Category: Kitchen
Mexicali Stack-ups
Menu: Mexicali Stack-ups 2 gallons Purdyville Juice (use search to find recipe) Comments: This is sort of like make-your-own taco salad. You can put in or leave out ingredients to your heart’s content. It is better when the tomatoes are in season and fully ripe. * Exported from MasterCook * Mexicali Stack-Ups Recipe By :From [...]
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Nacho Casserole
Menu: Nacho Casserole Cooked Baby Carrots 2 gallons Purdyville Juice (see Search) Comments: Cadie picked this to cook tonight. It’s not too spicy, so the little kids will eat it, but it’s not all that outstanding, either. Good enough, and pretty easy to make. The best part is the melted cheese on the corn chips. [...]
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Beef 'n' Beans 'n' Cornbread
Menu: Purdyville Beef and Beans Dad’s Favorite Cornbread 2 gallons Purdyville Juice (use Search to find recipe) Comments: These two recipes go way, way back in our family. I know I made the Beef and Beans before we ever had children, and I remember first doubling, then tripling, and finally quadrupling the cornbread. I’ve also [...]
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Hamburgers
Menu: Hamburgers on Hamburger Buns Carrot Sticks Purdyville Juice (see recipe search) Comments: Most people would consider hamburgers a quick and inexpensive meal. We use so much ground beef and make so many burgers that it is no longer either. As a matter of fact, we only have hamburgers when ground beef is on sale [...]
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Cheddar Chicken Chowder
Menu: Cheddar Chicken Chowder Speedy Gonzales Bread Purdyville Juice (use recipe search) Comments: This soup is one of Cooking Light’s top ten recipes, and it’s a big hit in Purdyville, too. Even with the bacon and cheese it manages to come under 30% of its calories from fat. Speedy Gonzales Bread is a very simple [...]
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Cheesy Beef-and-Rice Casserole
Menu: Cheesy Beef-and-Rice Casserole Tossed Salad Purdyville Juice (use recipe search to find) Comments: This was the first time I tried this recipe, and it was greeted with something less than enthusiasm. Ivan thought it tasted too much like sour cream. Rundy called it edible. Children who do not like green pepper found something else [...]
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Polish Potato Casserole with Beef Kielbasa
Menu: Polish Potato Casserole with Beef Kielbasa 1 1/2 (50 oz.) jars of applesauce Purdyville Juice (use search to find recipe) Comments: We usually use 3 lbs. of turkey kielbasa in this recipe, but they didn’t have it in the store, so Ivan bought 4 (14 oz.) packages of beef kielbasa. What a difference that [...]
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Purdyville Juice
Since we have this at every dinner, it’s going to get its own separate entry, so I don’t have to keep repeating myself. We started making this in the early days of our marriage, when Ivan was cutting lawns and doing other landscaping work for extra income. He always came home very thirsty, but found [...]
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Pizza!
Menu: 2 Double-Crusted Pizzas with Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic 2 Double-Crusted Pizzas with Pepperoni 2 gallons Purdyville Juice Comments: I clipped this recipe out of Parade magazine long before I got married, but I don’t think I ever made it till I got a food processor. A food processor greatly speeds up making the [...]
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Chicken and Dumplings
Menu: Purdyville Chicken and Dumplings 2 gallons Purdyville Juice Comments: This dish is a Project to cook, but especially good with our homegrown, free-range chickens. I start boiling the chickens mid-morning and simmer them for several hours, because the meat is not very tender. * Exported from MasterCook * Purdyville Chicken And Dumplings, more chicken [...]
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