Watching documentaries and videos about the 1930s often mention “poor man’s meal” or poor man’s dinner. There are a lot of variations of this humble dinner using ground beef or hot dogs, potatoes, tomato sauce or ketchup and sometimes other veggies too. It’s a simple meal, but delicious, using ingredients most of us have on…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Bread from the Great Depression
This simple bread recipe from the Great Depression takes only a handful of ingredients, is easy to prepare and quite delicious! This is my go-to bread! Let’s get started! We are using one pound of flour which I weigh on a kitchen scale. Depending upon the type of flour, the humidity in the kitchen, the…
Vanilla Snow Ice Cream
Winter can feel long sometimes, so enjoying snow however we can is a must! When it snows and blizzards (and sometimes it can snow a lot), I often place a couple bowls outside to catch fresh snow to make snow ice cream. We have been making snow ice cream for several years. It is something…
Fluffy Waffles
This is our go-to waffle recipe that I have been making for years! They’re soft and tender, crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. They’re just as delicious the next day as they are fresh. Let’s get started! Combine flour, baking powder, cornstarch, salt and sugar. Stir. Make a well. Add vanilla, oil…
Lemon Scones
These lemon scones are a light, tender scone that is more like a biscuit but equally delicious! My daughters attended an on online baking class as part of their homeschooling class over the weekend, and they learned how to make these scrumptious lemon scones. The neatest thing is the teacher who is also a pastry…
Cookie Pizza
This delicious giant cookie is meant to be an individual cookie, but it is large enough that we all shared together! It is made with just a few ingredients topped with a yummy ganache and decorated with more chocolate. My girls learned this cookie recipe in an online class from Bake with Caramella who is…
Original Vanilla Nanaimo Bars
Nanaimo Bars was always a family favorite with walnuts in the base along with chocolate, graham cracker crumbs and coconut while the middle was always a creamy vanilla buttercream-type filling made with custard powder and then topped with a rich chocolate. Everything perfect in a bar or square that we usually had on special occasions, when company came over or through the holidays! You’ll enjoy this tasty treat too!
Homemade Gingerbread Houses
Nothing compares to homemade gingerbread filling the house with warm ginger and cloves. This delicious gingerbread can be enjoyed with a glass of milk, homemade eggnog or a cup of coffee and is great fun for the whole family.
