While making chicken soup, I thought of this great title. I wasn’t planning on posting about chicken soup, but when a good title comes along, I must write about it. What can I say? This soup is made after feasting on a whole rotisserie chicken we bought from Sam’s Club for five dollars. Being a […]
Hi again. I didn’t forget about posting my favorite bread and butter pickles. I have been making this recipe for 22 years. According to my recipe, I started making them July 31, 2002. What can I say? It is our family favorite pickle, besides of course our dill pickle recipe. This recipe and our dill
I am a little late on this post, but I am sure you will understand why, as I have added another plot (25’x100′) called ‘the back 40′ directly behind the pickle patch (25′ x 100’). Our cucumbers started coming in just before Father’s Day, and I had enough to replenish my sister’s favorite: Grandma’s Bread
On my dad’s birthday, I received a text from my sister thanking me for the remembrance video that I made when he died. It had two of his favorite singers: Frank Sinatra and Elvis. It is up on YouTube as a private video, and she has permission to view it. I came back with: “Do
Jump to Recipe Dried Okra Nancy’s Beef Jerky Yogurt With memories over time some details fade from your mind and when you try to recall it you might not remember the whole story. I just want to remind the family genealogist the importance of recording events. So the jist of this memory is that some
How many of my readers have an abundance of a certain vegetable in their garden? Take okra for example. This is one vegetable that does well in our Pickle Patch and it seems all the gardens in the community garden. Fellow gardeners are trying to give it away as there is too much of it.
On July 16th, I received a message from my sister on our sibling group text: “Happy Heavenly Birthday Mom!!!” with heart emojis all around. Later, my brother texted “89.” At the time, I was finishing up at the pickle patch, but later I thought of this memory and texted “Wow! One cake I remember her
Some of the recipes from the Pickle Patch are family favorites, while others might be new recipes that get the “Very Good” approval, then gets entered in my cookbook that I keep with all my notes along with any changes. This recipe, we have only been making since 2009, so not a family heirloom recipe
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No the banana cake is not rotten nor for that matter are the bananas. This is the cake recipe name my mother gave for using up really ripe bananas. I think she would say this to get a rise out of her family and friends. As bananas ripen, they develop more brown spots, turn sweeter
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One memory I have of my grandma is her baking what she called “Mayonnaise Cake”. Recently when I was having my remembrance birthday for my mom, I couldn’t think of her favorite cake, so I decided to make the cake that was made so often by my grandma. I do not have my grandma’s original
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