Recipes

For a complete list of recipes, scroll down the page.

This series now has a dedicated Pinterest board.

About This Series

Beginning November 2011, I started the process of jotting down and preserving recipes from my own kitchen as well as that of my mother–Audrey Johnston Overall–and her family. This is a slow and tedious but tasty endeavor–and one that I’m pleased to share with this blog’s followers.

In a way, this project is the fulfillment of one of her life-long dreams. My mom has always wanted to write a cookbook, so this project is the next best thing!

As we move forward, you’ll notice that Mom’s recipes are more along the lines of sweets and baked goods. She bought many of the vintage and antique items that I’ve “inherited” with an eye to opening a sweet shop. Although I have a raging sweet tooth, I do try to keep it in check.

Mindful of the impact of good nutrition on well-being and health, I aspire to feed my family primarily minimally processed, whole foods. The main dishes and sides share here, while influenced by Mom’s technique, are mostly my own creations. (She never wrote down everyday essentials, working from memory.) I will say that unlike many women of her generation, Mom rarely prepared recipes that relied heavily upon canned soups, processed cheese and such. I am grateful to her for that because I never developed a taste for those things.

Yes, Mom was a proponent of “fresh and local” and “clean eating” long before it was trendy. That’s because she grew up in a (once) small Texas town (Pearland) where gardens and chickens were mainstays, not novelties. And although her home garden was never as abundant as that of her father’s, we made frequent trips to farmer’s markets and roadside stands. Today I share those “local food adventures” with my own child. It’s his legacy now.

As the recipes are added on the site, I’ll incorporate links to them from this page. That should facilitate your locating them easily.

Enjoy!