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My Grandmothers Cookbook: Claires Hot Casserole

This is the first recipe Ive chosen to make from my Grandma Gs cookbook. Yesterday I blogged about my plan to cook from my Grandmas handwritten cookbooks and Ive chosen one of the many casseroles or hot dishs to start with.

Here is the recipe. This one illustrates a few things Ive noticed about Grandma Gs cookbooks, the first...
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smaptie:
Maybe miners are sodium deficient or something. That is a lot of food. I hope the wine helped.
Heh so you come from old Irish miner stock. I liked hearing about your grandparents.

Maybe you can open a soup kitchen with all that food.
But canned mushrooms does seem cruel.
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My Grandmothers Cookbook

So there are a number of blogs you can find out there (if you like food blogs and I do) where people take one specific cookbook and work their way through the recipes in it. Julie and Julia is the most notable and famous. French Laundry at Home and Alinea at Home being my favourite cookbook blogs.

I would like to take...
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smaptie:
I'm really looking forward to reading about this. Need to stock up on some canned soups and jello

And here is a good ol' Norwedgian recipe. You will like it. Honest. It has potatoes.


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Recipe for a good, old fashioned Norwegian dish:
Klubb (potato dumplings)
(Serves 6) (Measurements by weight)
750 grams [26.5 ounces] raw potato, grated
250 grams [8.75 ounces] boiled potato
200 grams [7 ounces] barley flour
salt
Mix the raw, grated potato with the flour immediately to stop the potato turning brown. Mash the boiled potato, mix with the grated potato and add salt to taste. Roll the potato mixture into balls the size of snowballs and leave to simmer in salted water for app. 30 minutes. Make sure there is enough water in the pan so that the dumplings are not touching. Serve with goat's cheese sauce and meat.
Potato dumplings with bacon and duppe, marvelous!


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BLOG SHARING

Smaptie and I are blogging together today. So pop on over to his thread for our blog and my contributions in the comments.
entese:
nice idea
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Miss Joy and the Symphony of Fire

Let me tell a tale of when I was a twenty year old student spending the summer being a tour guide and bartender on the cruise boats in the Toronto harbour.

I was a more a tour guide than a bartender but on the busy nights they would ask me to work a shift in the evening. They...
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godfather:
You tell such wonderful stories!
johnnyzombie:
Nothing worse than drunken yuppies--with their booze-laced soy, mocha, lattes!

And now..a bit of music...



I couldn't resist.

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Silly Blog Time!

Need a smile today? I remembered these commercials that always make me smile.





jmwcooks:
a good laughhttp://youtu.be/eDlaJlb1ezg


I smiled!

have a good night

jm
zimzum5:
smile
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I woke up early this morning. I don't feel alone very much lately but I felt that a bit this morning. The sky was a bit grey and I could hear what i think is a bird banging around in a vent or a gutter near my bedroom window. It made me feel a little overwhelmed by the responsibility of my house.

I attended a...
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smaptie:
Yep I'm always gonna be there for ya. Past the heat death of the universe.
And birdies are soothing.
smaptie:
Yay Cinco de Mayo! Almost as fun as Lincoln's birthday.
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smaptie:
God how I hate that thrice damned contraption!
creamcuffs:
So funny and so true. Printers can be a pain in the ass. Another frustrating factor is that my printer color cartridge only accepts HP #23. Most stores don't even carry it even more. My last purchase was on Amazon at an even higher price.

Grrrrrr!!!!
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BLOG CLOSED TEMPORARILY FOR SNUGGLING AND EASTER EGG HUNTS
entese:
i hope you find a lot of eggs smile
klaudeman:
Best blog today!

Hope you had a wonderful day and you got more than your quota of snuggling and eater eggs...

(Hope you don't mind a comment from a stranger. Your blog just drew me in wink)
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Bad Day

I just need to not see the pictures I had posted yesterday.
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smaptie:
Hey darling. Quite a day but its over. All that chaos and the unexpected happings. the uncertainty. The unkind surprises. Well time to trade them in for a nice, calm, normal, happy life.
And I'm sorry if I couldn't always be there for ya MJ, but I was a little busy.


miss_joy:
Thanks Smaptie.

I had to give Brewster to my ex today. I couldn't keep him anymore. He was getting aggressive and bit me the other day. I had to do it but I feel awful. And my Maggie is sad and confused and looking for Brewster. And I had to see the ex. Just a very hard day.
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geekoplex:
mmm hungry now
smaptie:
Never fear MJ, I'll save you