Dishing Up Memories

Fond food memories and the recipes to go with them

Amish dinner rolls

If you love homemade rolls, try this recipe! These rolls are soft, fluffy, and absolutely delicious. They almost melt in your mouth. The recipe was...

Best lasagna recipe ever!

I love Italian food – especially pasta. And my favorite pasta dish is lasagna. I first started making lasagna shortly after we were married....

Skillet blackberry cobbler

When I was young, growing up on my mother and daddy's farm in Tennessee, my sisters and I would pick blackberries. We walked up...

Gingerbread Pancakes and Winter Fruit Salad

My son-in-law Benjie loves to cook. More than just cook, he loves to experiment . . . to try new recipes and different ingredients....

The ultimate chocolate cheesecake

Cookies, candy, pie, or cake? I was determined to bake something very special for our Christmas dinner dessert. While I have collected many recipes...

Perfect pizza via California

Now that we've wrapped up the leftovers from the traditional holiday dishes, are you ready for something different? I know we are at my...

Sweet Potato Casserole with pineapple

My Bob loves sweet potatoes. He loves them baked, mashed, boiled or roasted. But what he really loves is his mom's Sweet Potato Casserole....

Glazed ham for the holidays

My son, Robert, loves the glazed ham that I bake every year, usually at both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Actually I've been baking this ham...

Holiday morning brunch

I love breakfast. I love it at dinner time when I'm tired and want something quick. I love it when I don't feel quite...

An easy mouthwatering Mexican feast

We love Mexican food at our house! Personally, I could eat it at least twice a week. We have a favorite Mexican restaurant but,...

Dishing Up Memories: Grandmother Margaret’s Christmas cookies

I was named after my Grandmother Margaret, my mom's mother. She was about as much a Yankee as someone could be and still have...

Easy, delicious baked apples

There's something about this time of year that makes me gravitate to apples, cinammon, brown sugar, and pecans. There are some classic desserts using...