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Recipe: Grandma served baked beans on Sundays

May 10, 2010

By Michele Espinosa
According to my Aunt Lorrie Gauthier, my grandmother Flore Gauthier grew up on a farm near Durango, Colo. Her parents moved there in the 1880s from Boston.
Gauthier and her mom used peeled chicken feet for soup. They made blood sausage and head cheese from pigs they raised.
One of her indulgences was succulent pickled [...]

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Recipe: Grandma’s Chicken and Dumplings

May 10, 2010

By Sharika Jones
Grandma (Vira) and Grandpa (Irving) Paschal had their own mini farm in Wichita. When it was time to make chicken and dumplings, Grandma would send the children to catch a chicken. They would return into the house and pluck all of the feathers off, cut the head off, and clean it. After Grandma [...]

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Borscht: Omi took a taste of home to America

May 7, 2010

By Rachel Semjenow
When Gary Semjenow opened a Christmas gift containing a shirt that read “Powered by Halupsie,” memories of his Omi cooking flooded his mind. Though at home during childhood his plate would be filled with meat and potatoes, going to Omi’s meant borscht or halupsie (cabbage rolls).
Around 1946, “Papa George” Semjenow, Gary’s father, immigrated [...]

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More than pickles: Grandma Taylor’s red cinnies

May 7, 2010

By Melissa Taylor
Summertime is a child’s paradise filled with  outdoors playing, picnics, and, for the Taylor family, Grandma NoNo’s famous pickles.
All of Mary Etta Taylor’s grandchildren could not wait to harvest their vegetables from the garden. Each child was given a special section to grow cucumbers or a crop of choice. After what seemed like [...]

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Corn tortillas past and present

May 7, 2010

By Carolyn Hollis
More than 10,000 years ago before stoves and frying pans, Aztecs were grinding corn into masa to make tortillas.
They added water to the meal to create thick dough for corn tortillas. Then they rolled the dough into balls, flattened and cooked them.
Today, corn tortillas are prepared much the same ways. Ingredients remain consistent [...]

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Family food heritage? Call it ‘military’

May 7, 2010

By Carolyn Hollis
What if you had no family food heritage?
You had nothing specific, or certain, just a few casseroles, desserts, and imitations from recipes already known. What if your family never stayed in one state to call it, “southern style,” or “western crop?” Instead, you gathered recipes here and there, created your own dishes [...]

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Depression era cake: eggless, butterless, milkless

May 7, 2010

By Elizabeth Gittemeier
Lillian Gittemeier raised her family on a small chicken farm in Bowling Green, Mo., during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She loved her family and raised them all with a strong work ethic. Throughout the Great Depression she sold all of the eggs from her chickens and used the money [...]

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