Homemaking

My mom, Marcella Mills Smith, or “Cella” could make something to eat even when the cupboard was bare. I loved being in the kitchen with her and as you can see here, she loved to cook. She was the one girl with four ornery brothers to Elaine and Glenn Mills in Lemmon, South Dakota in 1932. They moved to western Montana during the dust bowl settling in the Bitterroot Valley. Her mom owned and ran Elaine’s Café in Lolo, Montana so we are all inclined to love the kitchen, too. This book is a tribute to mom’s recipe box and in the process I am capturing her handwriting (and other’s) which blessed the recipe cards. It would have been a shame to just copy the recipe without capturing the card i ...

Goe Thy Way, or Tennessee Squirrel for Breakfast, is a humorous gastronomical look back at days gone by in rural West Tennessee. Chocked full of classic Southern food and wine recipes, this book will become indispensable to the budding country kitchen. The author reflects on a wide range of memorable subject matter from local customs and culinary turf wars, to moon-shining, squirrel hunting, whole hog barbequing, and a way of life that is becoming more elusive with each passing day. This book will also serve the home vintner well as it literally contains a Bible on making homemade wine. For readers from West Tennessee and beyond, this one is sure to please!

Nothing relieves stress in a woman’s life like knowing what’s for supper. Homestead Cooking with Carol: Bountiful Make-ahead Meals shows you, the busy homesteading homemaker, how to prepare your food at harvest time so you spend less time making supper the rest of the year. It shows you how to prepare simple, healthy foods that do not require a culinary degree for those nights when you lack the energy to chop, braise, caramelize, or glaze. In addition, how would you like to: •have cookies warm from the oven every day when your kids step off the bus, •take a new mom a meal without adding to your already heavy work load, •say “No” to the local drive-thru after an exhausting shoppin ...

My textbook of recipes that have been put through several years of pastry student’s trial and error.

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