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Roasting chickens

After the unseasonably warm temperatures here in Southern Vermont, I realize that Sunday dinner roasted in the oven will soon take a back seat to how to feed the family quickly and without heating up the house. Chicken roasters are on sale at Price Chopper this week for only 88 cents a pound. I stopped [...]

Creamed Dried Beef

This is the recipe for Creamed Dried Beef from hugs.org. We make it x4 for our big crew, serve it with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. On my plate, I generally mix the vegetables in with my potatoes and scoop the Creamed Dried Beef over it all. Any leftover goes into the fridge for the [...]

Valley Chicken

MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Valley Chicken Categories: Yield: 4 Servings 3 1/2 lb Chicken; cut up ds Salt ds Pepper ds Thyme 1/4 lb Bacon; diced 2 tb Oil 1/2 lb Mushrooms; sliced 1 sm Onion; chopped 2 Apples; peeled and sliced 1/4 c Dark rum 1/2 c Apple juice 1/2 c [...]

Honey Baked Chicken

MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Honey Baked Chicken Categories: Yield: 4 Servings 3 lb Cut up chicken 1/3 c Butter; melted 1/3 c Honey 2 tb Mustard 1 ts Salt 1 ts Curry powder Hot cooked rice Arrnange chicken, skin side up, in a 13x9x2″ pan and top with combined remaining ingredients, except [...]

Chicken Breasts with Garlic Cream & Onions

Enough about the weather. Here’s a tasty recipe that Carolyn posted to hugs.org. It sounds like a good one to try for one of those cold days. After all, garlic and cream what’s not to like?? MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Chicken Breasts with Garlic Cream & Onions Categories: Yield: 4 Servings 1 [...]

Potato pancakes

I’ve been sorting out some old boxes to make some room for the big sorting of several boxes of pictures. The house is pretty small for all of us so the storage is almost non-existent. Anyway, this recipe was on some recipe cards that my sister gave me years ago. There are coffee stains on [...]

Roast Venison

It’s the first weekend of deer hunting season (rifle) here in Vermont. While my balance isn’t good enough to walk in the woods anymore, and my vision isn’t good enough to draw a bead with my rifle and be sure that I’m shooting at a deer, I still love the memory of walking in the [...]

Quick Zesty Chili

Here’s a recipe that sounds good in this cold weather as we lead into November. MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Quick Zesty Chili Categories: Yield: 8 Servings 1 lb Ground beef; cooked & .. drained 2 pt Red kidney beans; drained 1/2 pt Tomato sauce 2 c Chopped tomatoes 1 c Water 2 [...]

Mama’s Pumpkin Pie

It has been pretty chilly here in Southern Vermont. They had a couple inches of snow just the other day around Wallingford. One good thing is that it’s more of a pleasure to fire up the oven and do some baking. And before we know it, it will start the holiday cooking season. MMMMM—– Recipe [...]

Devilled Egg Salad

This was one of my sister’s stand-bys. Butter rolls or Devilled egg salad were the two recipes she usually brought to any get together. This recipe is both tasty and frugal, costing less than five dollars to make. MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Devilled Egg Salad Categories: Yield: 1 Servings 6 Eggs; hard [...]