Chicken Rollatini
My favorite foods are always associated with a time or person in my life. In this case, Chicken Rollatini was a favorite of my Aunt Gerri, who was really a "great aunt" but was just Aunt Gerri to me. She made this from time to time and I've added it to my repertoire of favorite dinners to make. Prep time - 20 minutes [...]
Souper Pie
Every so often I have leftover mashed potatoes, which means we're having souper pie for dinner some time soon. This is another one of my mom's recipes, getting it's name from the cream of mushroom soup used in the meat and to top the potatoes. Since mushrooms are not popular with my family I skipped the soup and sauté the onions in bacon fat to [...]
Bumblebee Cookies
Elizabeth Austin Asch (Rob's sister)- I could be wrong, but I think I got the original recipe from the old Gourmet magazine. That mag had great photos when I was young, and reading it and watching Nancie cook were my two sources of learning when I first became interested. Then in high school I started to watch Julia Child on TV and she was great [...]
Mom’s Apple Pie
My mom's apple pie is one of the best, making it hard to enjoy a pie made by anyone else. Between the flaky crust, crumb topping and just the right amount of sugar and cinnamon it all comes togehter perfectly. A few years ago my mom got a spiralizer attachment for her Kitchen Aid mixer which makes the most dreaded part of baking a pie a [...]