Tag: family recipes

Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie

Burgers are one of the easiest and best dishes to make on the grill, but if you don’t have a grill or just want to reinvent the wheel a bit, you can turn this classic summertime staple into a pie. If you’re dying to go to your favorite diner but don’t feel like leaving the house,…


Creamy, Cold Sesame Noodles Are Great Anytime

Cold sesame noodles are a refreshing delight — especially on a hot day or if you want a filling but flavorful on-the-go lunch. There are many versions of sesame noodles, notably ones from Sichuan and Taiwan, but they all contain Chinese sesame paste and other seasonings tossed with chewy noodles. There’s actually very little cooking…


Cooking for Mum, Coming Full Circle: How My Mother’s Dementia Pushed Me to Learn to Cook the Foods of My Heritage

My beautiful 91-year-old mother stood in the kitchen staring at the onion in her hand, not knowing what to do with it. She was a few years into living with dementia and had recently started divesting all she wouldn’t need in the next life. Reading, writing, knitting, her favorite TV programs, conversations with friends—all had…


Lasagna for Busy Weeknights

Lasagna is a meal fit for any season, it’s comforting, hearty, and is one of the best dishes for meal prep. This recipe for easy homemade lasagna has all of the key components of grandma’s cooking: it’s made from scratch, generously seasoned, and can feed the whole family. What sets this lasagna recipe apart from the rest…


Take DIY Pizza Night to a Whole New Level

Tear-and-share bread, monkey bread, bubble bread — they’re all different names for the same kind of dish: balls of dough, baked close together in a pan, that are served warm and pulled apart with your hands. While there are lots of savory tear-and-share breads (like this one!), its roots are sweet. In the 1950s, a…


The Family Table: Sweet Treats—and a Larger-Than-Life Grandmother—From Small Town USA

Submitted by Donna Rinehart, Dover, Pennsylvania Off the bus from school House smells of banana bread We eat the whole loaf! My grandmother, Mildred Whitaker (Gram), was born in 1905 and lived most of her life in Cooperstown, New York, where she worked for many years at the Baseball Hall of Fame as secretary to Howard…


The Family Table: 30 Years of Sourdough Biscuits, Made With Love

Submitted by Jared K. Vawter, Bakersfield, California Sourdough is not an ingredient; it is a relationship. If you care for and nurture your sourdough, it will return to you all the love and devotion a one-celled organism can give. Thirty years ago, I bought a jar of sourdough starter at St. Andrew’s Abbey fall festival in…


The Family Table: In Granny’s Pound Cake, Memories by the Slice

Submitted by Pamela M. Saunders, Suffolk, Virginia I grew up next door to my grandmother. She and I were each other’s eyeballs. Every Saturday, I went next door and we baked her pound cake. I remember sitting on a stool with folding steps as she worked. At first, when I was very young, I could just…


The Family Table: Spaghetti Clam Sauce, a Family Favorite From the Pantry

Submitted by Linda Johnson, Kalispell, Montana I grew up in the Bronx in New York in the 1950s, and oh, was it fun! It was such an eclectic neighborhood—every nationality was represented. The smells coming from windows and doorways and sometimes a street cart made you dash for home to eat! My dad was always…


The Family Table: Memories of Albania: Simple Dishes, Beach Picnics, and Food Rations

Submitted by Elda Capuni-Lemmon, Apalachin, New York My childhood food memories are of simple cooking, big and small family gatherings and celebrations, and food lines and rations. I was born in communist Albania, which remained so until 1991. Food diversity was limited, so every family cooked very similar dishes. Climbing my apartment building’s stairs, I could…