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It’s National Shrimp Scampi Day

April 29, 2024 in Award Winning Cooks, Cooking Competitions, Easy Meals, Easy Recipes, Fish and Seafood, Food Products, Pizza, Prize-Winning Recipes, Recipes, Spicy Foods

Try a fabulous prize-winning shrimp pizza from a recipe contest in 1997 that is worth making for National Shrimp Scampi Day!

Peach-Apricot Jam

August 16, 2023 in Award Winning Cooks, Canning and Preserving, Classic Recipes, Cookbook Collecting, Cookbooks, Cooking Competitions, Culinary traditions, Food Awards, Food Gifts, Rebuilding the Culinary Cellar, Recipes, Summer produce, Summer Recipes

Peach-Apricot Jam is one of my all-time favorite jams of the summer.

A Week of Mom’s Recipes

May 3, 2021 in Award Winning Cooks, Cooking Competitions, Easy Recipes, Family, Family Recipes, Food Events, Pillsbury, Pillsbury Bake-Off, Prize-Winning Recipes, Recipes

To honor my mom for Mother’s Day, I am going to raid her recipe box every day this week and find some of her favorites. Let’s start with her $10,000 soup!

A Very Special Pan for Mardi Gras

February 8, 2021 in Award-Winning Chefs, Chefs, Cookbook awards, Cookbooks, Cooking Competitions, Cookware, Creole cooking, Culinary Cellar work, Culinary History, Culinary traditions, Festivals, Kitchenware and Gadgets, Prize-Winning Recipes, Rebuilding the Culinary Cellar, Recipes, Restaurants, Southern recipes, Spicy Foods, The Culinary Cellar, Travel

A prize-winning Creole Spaghetti Sauce served in a very, very special pan for Mardi Gras.

Best of Show Blueberry Pie

July 8, 2020 in Classic Recipes, Cooking Competitions, Culinary History, Family, Family Recipes, Finland, Prize-Winning Recipes, Recipes, Summer Fun, Summer produce, The Culinary Cellar, Trader Joe's

Read on to see my grandmother’s prize-winning blueberry pie recipe! It’s the best!

The Good Breakfast Book

October 11, 2019 in Cookbooks, Cooking Competitions, Easy Meals, Easy Recipes, Food Awards, Healthier Recipes, Outdoor Cookery, Pillsbury Bake-Off, Prize-Winning Recipes, Rebuilding the Culinary Cellar, Recipes

Bread Pudding for Breakfast? That and more from this great cookbook! My friend Mary from Arizona sent it along with many others.

Country Fair Cookbook

August 12, 2019 in Canning and Preserving, Classic Recipes, Cookbooks, Cooking Competitions, Culinary Cellar work, Culinary traditions, Family, Festivals, Food Awards, Food Events, Food Products, Prize-Winning Recipes, Rebuilding the Culinary Cellar, Summer produce, Vintage cookbooks, Vintage recipes

It’s State Fair time all over the country! Come and meet an incredible winner from my home state of Illinois.

Ann Marie’s Classic Collection

May 24, 2019 in Classic Recipes, Cooking Competitions, Culinary Cellar work, Culinary furniture and accessories, Culinary History, Culinary traditions, Easy Meals, Easy Recipes, Pillsbury, Pillsbury Bake-Off, Prize-Winning Recipes, Rebuilding the Culinary Cellar, Recipes, The Culinary Cellar, Vintage cookbooks, Vintage recipes

My reader Ann Marie from Washington sent two boxes of all the Pillsbury Classic Cookbook Collections, complete with the special binders to hold them.

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Why I Started This Blog

I love cookbooks. I mean I really love them. I love to read them, treasure them, learn from them, and, of course, cook from them. To me, cookbooks take on a life all of their own. They are history, family, and memories. I have been collecting cookbooks and writing down treasured recipes of family, friends, and neighbors since about age twelve, which means I now own thousands of cookbooks, recipes, and clippings. Now I want to share them with you along with the many other culinary treasures of my cellar." - Debbie Vanni

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