This chicken stew is one of my most requested meals! It’s a hearty, stick-to-your-ribs old fashioned meal and one of my favorites to enjoy when it’s cold out! My girls love dumplings in stews and soups but, you can easily omit the dumplings, and substitute for rice or pasta instead. You could also use this…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Bi-Layer No-Bake Pumpkin Pie
I found this recipe for this no-bake variation of pumpkin pie in a Company’s Coming cookbook and made it one Thanksgiving, over 20 years ago. It was called bi-layer pumpkin pie and it became one of our favorites! I ended up getting two pies from the recipe and sent one pie home with my brother….
Vanilla Syrup
This vanilla syrup is creamy and has a lovely vanilla flavor. It’s sweet without being overly sweet and is perfect for atop pancakes or even drizzled in your morning tea or coffee. Let’s get started! In a saucepan, whisk together the water, sugar and cornstarch together. Bring to a boil. Stir often. Cook until thick,…
Easy Homemade Egg Drop Soup
We love soups in our house. Nothing beats a warm bowl of soup on a chilly fall day. I like this easy homemade egg drop soup because it takes just a handful of ingredients and it isn’t heavy so it’s a great way to start a meal. We make this soup when we have too…
Crockpot Chicken and Gravy with Vegetables
I love crockpot meals for the simplicity of it! Toss everything in and at the end of a long day, you have a lovely hot meal waiting for you! This crockpot chicken and gravy is one of our favorites! I add veggies in like potatoes and carrots, but you can add any vegetable you like….
Spaetzle — Homemade Drop Noodles
We love spaetzle which is like a drop noodle. Many cultures around Europe have these dumpling-style noodles. In Hungarian, these egg noodle dumplings are known as “Nokedli” whereas in Romania they’re called “Galuska”. Spaetzle is German and “Halushky” in Ukrainian. They have slight variations between cultures – some of these drop noodles are thinner and…
Mulled Juice
It’s fall time and I love mulled juice. I usually prefer using apple juice but a combination of cranberry and apple juice is tasty, as is a combo of apple, orange and cranberry or even plain cranberry. It’s sweet and spicy with a little tang, and simply delicious! It has all the flavours of fall…
Queen of Puddings from the 1940s
My daughter decided to make Queen of Puddings from the 1940s and it was absolutely delicious!! We got the recipe from Baking Yesteryear: The Best recipes from the 1900s to 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis which has a lot of great recipes in it, but there’s tons of versions of this recipe everywhere! Queen of…
