I was going to buy store bought seafood salad for dinner but they were out. So, I improvised by getting imitation crabmeat and using a small package of lobster meat from my freezer. My husband loves cucumber but doesn’t like celery. By mixing the two together in equal amounts he didn’t notice the cucumber. Turned out delightfully well.
You all saw Aunt Nettie in her later years when I shared her recipe for Orange Slice Nut Cookies. This recipe is a holiday favorite of old for Home Made Mince Meat. I can’t say that I like mince meat but many people did and still do. My Aunt Nettie in this picture was when she was finishing teaching school and getting ready to begin to teach young children. Such a beautiful young woman. She was raised in Oklahoma during the depression and saw her family go from owning a mining store to being sharecropper on a cotton farm. Times were tough back then butRead More →
Tonight for dinner I’m grilling a simple skin on the bone-in chicken breast. I like leaving the skin on and bone in so that the chicken is really moist. We’re at our Ironworks cabin so we almost always grill. The spice I use is Boswell’s Blends – Fowl-n-Feather Seasoning. I bought it at one of those home shows in Phoenix AZ and use it all the time. The ingredients in case you want to try something similar are: salt dehydrated garlic dehydrated onion other spices (the secret ingredients) sugar dehydrated red bell pepper dehydrated parsley Rub the spices into the chicken breast & spray withRead More →
We had eight of our closest friends at our home to celebrate and ring in the New Year. Cocktail and appetizer hour started at 7pm and dinner was ready to serve an hour and half later. The twice baked potatoes were prepared the day prior and were ready to place in the oven for the final baking one hour before dinner. The tenderloin smoked for 1 hour, grill seared for 15 minutes and then slow cooked in the oven (on and off) for the balance of the day before carving to serve at a delicious medium-rare. Oh how I wish I were better at remembering toRead More →
Who would have thought that I would still be grilling outdoors in the middle of December! It wouldn’t surprise me as much but we are again at Ironworks and the temperature was a brisk 45 degrees outside when I put the shrimps on the grill. I cook year round at our home in the Valley of the Sun but never dreamed it would be the same here. I did not serve the shrimp as a surf and turf which what I first thought of doing. Instead we enjoyed them as an appetizer before dinner along with a sun-dried tomato artichoke dip and crackers. Hope you enjoy the shrimpRead More →
