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About Me
I don't really know what to put here. *L* I'm 54, married blissfully for 31 years. I'm a registered nurse who has had way more than enough of what medical care has become and no longer work as an RN. I was born and raised in south
ern West Virginia and have lived on a farm in southwestern Virginia for the last 32 years. I grew up around great cooks of all kinds. My mother was raised in the coal country of West Virginia and grew up with a great influence of European cooking of all kinds especially Italian and eastern European, along with depression era American home cooking, canning and preserving foods. I have always loved to cook and my husband and I have paid dearly for it over the years. We are currently working hard to get off some of the weight and I stumbled onto this site looking for some light dishes. You'll find from most of my submissions that I don't have many of those! LOL But we still eat well and I love sharing recipes that we love and that have been passed down over the years. My husband's mother was Romanian and I've learned to cook quite a few things from her family recipes. Both my grandmothers were raised on farms in the later part of the 19th century. I have cookbooks that belonged to both of my grandmothers with many handwritten entries from THEIR mothers and friends. So, if you are interested in some older recipes or just some things that I've concocted on my own over the years I hope you'll stop by and see what I have put up. When winter comes to the mountains here, I spend a LOT of time on the net and hope to get a lot of these classic recipes out for another generation. I'm very comfortable cooking and love to try new things and change them around, many times making my husband comment that nothing I fix tastes quite the same every time. I take that as a compliment. I am NOT a baker. I don't have the patience for the precise measurements that baking from scratch entails. I do make bread, biscuits and corn bread often, but rarely attempt any baking more complicated than that. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy trying some of my recipes when they sound good to you. Oh, and in case it's not obvious, I collect blue willow china *S*
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My Latest Recipes 25
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Jim's Homemade Bean With Bacon Soup (can Be Canned) from chinablue in 24747, VA.
This recipe is for home pressure canning Campbells Copycat bean with bacon soup. You can combine it all and make a pot for dinner...
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Farmhouse Chicken And Dumplings from chinablue in 24747, VA.
A comforting, hearty meal for a cold winter evening made from scratch and on the table in less than 2 hours. These dumplings rise ...
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Crookneck Yellow Squash Casserole from chinablue in 24747, VA.
A really great way to use up all that extra yellow crookneck squash, even the big ones (and zucchini too) without the usual egg di...
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Cheddar, Pimento, & Cream Cheese Ball from chinablue in 24747, VA.
A quick cheese ball that's cheap, easy and sure to please. Stores well and can be made several days ahead....
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Corned Beef Dip/spread from chinablue in 24747, VA.
A quick and easy corned beef dip that also doubles as a sandwich spread! Goes with crackers, breads, pretzels, chips, etc....
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Rosemary Olive Bread (bread Machine Compatible!) from chinablue in 24747, VA.
A fine textured, crusty bread that is great warm with any meal, especially Mediterranian dishes. Also makes a great sandwich for r...
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