how to cook Heavenly Breakfast Hash! This breakfast hash is a melange of deliciousness in your pan to wake you up & fuel your day – pasta, browned potatoes, peppers & ground beef! Serve up with a few fried eggs, and you’re golden. Heavenly Breakfast Hash: This recipe is a spin-off of my mother’s German potatoes and pasta (she calls it Kartofel & Kleisa...
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