A modern Appalachian woman's kitchen adventures
Hey everyone! I’m super excited to be linking up with Sheaffer Told Me To and Mix & Match Mama for their monthly What’s Up Wednesday feature. This post was so fun for me to write and I hope you enjoy hearing about what’s going on in the Minda’s Cooking world. What We Are Eating I’ve…
I’ve written before about my confusion when my husband spoke of “cake with pudding on top”. While I finally did figure out the art of the Poke Cake, I did mistakenly think this cake was called “Strike It Rich” for about 15 years. It wasn’t until I saw a Pinterest post with a copy of…
Hello friends! Another Christmas season is in the books and once again, I felt like it went too quickly. I have to say this was one of our better ones. My son just turned 8 this fall and he went into the season the most excited that I’ve ever seen him for Christmas. It made…
Last week, my husband and I hosted Thanksgiving for my family. It was our first time to play host and I was both nervous and excited since Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. The evening before Turkey Day, my husband nonchalantly said “We should make punch!” Now, I’m not a big fan of punch of any…
I am one of those people who love pumpkin spice dessert and these Pumpkin Patch Squares are definitely a favorite! They are super easy and oh-so-yummy. These squares make a delicious breakfast with your morning coffee or a tasty afternoon snack with some cold milk. Let’s get to it! Pumpkin Patch Squares 2 cups all…
This potato soup recipe is on a ton of food blogs and I hesitated to post it here since it’s so readily available. But I did veer a little bit from many of the recipes that I saw and I had a few notes to make so I thought I might as well add it…
You’ve probably seen jar salads shared on social media over the years and wondered “Does anyone actually make these?” I have made several over the years and this one is a favorite. Even my husband who isn’t a fan of chicken likes this one and requests it for lunch. You don’t have to put it…
If you follow me on the socials (@mindascooking), you may have seen that last Saturday I took on a recipe that had been in my mom’s recipe box for 50 years: Mudge’s Favorite White Cake. As I explained in the post, it’s not clear who Mudge was so her judgement of cakes can’t be known…
If you like to cook, you most likely also like to eat. Or at least I do. And if you like to eat, buying groceries is a necessity, albeit a sometimes annoying one. For a few years prior to the pandemic, I shopped nearly exclusively through Kroger’s Clicklist curbside pick up service. I would say…
If sourdough bread was the Bread of 2020, Beer Bread was the Bread of the Early 00s. There was a popular direct sale company that marketed beer bread mix and I was invited to about a dozen parties during those years where someone was selling beer bread mix. It was good stuffy, truly. Years later,…