Wow Chow Cooking

The daughter recently made the Cheeseburger Casserole recipe from the popular recipe book, Saving Dinner. It’s a cute book, and has many good recipes. The Cheeseburger Casserole, however, was not so hot. OK, I admit I’m not a fan of casseroles, anyway. They almost always have pasta or rice in them, and I actually don’t [...]

Yes, i know you’ve been waiting with baited breath, especially after reading my change of heart regarding the pepper! I made stuffed peppers for the first time this week. It’s taken me over 40 years to even TOLERATE a pepper in my kitchen, let alone EAT ONE. I searched the web for a while, looking [...]

Although we have a few very warm days here in Upstate New York, spring days are generally rather chilly. On rainy days, the damp settles into our bones and the air seems even colder than it does during the winter! So I wrastled up a pot of “comfort Food” stew last week to soothe our [...]

I’ve been cooking for over 25 years now. One of my first dishes was beef stew. It’s taken me many long years to master the taste, but I have done it. Beef stew, meet perfection. Being the generous cook that I am, I will share with you my particular secrets. Be aware that every tip [...]

For the second time ever, I have made steak on the grill. It’s *OK.* I’ve never been much of a steak eater because the best tasting steak is rare or medium rare steak… and I like it well done because I don’t like eating raw cow. :-p I tried marinating it in mustard and Kens [...]

HOT. Ugh. It’s summer! I hate running the oven in the summer. :-p So we’ve been using the grill a bit more often now. I’ve been trying to get creative but I’ve really been a tad lost these days. I’m busy with so many things that I neglect the cooking. BUT. Yesterday I splurged and [...]

This is one of my old tried and true recipes. I’ve been making variations of it for years. We love it, and it is SO good on a cold night! Pardon my ad hoc measuring units– I rarely use measuring cups so the units here are good guesses. Use your own creativity a little, and [...]

I’ve been testing various crockpot meals from my iPhone CrockPot Recipe Finder app. I like the app because it makes an automatic shopping list for me, so I don’t have to do all the organizing and writing. I did a review of the app, you can click the link to read it. Well, this time [...]

I mentioned earlier that I downloaded a new app for the iPhone, the Crock-Pot Slow Cooker Recipe Finder app. I’ve been toodling around with it a lot. I’ve built a list of favorite recipes from it. The best thing I like about the app is the ability to save a recipe, and the app with [...]

My husband was STARVING and had only a few minutes between jobs to eat. I had nothing prepared. As a matter of fact, all I had were some spurious leftover fragments, an old roast beef hump that I had to cook soon, and some bottles of witch hazel and salicylic acid wash in the fridge [...]