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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: gramma dishes Date: October 6, 2018, 2:16 pm
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[quote author=Thitpualso link=topic=655.msg15540#msg15540
date=1538853114]
We used to hold New Year’s Day parties that started with brunch.
My husband made a very delicious quiche.
One year, my boss attended and loved the quiche. She asked me
for the recipe and we were happy to provide the recipe for the
filling.
There was a problem. What she really wanted was our recipe for
the perfect pie crust we used.
It was a bit embarrassing to tell her the crust was a frozen
variety easily available in any local grocery.
[/quote]
You should have copied a recipe from virtually any cookbook, the
more complicated the better. Then when her crust didn't come
out the same as your husband's, she would just attribute it to
your husband's remarkably advanced culinary skills. :D
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: WunderWoman Date: October 21, 2018, 10:23 pm
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My first MIL was an amazing cook, and her cheesy potatoes were
the best I'd ever had. I spent 3 years trying to replicate hers,
hundreds of hours, trying everything I could think of, and I
finally got mine pretty close to hers!
So one day, I brought mine to her, all proud, and said "Taste
these, and let me know what you think!"
She did, and she liked them. And then she told me hers were the
Betty Crocker Au Gratin potatoes from the box.
Ouch.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Pattycake Date: October 22, 2018, 8:22 am
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Wunderwoman's post reminded me of an older woman who came to our
church one Sunday with her son's family who regularly attended
our church. It must have been Christmas, because she loved the
stuffing and wanted the recipe. She's from a farming family who
are known for their good cooking. The lady who made it was
embarrassed to tell her it was Stove Top!
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: TeamBhakta Date: October 22, 2018, 8:54 am
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[quote author=WunderWoman link=topic=655.msg16759#msg16759
date=1540178626]
She did, and she liked them. And then she told me hers were the
Betty Crocker Au Gratin potatoes from the box.
Ouch.
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That gave me a good laugh ;D
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: VorFemme Date: October 22, 2018, 4:02 pm
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I make fancy brownies - using a box of mix, a little almond
flavoring in the batter, and sprinkle a small bag of slivered or
sliced almonds on the top. They don't last long at pot luck
meals...
I've also added a bit of mint flavoring and then chopped a few
chocolate mint candies to sprinkle on the top and those rarely
hang around long, either. I believe in "fair warning" - if I
were to make brownies swirled with a bit of peanut butter - I'd
sprinkle some chopped peanuts on top & put a warning label of
some kind on the pan. I don't have any relatives with peanut
allergies, or at least, I didn't the last time we had a large
family gathering.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: nuku Date: November 14, 2018, 6:28 pm
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[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=655.msg16839#msg16839
date=1540242151]
I make fancy brownies - using a box of mix, a little almond
flavoring in the batter, and sprinkle a small bag of slivered or
sliced almonds on the top. They don't last long at pot luck
meals...
I've also added a bit of mint flavoring and then chopped a few
chocolate mint candies to sprinkle on the top and those rarely
hang around long, either. I believe in "fair warning" - if I
were to make brownies swirled with a bit of peanut butter - I'd
sprinkle some chopped peanuts on top & put a warning label of
some kind on the pan. I don't have any relatives with peanut
allergies, or at least, I didn't the last time we had a large
family gathering.
[/quote]
No matter what brownie recipe I use, people always ask why
they're so good. No matter the recipe, if you add one tsp. of
cinnamon and double the vanilla, they will taste amazing. ;D
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: LadyRexall Date: July 29, 2019, 5:15 pm
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Mil makes homemade pasta sauce and every one goes ga-ga over it.
Hubby has pronounced this the best homemade sauce ever. I also
make a homemade pasta sauce. Hubby loves it but it’s just not
quite as good as his moms. His moms secret? She opens a jar of
ragu and adds a few spices. The kicker: hubby detests ragu lol.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: silversurfer Date: July 29, 2019, 8:04 pm
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My family makes trifle every year for Christmas. I make one a
year for either a party or mini versions in cups for office
Christmas parties.
Everyone loves it, but it is all from packets!!
Essentially:
Cut up jam rolls for the sponge at the bottom.
Pour peach juice (from the tin) over the sponge.
Build the trifle with layers of
- Port wine jelly (make from the packet)
- Custard (from the fridge section of the supermarket)
- chopped up bananas, strawberries and peaches
One party I brought it to, as soon as I walked in someone said
"I can smell the brandy from here!" No brandy.
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Thitpualso Date: September 3, 2019, 10:30 am
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In the thread about pumpkin pie, it was stated that recipes from
tin labels were bland.
Well, of course they’re bland. Aren’t the label recipes
intended to be the tribal progenitors of ‘secret family
recipes’?
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Re: Not So Secret Family Recipes
By: Luci Date: September 3, 2019, 11:22 am
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Someone older and diabetic with the early stages of dementia has
wanted the recipe for my cobbler for years and I didn’t give it
to her until yesterday. I showed her the side of the Jiffy cake
mix box. I didn’t tell her the tweeks. I asked her if she wanted
to take the box, but her daughter read the kind of mix to her
and said she didn’t need it and whispered to me, "She’ll keep it
for 20 years if she takes it." It’s sad, but she’ll probably
quit bugging me, and never make it anyway.
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