6/24/2025 – This made a great soup with tomatoes from the garden inspired by Ina Garten’s recipe here. Mary made a double batch to give to friends who do not like “spicy” foods. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons good olive oil1 1/2 … Continue reading
Category Archives: Soups /Gumbos/Chili
Below are descriptions of different cooks of this soup and how they turned out. 6/8/2024 – Today we made two trays (half baking sheet) of Oven Roasted Marinara to freeze and one tray of Mary’s traditional salsa. Once the roasted … Continue reading
1/5/2024 – This turned out great and was inspired by a recipe on Facebook. Ingredients 1 lb ground beef1 onion, chopped3 cups cabbage, chopped1 cup green beans, cut in half1 cup celery, chopped1/2 bell pepper, chopped1 qt. homegrown and canned … Continue reading
11/22/2023 – We made a double batch for dinner with the Hughes and Leonards as they arrived late afternoon. We generally followed the usual recipe for Chicken and Sausage jambalaya but Mary said it was the best one we have … Continue reading
The ingredients listed below is what they put into the Taco Soup Mary grew up on as well as did Kelley and Tim. True to the way grandmothers record recipes there are no measurements nor directions. Too bad they said, … Continue reading
1/21/2023 – Mary made this great soup that was rich and flavorful. She was inspired by the recipe here. Ingredients 4 tablespoons unsalted butter1 medium yellow onion, diced1 large carrot, diced2 cloves garlic, minced¼ cup all-purpose flour2 cups half and … Continue reading
12/24/2022 – This soup turned out great and we liked it a little bit better than the potato soup made yesterday. This seemed heartier. It was inspired by the recipe here. Ingredients 1 pound bulk Spicy sausage from Alabama Specialty … Continue reading
12/23/2022 – This was a very good soup. The ingredients were inspired by the recipe here but the directions came from a recipe here. Note we made a different potato soup recipe—a Tuscan version—the next day and it was also … Continue reading
11/25/2022 – This cook referred to the cook in Thanksgiving 2021 that is here and that one referred to the one in Christmas 2017 that is here. The one in 2017 was inspired by Chef Robert Barker’s recipe on page 41 … Continue reading
7/9/2022 – We have a lot of tomatoes and bell peppers from the garden and decided to put them up prepared into two base dishes for use with meat in the winter. Cut off all the bad places and chopped … Continue reading