My Mom started these “traditional recipes”. I consider them timeless, basic recipes. They are good just the way they were written in her recipe book, but they can also be updated and modified to become new recipes for a new generation! I frequently change up her homemade pizza dough recipe to provide variety in both the crust depth and the toppings. I have even topped the whole pizza with a salad! That is yummy! But for me there is nothing better than her original recipe – it just feels like home!
There are several versions of this amazing pizza online. It’s a pizza, it’s chicken parm, and it’s pasta in a vodka cream sauce. All in one!! I was inspired to try the idea after watching a video of this pizza, which was dropped into hot oil in a large restaurant […]
I spent the day yesterday make cinnamon rolls. They came out beautifully, and made my house smell like cinnamon heaven! I kept that feeling going today, with a CINNAMON ROLL SUGAR COOKIE. I always come back to my Mom’s traditional Christmas sugar cookie dough, and thought that would be a […]
My favorite breakfast growing up was biscuits and gravy. My Mom would put the biscuits in the oven, and make the gravy on the stove top. It took about 10 minutes! The topping that made this simple dish perfect was a drizzle of maple syrup – it’s that sweet/savory combination […]
Yes, this is yet another recipe from the archives of Yvonne’s recipe files. Apple walnut cake was a staple in my house – one of the many desserts that came out of her kitchen while I was growing up. It was both a very “moist” cake, and a “crunchy” cake, […]
This easy side dish is best made in a 12″ cast iron skillet – however it can be made in a casserole dish as well. The swirls of thin-sliced potatoes, bathed in a garlicky cream sauce, are topped with shredded Parmesan and Gruyere cheeses. This makes for such a beautiful […]
My Mom baked the dessert items in our house most of the time – practically every other day as I recall. They didn’t last long – in a house with 4 growing kids! There was a place for store-bought snack cakes in my childhood, however, and that was in our […]
This recipe uses my original Asiago Cheese Bagel recipe as the base for an Everything Bagel. I love the garlic and onion flavors, and the overall savory appeal of this bagel. The only adjustment needed is to watch them closely in the oven. The “everything” topping tended to brown quickly, […]
For me to post a meatloaf recipe – it HAS to be something special. I have never been a fan of meatloaf – not homemade, not store bought, not in a restaurant… not even my Mom’s recipe. 🙁 I just decided I need to come up with a recipe that […]
Nothing could be more comforting to me than homemade bread. For a yeast bread, this is a really simple English muffin recipe. The dough took 1 hour to rise, then another 30 min for each muffin to rise again. They are then cooked in a cast iron skillet, or griddle […]
In the midst of the fear and uncertainly surrounding the Corona Virus, nothing sounded better to me for dinner tonight than some good old fashioned comfort food. I had all the ingredients on hand – so this was super simple. I pulled together a barbecue chicken pizza, and chocolate chip […]
When I was growing up, my Mom used to make a “chocolate pie” as one of her circulating desserts. This pie consisted of a homemade pie crust, and a chocolate pudding filling, made from a box mix. That was it! Simple? For sure. It probably took about 30 minutes to […]
Panera is an amazing bread bakery – with an amazing asiago cheese bagel. It’s easy to run over there and pick up 1 – or a dozen – of these cheesy delights. But for me – I like most things “baked” to come right out of my own oven. So […]
Everyone that knows me knows that I bake all the time – but for Christmas, it’s all about cookies!! I typically start baking cookies after Thanksgiving, and store them in the freezer (or in the garage in tightly covered containers, if the weather stays cold). They will last right up […]
It’s easier than you think, and a show-stopper for sure! Filet mignon is the ultimate piece of beef – but it needs to be well-seasoned. It should not only melt in your mouth, but taste amazing as well. This beef tenderloin hits both marks. It serves 8-10 people, and was […]
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