Yummy In My Tummy!

The Week 14 topic for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Favorite Recipe.

Growing up we had pretty basic meat, potato, and a vegetable dinners. So maybe it’s no surprise that one of my favorite meals was a one pot meal!

This “Texas Hash” recipe is one of my favorites. Once I started making it for my family I changed it up to one onion, one green pepper, and petite diced tomatoes. In addition, I add 2 cups of water after the spices, stir it up and let it cook on the stove top for 30 minutes and it comes out perfect! We add shredded cheddar cheese to our servings and it is delicious as leftovers.

Since I’ve written out the recipe, I never noticed that uncooked noodles could be used in the recipe. Personally I don’t think it would taste as good!

One of my favorite sweets that my mother made was Caramels! It was a family recipe but I’m not sure who it originated from. My aunt and cousin made them chewy but my mother made them super hard. Like, bite into it and you’ll break a tooth hard! They were handed out with that disclaimer!

I can picture my mother cooking them on the stove with the candy thermometer nearby. She would have a measuring cup with water to drop a piece of the candy mixture in to see if it formed a ball. If it did, it was ready to put in the pans.

The pans were 9” square metal pans and after they were filled she would put them out in the back hall to freeze because she only made them in the winter. They would stay there for a day or so until they were very hard and then she would cut them into squares or rectangles, or however they broke up. One time by mistake she put in root beer extract instead of vanilla and we liked those just as much as the regular ones! They got wrapped in wax paper and tossed into a paper grocery bag.

I’ve never made this recipe because when I make sweets, I’m usually the only one who eats them!