Going through my mom’s vast collection of hand-written recipes, I came across one for what she called Scrumptious Swiss Steak (it was). I remember my mom’s Swiss Steak very well, and how the braising meat and other ingredients created a wonderful and comforting aroma throughout… Read More
For those who haven’t seen the earlier installments in this series, it’s all about an enormous collection of my mom’s recipes, which made its way to me after her death, many years ago now. This collection, mostly hand-written, has been sitting on some shelves waiting… Read More
For those who have just come across The Recipe Vault, this little project is all about having a look at a huge collection of recipes my mother accumulated over I don’t know how many years. They’ve been packed away at our place for a very… Read More
At a certain point during my childhood, my mother made pickled beets every year, jars and jars and more jars of pickled beets, more pickled beets than a family of 5 could consume in a lifetime. Let me say up front that I never liked… Read More
When I was growing up, I loved meat loaf days. Even more, I loved lunch the day after meat loaf days, and to this day meat loaf sandwiches are a special comfort food treat. My mom wrote out the basic recipe, but she was being… Read More
Here is the second recipe from Mom’s vast recipe collection. When I was a kid, pierogies were a big production around the house before the high holidays. A holiday family dinner typically started with plates of these delicious dumplings. Mom would make a dozens and… Read More
My mother collected recipes. She had cookbooks and plenty of them but she also had recipes from magazines and from newspapers and thousands of recipes which she wrote out by hand. She’s been gone many years at this point and that collection of recipes has… Read More
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