1 pound dried red beans, picked over
2 pounds ground beef
1 large can tomato juice
2 cans Bush’s Chili Beans
2 pounds deer meat
Ground chuck
3 chicken breasts, cooked (I pressure cook them and use the chicken broth)
If you tend to fall into cooking ruts, one easy way to snap out of it is to check out the holiday calendars of different cultures. Next up on my list of inspirations is the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year.
1 1/2 cups water
3/4 cup packaged dry barley
2 pounds beef, in 2-inch cubes
4 cups cooked chicken, chopped
1 pound dried Great Northern beans
4-5 pounds beef stew meat. cubed, slightly frozen
This makes a ton of soup, and you can freeze it at will. It's the kind of soup that sells itself, hits the spot, and has so much flavor and such a high level of comfort-foodness that you instantly feel better about life while eating it.
I remember the first party I ever hosted. I was 5 and my mom invited all of my kindergarten girlfriends and their moms for a holiday singing gathering. We knoshed on homemade cookies dunked in hot cocoa made from packets of powder dissolved in boiling water. Standing there around our piano, …
When a friend recently gave me a bag of sweet potatoes, freshly dug and very dirty, I went through my file marked "Sweet Potatoes and Yams," and came up with the following recipes that sounded easy enough.
6 medium sweet potatoes, cooked, peeled, quartered
1 cup brown sugar, packed
3 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes, about 5 medium
Prepared pie crust
1 cup granulated sugar
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3 1/3 cups flour
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
This recipe is a template for topping sauteed steaks or chops of most any kind with a wilted salad, a splendid dish for an early fall dinner.
1 medium sweet potato (cooked and mashed)
There is nothing better than an ear of simply steamed or grilled fresh corn in the late summer.
These days there's never a time when we can't find blueberries at the supermarket. But summertime is the season for the homegrown varieties. They're abundant right now and can be used in all kinds of recipes. One of my favorites is blueberries and vanilla ice cream — it's sweet and tart and …
1 tablespoon butter