Mmmm, Tortellini Soup

Just a reminder about my giveaway. I’ll draw the winner next week. Details here.
I’ve had an annoying chest cold this past week and the incessant coughing is driving me crazy. I haven’t been sleeping all through the night because the cough doesn’t want me to be horizontal. This morning I woke up at 2:45 am, [...]

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This blog is one year old today!

And to celebrate, I’m having my first-ever giveaway. For the next two weeks, if you leave a comment on this page and also link to it in your blog, you’ll be entered for a random drawing to win 3 patterns by Karie Patch Designs. I’ve come to know Karen DuMont through our Electric Quilt classes [...]

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Scalloped potatoes

Our favorite family cookbook is out of print. Published in 1969 by the Knudsen Corporation, a dairy company in Los Angeles, the recipes in Cooking for Compliments focus on dairy products (naturally) and there isn’t one I’ve tried that we haven’t liked. From time to time my daughter, the new bride, will ask for a [...]

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Beer Stew

This is another church cookbook recipe, submitted by Marty MacMillan. There is a typo in it, thank goodness she is still around to correct it, it had me confused. I think the name is a little misleading, it’s not a stew in the classic sense because there aren’t any vegetables in it. But let’s not [...]

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Opera Workshop Chicken Casserole

I promised my daughter I’d give her this recipe. It comes from our church cookbook, submitted by the late Charlene Fritz so I can’t ask her any questions about it. My guess is that she named it herself, she said that it was served by a voice teacher in Chicago for her students and it [...]

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