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- What if you can’t get fresh herbs when a recipe says I should use them? --Vanessa
- Do you have an apple dumpling recipe? They are too expensive to buy at the store and I would love to make them myself...
- When I cook vegetables—say, string beans—in oil, I often add slivers of garlic before adding the veg; but the garlic...
- Do you have any old-fashioned slow cooker recipes with ground beef or steak? —Rachel
Meatballs and Gravy
I would like to make Grandma's noodles with meatballs and gravy.
—Dorothy
Hi Dorothy,
Head right over to my Spaghetti & Meatballs. It’s a traditional Italian-American recipe of meatballs made from ground beef served over pasta with spaghetti sauce—sometimes affectionately referred to as “gravy” in some Italian households!

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Hello Betty, My wife is baking an old-fashioned butter cake which looks great. We live at elevation 4,600 feet in the forest of southern Oregon. What, if anything, needs to be done to this recipe for a high elevation? Thank you ahead of time, Betty.
--Robert
August 2012 -
QuestionGrandma... Please add your favorite chocolate frosting. My mom use to make one with cocoa and I just can not remember how... Thanks. --SueMarch 2012
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QuestionHow do you brine burkey? --JuanitaMarch 2012
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QuestionDo you have a recipe for Mincemeat Cookies? Would love to try them if you do... --HelenMarch 2012
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QuestionI made a corn chowder recipe from here that contained bacon, cream of celery soup, creamed corn, onions, celery, fresh green beans and topped it with cooked bacon and shredded cheese. Do you have this recipe? --AnnMarch 2012
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When making an old-fashioned cherry pie with cherries you just picked, do you cook your cherries with sugar and cornstarch or flour before putting it in the pie crust?
--BarbaraApril 2012 -
QuestionCan you come up with a tasty veggies with quinoa combo? I know it's healthy but want more flavor. Thank you. --MarilynMarch 2012
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When you cook something in olive oil in a frying pan, is that still considered fried food?
--Ilene
May 2012 -
QuestionI've been looking all over for celery salt. I've been to three or four stores and they don't seem to carry it. Do you know what happened? --BrendaMarch 2012
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QuestionDo you have a nice sweet salad recipe for cole slaw with carrots? --Nana RondaMarch 2012





