Czarist Chicken Salad
Recipe of the Week
Czarist Chicken Salad
Courtesy of
Frannie Burdette
Ingredients
4 chicken breast halves (about 1-1/2 pounds)
4 small red potatoes, boiled, peeled, sliced
1/2 cup coarsely chopped deli-style dill pickle
1 onion quartered, divided
1 rib celery,...
Kids in the Kitchen
By Sharon Palmer, RD
Issue #97 • January/February, 2006
The freeway en route to home resembles a parking lot, allowing you plenty of time to add up all of the tasks awaiting you once you walk...
Sweet Ginger Eggs
Recipe of the Week
Sweet Ginger Eggs
Courtesy of
Kristina D'Orsi
Ingredients
2 dozen hard-boiled eggs, peeled
3 small onions, sliced into rings
1 teaspoon dillweed
1 quart white vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons ground ginger
2 tablespoons pickling spices
20 whole black peppercorns
6 cloves...
Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup
Recipe of the Week
Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup
Courtesy of
Jimmy Andalli
Ingredients
3 pounds tomatoes, peeled and seeded
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 avocado, mashed to a puree
Juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons finely minced fresh parsley
Salt...
You can safely and easily can your own meat
By Jackie Clay
Issue #105 • May/June, 2007
Of all the foods I can every year, the most useful is the wide variety of meats. While we aren't huge meat eaters, these rows and rows of...
Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna
Recipe of the Week
Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna
Courtesy of
Gail Strong
Ingredients
1 pound lean ground beef
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound assorted wild mushrooms (such as shiitake, oyster and cremini), sliced
1/4 teaspoon salt
1...
Duane’s shrimp dip
Recipe of the Week
Duanes shrimp dip
Courtesy of
Lisa Nourse
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 block cream cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
1-1/2 cups celery, chopped fine
1...
Easy raspberry jam
Recipe of the Week
Easy raspberry jam
Courtesy of
Linda Gabris
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
6 cups fresh wild raspberries (the store-bought kind will do, but honestly, they don’t measure...
Winter baking warms the house
By Lisa Nourse
Photos by Jamie Nourse
Living on the Pacific Coast, there are days during fall and winter when it really doesn’t get very cold. It is rare to have snow or freezing temperatures here...
Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes
By Marjorie Burris
Issue #41 • September/October, 1996
That gentle nip in the autumn air feels pleasant to your cheeks, but it also means that one more tomato season is about to come to an end....
Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Although we have a big freezer, I can up most of our meat. We raise beef cattle, turkeys, chickens, and we hunt, so we have a lot of meat. (Besides that, I...
Spider rice casserole
Recipe of the Week
Spider rice casserole
Courtesy of
Richard Blunt
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Special Equipment:
1 5-qt. or larger cast iron Dutch oven
Ingredients
6 skinless chicken thighs
1/2 tsp....
Chicken chili
Recipe of the Week
Chicken chili
Courtesy of
Arthur Vernon II
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
5 Tbsp. vegetable oil
3 large onions, chopped (about 6 cups)
3 fresh or canned jalapeño peppers,...
Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen
By Bob Van Putten
Issue #173 • September/October, 2018
I reckon it takes a lot of gall for me to write about bread because compared to my wife I’ll never be anything but a rank amateur...
Cool dishes for formal summer dining
By Linda Gabris
Issue #94 • July/August, 2005
If you're an upland hunter who enjoys showing off your birds in gourmet fashion, here is a supreme main course creation that will earn the highest praise. There...
Solar Food Drying
By Marcella Shaffer
Issue #58 • July/August, 1999
The oldest known method of food preservation is drying food using the heat from the sun. Unfortunately it has become the least used as freezers and pressure canners...































