DragonFly2

about me

As you can see, I live in Tennessee, and although I love it, I'll always be a Yankee! My hometown is Latrobe, PA....and that's where I learned to appreciate good cooking! My maternal Grandma was Italian, and she was the best cook EVER. Family dinners were absolutely ASTOUNDING at the amount and variety of food she would create. Sadly, as a child I was so picky I wouldn't even TRY half of what they put in front of me....once I grew up, I only had a few years of experimenting, and then Grandma died. If only I'd been smarter as a child- I missed out on so much excellent cooking! Since then, I scour thru all her old cookbooks and try to make up for whatever I may have missed...But most of her recipes are handwritten and the amounts listed are dubious, or sometimes missing altogether. My grandma was a wonderful cook, but LOUSY at recording her tricks of the trade!

O well.

Favorite Foods:

I have so many favorite foods I couldn't possibly know where to start...but my family says I make entirely too much chicken! (I happen to think that chicken is healthy!)

I'm famous in my husband's family for my whipped ice cream dessert, and for my broccoli chicken casserole with Ritz crackers.

Our church has lots of potluck dinners (at least one a month), so I'm always on the look out for recipes that travel well or go in the crockpot.

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