My Mother's Cooking - Salmon Patties with Cheesy Potatoes

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• My Mother's Cooking - Chicken Stew with Mushrooms, P...
  Sometimes, when my mother cooked chicken, she would add her home canned tomatoes and peppers from the garden to make a tasty stew that could be served with rice, noodles or potatoes. We only grew green bell peppers in our garden, but now I like to us
• My Mother's Cooking - Braised Beef Short Ribs
  Growing up 60 years ago, beef and pork ribs were much cheaper than they are today. When my mother made pork spareribs she usually made them with sauerkraut and when she made beef short ribs, she braised them with various root vegetables. Here is my m
• My Mother's Cooking - Macaroni and Cheese
  My mother's recipe for macaroni and cheese is unique in that instead of a béchamel sauce, it uses eggs beaten with milk and finely chopped onion. This makes it a substantial meal which can be used as the main course for a meatless supper. It is also
• My Mother's Cooking - Pierogi Filled With Cottage Ch...
  There are many ingredients that you can use as filling for home made pierogi. Mashed potatoes with cheese or onions is frequently used. Other fillings include sauerkraut, mushrooms, fried cabbage or even meat and fruit. My mother always used a mixtur
• My Mother's Cooking - Norwegian Staples - Krube and ...
  My mother learned to make Norwegian krube and lefse from her first husband's mother. These potato based Norwegian staples are easy to make, hearty and delicious. Krube is a large potato dumpling with a surprise in the middle and lefse is a thin, gril
• My Mother's Cooking - Potato Dumplings with Bacon an...
  How to make my mother's homemade potato dumplings with bacon and onions (we just called them kluski). You literaly can't stop eating them. Grated potatoes are mixed with flour and a little salt and dropped with a spoon into boiling water. Then they a
• My Mother's Cooking - Potato Dumplings
  Potatoes and dumplings are a match made in heaven. Most European countries make some form of dumpling using potatoes. The Italians make gnocchi, the Germans make spaetzle, klosse and kneodle. the Norwegians make krube and the Hungarians make galuska,
• My Mother's Cooking - Boiled Potatoes and Potato Sal...
  My mother often made boiled potatoes for our evening meal because they are easy to make and my dad liked them. Boiled potatoes can be eaten in soups or with butter or gravy. Of course boiled potatoes also form the basis for various potato salads whic
• My Mother's Cooking - Homemade Soups (Chapter 8)
  When my mother made soup, it was intended to be eaten as an entire meal. All of her soups were thick and contained either noodles, dumplings, rice or potatoes. Her meatless soups were made from vegetables that we grew in our own garden. Her chicken s
• My Mother's Cooking - Pumpkin Soup and Potato Soup
  My mother was raised on a poor potato farm in North Central Wisconsin where her family normally ate meatless meals. In the fall, when the pumpkins were ripe in their garden, they were used to make both pies and soup. Here is my mother's recipe for pu