Recipes
CHUsday and Soup Weather’s Here
Tina, who posted a comment on the CHU blog, Bread’s Baking in the Oven, is October’s CHU giveaway winner with a recipe she tried from The New American Plate: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life. The recipe, Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Soup, was a hit at her house. Tina says “it’s…
Read MoreCHUsday: Flexitarian, Vegetarian, Vegan and Carnivore
So, do you know what kind of “eater” you are? Or have you ever even wondered. Maybe you grew up with fried-green tomatoes, ham biscuits and red eye gravy. Maybe you grew up with brown rice, tofu and bean sprouts. Or maybe your family was eclectic and ate a little of this and a little of…
Read MoreCHUsday: What Will You CHUse To Make This Month?
Congratulations to Nancy Badertscher, who won last month’s CHU giveaway by trying a vegetarian broccoli quiche to feed her visiting vegetarian children. Nancy used a recipe from Pillsbury’s Easy Vegetarian Meals, and I’m providing the link to the same quiche, as well as the cookbook.
Read MoreCHUsday’s Winner and Herbed Oven Crisp Chicken
We completed August with some great entries in the CHU giveaway. Random.org chose Lee Ann’s entry–which was actually the first–a selection from the cookbook, Adventures In Cooking, from the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church in South Bend, Indiana and submitted by a Mrs. G.V. Swigart. The book came to Lee Ann from Great-Grandmother “B,” and Lee Ann chose…
Read MorePeaches-And-Cream Ice Cream: Have CHU Entered This Month’s Giveaway?
I’m amazed at how many silly kitchen gadgets there are. I had no idea. This weekend I had the time of my life ordering enough to give away one each month for our CHU winners, along with an autographed paperback of the winner’s choice–if available. This month’s winner gets the Joie Mashy Egg Masher, a hit…
Read MoreJoan’s Daughter’s Wonderful Blueberry Pie–with apologies to Wanda
Remember Joan, the pie prize winner whose daughter made a fabulous blueberry pie and won a prize at the fair, only to have it disappear before the second round of judging? I received so many requests for the recipe after I ran Joan’s story, that I begged her to ask her daughter if she would…
Read MoreOur Fourth Winner in the Great Pie Giveaway
Today our fourth and final pie prize box heads off to one lucky contestant, and it includes the pictured cookbook from one of my favorite Shenandoah Valley restaurants among many other goodies. Find out who won at the end of this post. Sorry you missed the contest? You didn’t. Don’t forget there’s still the grand…
Read MoreThird Winner in the Great Pie Giveaway
Giving away prizes? Almost as much fun as the entries I’ve gotten. Today’s winner (you have to read to the end) receives the third of four boxes. Inside? A porcelain pie bird (for venting pie crusts) and a pewter pie charm. A signed copy of Sunset Bridge, a pie top cutter, a Wanda’s Wonderful Pies apron, Key…
Read MoreFirst Winner in the Great Pie Prize Giveaway and Pie Recipes, too.
We have a winner in the first week of the Great Pie Prize Giveaway, but you must finish the blog to discover her name (and yes, it is a her) and entry. If you haven’t yet entered, why not? You can find details on rules and prizes here and here, and it’s both simple and fun.…
Read MoreWanda’s Lasting Legacy: Snickers Brownie Pie
“‘This is your Christian day of rest,’ Janya said. ‘You bake pie all week, and tomorrow, even if Wanda’s is closed, you will be there preparing for Tuesday.’ Wanda stared out the narrow rusty window with its view of scrub and one screeching blackbird. ‘Wanda’s Wonderful Pies? That’s work. But creating a new pie in…
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