Comfort Food

Baked pork chops recipes are a great choice for both easy everyday dinners and stress-free casual entertaining. While the pork chops bake, you can easily work on making the salad and/or vegetables that will accompany them. To keep things even easier, consider baking or roasting some potatoes or a vegetable medley in a pan [...]

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This recipe for hamburger goulash with elbow macaroni is an old stand-by straight from Mom’s recipe box. She learned to make this ground beef and macaroni skillet dish by watching her friend’s mom back in the 1950s in a small town in rural coastal Maine. It’s how we learned to cook once upon [...]

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Did you know October 1 is Homemade Cookies Day or that October is National Cookie Month? Many foods have days honoring them, including many different kinds of cookies. On a more serious note, October is also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So in honor of my 91-year-old grandmother, a breast cancer survivor, [...]

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Always on the lookout for quick easy tasty recipes I was intrigued when I discovered this cinnamon rolls recipe that called for frozen bread dough, instead of homemade.
Last winter while living in northern Wisconsin I did a side-by-side comparison of homemade cinnamon rolls. Since skiing, snow-shoeing, and ice fishing aren’t my thing, I spent a [...]

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