Top the French Onion Soup with a slice of toasted bread and a layer of bubbly melted Gruyère. From here where she provides good tips that are here. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Soups /Gumbos/Chili
10/12/2019 – This turned out good and Mary liked it a lot. It was made the day before she returned from staying with Piper and Olivia when their parents went to Amsterdam. It was adapted from one here that is … Continue reading
This looks like a fun way to use the Acorn squash. Too bad we did not have much this first year of a fall garden due to a very hot dry September and an early frost. … Continue reading
9/27/2019 – This recipe was inspired by the one here although, what Mary did is very different. It was a very good new twist for using pinto beans in what is almost a gumbo with the tomato and okra. Ingredients … Continue reading
9/9/2019 – Mary made this gumbo somewhat following the recipe here. The New Orleans, Chopped Champion, chef there has a great intro about what does and does not go into New Orleans gumbo. This dish was very good and worth … Continue reading
Her recipe used in beating Bobby Flay in a Throw Down as posted here. … Continue reading
7/13/2019 – This soup was made with tomato juice saved from our canned salsa made yesterday and the canned tomatoes made today. Mary studied recipes then devised the very simple one below as she went. She made an amazing soup. … Continue reading
2/18/2019 – Mary made chili loosely following “Joe Cooper’s Chili” recipe on page 112 of our copy of Texas Home Cooking by Jamison and Jamison. See her notes on that page of what she did differently as summarized below. The … Continue reading
1/15/2019 – This recipe was inspired by the one on page 114 of our copy of Southern Living’s Heirloom Recipe Cookbook. Mary made it this date for the first time and it was GREAT. Sure to become a favorite.
This cook was inspired by the recipe on page 23 of our copy of Rima and Richard Collin’s The New Orleans Cookbook. The first time we made this was on a cold, rainy day at the farm on Moma’s birthday, 12/27/2017. … Continue reading