My Mother's Cooking - Spanish Rice

More of my mother's recipes

• My Mother's Cooking - Spaghetti with Meatballs
  My mother made her spaghetti using ground beef and her home canned tomatoes. Later,when she stopped canning, she began using tomato sauce or paste. I take it one step farther and start with inexpensive commercial spaghetti sauce and I prefer making m
• 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 - Beef Pot Roast
  One of my mother's standby recipes was for her beef pot roast. We all liked beef and this was a relatively easy one-dish meal. She would brown a chuck roast or a bottom round roast and then simmer it with onions partially covered with water. Half way
• My Mother's Cooking - Pork Loin Roast - Two Differen...
  My mother made pork loin roast in the traditional way. She used a standing pork rib roast and seasoned it with apples, onions and thyme. By the time my wife started cooking pork roasts for us, there were boneless roasts and everyone was concerned abo
• My Mother's Cooking - Baked Ham and Scalloped Potato...
  Around the holidays, my mother would bake a half a ham and she frequently served it with scalloped potatoes. Here are the easy, tempting recipes. Both can be cooked in the same oven if you have room. Remember to save the bone and ham remnants to make
• 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 - Pasta Salad with Salmon
  Another of my mother's meatless meals consisted of shell noodles or elbow macaroni with canned salmon and green peas bound together with mayonnaise or salad dressing. To add even more color and complexity, you can add cherry tomatoes and sliced black
• 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 - 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 - 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