Dinner

Dinner, Soups

Pinto Bean Soup

Hands down, my sister Joan makes the best pinto bean soup I have ever tasted, and here is her recipe. It’s got chunks of ham and tomatoes and just the right amount of “spunk”. We like to serve it with a big old hunk of corn bread.

Dinner, Ethnic Dishes

Pierogi

Years ago one of my customers, Geri P., shared her Polish Grandma’s Pierogi recipe with me. While I do have another similar recipe on this site, I want to include this one which has sour cream in it (the other recipe does not). I had a perogi “cook off” with a handful of friends, and […]

Dinner, Main Dish - Poultry or Chicken

No Peek Chicken

Years ago, you knew what day it was by what was on the dinner table…you know, Wednesday was Prince spaghetti day and Friday, grilled cheese. My sister Elaine was in nursing school back then, along with working full time, so she and her daughter moved in with me .One day she came home so excited […]

Dinner, Main Dish - Beef

Stovetop Meatloaf

Forty years ago there was a sweet little old lady named Emma, who lived in the apartment upstairs of me and she would come over to chat now and then. One day she came and brought a plate of meatloaf surrounded with carrots and potatoes in a very tasty gravy. She was just bursting with […]