Eggplant Sammy’s
For a very long time I have been wanting to share one of my favorite sandwiches with my readers. But, I haven’t had the gusto’ to do it! Seriously, I was afraid there weren’t enough die-hard eggplant...
View ArticleApple Dips
Sometimes when I pen my weekly column I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to be discussing or presenting. This week after various conversations about ‘apple orchards’, I knew exactly what I wanted...
View ArticleApple Pie Bread Recipe
This past Monday as I pulled into the drive I was greeted by my neighbor, Marcia, with a loaf of this recipe. What a delight to receive a fresh loaf of apple bread. She told me the name of the loaf,...
View ArticleCaramel Corn
It’s the perfect time of year to make a batch of homemade caramel corn. Maybe even a double batch for the freezer. Surprisingly many people have no idea what caramel corn is or how to make it. Cracker...
View ArticleHealthy Collards (or spinach) and Beans
Over the past 2 years, (OK, since Covid) I’ve learned to fly by the seat of my pants a great deal more often. I had plans for the weekend, and Ervin had his. This morning he asked me to join him, I...
View ArticleWhite Castle Copycats
This past weekend was a whirlwind of how much we could get done in a 3-day weekend! Some things got started and put on hold due to a weather change. But basically speaking the Uhrig household will be...
View ArticleStandard Chili for 30-35 in a Roaster
This past week I had more on my plate than I could handle, but with lots of help from my husband, Ervin, and our office staff & OACAC board we made it through the big OACAC Chilingo. It was a big...
View ArticleStromboli
If my good friend, Bonnie, hadn’t given me a large portion of fresh fish I would have been making this Stromboli today for the Chiefs game. I have been hungry for this recipe for at least the last 4...
View ArticlePotato Rolls
Well, we flipped another page this week and if you weren’t in the scurry mode before, it might be time to get there! Seriously friends, in the next 2-3 weeks we have a great deal of planning to...
View ArticleOrange Cranberry Sauce
Remember the column last week? Well, I took my own advice to heart and I’m well into preparations for Thanksgiving. I have these three projects to accomplish this week: homemade noodles, cranberry...
View ArticleSmashed Potatoes
I can proudly say I have cookie dough for about 17 dozen cookies in my freezer and 7 pints of cranberry chutney made for the holidays. Pfew…I’m glad that is accomplished. It took a bit of ‘push’,...
View ArticleCranberry Orange Scones
Usually when you find a good scone at a bakery or coffee house in America we just pick them up and eat them without any embellishment. Scones may have sugar sprinkled over it, powdered sugar, a thin...
View ArticlePotato Cakes
All the leftovers are behind us, and we are forging ahead into some super busy days on the horizon. Friday I found out I needed to make 10 more dozen cookies for an event next weekend. I didn’t get...
View ArticleDate Pinwheels
I’m greeting you after one busy weekend! Saturday was Christmas parades in the morning and the night! It was so much fun! Our OACAC office had a float in the Kimberling City parade and the Crane parade...
View ArticleGingerbread Men
I was thinking about this recipe last night and how much ‘I’ enjoyed this cookie, and our son, Phillip, did not! The flavors in this dough are excellent, the spices are robust and the little ‘men’...
View ArticleCorn Chowder
We were ready for a pot of soup at our house this week and corn chowder was the selected recipe. And, shocking as it sounds I used my own recipe! Usually I write a recipe, I remember the basic outline...
View ArticleRice Pilaf
For Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we returned to my hometown, Lewistown, Missouri, to spend time with my parents. We were extremely busy elves for about 60 hours! We did a great deal in a very small...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Pork Loin
OK, that just felt real odd, writing 2022 for the first time. On New Year’s Eve I had planned to do a nice brined pork loin on the grill for our dinner. The rain won out on that one and I ended up...
View ArticleCherry Coffee Cake
This week our house lost at least 15 pounds of ‘stuff’, wish I could say the same! Just tossing leftover holiday ‘things’, papers and magazines that needed to go. It made me feel good, and it was...
View ArticleZiti Pasta Salad
This past week I must have been on overload and didn’t realize it. Because of the 3 day weekend I forgot about my weekly column, now how did I manage that? In 16 years of writing I don’t think I’ve...
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