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nr

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
This reminds me of somethin I did one time. My folks have drank Folgers n nothin but Folgers for as long as I can remember n prolly even longer than that. When we moved to East Texas, they had plans to come visit. So I went grocery shoppin the mornin they were to arrive that afternoon. Bein young, and money bein tight, I'm at the grocery store, and notice that the store brand is wayyyyyy cheaper than Folgers. So....I debated for a lil bit n decided....what the heck......we'll see how the store brand measures up....LOL
I was bein so sneaky, or at least I thought I was. I came home n put all the groceries up, and opened that lil "brick" thing of coffee and put it in my coffee canister there on the cabinet. See....no package...they'll never know. Threw the package away.
Mom n Dad got here, n I proceeded to make coffee. They each got a cup, n sat down. We talked for a while....I started supper....nothin was said about the coffee till later that evenin. Mom asked, "This aint Folgers is it?" I said...."Why does it taste funny?" She said "no it doesn't taste funny, but why didnt ya hide the package down in the bottom of the trash can, instead of layin right on top?" Hehe I told her it was a taste test. She couldnt tell the difference, but you know how mom's are...ya can't get by with much with em. :D
It is sort of interesting to visit in one's grown childrens' homes and see how they've decided to do things in the cooking dept., child rearing dept., division of labor etc. Sometimes they've hit on better ideas that are worth copying. Maybe your mom learned something about store brands that day from her little darlin :!:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Most things in the cookin dept...I do just like mama did. She was a great cook. Growin up she had 6 sisters and 1 brother. When they all got old enuff, they had their chores that they had to do. Grandma thinkin she was makin it fair on the kids made them rotate chores. It didnt take long for them to find their favorite chore. So....Mom's was cookin. She did all the cookin for their family from the time she was 12 or so years old. Another liked doin the wash ( I can't imagine) and another the ironing...etc etc.
Now that mom's gone, dad thoroughly enjoys when we go home, or he comes here. I always ask him what he wants to eat while vistin, that way if there's somethin that mom fixed that he can't fix...he gets a lil taste of what it's supposed to taste like. There's been a few times that he's called me on the phone and asked..."how to make this or that" the last time he did that, it was deviled eggs......he had a hankerin, and was supposed to take a covered dish to the community center for a get together and didnt know how to make them. He called the next day, n said he had to make somemore.....they were all gone before he got any at the git together LOL
 

Faster horses

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Same with my dad, Lilly. My folks were from Missouri and Iowa.
My mother was a southern cook and dad just loved her cooking.
So when I would go to visit him, I tried to make the things mom
made for him. He really enjoyed it. I got kinda rusty at it though,
because so much of it is stuff that Mr. FH can do without.

Cooking and eating southern dishes brought back good memories
for me and dad though. Glad I was able to do it, because he is
gone now. Hopefully, they're back to eating together.
 

nr

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My husband's mother gave me as a bridle shower present a recipe file of all her son's favorite foods. What a thoughtful lady she was. I love using the cards even today written in her handwriting.

My mom was an excellent Pennsylvania Dutch cook but also was eager to try new things. I remember when pizza was becoming popular she made the yeast dough and baked us a delicious one though it seemed strange watching her trying to make the crust so thin. That must have been in the 50's- Stone Age Era for you younguns'.
 

nr

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Faster horses said:
..."Bridle shower" :lol:

Man, nr, you been here tooo long!!!!!!
That was funny. :wink:

Ooops :oops: It sure looked right at the time.. Guess that's what you get when the tack room collapses.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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We weren't so fortunate as to get a recipe collection from either of our mom's when we got married. His mom has oodles of recipes...my mom had em all in her head. After about 6 mo of marriage...and tryin to think up stuff to fix...I sat Mr Lilly down and said......We are gonna make a list of the things our mom's fixed that we liked...anything and everything we could think of.....helped alot in just havin somethin new to fix.....

As for mom's recipes bein in her head.......I called her bawlin right before Thanksgivin the first year we were here. We were spending the holidays with Mr Lilly's family and I KNEW NONE of them could make a punkin pie like my mama's. (and I was right) I got her on the phone....and said..mama tell me your recipe for punkin pie.......pen poised above my scratch pad ready to write...n she said "Well, you just dump stuff in till it looks right and smells right" Then the tears really started LOL So she sat with me on the phone, got out a can of punkin pie fillin and we revised the recipe on the back of the can to fit mama's recipe. Yeap...I baked it...and it tasted just like hers did....
So.....I thought ok...dump till it looks and smells right will work for just about anything she made. And it's worked great for me over the years.
 

nr

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Yes, the really good cooks seem to cook also by close observation of what they're mixing. We have a written recipe for my Grandma Ernst's black walnut cookies made with egg whites which I've never been able to successfully reproduce. Man alive, when you opened a tin of those cookies the sweet aroma would knock your socks off and the texture and crackly sheen were what memories are made of. She and my mom always had stacks and stacks of tins of cookies, the old standbys and then some new ones for example one kind mom made was a basic white cookie but the surprise inside was a small chocolate mint patty. That tin smelled really good, too.
Does this talk make you start thinking about baking Christmas cookies before Thanksgiving :wink:
 

katrina

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I have a large candy box full of my grandmothers recipies... She always clipped out the recipies from the newspaper and on little scraps of paper in her handwriting.. I always use these recipies for christmas... The old time fudge and peanut brittle, doughnuts and any kind of homemade candy you can think of...
Some of the recipes she cut out are as far back as 1935... And on the other side you can read the news of that day... One has a wedding announcement on it... I always think about the couple and wonder if they are still alive and married and realize that every year someone reads there wedding announcement..... I know what a warm or hot oven is. A pinch is not the same as a dash... A dash is more. A handful is just that....A handful.... On this one I try and think of my granmothers small veinie, thin skinned hand.....Nothing like my size large.....

nr, the bridle thingy is so good!!! It made me smile all last night....So funny.... :D :D
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I'm ready for Thanksgivin and Christmas cookin. I always look forward to it. And usually it turns into a BIG job with not enuff time because I want to cook so many different goodies.
We have a few things that we ONLY cook at Christmas. More just a family tradition than what folks think of as Traditional Christmas goodies.

We have chicken puffs......only at Christmas. they are everyone's favorites and it's almost a fight in the kitchen to get your fill of them.
For years someone in Mr Lilly's family was in charge of making the chicken puffs. They NEVER made enuff. The original recipe only makes 40. They are bite size. You make the puffs that are mostly eggs n flour bake them and then stuff them with cream cheese and shreaded chicken breasts. with some other spices in there to make it good LOL
Well I got tired of bein the one that went to get my chicken puffs and there not bein any left. So I started making them too.....for a couple years the others would bring their lil baggie of puffs.....and somehow it now has become my job. make the recipe 8 times the normal amount......and we've still ran out of puffs but at least everyone gets some.
 

nr

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
I'm ready for Thanksgivin and Christmas cookin. I always look forward to it. And usually it turns into a BIG job with not enuff time because I want to cook so many different goodies.
We have a few things that we ONLY cook at Christmas. More just a family tradition than what folks think of as Traditional Christmas goodies.

We have chicken puffs......only at Christmas. they are everyone's favorites and it's almost a fight in the kitchen to get your fill of them.
For years someone in Mr Lilly's family was in charge of making the chicken puffs. They NEVER made enuff. The original recipe only makes 40. They are bite size. You make the puffs that are mostly eggs n flour bake them and then stuff them with cream cheese and shreaded chicken breasts. with some other spices in there to make it good LOL
Well I got tired of bein the one that went to get my chicken puffs and there not bein any left. So I started making them too.....for a couple years the others would bring their lil baggie of puffs.....and somehow it now has become my job. make the recipe 8 times the normal amount......and we've still ran out of puffs but at least everyone gets some.

Does this look anything like your recipe- found it on the internet. If it is I'll try it- surely sounds yummy!

Makes 30 appetizers, approximately

Cream Puff Recipe:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 cup flour, sifted
pinch of salt
2 eggs

Chicken Filling Recipe:
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup Pecans, finely chopped
3/4 cup smoked Chicken, cooked, chopped finely
2 tablespoons Best Foods Mayonnaise
1 1/2 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated Nutmeg
Kosher salt to taste
zest from one lemon, divided

Chicken Filling:
Add the butter and pecans to a skillet, toast over low heat until flavorful; set aside to cool.

Mix the pecans, chicken, mayonnaise, cream cheese, nutmeg and salt together (add the lemon zest just before serving). This mixture can be covered and refrigerated until ready to use.

Cream Puffs:
Preheat oven to 425° degrees F.

Combine butter and boiling water in saucepan over low heat until butter is melted. Add flour and salt all at once and stir vigorously over low heat until mixture forms a ball and leaves sides of pan. Remove from heat. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition until smooth and satiny.

Place level teaspoonfuls of mixture onto greased baking sheet. Bake 17 to 22 minutes or until lightly brown. Remove from oven to a rack to cool. With a sharp knife slice off tops of puffs and remove the doughy centers. They may be covered at room temperature until ready to use.

When ready to use, place the puff shells in a warm oven for a few minutes to crisp them. Remove from oven. Add 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest to the chicken mixture and fill the puffs. Garnish with additional lemon zest on top and serve.

Wine recommendation: Pinot Gris
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Nope that's not it... the puff part is close, but the fillin is totally different.

Here's mine..this is the original recipe that only makes 40 puffs
Puffs
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup sifted all purpose flour
2 eggs

Filling
1 - 8 oz can of chicken (or 2 small boneless chicken breasts boiled)
2 - 3oz pkg's of cream cheese softened
1/4 tsp salt
3 dashes hot pepper sauce (Louisiana Red hot) and usually way more than 3 dashes around here. LOL
pinch of garlic salt
pinch of onion powder

In a small sauce pan heat chicken broth and margarine over medium
heat until boiling and margarine is melted. Remove from heat. Immediatly add flour all at once. Stir briskly with a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a ball and leaves the side of the pan. With wooden spoon beat in the eggs 1 at a time until well mixed.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees, Grease a large cookie sheet (if you don't the puffs will stick, and the bottom half of the puff will stay stuck to the cookie sheet) Drop dough by 1/2 to 3/4 tsp fulls onto cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until puffs are golden brown.
When puffs are cool, cut them with a knife until they are almost in half (like you would to butter a biscuit)
Filling: In a small bowl combine all filling ingredients and stir until well
blended. Using a butter knife, open puff and put in just enuff filling to fill the hollow area, then squeeze closed. Eat as many as you can while puttin em together without anyone seein you :D and make sure you keep an innocent look on yer face.....even if you have puff stuff on the side of your lip......it didnt get there because you ate one......it happened durin the process of stuffin the puff. :wink:
You can freeze these to serve later...(if there's any left) heat in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes then serve....
We usually just stick em on a cookie sheet when we have our Christmas Eve gift opening, heat em up just a lil bit and then serve em while they are warm, not hot.
Get ready to PIG OUT!!!!
Oh n don't eat any of the puffs before they are stuffed....they don't have much taste at all.....not nearly as good as when they got the fillin in there.
 

cutebabymaker

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nr said:
Got out of bed this morning, plodded to the kitchen putting on my glasses enroute and not turning on the lights since it was almost light enough to see. I turned on the tap, took the lid off the new can of coffee and picked up the coffee pot with my left hand then proceeded to fill up the new coffee can with water :mad: After I got over my stupidity I puzzled over why the sodden coffee grounds were looking strangely bleary and finally realized I'd put on my husband's glasses. :roll: He is far-sighted and I'm near- sighted. There are a few messages in this experience and I don't like ANY of them!

That almost sounds like the Homer Simpson moment that some one posted on here a week or so ago....
 

nr

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Nope that's not it... the puff part is close, but the fillin is totally different.

Here's mine..this is the original recipe that only makes 40 puffs
Puffs
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 cup sifted all purpose flour
2 eggs

Filling
1 - 8 oz can of chicken (or 2 small boneless chicken breasts boiled)
2 - 3oz pkg's of cream cheese softened
1/4 tsp salt
3 dashes hot pepper sauce (Louisiana Red hot) and usually way more than 3 dashes around here. LOL
pinch of garlic salt
pinch of onion powder

In a small sauce pan heat chicken broth and margarine over medium
heat until boiling and margarine is melted. Remove from heat. Immediatly add flour all at once. Stir briskly with a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a ball and leaves the side of the pan. With wooden spoon beat in the eggs 1 at a time until well mixed.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees, Grease a large cookie sheet (if you don't the puffs will stick, and the bottom half of the puff will stay stuck to the cookie sheet) Drop dough by 1/2 to 3/4 tsp fulls onto cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until puffs are golden brown.
When puffs are cool, cut them with a knife until they are almost in half (like you would to butter a biscuit)
Filling: In a small bowl combine all filling ingredients and stir until well
blended. Using a butter knife, open puff and put in just enuff filling to fill the hollow area, then squeeze closed. Eat as many as you can while puttin em together without anyone seein you :D and make sure you keep an innocent look on yer face.....even if you have puff stuff on the side of your lip......it didnt get there because you ate one......it happened durin the process of stuffin the puff. :wink:
You can freeze these to serve later...(if there's any left) heat in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes then serve....
We usually just stick em on a cookie sheet when we have our Christmas Eve gift opening, heat em up just a lil bit and then serve em while they are warm, not hot.
Get ready to PIG OUT!!!!
Oh n don't eat any of the puffs before they are stuffed....they don't have much taste at all.....not nearly as good as when they got the fillin in there.

WELL, HOT-DOG!! I don't have to pluck, gut, bake and bone the chicken first! :D :D Thank you, Lily. Might just try this one on some friends before the holidays.
 

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