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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
View recipe: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip BarsFrom Mimi’s recipe box This recipe is credited to Jeannie Lake, who I assume was one of Mimi’s friends. I needed a dessert to make for a barbeque, and you can’t go wrong with bars or chocolate chip anything! First step is to sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugars. I am far…
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Overnight Bean Salad
View recipe: Overnight Bean SaladFrom Mimi’s recipe box I have to admit, I usually have a serious aversion to most canned vegetables, but the recipe for this bean salad was written out on two separate index cards, so I figured it must be pretty good. At the very least it is super easy to make! I started by assembling…
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Pesto
View recipe: PestoFrom Mimi’s recipe box As with many of the recipes in Mimi’s box, I am not sure if the recipe originally came from my mom or from Mimi. There are even printed out emails with recipes from my mother folded up in the box! Either way, pesto has always been one of the things I…
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Chicken Supreme
View recipe: Chicken SupremeFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box I apologize to all French chefs for this one. Google tells me that “Chicken Supreme” is chicken with a creamy mushroom sauce that is a riff on a velouté sauce. That is not what this recipe is, but I will say that this was really good, and both easier and…
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Strawberry Mold
View recipe: Strawberry MoldFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box Here we go, another Jello atrocity! Spoiler alert though, once again it was better than I thought it would be. Earlier in the summer we picked too many strawberries, so I chose this recipe to use up some of the strawberries I had stuck in the freezer. Between Cyclospora and…
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Gingery Fried Chicken (Karaage)
View recipe: Gingery Fried Chicken (Karaage)From Aunt Deb’s recipe box This was one of the most delightfully unexpected recipes to come from the box. Eating karaage and other Japanese street food treats at summer festivals is one of my core summer memories from my time living in Japan. Until recently I didn’t get the impression that many Americans had even…
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Amaretto Chicken Breasts
View recipe: Amaretto Chicken BreastsFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box I love amaretto, so I was super excited to try this recipe. The Amaretto flavor was amazing with the stuffing, and the whole family loved this recipe. Right off the bat I screwed up the recipe, since I bought boneless skinless breasts instead of bone in, but everything still turned…
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Simple Shrimp Scampi
View recipe: Simple Shrimp ScampiFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box There are at least 4 shrimp scampi recipes in the box I inherited from Aunt Deb. Clearly it was a dish that she loved! I started out trying the simplest one since I was looking for something quick and easy. Unfortunately, with a 4 year old and a picky husband…
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Granny’s Baking Powder Biscuits
View recipe: Granny’s Baking Powder BiscuitsFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box Who doesn’t love a biscuit? These are not the best biscuits I have ever made (I much prefer a buttermilk biscuit to baking powder), but they were quick and easy and didn’t require any ingredients that I don’t usually have on hand. Except margarine… you could easily go with butter…
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Cowboy Spaghetti
View recipe: Cowboy SpaghettiFrom Aunt Deb’s recipe box Once again I was looking for a quick weeknight meal, and this fit the bill. It was far more delicious than I expected, and reminded us a bit of Skyline Chili, which is already a big hit in our household. This certainly won’t replace the typical Italian red sauce pasta…
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Kayla Kohle is the current custodian of multiple Kohle and Shumway family recipe boxes. She hopes to share these recipes with family and beyond. Read full bio.
