This potato soup recipe is a ton of food blogs and I hesitated to post it here since it’s so readily available. But I did veer a little bit from many of the recipes that I saw and I had a few notes to make so I thought I might as well add it to…
Southwest Salad in a Jar
You’ve probably seen jar salads shared on social media over the years and wondered “Does anyone actually make these?” I have made several over the years and this one is a favorite. Even my husband who isn’t a fan of chicken likes this one and requests it for lunch. You don’t have to put it…
When Things Go Wrong In The Kitchen…
If you follow me on the socials (@mindascooking), you may have seen that last Saturday I took on a recipe that had been in my mom’s recipe box for 50 years: Mudge’s Favorite White Cake. As I explained in the post, it’s not clear who Mudge was so her judgement of cakes can’t be known…
My Experience with Wal-Mart Grocery Pick up and Delivery
If you like to cook, you most likely also like to eat. Or at least I do. And if you like to eat, buying groceries is a necessity, albeit a sometimes annoying one. For a few years prior to the pandemic, I shopped nearly exclusively through Kroger’s Clicklist curbside pick up service. I would say…
Honey Beer Bread
If sourdough bread was the Bread of 2020, Beer Bread was the Bread of the Early 00s. There was a popular direct sale company that marketed beer bread mix and I was invited to about a dozen parties during those years where someone was selling beer bread mix. It was good, it was. But I…
Olive Nut Spread
This is a good one, y’all! This Olive Nut Spread used to make the rounds in our office for potlucks and gatherings. It’s awesome with cut up veggies or crackers but I personally like it as a sandwich spread. One of our local places used to offer Olive Nut Spread sandwiches as a vegetarian option.…
What’s Up Wednesday
My favorite-est blogger Sheaffer Told Me To hosts a monthly What’s Up Wednesday link-up that I plan to join soon. This is kind of a trial run for me. Let me know what you think! What I’m Eating With Summer approaching, I’ve been in a salad mode. I made some jar salads recently and even…
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
These cookies were a go-to recipe for me for many years. I think I sort of burned myself out on them, to be honest, and I went many years without making them. The recipe crossed my mind recently and I realized I’d never put it on the blog. And it definitely deserves a spot. Like…
Easy Caramel Frosting
This is a quick and easy caramel frosting recipe that everyone should have tucked up their sleeve for when a cake hankering strikes. My mom has been making it for years and it’s a particular favorite of my dad’s. And he’s not the only one who loves it. When my niece was small, she would…
Tater Cakes
I think one of the tenets of Appalachian cooking is “Waste not”. The folks who passed these recipes down to us couldn’t run to the grocery store every day. They had to use what they had and wasting was considered a sin. These Tater Cakes are a perfect example of that as the primary ingredient…