Great Depression Cooking Ep:7 – Poorman’s Feast
93 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Great Depression.
To make this meal you need:
bag of lentils
water
1 cup rice
steak (you can [...]

Make Fondue, Pasta, Soup and More, Using Only Your Rice Cooker!
Now, I have experimented a few times with my rice cooker, especially one night when the gas (propane) ran out in the middle of cooking, and I had to finish in the rice cooker.  But this is a great little video that shows how many [...]

Great Depression Cooking Episode:1 – Pasta with Peas
91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.  These recipes and tips are just as relevant today, as we [...]

Chicken, Swiss cheese, mushrooms, bread crumbs. This is great served over rice with a green salad or green beans.

Hawaiian Stove Top Dish- 1/4 to 1/2 small bell pepper, sliced, for each diner
- 2 pineapple rings (or a similar amount of fresh pineapple), chopped into bite sized pieces, for each dinner
- 2 ounces chicken, ham, Polish sausage, firm tofu, or sliced beef for each dinner
- 1 tsp. soy sauce or tamari, or to taste
- [...]

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

New – Most Simple Delectable Recipe for Trout RoeMy husband caught a beautiful trout a few nights ago. It was full of roe (that’s fish eggs, also known as caviar). I’ve had commercial caviar before, you eat it on crackers with champagne. And I’ve had catfish, bluegill and bass roe before. They are in a [...]