Category: recipes

  • Dad’s scrambled eggs

    Dad’s scrambled eggs

    Everyone says these are really good scrambled eggs (even the kids). Tasty, fluffy, buttery, etc. So, they have become the gold standard around our house. The technique is the most important thing here. Better eggs really do taste better, I think. Better = organic, really free-range. Larger, darker-yellow yolks, no…

  • Apple pie

    Apple pie

    My beloved Scots-Irish grandmother was famous, at least in our family, for her apple pie. She made a pie, it seemed, every week or so until she was well into her eighties. Her pie, which I’ll cover in another post, was made with lard and only with Granny Smiths. It…

  • Dad’s Recipe Box is for fun…

    We hear all the time about how much of the food we eat is bad for us…but the food that’s recommended instead is boring or bland! Well, the heck with that. Let’s enjoy getting healthy!

  • Frenchified Toast

    Frenchified Toast

    The only thing French about this recipe is the suggestion to use French bread.

  • Poached salmon

    Poached salmon

    Tried this recipe to see if it would yield a moister salmon filet. It did ….