Winter is the perfect time to enjoy your favorite comfort foods, like this delicious recipe for baked mac & cheese. Tell us what some of your favorite dishes are!
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Recipes
Holiday Treats: Peanut Butter Pinwheels & Divinity Candy
The holidays are my favorite time to cook. Not only does the food fill the house with comforting aromas, but it also conjures up memories of childhood Christmases. I recently had the pleasure of experimenting with divinity candy for our sister publication Blue Ridge Country’s food column. According to the article, students of Ada Earnest’s [...]
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Chocolate Truffles Recipe
Boy was I dreading the predicted snowfall of last December. I was sure to go stir crazy cooped up in the house all weekend.
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Out of this World Salad Recipe
Ingredients ½ pkg. Lime Jell-O ¾ cup boiling water ½ lb. miniature marshmallows 1 small can crushed pineapple 1 cup pecans 1 carton cottage cheese ½ pint whipping cream 10 maraschino cherries Instructions Pour boiling water over Jell-O and marshmallows until partly melted. Add pineapple, mix, put in refrigerator until partly jelled. Add nuts, cottage [...]
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Cabbage Beef Soup Recipe
Instructions/Ingredients Brown 1 lb. lean ground beef with ¼ tsp. garlic salt or 2 minced garlic cloves and 1 large onion. Stir meat to break into small pieces, cover and simmer. Meanwhile. Cut up a medium size head of cabbage and cook with 1 quart beef stock, add enough water to cover, simmer about 30 [...]
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Classic Chess Pie Recipe
Ingredients 2 Cups Sugar 2 Tbl. Cornmeal 1 Tblsp. Flour ¼ tsp. Salt ½ cup margarine ¼ cup milk 1 Tbl. White vinegar 1 tsp. Vanilla 4 large eggs, lightly beaten Instructions Mix together, bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes. For Coconut Chess – use 1 cup toasted flaked coconut. For Chocolate/Pecan Chess – [...]
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Kay’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients ½ Granulated Sugar 1 ½ Cup Brown Sugar (packed) 1 Cup Shortening or Margarine 1 tsp. Vanilla Cream together, adding 2 eggs; one at a time & mix well; add ¼ cup milk. Sift together: 3 ½ cups flour 1 tsp. cream of tartar 1 tsp. soda Add to mix, 1 large package chocolate [...]
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Burger for a Bunch Recipe
Ingredients Hamburger Filling 1 lb. ground beef 2 Tbl. instant onion 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. pepper 1 Tbl. salad mustard 3/4 cup potato flakes 1 egg 3/4 cup catsup 1/4 cup hamburger relish In a large skillet sauté ground beef, onion, salt, pepper until browned. Add remaining ingredients, blending well. Also, this may be [...]
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Red Velvet Cake Recipe
Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 stick margarine 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup oil 4 eggs 2 oz. Red food coloring 2 heaping tablespoons cocoa 3 cups flour 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon vinegar dash salt The Frosting: 3 tbsp. Flour ½ tsp. Salt 1 cup milk 1 cup margarine 2 tsp. Vanilla [...]
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Raspberry-Fig Sauce Recipe
Ingredients 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam 1/3 cup fig-apple wine 1/4 cup raspberries 1 fig, chopped 1 sprig of mint 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract juice of half a lime Instructions Place all ingredients except lime juice in a sauce pan. Bring to a rapid boil for 2 minutes. Strain and add lime juice. Set aside [...]
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Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients 1 cup sugar 2 beaten eggs ½ cup butter or margarine 3 ripe bananas (4 if small) sliced thin 2½ cups flour and 1 tsp. Soda sifted together ¼ cup nut Instructions Cream sugar and butter together. Add eggs, then bananas. Add sifted flour and soda, then nuts. Bake in slow oven about 1 [...]
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Strawberry Salad Recipe
Recipe: Strawberry Salad Ingredients 2 3oz.pkgs strawberry Jello-O 1 cup boiling water 2 10oz packages frozen sliced strawberries 1 large can crushed pineapple & 4 small mashed bananas ¾ cup chopped pecans (optional) 1 cup sour cream Instructions Dissolve gelatin in water, add berries, pineapple (un-drained) and bananas. Pour half mixture in a 9×12 dish, [...]
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Grape Nut Pudding Recipe
Recipe: Grape Nut Pudding Ingredients 4 eggs Approx. 3 to 4 cans evaporated milk Approx ¾ cup of sugar Lemon & Vanilla flavoring Grape Nuts cereal Instructions Beat eggs well, adding sugar, then the milk filling the bowl nearly to the top. Add 1 ½ tsp. Lemon and 1 tsp. Vanilla. Approx. ½ cup Grape [...]
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Sausage Ball Recipe
Recipe: Sausage Balls Ingredients 3 cups biscuit mix 1 lb. sausage 10 oz. Shredded sharp cheese Instructions Form into small balls. Bake 20 min. at 350 degrees. Quick Notes “Good for parties, holidays or anytime friends get together.” Cooking time (duration): 20 Meal type: hors d’oerves Culinary tradition: USA (General) My rating: 5 stars
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Pumpkin Dump Cake Recipe
Recipe: Pumpkin Dump Cake Ingredients 1 30 oz. can of pumpkin pie mix…or 2 small cans 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar 3 teaspoons of ground cinnamon 1 tsp of salt 3 large eggs 1 12 oz. can of Evaporated Milk 1 box of classic yellow cake mix 1 cup of chopped pecans 3/4 cup [...]
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