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bensmom
 
Living In: Hillsboro, Ohio, USA
Member Since: Jul. 2007
Cooking Level: Expert
Cooking Interests: Baking, Grilling & BBQ, Slow Cooking, Southern, Dessert, Quick & Easy, Gourmet
Hobbies: Reading Books, Music, Painting/Drawing
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About this Cook
Retired telephone co. marketing manager. Retired County Commissioner.
My favorite things to cook
Just about anything that looks good to me.
My favorite family cooking traditions
Traditional (old fashaioned) handed down from my mother and mother in law. Not healthy, I'm afraid, but wonderful food. Our way of cooking really good stuff is to use sugar in almost everything. Not necessarily real sweet but cuts a lot of things! Enhances flavors. Mostly cook healthy now but on holidays we let it ALL hang out!
My cooking triumphs
old fashioned oven baked candied sweet potatoes. Scalloped oysters. Corn,still the old fashioned way with butter, sugar, salt and pepper. Chili.
My cooking tragedies
I know there have been quite a few but can't remember what they were. Throw it out and go on to the next!
Recipe Reviews 6 reviews
Genuine Egg Noodles
This is the way my mother and I made noodles, with the exception of the furham wheat flour. The rolling and cutting instructions are right on. Drying is important. I've always liked my noodles quite thin but never even guesstimated the thickness. These, when dried will freeze very well so you can always have them on hand when you need/want them. Thanks for the post cause "the old ways" are being forgotten along with the art of cooking.

6 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Aug. 31, 2009
Grandma's Sweet Slaw
The key to this recipe is to use Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise. It makes a sweet and sour taste. It's also good to add a little celery seed. My mother used to make a cooked slaw dressing and this recipe (using miracle whip) is very similar to it. I wouldn't like it with mayonnaise. I do think you need to use sugar to YOUR taste. PS I'm 73 years young and like things cooked the "old" way but with modern convenience.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Mar. 10, 2009
Simple Chicken and Noodles
You got it Girl! I'm 73 years old and this is my mother's recipe to a "T"! All of you new cooks out there---take this one to heart, it's the real deal. It's a must for "purist" cooks who enjoy REAL homemade food!

11 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Jan. 2, 2009
 
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