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Scottsdale Potatoes – Hashbrown potato casserole

 My  mother discovered these creamy, cheesy potatoes while visiting family in Arizona.  Apparently that’s why they are called Scottsdale Potatoes!  Here in Ohio, they are known as Cheesy Potatoes or Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole.   Recently I’ve seen points further south that labeled them Funeral Potatoes – a name which belies their yumminess but apparently takes […]

Quick Cheeseburger Quiche

Quick Cheeseburger Quiche was probably originally a Bisquick Impossible recipe, but we’ve always called it cheeseburger quiche.  Maybe to fool the mommy cook – or the small diners and their daddy —  into thinking there was  an exotic gourmet dish on the table in the after work scramble!    It’s a great weekday meal – […]

Chili Cups

Chili cups.  Quick and easy main dish, hearty appetizers or Friday night staple.  When Bytes and his brother were grade school sprouts, they got to picnic on a big green beach towel on the living room floor every Friday night and watch their favorite tv show.    Forget Family Night.   It was Exhausted Mommy and Daddy […]

Layered Salad

Suddenly I spied the perfect container for Layered Salad.  I didn’t even know it when I first saw it!  A glass refrigerator dish was setting forlornly on a wobbly table in the basement.  The masking tape tag said it could be mine for 25 cents.  I wandered off through the rest of the musty basement […]

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Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich with apple

Grilled Ham Cheese with apples on sourdough bread.  Several women from the neighborhood occasionally get together  to try new places to eat,  maybe shop a little and, always, talk a lot.  I was intrigued by this combination at a new to us restaurant, ordered it and have been making it at home ever since! Sourdough […]

Mock N Cheese aka Cauliflower Gratin

Cauliflower au Gratin — cheesy goodness as a main dish or a side dish.  Cauliflower, Mark Twain once sniffed, was nothing but cabbage with a college education. Boiled and buttered, the way grandma used to do it, cauliflower was nothing to write home about.  Now it is everywhere.  Cauliflower first appeared on vegetable trays, in […]