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Beef & Bean Chili in the Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot
The quintessential chili recipe
Tender White Bread
This recipe for white bread dough makes excellent dinner rolls and hamburger buns or can be formed into two loaves for tender white sandwich bread. The dough can be mixed and kneaded in less than 15 minutes, but you’ll need to be able to come back to the dough in 1 1/2 to 2 hours […]
Creamy Mac & Cheese
We prefer creamy macaroni and cheese made on the stove top as opposed to baked macaroni and cheese where the noodles soak up much of the moisture in the sauce while in the oven. With this version, you give up the crunchy topping, but you gain a creamier, saucier consistency and it can be quickly […]
Hot Cocoa Mix
This is so much better for you and much better tasting than the store bought hot cocoa mixes that contain dried milk products, corn syrup, and often hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Scones
Tender, flaky, and flavorful, these scones are easy enough to make for a weekday breakfast treat, yet decadent enough to serve at high tea.
Apple Pie
There’s nothing as all-American as apple pie, but don’t be tempted to make this for your 4th of July celebration, because if you do, you’ll most certainly be using apples shipped all the way from the Southern Hemisphere. Apples are not in season in North America until late summer and fall.
All Butter Pie Crust
Here’s my simple recipe for pie crust. Reflecting American food trends, sometime in the late 90s, I replaced the shortening in my mom’s recipe with unsalted butter. The lard she and her mother used for decades was regrettably replaced with shortening sometime in the mid 80s. You may easily replace the butter with good quality […]