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on saturday i went to our towns annual 200+ family yard sale. unfortunately it rained and was pretty miserable, but the people still came out in droves. i didnt buy much this time, but i did find a treasure of cook books. i am a cooking enthusiast, and i always buy new books and try new things. the lovely lady was selling them for a dime a piece so i went crazy like a kid at a candy store!. ive always bought those paper back Pillsbury cook off books and she had alot from way back, so i snatched em all up. and also a couple of church cook books, i love those, because everybody knows that church ladies make awesome food! the recipes get passed down from mother to daughter. those are the best kind! when searching thru them when i got home, i found a recipe for a "poke" cake. i used to make these as a kid, basic yellow cake and then you poke holes in it with a wooden spoon handle, and make chocolate pudding to dump on the top. it goes down the holes and stripes the cake..it is so moist. my kids loved it, and it brought back great memories from when i was a kid learning to cook. i found lots of great recipes to try, and learned of "hot dishes", it seems to be a staple here in MN but i had never heard of it b4. i guess it is what was considered just a casserole to us easterners..but alot of em have tater tots in it!!. my kids wanna try so i guess its gonna be hot dish one day soon. if anyone has their own hot dish recipe id love to see it! kellyc aka saucy | ||
5/13/2008 1:00 pm |
I love cook books but I find that I almost always improvise on ingredients that I cannot find. In the end they taste good but Ted always say that he likes my original throw together better. 
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5/13/2008 2:24 pm |
I am not a cook. Recipe for meatloaf if you forget the eggs that doesn't work and it turns out the breadcrumbs are important too. A package of dry soup mix seasons it up nicely. No need to measure anything. Sorry about my misleading post TY for stopping by.
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 5/13/2008 2:32 pm |
I read cook-books as though they were novels...I get that from my mom and my granny. LOL I have lots of cook-books, and every time I read that one of those clean-house-gurus says to get rid of all your extra cook-books, I just laugh. Extra cook-books? Every one of mine has a tale to tell...you can read it in the food spots, hand-written notes, and wrinkled pages in each book. ROTFL
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5/13/2008 3:02 pm |
Saucy, funny you should mention a poke cake. Ours was done with jello, not pudding and it made the same stripe inside which my sons loved! When 1ga and I got married, I had hundreds of cookbooks, and gave most of them away (with a tear in my eye, I might add). I kept a few very special ones and had one box of a series that was clearly marked "MOVE"....but it seemed my DIL wanted them worse than she "thought" I did. They never arrived here in Georgia. I also love the church cookbooks but never buy the cookoff ones - they are all on the web now so I print off what I want to keep. Now have you tried the midwestern version of Tater Tot Casserole? My g/f still has requests for it from her 48 yr old son...seems he can't get his wife to cook it for him and he is from WI. I've slipped back into the kind of cooking I grew up with, which is southern-style and it suits us just fine as long as I toss in some exotic something-or-other once in a while.
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5/13/2008 4:15 pm |
I love cookbooks too....even though I don't have anyone to cook for anymore, I still like to read them....My mom taught me how to cook as a young girl, something a lot of mother's don't do anymore. I have all her old recipes that I still use today...when I do cook. She was the envy of all the other ladies at church when she brought something for a potluck. She never gave out her recipes to them either LOL....they were her secrets! She would say...let them find their own recipes like I had to do. lol I made that poke cake with jello too and cool whip frosting. mmm mmm Never made anything with tator tots though....my mom always made everything from scracth...even cakes and pies. She is one amazing cook! Why worry and have wrinkles when you can smile and have dimples
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5/13/2008 4:37 pm |
Every Sept CJC and I go to Maine and work in a Church run Restarant at the county fair for a week. The Church ladies do great for Lunch and Dinner but are scared to death over Breakfast so I am the breakfast cook. Its a full service breakfast and each order is different so I guess they are not used to short order work. The Church, (the one my brother goes to,) makes more in one week than they do all year in church suppers.
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 5/13/2008 6:06 pm |
I love cookbooks, too. I have to agree with you about the church cookbooks. They usually have some really great recipes. After watching Trish Yearwood on The View, I went out and bought her new cookbook. I really like it in that the ingredients are basic. In fact, this weekend I will be trying a few of her recipes. It is a great read in that it is filled with family stories.
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5/14/2008 6:12 am |
shirl i do that too, i always taste something and think yeah it would taste better if i add this or that. i think that makes for a good cook!jim, the first time i tried to make meatloaf, i didnt add eggs or breadcrumbs, and it kind of ran off the plate, lol wast a loaf at all vbg sometimes i buy one and only love one recipe from it..but i still read em all and wonder if i can change em around.bunzy noo i never heard of that version of tatertot hot dish! i too am a country cook, learned from my mom and gramma. i didnt even think bout the cookoff ones being on the web ty!rob i learned to cook from my mom and gramma, and its funny when i make those things how i remember things from my childhood. when my gramma died my cousin put a cookbook together of all her recipes she had written down. alot of her stuff was from memory and we are pinch and dump cookers lol. 60 that sounds like so much fun! i do know its alot of work too from my experience at the renn faire. our church was never allowed to charge for dinners, we always had the pot luck at fellowship hour.sportslady i havent seen trishas cookbook, but i will check it out! i am howevera big fan of paula deen.
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5/14/2008 7:10 am |
Saucy, there are lots of recipes for this, but this is the one she uses. TATER TOT CASSEROLE 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 bag tater tots shredded cheese 1 lb of ground hamburger meat 1/2 cup chopped onion serves: 6 or 7 Brown hamburger meat and onion. Add cream of mushroom soup and stir together continuously. Let simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Place mixture in the bottom of a casserole dish. Lay tater tots neatly on top of the mixture. Place in oven on 350' and let the tater tots brown. Sprinkle with cheese; melt it in the oven
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