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Our Personal Cookbook:
A Collection of Favorite Recipes

My personal cookbook is going virtual.

No more "Mom, do you remember when you made...." or "Do you still have the recipe for..." or "How did you prepare..." associated with the guilt of not knowing where I stashed the recipe!

Family members can now access and print out their favorite everyday or seasonal recipes, including the Crock Pot Beef Stew, wherever they may be, and I can gather decades worth of recipe clippings and streamline them into one neat online heritage cookbook.

Gathering favorite recipes seems to be a family thing that goes back at least four generations, on both sides of the Atlantic.

In fact, our recipe collection includes newspaper clippings from 1898. We even started a collection of holiday recipes.

We've added these favorites to various Church and School cookbooks, some of which were printed in the 50's. We have also archived original, handwritten recipes, in acid free folders. Found scribbled in the margins of various journals and enclosed in personal letters, these date back to the mid 1800's.

However, I dare not plop an 1882 original of Mrs. Jennie Taylors The People's Cook Book on the kitchen counter. We're posting them online for the family...and everyone who may be interested in our culinary favorites.

Speaking of recipes passed down through generations, we are not the only family that treasures their tasty traditions by cataloging their comfort food recipes.

We made it easy to share these old time favorites with everyone.

More Home Style Recipes...from personal cookbooks on both sides of the Atlantic!

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Personal Cookbook Table of Contents

Comfort Food Recipes

Pre Made Meals - Menus

International Cuisine

Seafood Recipes

Cake and Dessert Recipes

Holiday Recipes

Vintage Farmers Market Recipes


Recipes from Our Personal Cookbook

We'll add our family favorites on a regular basis.

This is where we enter all the yummy details!

This is what's on the menu....

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Pressure Cooker Barbecued Country Ribs   starstarstarstarstar
Pressure Cooker Barbecued Country Ribs
What's for dinner tonight? Pressure cooker barbecued country ribs and baked beans.

Tonight's dinner ...

Mushroom Medley Risotto  Not rated yet
Mushroom Medley Risotto

Our recipe for Mushroom Medley Risotto is based on Great-Grandmother's basic "French" country style risotto.

Ingredients ...

Curried Chicken And Rice Casserole  Not rated yet
Curried Chicken and Rice Casserole: Dinner With A Touch Of South Asian Flavors

Photo Courtesy of Rob Ahrens
This quick Curried Chicken ...

Candied Fruit Oatmeal Cookies  Not rated yet
You could call these scrumptious and colorful looking cookies first cousins to our Miniature Fruitcake Cookies .

Consider them a flavorful variation ...

Pumpkin Pie Recipes  Not rated yet
Some of our favorite recipes, including those for pumpkin pie recipes were found in newspapers and magazines and coupon inserts.

Over the years, we'...

Lemon Pound Cake  Not rated yet
Uncle Wen's Lemon Pound Cake is not for the faint of heart and surely no friend of the waistline but once you've had a bite of this pound cake...nothing ...

Dim Sum   Not rated yet
These have to be my absolute favorite, homemade Chinese dumplings!

Drove all the way to New Jersey to participate in a hands on cooking lesson/group ...

Grilled Chicken Breasts  Not rated yet
Time for dinner out on the deck...

Make it a daily event during pleasant temperatures. Sometimes it is just too hot and humid to enjoy a meal outside ...

Barbecue Sauce For Chicken  Not rated yet
This recipe comes from the kitchen of a very special lady...my mother-in-law Margaret.

When I first came to the US, it was one of the first BBQ sauces ...

Homemade Waffles  Not rated yet
These homemade waffles have become a "must-have" on all our holiday breakfast menus.

That's not to say that we don't sneak them in every so often for ...

Cinnamon Ornaments  Not rated yet
This recipe for Cinnamon Ornaments was clipped out of the Potomac News. The original comes from McCormick, the spice company.

We made these star shaped ...

Roulé à la Confiture  Not rated yet
Roulé à la Confiture

In other words...a jelly roll or comfort food at its easiest.

Chef Damien at www.750g.com kindly gave us permission to ...

ShooFly Pie  Not rated yet
ShooFly Pie

Shoo Fly Pie - A Pennsylvania Dutch classic from our bake oven to yours...

There's a lot of Pennsylvania - both Dutch and German ...

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