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the Western Kennedys
by Patricia Kennedy
I tried my hand at canning a few times. It was very time consuming, and since we did not have fruit trees rather expensive. Over the years I have had a great deal of pleasure preparing festivities for birthdays, holidays, and just good family fun. I do not cook so much anymore. There is only Jose and myself and my teaching takes up a great deal of time. I still have all of my cook books and recipes.
Among my favorite TV shows are any one of the cooking shows on the Food Network. I still collect recipes, but now most of the recipes are from Emeril, Bobby Flay and others. I have two large notebooks of recipes that I have printed up from the various shows. They are so full that it is about time to start another one. I don't always cook the recipes exactly, but I emerilize them! Taking some of their ideas and mixing them with what I have on hand. You will see that I have sent along some of these recipes or ideas from the food network to this site. All of you boys have called me from time to time asking for recipes, so here is a good start for you to enjoy and add your own favorites also.
Join us and lets have fun! We look forward to your recipes too
I remember that I cooked my first complete meal all by myself (and surprised my mother and dad when they came home) when I was about 16. I even remember the menu. It was pot roast with vegetables and gravy. I made a butterscotch pie for dessert. It turned out great, and this menu has always been one of my favorites.
When I was 18 my sister Ginny and I began to cut out recipes from magazines and newspapers. Each of us pasted the recipes onto loose leaf note paper and kept it in a green notebook. She and I have shared many recipes over the years and once in a while when we visited one another we would cook a dinner together.
It was from our grandmother (Sophie Marlow) and our Mother (Laura Abernathy) that we learned to enjoy cooking. Both were excellent cooks. My grandmother used to raise her own vegetables and some fruits. She always canned jellies, preserves, pickles; and she even made a delicious sweet wine. She also had my grandfather build her a smokehouse so that she could make her own sausage. I tell you I have never had sausage as good as my grandmother's smoked sausage. It was her Czechoslovakian mother (my great grandmother) from the Mataska family whom she learned many recipes. Grandmother always raised her own chickens, and I used
