Brisket in Sunday Sauce
updated 04/12/2021 Lorraine’s asked me to make this — it was my second try at it. The first one was “ok”, but a bit bland. I doubled all the spices and it worked out...
Category: Family Recipes
Chicken & Dumplings
updated 03/22/2021 My mom only made this once or twice that I can recall. At that time, she had to cook the chicken ahead of time and debone it, which was more labor intensive....
Steak & Dumplings
updated 03/22/2021 This is my mom’s recipe that she made often when I was growing up. Simple and tasty. I have tried other dumping recipes, including Bisquick, but I always come back to this...
Chicken in Puff Pastry
updated 03/17/2021 Our refrigerator died last week — getting new appliances is tough. Two-thirds of the models we looked at on major sites are out of stock, and those that are have delivery dates...
Pork-in-the-Oven
updated 03/08/2021 My Mom made this on a regular basis when I was growing up. It was one of my favorite dishes. For a very tasty dish, it’s amazingly simple to make. Pork-In-The-Oven 8...
Baked Scallops Scampi
updated 02/22/2021 I recall that I invented this recipe as I wanted to make a dish something like Shrimp Scampi. Regardless of motivation, Lorraine loves it. We haven’t made this in years, as the...
Baked Chicken and Rice
updated 02/19/2021 I invented this recipe when Lorraine & I were first married, living in Rochester NY. I could shut the oven off half-way through baking, we’d go for an hour bike ride, and...
General Tso Stirfry
updated 01/14/2021 I was looking for ideas for dinner when I spotted a recipe for General Tso’s Chicken Nuggets. It sounded interesting, but I wasn’t interested in deep frying chicken nuggets. Or deep frying...
Patrick’s Pizza Sauce
updated 08/28/2020 Patrick’s Pizza Sauce 1 x 28 oz can Cento’s* whole peeled tomatoes 1 x 14.5 oz can Cento’s* petite diced tomatoes 2 x 6 oz cans Cento’s* tomato paste 1 tbsp chili...
Chicken Stirfry with Coconut Milk
updated 08/15/2020 This morning Lorraine asked me to make a chicken stirfry. Cool! I purchased things a few weeks ago with intention of making something Thai-ish, so I had ingredients. She picked up chicken...
Shrimp Teriyaki
updated 08/14/2020 This title is misleading. The real purpose of this post is the Teriyaki Sauce. I purchased a large bag of 13-15 count shrimp for Eric’s birthday dinner a few weeks ago. The...
Cherry Sauce
updated 08/02/2020 Today is Eric’s birthday and Lorraine asked me to get a cheesecake for dessert. I was going to buy a can of cherry pie filling in case anyone wanted sauce on their...
Pork-Port Stroganoff
updated 07/28/2020 I read a recipe on Better Homes & Gardens recently that caught my attention. It was a beef stroganoff recipe where the sour cream sauce was mixed together, then poured over the...
Three Onion Soup
updated 06/03/2020 As much as I enjoy onion soup, I’ve never made it until recently. For whatever reason, I had a belief that it took significant effort. A few months ago I spotted an...
Beef Wellington with Chestnut Duxelles
updated 06/02/2020 Most of the family dislikes mushrooms, so when we decided to make Beef Wellington for our New Years Eve dinner, I found a substitution for the mushroom duxelles that surrounds the beef...