My favorite family recipe is my mother’s taco dip recipe. If I am feeding a crowd or need a go to appetizer (which is so filling that it could substitute for a meal), this is it! The mixture of ground beef with homemade taco seasoning, topped with refried beans, homemade salsa, sour cream, and cheese are always leaving people coming back for more and begging for the recipe. The best part is that it super easy to make!

My favorite family recipe is for caramels. My mom would make them at Christmas and when her bridge club was coming. I have made this same recipe for years and always think of Mom when making them.

When I was growing up, most of my family meals came straight out of a box – hamburger helper, kraft mac and cheese, campbells soup, instant rice, etc. I think it was a combination of a lack of time and no real love for cooking. All that to say, I don’t really have a family recipe from my mom that I love. The story could pretty much be repeated with both of my grandparents – same story, different location. However, the one thing I do make on a regular basis that my grandmother used to make is her tuna pasta salad. It’s simple; just pasta, mayo (I use greek yogurt), a can of tuna, seasoned salt, dill, parsley, pepper, sweet onions, and a couple of hard boiled eggs, but this salad instantly transports me back to time spent working on their farm during the summers.

My mom’s recipe for a chocolate chip cheesecake topped with chocolate ganache. She always made it at holidays and for parties!

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s chicken noodle soup. When I was younger I used to beg my “nanny” to make it and she would always be amazed at how much I ate! It taught me that homemade is so much better than the stuff from the can. Today she is in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s and every time I make it I think of the fabulous lady she is and all the love that can be expressed through cooking. It really is something that warms the heart!

yummy pumpkin bars!

favorite family recipe would be my mom’s pecan pie..it’s soo good!!

Dont really have any, but we did do a christmas eve crab dinner that was always the same. Fresh crabs bought at about 5 am (they sold out on the holiday, so had to be there super early and there was a line!) from the seafood market that brought them in overnight from their boat. Basic salad mix with french dressing. Sourdough bread sliced and buttered. No other dressings, no toasting of bread. Nothing could be different.

Pineapple Bake. My mother-in-law makes it for every special occassion, and I can never quite duplicate it.

We always make this baked spinach dish for the holidays- spinach, feta, eggs, onions…no real recipe just delicious!

Chocolate peanut butter balls – a recipe passed down from my great grandma. We have them at every family event, including my wedding!

My mom’s homemade baked mac and cheese. Always nice and creamy and so yummy.

My mom was a good (basic) cook & although I make many different mac & cheese recipes, hers is still my favorite!

my mom’s recipe for chicken and broccoli is awesome

We have a pasta dish that my mom makes with lots of garlic, parmesan cheese and scrambled egg — I know it sounds weird, but it’s delicious and I always asked for it on my first night home from camp!

My grandma’s homemade chicken and noodles are tough to beat. My grandpa was always proud of how thinly she cut her noodles, something I still struggle to do!

My mom’s goulash. I have tried to recreate it but I can’t get it right.

My mother-in-law’s cold coffee cake!! I have her handwritten recipe and bake it for all our birthdays!!

My grandmother is Italian and my mom learned how to cook from her. Some of my most vivid food memories are big Italian feasts for the holidays or just Sunday dinner. Meatballs, sausages, gnocchi, tortellini, lasagna. Any of these would be considered a favorite!

We love Trisha Yearwood’s cook book so when we started eating healthier we remade her broccoli chicken casserole with greek yogurt quinoa and less cheese. Tastes amazing! We love it!

My Mom’s meatloaf! For as often as I cook, I still to this day cannot recreate her recipe (and boy have I tried).

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s (and her mom’s before her, and so on) tomato sauce (or gravy, as some would call it). It’s traditional and deceptively simple and oh, so good.

Porcupine Meatballs . . .yum!

My mom makes a recipe for seasoned pretzels which are addictive!

Favorite for my family is chili. They all request this meal the most.

One of our favorite family recipes is Potatoes Annna. We never tire of eating them.

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s grilled chicken. Delicious marinade, comes together easily…it’s the whole deal!

Favorite family recipe? Banana bread! Wish I could make it as well as my mom does!

Lasagna is a favorite family recipe. My mom would always make it if we were having a big family gathering, and it just equates comfort food!

My grandma’s cookie recipes are the best anywhere. The yield of the recipes is huge — my grandma was cooking not only for her own six-person family, but also the crew of hired hands on the farm!

Would definitely like to try out the recipe in this book…YUM! Thanks for the opportunity!

My mom wasn’t exactly a “cook” and neither were my grandmothers. That is why cookbooks and now blogs have become such an integral part of my life. There are only three recipes that we actually ask my mom to make. The first is pineapple bake, which we only get at Easter and is pretty much just pineapple, bread, butter and sugar that is put in the oven; probably better for our health that it was once a year. Basic potato salad is the second and I can’t figure out how she makes that one so well. Finally, her baked beans, which my husband asks for all the time, are store bought with the addition of ketchup, mustard, brown sugar and syrup. It was kind of like hmmmm what is in my refrigerator right now so these taste a little better than right out of the can. My mom is pretty awesome despite her culinary skills.

My favorite family recipe would probably be my grandmother’s strawberry pretzel salad. Even though this is a widely known dish, growing up I always thought it was one of a kind to our family because none of my friends had heard about it! We had it at every holiday, and grandma made sure to make a big batch because it always disappeared quickly!

My favorite family recipe is my Grandmother’s chicken and noodles. Simply delicious!

My favorite family recipe is Southern Spice Cake. My mom made it for holidays and birthdays. It was my great-grandfather’s recipe. Now I have to bake one this weekend.

my grandma always used to make chicken wrapped in bacon slow cooked with cream of mushroom soup for special birthdays- so good!

My grandma’s (and my great grandpa’s before her) cinnamon rolls!

My favorite family recipe is from my grandma. It’s her mac & cheese. (Sorry Annie! I’ve made a lot of yours but my grandmas is still my fave : ) Sadly, she passed away and I can’t find the recipe. I’m on a perpetual quest to replicate it.
The cookbook looks awesome!

I love my grandmother’s cut-out sugar cookie recipe and her frozen chocolate pie recipe too.

I love my grandmother’s cut-out sugar recipe and her frozen chocolate pie recipe too

Green Garbage….aka Pistachio dessert. Pistachio pudding, cool whip, walnuts, crushed pineapple all mixed together and chilled. We serve it at almost every family gathering. My grandfather coined the name years ago and it stuck.

I grew up with an amazing cook, my Mom. She made everything by scratch. I cannot pin one of my favorites, so I wills ay that her apple pie, cole slaw, fried chicken and lasagna are the best I have ever had in my life. I cannot replicate the cole slaw, have come close on the pie and lasagna though. I hop amy kid shave the same kind of food memories from me!

Easter bread. My fiances mother taught me how to make it , and I feel like it means I’m really part of the family now. Learning all the family recipes. Its a milk bread and we make strawberry freezer jam to go with it.

My favorite family recipe is my mother’s recipe for macaroni and cheese. It’s one of the few things she frequently made for us that didn’t come from a box and it was (and still is) my favorite macaroni and cheese recipe!

Growing up my favorite was my mom’s buttermilk chicken. Now, I know how to make it and my husband loves it as well!

Our favorite family recipe is my grandmothers crispy rolls. She’s now in her late 80s and so now we are all trying to learn the tricks she uses to make these delicate, round pastry treats topped with sugar and nuts! The entire town of Hershey, NE (less than 800) knows whose treats to eat at church functions!

We have to have my grandma’s homemade rolls at major holidays. They’re a bit on the sweet side, but oh so good & wonderfully tender. I’ve learned to make a double batch, & use half for cinnamon rolls or sticky buns.

We have 2 favorite family recipes that always seem to be requested for birthdays and any other day of the year- meatloaf and my Grandma’s spaghetti. Both are delicious and make great leftovers!

My mom is an amazing cook so it is difficult to pick just one. I love her chicken and dumplings. It is just creamy, delish comfort food.

my favorite family recipe would have to be “sauce.” it’s a homemade pasta sauce that takes most of the day to make so all the flavors come through. it’s BEST with homemade meatballs and rigatoni :)

Fruit cobbler, any variety. Simply made with fresh fruit, bisquick, milk and sugar. Put together in less than an hour including cooking time. Great with homemade vanilla ice cream, another family favorite.

Our family is actually famous for our cheesecake recipe!

My favorite family recipe came from my husband’s side of the family. It’s shredded pork tacos started in the pressure cooker then simmered on the stove with diced tomatoes and spices until you can’t resist the smell any more. All the brother’s wives had to learn to make them.

At my bridal shower, my aunt gave me a handwritten book of our family recipes. It was very touching when I read the entry for my grandfather’s swedish meatballs. They are a great party appetizer!

My favorite family recipe is Thanksgiving stuffing, I think it’s just one of those things that always remind you of growing up and no matter how many different ones you try or even like, none of them compare.

my mom makes delicious russian teacakes every year at christmas — with pleeeeeeenty of butter

Growing up my mom was very creative on her incredibly limited budget. Whenever I make Goulash I always think of her and it brings back a little piece of my childhood. It’s nice to have those connections from time to time.

Birthday dinners for a family on a budget were still extra special because we did them potluck style! The birthday girl could request her favorites from relatives and have all the best at once! One of my personal favorites is butterfly flank steak (thanks, Mom!) – marinated, breaded and fried. And still delicious even COLD the next day!

My Mom’s homemade noodles that only get made for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have such fond memories of the entire family helping with the whole process, the squeak of Mom’s noodle cutter, and from sneaking bites of noodle dough throughout!

Baked applesauce…it’s a must at family get-togethers! :)

I love my mom’s scalloped potatos and ham. She made it to use up leftovers and it far surpasses the original meal.

I have a lot of favorite family recipes… the one I am thinking of right now is: cranberry apple pie. Also, no holiday would be complete without tapioca fruit salad. :)

My family didn’t have lot of money growing up and so my mom made the most of what she had. With a family of 5 (and eventually 6 but I was a senior in high school and on my way out of the house) my mom had to get very creative. The one thing that my mom would make that would get all us kids excited (and I still make to this day) is her goulash. There is just something about a slice of buttered bread with a bowl of hot goulash that says home. Its really simple, hamburger seasoned with chopped onion and garlic powder, simmered in tomato juice and tomato paste blended with elbow macaroni.

My family has a really good lamb chili that we make in the winter.

We used to have something called uncle tommy’s chicken, which was a light pan fried chicken (not a heavy crust though) and then it had a delicious pan gravy that was made from the drippings. It is hard to describe but was really good.

An all time fave of mine is tuna noodle casserole, which I know sounds odd, but it’s such comfort food. It was also my top choice for my birthday and other occasions. My mom still makes it for me :)

mom’s meatball stromboli – to DIE for!

In my family, my grandmothers Red Velvet Cake was a birthday staple!

My grandmother makes these amazing cookies with melted white chocolate, dark chocolate, and nuts. Delicious!

My favorite family recipe would have to be our chicken casserole…probably because of all the memories associated with it!

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s chocolate chip cheesecake. The recipe is written on a classic index card and she makes it every Thanksgiving. It is by far her best!

My favorite family recipe is a cookie that my mom makes at Christmas. I can’t recall the name of them, but they are crescent in shape and have a light fluffy filling. They are the best and it isn’t Christmas without those.

Grandma’s pumpkin bread… We only make it once a year, and I look forward to it year-round. Over the years, I have tried tweaking the recipe, but it is never as good as the original.

One of our favorite family recipes is curry! We cook up a big pot of Japanese style curry and ladle it over rice or pasta, whatever we have on hand and there’s always plenty of leftovers for lunches the next few days!

We love Snickerdoodle Bars….they are like a combo of Snickerdoodles and cinnamon rolls….soooo yummy.

My favorite family recipe is my great-aunt’s lemon poppyseed bread. She has been making it since I was very young, and it always reminds me of her, home, and time with my family.

Lasagna. My mom makes it from scratch and still makes it for me for my birthday every year.

Just made it for Father’s Day… Spinach Roll. A pasta sheet latered with a mix of spinach, ricotta and cheese, then rolled up like a pumpkin roll. Once it’s boiled, you slice it, top it with marinara sauce and warm in the oven. Yum! Luckily, I have multiple servings in the freezer.

Like another reader’s comment, my favorite family recipe is my mother’s Mexican Bean Dip– It was ALWAYS the star of the party and a requirement at EVERY event :) So simple, yet so so satisfying; taco meat mixed with refried beans, topped with circular patterns of a chili seasoned sour cream, shredded cheese, and shredded lettuce. Serve it up with the big Fritos Scoops and voila! Pure bliss in dip form! :)

If I had to pick a second recipe it would have to be my step-father’s Sloppy Joes made with tomato soup. An integral part of the recipe to include serving them with a side of Utz potato chips– totally gut-wrenching considering they don’t sell Utz here where I live.

Great…. now I’m starving! :)

My all-time favorite “family” recipe is my mom’s chocolate pie recipe, which is technically my great-grandmother’s chocolate pie recipe. It’s simple, but sooo tasty. I’d request it for my birthday growing up, instead of cake.

Favorite family recipe during the summer would be fruit slush. Makes me miss home!

My favorite family recipe is my grandma’s chocolate chip cookies. They are delicious and no matter what I do, I can’t make them taste the same!

One of my favorite family recipes is my great-grandmother’s chicken noodles. Very simple, but tasty comfort food.

My grandma makes the BEST lasagna and passed the recipe down to my mom. Now that I have my own house it’s my go-to when we entertain!

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s cream cheese pound cake. I can’t think of a special occasion where it wasn’t featured!

My favorite family recipe is for kolacky. It is my great aunt’s recipe that has been handed down and used by our family. Every Christmas, my mom and I bake a huge batch for work, family, and friends. Special AND delicious!

My favorite family recipe has to be my Nanny’s chicken and dressing. She used to make it every Thanksgiving–and it was perfect. Moist, a little sweet (from the cornbread), a little salty, the right balance of all the spices. The recipe has since been passed to me and I make it each year but somehow it still doesn’t tasted just *exactly* like my memories!

I miss the days when my kids were young and you just couldn’t
make enough Rice Krispie squares. Although, why am I letting
their ages now stop me!?

Oh, one of my favorite family recipes is for hot fudge. Sundae’s every day!

My favorite family recipe is oven mashed potatoes that we make on thanksgiving. My mouth is watering while I type :)

One of our family favorites is Chicken Parm. It’s quick, easy, delicious, can feed a crowd, and it’s just as good with gluten free noodles, which means my hubby loves it too!

One of my favorites is my mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs. I later discovered she got the recipe her brother’s ex wife. Ha!

We all love my Dad’s Chili!

My Mother makes the most fantastic Mac-N-Cheese from scratch. Any time I make it I always think of her and how excited we all got when it was time for dinner.

We share many yummy recipes with our families…but one that my brothers and I still share as a favorite, even as adults, are our mom’s candy cane cookies at Christmastime :-) They come from the Betty Crocker Cookie Cookbook, love ‘em!

My favorite family recipe is a simple baked pasta dish my mom makes that we just call mostaciolli based on the kind of noodles we use!

My grandma’s chocolate chip cookies are my favorite. We weren’t allowed to make them to give away, because the idea of losing a plate’s worth of a (double) batch was too horrifying. We had other recipes we gave away as gifts, but grandma’s cookies were always eaten in-house.

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s for macaroni and cheese. I request it every year for my birthday dinner and I have the recipe but, when I make it, it just doesn’t come out the same. I’m pretty sure she’s holding out on some of the steps or ingredients.

I love my mom’s lamb curry. It is a cozy recipe and reminds me of her making it growing up. It brings back happy memories of her and it is delicious!

My great-grandmother’s stuffing recipe, we still make it every year for Thanksgiving and it is delicious!!!!

My grandmother makes spaghetti the way her father did-and the combo of spices and the swirled pasta brings me back to childhood. :)

My family is generally very healthy, and we cook mainly from scratch. but every year for Thanksgiving my mom will make this corn pudding, it is a heart attack in a tray, and it is incredible. Definitely my favorite family recipe!

my moms potato pancakes! i miss them.

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s spaghetti and meatballs. Delicious!!

I grew up in a traditional Filipino-American household so my favorite family recipe is pancit (rice noodles with vegetables and chicken/pork). My mom’s pancit is legendary and I hope to pass it along to my daughter. I would LOVE to win Alice’s book! Thanks for the chance to win!

One of my favorite family recipes is my mom’s green enchiladas. They are very simple but so delicious!

My mom made a super delicious pot roast in the pressure cooker, with a wine based sauce that was soooo good. Never have had anything close to it since.

a favorite family recipe is grilled chicken alfredo pasta

It might seem a bit boring, but my mama’s baked beans are the best! They chunks of crispy bacon, the sweetness of the brown sugar, and the savory-ness of the nutmeg=uh-mazing! I request them more often than not. :)

My favorite family recipe is chicken sopa! We eat it for dinner every Christmas Eve!

This cookbook sounds amazing! One of my favorite family recipes is a pineapple bread pudding that we always make as a side dish with ham :)

My mother makes cincinatti five-way chili on a regular basis and it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve eaten in my life!

We make Kringla every Christmas with my mom . It just doesn’t feel like the holidays without it!

My mother’s chocolate cake with chocolate frosting is the favorite of our entire family. She used to make it for every family member’s birthday.

Toss up between mom’s homemade applesauce…would leave the whole house smelling so homey…lovely.

And our peach jam…which is a family involved process–from picking the VA peaches which are now in season, to peeling, chopping & jamming…

And the great feelings in sharing some of this with those you care for…friends & family…

My favorite family recipe is for an orange cake that my husband and children love.

favorite family recipe is hands down this crazy (and often looks disgusting) hot chicken jalapeno meal…layers of chicken and jalapenos in a cheese sauce with tortillas.

My favorite meal growing up was spaghetti with my mom’s homemade tomato sauce. Made in the fall from local tomatoes, simmered on the stove for hours, and then jarred to be enjoyed for a few months. Pure flavors, but heavenly.

My favorite family recipe is definitely my mom’s sausage bread. It was passed down by my grandmother and always made Christmas special. Growing up, my busy mom always used frozen bread dough for the bread portion, but I’ve begun making the bread from scratch and experimenting with different types and even playing with the filling. Toasted with butter, it is truly a irresistible treat!

hmm…my mom didn’t do a whole lot of cooking, but my favorite kitchen recipes would definitely be Christmas cookies….buckeyes or peanut butter. I’m also eying a fried chicken recipe that I want to get from my new mother-in-law. this cookbook sounds awesome!

My dad makes pretty great speghetti. Any more, I have been the one that makes it and everyone says mine is better. For a dessert, nothing beats my mom’s chocolate chip cookies.

My family favorite recipe is for beef stroganoff. Not your traditional version, but delicious and what I grew up with!

My favorite family recipe is my paternal grandmothers “bbq” sandwich recipe which is really her homemade sloppy joes. There is nothing like it and I always have memories of my grandma standing over her stove while the grandkids played cards at the kitchen table.

My favorite recipe is “Nina’s Almond Coffee Cake”. it comes from my great grandmother and is just as delicious and simple now as it was then. We always make for Christmas and Thanksgiving morning.

I’d have to say one of my all time favorites is a pasta salad that my mom has made most of my life and now is a staple during the summer. It’s delicious!

My grandma’s poppyseed cake is the one recipe that everyone absolutely loves. The top is moist and soft and sticky while the sides of the cake are firm and sturdy without being too crispy. The inside is always moist and flavorful with a delicate crumb and, when warmed- good lord, you’ll need to walk away because you simply. Cannot. Stop. Eating.

My grandmother used to make these amazing oatmeal cookies. My sister and I craved them! While granny was alive, we’d make these just fine with her, or when we were at home. Once she passed away – no more good cookies. Not sure what happened, but the recipe no longer makes delicious cookies. They come out terrible every time. My sister and I like to pretend she cursed them. We’ve tried to recreate a number of times, and it never works. We’ve followed her recipe exactly, we’ve adjusted it…nothing works. Go figure!

My grandma makes the most amazing brisket! It is what I always request for my birthday dinner

I love my mother’s chicken casserole. I know it is probably a recipe she got off the side of a soup can, but it is so delicious and just means comfort food to me.

My mother’s cinnamon rolls!

I think my favorite family recipe would be my grandmothers grapeleaves. They are SO good and no one else’s tastes as good as hers!

One of our favorite family recipes is Rhubarb Crunch with a dab of vanilla bean ice cream on top! For summer or summer yum in winter, it’s the best!!!!

My mom makes BBQ pork chops that are not of your average variety! They are fall apart tender and full of such delicious BBQ flavor that she was even featured in the newspaper at one point! I don’t make them very often because my husband dislikes pork chops but they hold dear, dear memories for me!

One of my favorite family recipes is the strawberry bundt cake my mom made for me for my first birthday, and every year after that until I was in my mid-twenties and living many miles away. To this day it is one of my all-time favorite cakes! I lost my mom to a brain disease a year ago, but I am thankful for the many sweet memories I have of her, including this one.

I would have to say my favorite family recipe is “the pink stuff”. It is a dip that my dad used to make to go with potatoe chips. It is one of those things that never comes out the same twice. My four brothers and I all love it – because it reminds us of a time in our life when we were kids growing up and things were simple.

My mother in law’s taco soup with ground beef, tomatoes, pinto beans, onions, hominy, and blend of spices served over taco chips and topped with cheese. It’s so good and always a crowd pleaser at parties, and my 5 year old even likes it! It makes you feel warm and cozy. It’s great comfort food!

Favorite family meal is my mom’s enchiladas. They are cheesy and good! Thanks for the giveaway!!

I’m a Utah Mormon, and a recipe kept sacred and holy in my family is that of the Green Jello with Pineapple and Cottage Cheese :)

I think my all time favorite family recipe is this very simple eggplant and tomato dish my mom does. It’s so simple yet so very good. All it is is garlic roasted in olive oil until beautifully browned, the you sautee the eggplant until tender, add some good quality canned tomatoes salt/pepper/oregano/basil and let it simmer for a few hours. It is amazing and makes a great sauce for a vegetarian lasagna if you pop it in the blender.

Apple pie, hands down! We have 3 generations of pie makers now using the same recipe. I’ve ventured out a little bit since the internet makes it to easy to find new recipes, but I’ve always come back to the same, traditional family recipe. It’s so good!

Just one? Being from a Korean family, all our favorite family recipes are Korean – kimchi chigae, dwenjang chigae, galbi, kimchi. And since my mom is literally the best Korean cook I know, they are ALL my favorites!

A favorite family recipe of mine is my mom’s banana bread. It is always incredibly moist and delicious!

My favorite family recipe would have to be my grandma’s Banana Bread recipe. She was a wonderful cook and instilled in me a love for cooking and canning :)

My favorite family recipe is my grandfather’s chili recipe. Since he passed away, the recipe has been shared with the family & we all make it every chance we get. Delish!

I love our family crepe recipe. Filled with raspberry jam and whipped cream it’s awesome.

My Favorite is my mom’s rock road fudge and her baked macaroni and cheese! A dessert and dinner, but delicious! :)

One of my favorites is a polish sausage and potatoes casserole!

My husband’s FAVORITE meal I make is my chicken packet recipe. It is basically a crescent roll filled with chicken, cream cheese and chives. They are yummy!

Every year for Christmas Eve dinner, for as long as I can remember, my mom has made a Japanese dish called sukiyaki. We take super thin sliced beef, noodles and a bunch of fresh vegetables and saute everything in a soy sauce mixture in electric frying pans right at the table. It is the meal that I look forward to all year long!

My Mom’s chocolate chip cake. Actually i think it was my Grandmother’s. Mom makes it for all our birthdays. I made it for my nephew’s and he loved it :)

My Dad never did much cooking in the kitchen, just grilling in the summer. Sometimes though he would get up early on Saturday mornings and make Cowboy Coffeecake and that is one of my treasured recipes and best memories of my Dad.

My favorite recipe is really a collection of Christmas baked goodies that were passed down from my sweet Grandmother and wonderful Mom: Buckeyes, Chess Cake, and homemade Chex Mix to name a few.

My absolute favorite family recipe is my mom’s chili and chocolate chip cookies – these are my comfort foods! The chili is so basic and so delicious – meat, beans, tomato sauce. But according to my mom, it’s the love that make it so good! Her chocolate chip cookies are as big as your face and are, of course, the best straight out of the oven! Her secret: butter-flavored Crisco instead of butter. Healthy, no. Melt-in-your-mouth good, YES!

One of my favorite family recipes is a sweet potato casserole my Mom makes on Thanksgiving — it’s sweet potatoes mashed and topped with butter, brown sugar, and chopped pecans, and then baked until the sugar is all carramel-y and crisp. Side dish and dessert all in one!

Our Favorite family recipe is Nigerian style fried rice, When I was in boarding school in Nigeria on visiting days my mom would always bring this, till today it remains a family favorite :)

Growing up, Mom always made a killer spaghetti. It is so quick and easy and YUMMY! My kids and hubby love it!

My aunt makes twice baked potatoes that are out of this world. I only get them on Christmas though :(

My favorite family recipe is an Indian dish my mom makes called masala dosa. It’s a treat whenver she invites me over dinner to eat her yummy food!

My Grandma used to make the most AMAZING caramel topped cinnamon rolls! We lived 13 hours away from her so we didn’t get them very often. When we went to visit it was always something I looked forward to for breakfast. She never had a shortage of them and of course were always from scratch. No one knows the exact recipe as she made most things without a recipe and now has Alzheimer’s – we’ve gotten close, but no one can beat her originals!

My Mom’s chicken tacos are probably our family’s favorite recipe. There is something so comforting about them.

I make a peanut butter pork tenderloin that both my husband and son adore (they’re huge PB fans!). I can’t wait to try out the chocolate peanut butter cupcakes you posted today…they might just be dessert at my son’s 2nd b-day party!

Two of my favorite family recipes (because I can’t decide between the two), are my mom’s “Apple Dumplings” and “Banana Bread” – two things that make the house smell amazing and that are relatively easy to make. The apple dumplings are amazing in the fall, using freshly-picked apples from the local orchard… Yum!

My grandmother’s coleslaw, though no one can seem to recreate it…

My aunt makes amazing hazelnut cookie

Our favorite family recipe is Pav Bhaji – a mix of several indian vegetables in an indian spicy sauce eaten with square shaped buns that have been roasted in butter. Yum!

no matter what the occasion, artichoke dip. It is made at every family event and devoured within minutes. We love our cheese so it is as cheesy as can be and delicious!

Beef Stroganoff is my family favorite… dad made it the best!

I just recently came across an old family recipe for oatmeal cake with broiled topping! It is amazingly decadent and only to be eaten on special occasions! I love the older recipes because they are so easy just put everything in bowl and stir it up. P.S. I love love love your blog have been reading and cooking from it almost daily! Thank you for all the awesome recipes and tips.

My momma makes THE best chicken fried steak in the world. This is agreed upon by everyone in our family, my daddy included, who used to be a truck driver and ate many different chicken fried steaks in many different restaurants in many different cities/states, and always came home asking for Momma’s.

Within the last year, I have been let in on the secret of how she makes it, and while I don’t see how it makes that much of a difference, I’m not going to question it, because it’s delicious and it’s my favorite meal ever.

My daddy also makes the best cornbread dressing in the world, for Thanksgiving, handed down to him from his mom, who received it from HER mom, and… well, I don’t know if it goes any farther back, but I know that because I grew up eating that every fall, no other dressing/stuffing has come remotely close.

This cookbook looks fatnastic! I’m really intrigued by which you said about how it’s organized! That sounds SO much better than the typical way!

My family’s favorite recipe was my grandma’s homemade noodles, which she made for every holiday meal and often Sunday dinner. They were thick, doughy and in an almost gravy-like sauce and as weird as it sounds, everyone ate them on top of their mashed potatoes. I made sure to get the recipe before she passed away, and yet I’ve never made them.

My favorite family recipe is Chicken Cordon Bleu. It reminds me of when I was young and the kitchen would smell so amazing. The meal itself was always delicious which was a bit surprising because my dear sweat mother isn’t the best cook. Shhh, don’t tell her I said that! When I gathered up the courage to cook something for my boyfriend in college (who is now my husband) I went straight for the Cordon Bleu and I nailed it! To this day it is my specialty!

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s chicken picante. It is thin chicken dipped in egg and flour and then sauteed in a lemon wine sauce. Delicious with a salad and starch.

My favorite family recipe is my dad’s mac & cheese recipe. He makes it almost custardy and it’s always extra cheesy but seems really light. It’s the best mac & cheese ever!

My family has a sourdough chocolate cake with fudge frosting that is out of this world.

My nana’s chicken and dumplings. Hands. Down.

Grandma’s lasagna! Our Christmas day tradition. Unfortunately, she doesn’t use a recipe, and I’m still trying to get it perfect.

A chocolate refrigerator cookie using German Sweet Chocolate.

My favorite family recipe is my grandmothers matzo ball soup!

Hi! Fav fam recipe- my mom’s sauce & meatballs…simple and comforting. & don’t forget to add the basil to your sauce after cooking :-)
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My family’s favorite is Vietnamese noodle soup. It is delicious and definitely comforting for the stomach and mind.

My mother’s recipe for turkey stuffing. I know it’s nearly July, but you asked and I’m tellin’. I don’t care if I’m dining at the Governors Mansion or toting a food basket to a funeral. This easy downhome dressing will turn heads every time ~~ makes me want to roast a chicken just so I can have some :)

A dense buttery bread with raisins called stretzel…huge loaves made every Christmas!

My favorite recipe is called Hamburger Pie. It’s biscuits on the top and bottom and in the middle is hamburger meat/spaghetti sauce layered with mozzarella and cheddar cheese. I’ve loved it since I was a kid and still love it to this day!

My favorite family recipe is for cheese enchiladas. My mother-in-law passed it down from her grandmother and its the perfect comfort food.

Those cupcakes are divine! Our favorite family recipe is my mom’s chicken divan and melting moments cookies!

Whenever my family gets together for special occasions, my granny’s pecan tarts almost always make an appearance. They’re like bite-size pecan pies and they’re irresistible!

A favorite family recipe of mine is whenever my mom makes Taiwanese braised pork. It simmers in a soy sauce and chinese five spice blend for a few hours and you top it on rice and it’s simply the best comfort food I can think of having when I want a piece of my childhood back :)

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s cheesecake. It’s not super dense like many cheesecake recipes out there and has an amazing light texture, super delicious!

My favorite family recipe that my mom makes is steak fingers with mashed potatoes and gravy, yummmm…. I have tried to make it but it never comes out quite the same as hers.

Growing up in a Cuban family, we always had family dinners with traditional Cuban food from Ropa Vieja (“Old Clothes”) to Picadillo. But being the “sweet” girl that I am, my mom’s flan is the one I will always remember and continue sharing with my friends and future family. What makes it unique from other flans is that we bake it in the pressure cooker! AND we add cream cheese to it. I have friends who don’t like flan try it and now they want me to make it all the time! :D I think people are more amazed that we bake it in the pressure cooker. Ha ha!

Creamy Italian Chicken :)

A favorite family recipe is my grandfather’s homemade pasta sauce. I still have the little notepaper where I wrote down how to make it as he taught me his recipe many years ago!

my favorite family dish is a braised pork belly, soy sauce and hard boiled eggs stew. It might sound odd to most people and frankly, is not a pretty dish at all, but it’s amazingly delicious and I love eating it with rice!

My favorite family recipe is my Grandma’s apple pie! She used to make pies for field hands as a kid in South Dakota, so she could never just make one or two pies.. She would make a pile of pies and put them in the cellar freezer! There was no actual recipe until my Mom finally wrote something down – my Grandma put in a pinch of this, a dash of that, a handful of this, and did the crust by feel. I feel so lucky that I learned how to make pie crust from the best!

I love my grandmothers Pakistani Chicken. I love that you can add potatoes and any type of vegetables to it that you want.

My favorite family recipe is macaroni & cheese. It is so simple with unlikely ingredients (i.e. cream of mushroom soup and mayonnaise) but everytime I make it, everybody wants the recipe! It is our favorite go to dish anytime of year!

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s crab dip. We have it at every family gathering and it’s generally eaten up within 15 minutes of being served. The kind my family makes is slightly different than how it generally comes served in restaurants (they use lots of cream cheese, we omit that and only use just enough mayo to bind it all together).

My mom’s ice box cake recipe. I craved it with my first pregnancy and got the recipe from her. It tastes just as amazing as when I was little. :)

My grandma taught me to make her rolls. They are fluffy, soft, and buttery. I think of her everytime I bake them!

favorite family recipe…has to be our homeade pizza or the taco dip we make that i always get requests for

A favorite recipe is my mom’s Caramel Cake which I am trying to learn how to perfect!

It sounds gross, but Mac and Cheese with tuna and peas. I promise it’s yummy!

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s stuffing, it is so delicious and makes Thanksgiving wonderful!

We have a tasty but simple potato salad recipe.

My favorite family recipe is definitely our pumpkin pie cheesecake we make every year. It’s the perfect winter dessert and it tastes DELICIOUS.

My grandma always makes her family-famous chocolate chip cookies. We keep them in the freezer, but they’re thin, so they aren’t too hard to bite.

I love my family’s cornbread. It is slightly sweet so it great leftover the next morning.

One of favorite family recipes is a 24 hour fruit salad with marshmallows, sour cream, cherries, fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges and pecans. No holiday is complete without it.

My favorite family recipe is Mom’s Kale Soup. All full of beef, kale and barley….YUM

I love my mother’s chocolate rice krispies; chocolate and peanut butter. YUM!

Can’t beat my grandma’s homemade chicken & noodles for some great comfort food!

My mom’s homemade pizza is a favorite. It’s so simple and feeds a crowd!

My mom’s chicken and dumplings. I asked for it for every birthday. So simple, so tasty.

O’Henry bars are what my mom is best known for among my close family and friends when I was growing up. To this day, they are one of the most nostalgic foods I could possibly eat. I can’t wait to see what my recipes will make my kids think of me, even when they’re grown.

My most favorite is my moms fried chicken! It was to die for, so light and crispy and danged as I may, I cannot make mine taste the way hers did! It has to be all the love that she put into her recipe, because there was and is no fried chicken like it!

Socertorte, best cake ever!

It would probably be a lasagna that we make on “special” occasions, which means any occasion we deem special, haha! I would love to own this cookbook, it looks and sounds amazing – thanks for the giveaway!

Our favorite family recipe is ratatouille (which my family calls “Somethin’, Somethin’”). All veges are cooked separately and combined just before serving — caramelized onions; sautéed mushrooms; grape tomatoes sautéed with sliced garlic in olive oil (just until they burst); diced seasonal veges that happen to be left in the crisper drawer (zucchini, eggplant) and diced Kalamata olives. Served over pasta and garnished with fresh basil and parmesan. Refreshing and flavorful!

Homemade pizza. We each made our own individual ones and have been making them since I was a kid.

My favorite family recipe is my moms’ stuffed grape leaves!

My grandmother handed down a bunch of recipes. My favorite is her spaghetti sauce recipe. It reminds me of Sundays at her house!

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I love my grandmother’s meatballs and her lasagna! She also taught me how to make arepas, but i’m not too good at those yet!!!

One of my favorite family recipes is my great-grandmother’s lemon bars. The recipe is decades old and still the best one I’ve ever come across! She has long-since passed away, but it’s nice to have little things like her recipes to remember her by!

My family favorite recipe is Apple Dumplings. My Mom’s are the best. She does not measure anything for the dough but she does measure the ingredients for the sauce to put over the dumplings. Her pie dough is always flaky and light. She always gets requests for her apple dumplings and she loves making them.

Ham Balls. I never had them before I met my husband but they were a tradition in his family. I just love them!

My grandmother had 5 kids, and she baked a cake every day for when they got home from school. She became an adult during the depression, so most of the cakes don’t have butter or eggs in them. They’re my most precious family recipes!

My family fave would be my mom’s meatloaf. No matter how hard I try, I just can’t get mine to taste the same way hers does! And trust me, I’ve tried many, many times!

My mom’s homeade spaghetti sauce and meatballs. It’s the comfort in the smell, taste, that touch of home when I make it or she does. PLus, it always makes a TON, so it’s always nice to freeze and thaw when you’re in a dinner bind :)

My family favorite recipe is chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. The best part about it is the dough!

My favorite family recipe is Pork and Thousand Year Egg congee. It’s ingredients include rice, thousand year eggs, lean pork, green onions, soy sauce, a little bit of sugar, sesame oil…..and most importantly soy milk! That’s the secret ingredient to make the congee smooth! Everyone loves it in my family.

My great-grandma’s German potato salad…so yummy!

My mom and I continue to tweak our chicken tortilla soup recipe. We go back and forth, switching up ingredients, adding a little of this, a little of that. I love collaborating with her!

My favorite family recipe is Seafood Bisque! My mouth is watering just thinking about it. My grandma makes it every year on Christmas Eve and it is the absolute best thing I have ever eaten!

My abuelita made the most amazing authentic tortillas and green chili. I’ve succeeded in creating her tortillas, but the chili recipe is too magical to get right! But that doesn’t stop me from trying. :)

I love my grandma’s plum rings, they are similar to a cinnamon roll but with plum filling

Grilled marinated london broil steak

Favorite Family recipe?? WOW!! Your most recent post showcases part of it! Peanut butter cookies with a passed down recipe from my great grandmother, Helen. What a woman…so darn skinny!!! How?? All she ever ate were her scrumptious peanut butter cookies and her famous (also) rolled ice box oatmeal cookies!!

Pancakes! We make them every Saturday morning. Before bed, my boys always ask, “is tomorrow pancake day???”. I’m pretty sure they dont even know that its called Saturday. ;)

One of our favorite summer dinners is cedar plank salmon. You mix (1:1) dark brown sugar with a cracked pepper blend, spread it on top of the salmon, and grill with a cedar plank. It is the perfect combination of sweet and savory. :-)

My family’s favorite recipe is good ol’ spaghetti cooked in lightly salted water and a dab of sugar and olive oil added. Served with my mom’s recipe for spaghetti sauce which is made from scratch and towards the end of the cooking time, she adds sauteed mixed vegetables (precooked in 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil and a dab of fine herbs, roasted minced onion and chicken apple sausage or italian sausage or cajun andouille sausage (we have a preferred brand that tastes amazing, plus it’s gluten free and low on sodium). All of this together makes the sauce. The spaghetti is then mixed in with the sauce and served with freshly grated parmesan cheese on top. Hmmm… yummy!!! My three year old daughter could eat this everyday, if we let her.

Every Christmas morning, my Dad makes Grandma’s recipe for Rolly Polys, thin rolled crepes that we top with lemon and powdered sugar, raspberry jam and whipped cream, or cinnamon and sugar. Delicious!

We have a lasagna that we make on “special” occasions!

My mom didn’t cook so I don’t really have a family favorite. But I’m trying to pass some along to my daughter. She loves preparing deviled eggs whenever she is invited to a party, so I guess that’s my answer.

My favorite family recipe is Hot and Sour Soup!

My dad is a chef who guards his recipes with more security than Fort Knox. I *should* feel guilty about manipulating the recipe out of him while he was medicated in the midst of recovering from a really bad car accident but … he enjoyed it and I forget the shame every time I slurp it. :)

My favorite family recipe is lasagna! While I’ve learned that no two will be exactly the same, a few key ingredients make it delicious. And the best trick I ever learned was that the noodles do not have to be pre-cooked – nor do you have to buy the “no cook” variety!

baked chicken enchiladas with all the yummy toppings! delicious comfort food!

I would have to say my Grandma’s Arroz con Jamon y Queso (Rice with Ham & Cheese)!

If you talk to my kids it will be macaroni and cheese with sliced hot dogs and peas! If you talk to the wider family it will be deviled eggs. Comfort foods!

my mom makes amazing cinnamon rolls from her grandmother’s recipe for all holiday. we all love them.

One of my favorite family recipes is for a struesel type of coffee cake. Essentially, it is non-fail. I have made the recipe in a 9×13, bundt pan, muffin tins, and rounds. Sometimes the butter is too soft, so the filling sinks to the bottom. I have even prepped it the night before, stuck it in the fridge and bake it the next morning. Even a couple of brothers fall back on this recipe.

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s Scotcha/pizza bread recipe…or it might be my aunt’s. Either way, it is my fave!

Our favorite Family Recipes is Grilled Khmer (Cambodian) lemongrass kabob with Pickled Daikon and Carrots served on a bed of Jasmine rice,

We used to make our homemade (Chinese) dumplings. Dad mixed and rolled the wrapper parts while my mom and I made the fillings and wrapped the dumplings. They were filled with pork, napa cabbage, garlic, ginger, salt, mushrooms and shrimp!

Mango avocado salsa – awesome with grilled chicken!

Pancit is one of my family favorites. It’s a Filipino noodle dish, similar to Chinese Lo Mein, but a bit lighter on the oil and soy sauce. My mom’s recipe usually has chicken, shrimp, shredded cabbage, carrots, green beans, onions & garlic. Yum!

One of my favorites family recipes is arroz con pollo. Out of all my cousins, I’m the only one my grandmother would give the recipe to. And even then, she wouldn’t write it down, she just allowed me to take notes while she showed me how to prepare it. It’s a favorite at all of our family gatherings, even Thanksgiving!

My Gramma Great’s Chocolate Cake. The recipe is kind of similar to the cupcake recipe you just posted, but with cold coffee and boiling water. It is my favorite cake!

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s homemade chocolate cake. We have it for every birthday celebration, and she is always the one who makes it. In fact, when my cousin had to bring in a traditional family food for a school project, instead of asking my mom for the recipe so he could make it himself, he just asked her to make it. She excitedly agreed. It’s the small things like this that bring family around the table that makes food so special.

I’d love that cookbook!
My favorite family recipe is now pizza spaghetti.

Garlic Cheese Grits – yum! Not quite the same without the roll of Kraft Garlic Cheese, but the substitutions come close.

My mom makes them to have with leftover ham the day after Christmas, Easter, etc.

My Dad is the greatest guy I know. He has showed us that family is the center of everything, and that nothing else is more important than it. He also instilled in us a love of cooking and an ability to do on our own. What should have taken an hour, usually took a few hours in our house.

My grandmother made the absolute best peach cobbler in the world. When she passed away we found a cookbook that she had made for all the girls in the family and her top secret cobbler was in it :).

I have too many favorite family recipes to mention just one! But if I have to choose, in the spirit of summer, I’d choose our German potato salad. With bacon and a sweet and sour perfect dressing, I could eat it every day. My Grandma made it, my Mom makes it, and I can’t wait to pass it on to my girls. It tastes like family and summer cookouts…perfection! (Love your blog!!)

Our family favorite is, no lie, your sausage and spinach stuffed shells. It was one of the first I tried off your blog several years ago and is always requested (most often by my 10 year old) when I say “what do we want for dinner this week?” while making my menu plan. Tacos (with the bean filling from your spicy bean burritos) are a close second :)

Oh my…my favorite family recipe is my grandma’s Apple Treasure cookies. They have wonderful apple chunks and butterscotch chips! Yumm-o. Thanks for a chance to win the cook book!

Actually one of my favorite recipes is my grandmother’s chocolate covered peanut butter balls (so your post about the cupcakes totally has me hooked)! She made them, along with dozens of other cookies, each Christmas and I used to love sneaking them out of the freezer. They were always the first of the cookies to disappear.

We call ours Cookie Sheet Cake, while the rest of the country calls it Texas Sheet Cake, but my Grandma’s recipe is the BEST!

Homemade Pizza! Every friday night. A tradition we’ve had since we got married 6 years ago.

Guatamalan Tamales made once a year at Christmas!!

My favorite family recipe is my grandma’s green bean salad. She uses a homemade vinegar in it that I just cannot replicate!

Would have to be either my dad’s salsa chicken or my aunt’s corn casserole. YUM!

We have a blintz souffle recipe that’s been passed down in my family for generations. It’s my favorite food ever.

My favorite recipe is meat sauce passed down through the generations from Italy! With the meatballs and lasagna or ravioli its amazing! Its an all day affair though. Still worth it!

Favorite family recipe is my grandma’s turkey dressing. Many of us have tried to imitate it, even watched her make it and take notes! But no one can mimic “a pinch of this and a dab of that.” :) We all fight over this at the Thanksgiving table since she only makes this once a year!

We make a yummy cranberry salad every Thanksgiving. We even have a special spoon that is used just for that salad!

One of my family’s favorite recipes is my peanut butter cookies – soft cookies with mini-Hershey’s kisses stirred in the batter. It was the first thing I ever made for my now husband when we were dating. It’s the cookie he always requests when given a choice. We all love them!

Polenta and chicken cacciatore, I have fond memories of my great-grandmother making this! Now I make it for my family.

Egg and lemon soup straight from my grandmother’s Greek kitchen. Fresh, bright, and very yummy!

My mom makes “slippery dumplings” with chicken gravy. It was one of my grandmother’s most popular recipes. When my grandmother couldn’t make them anymore:( her cousin helped my mom recreate the recipe. Whenever we have them it’s a big family dinner with everyone excited about the entree and lots of happy memories:)

My mom’s spaghetti is always better than any restaurant’s!

Grandma’s apple pie in a jar. Delish served over pork!

I love making a mozzarella pasta with lots of tomatoes and italian seasoning

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Every Christmas my family makes 10+ kinds of cookies, then we get together and do a cookie exchange. Chocolate chip cookies were always the cookie my mom contributed, and Christmas wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t participate in helping her. I am now 24 and still look forward to this tradition. For me, chocolate chip cookies taste different from every household, but I always crave the way our family makes it.

My dad’s chili with lots of grated cheese.

Peanut Chicken (hot peanut sauce over chicken and angel hair pasta). Mmmm so good and pretty darn quick too, week night friendly!

Wow can’t wait to try these cupcakes. Two of my favorite dessets in one. Thanks for the chance to win!

i enjoy cin rolls with cream cheese icing

I love my grandfather’s vegetable soup. It’s the perfect blend of spices that really makes it wonderful.

We have a family cheese ball recipe that we always have to do when when my parents and siblings get together. It’s ridiculously easy but so addictive to eat :-)

My nana makes the BEST chicken fried steak & gravy I’ve ever had in my life. Out of this world, I made it myself for the first time a few days ago for my husband and I. So glad I learned how to do it like my nana!

favorite family recipte – “specials” they are no bake cookies made mosthly with peanut butter and special K cereal – chewy & delicious and will always remind me of my childhood!

My mom’s not much of a cook, but I really love my husband’s family recipe of cinnamon rolls. We have them every Christmas morning.

I guess our favorite family recipe is Potato Salad. It is so simple, plain actually – but we never take it anywhere that it isn’t devoured and people compliment so! We make it “by-gosh” – boiled or baked potatoes, cubed…onion – chopped…dill pickles – chopped (we actually use hamburger dill slices…and mayonnaise with just a dab of mustard. We make enough mayo/mixture to cover all the potato mixture. It is a fixture at family gatherings – I have 6 children and spouses and 13 grandchildren (#14 coming in July). We make it for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, for Easter – you name it.
The cupcakes look amazing, I can’t wait to try them, and I hope I win!!!! Thank you!

My mom’s chocolate cake!

My mother’s chicken noodle soup is my family favorite!

My grandpa’s favorite is my aunt’s gooseberry pie. You know he loves you when he offers to share!

Molasses cookies–soft, gingery and not too sweet, the perfect cookie.

Lentils and Spätzle soup, an old German recipe from my immigrant ancestors. We make it every New Year for good luck.

One of my favorite family recipes is my mom’s Chocolate Mousse Pie. It’s a recipe we discovered in the late 80′s, I think, out of a Chocolatier magazine (remember that?), and it is one of the most divine things to ever be created. There hasn’t been a Christmas Eve since the discovery of that recipe that we haven’t celebrated St. Nicholas with a slice of that heavenly pie.

Homemade ice cream and hot fudge!

So we have this recipe from my grandma which is called “The Goddess” its this weird green jello, cool whip, pineapple concoction. It sounds so gross but it is soooo yummy!

Has to be home made vanilla ice cream. I still remember at least one or more of us kids sitting on the freezer while Dad kept cranking. We’d get heavy cream from the Amish farmers and oh my goodness it was the best! Still making it with the ease of an electric freezer now.

Baked Penne – we make it every Christmas! It is basically a fancy version of mac and cheese – multiple cheeses, penne instead of macaroni, mozarella and cheddar on top. So yummy!

My husband makes an awesome pork bbq. Even our 3 girls (ages 9, 6 and 4) will eat it up! Thanks, Jen B. tjj0103@comcast.net

Our favorite family recipe is for Jumbo Raisin Cookies. These are cookies that my grandmother used to make, then my mom, then me, and now my adult son. They have raisins, chocolate chips, and lots of yummy spices.

My favorite family recipe has got to be bbq ribs. So delicious!

Our favorite family recipe without a doubt is good old spaghetti with meatballs. You cant go wrong with this comfort food along with a good loaf of french bread, tons of butter, and of course a good bottle of wine. :)

almost said the same thing!! love this soup!

My favorite family recipe would be my Grammy’s Macaroni and Cheese! I would love helping her make it as a kid, shredding the big block of cheddar cheese and making fresh homemade breadcrumbs to top it all off!

My mom makes the best lemon pound cake. She uses her mother’s recipe and baking techniques.

peach ice cream

Cardamom waffles. Passed on from my grandmother from Norway. Always a little taste of home!

My Mom’s deep dish pizza is my favorite! Now I just need to get the right pan so that I can make it too!

My mom’s apple pie is a great family recipe handed down and it’s AMAZING. There’s never any leftovers. Also, her potato salad is getting to be a family recipe since it’s totally amazing!

One of my favorite family recipes is Mississippi Mud Cake.

Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip. I make it for all of the Bills home games and the Superbowl, of course!

We have a banana bread recipe that’s been in our family forever. It’s everyones favorite. It’s the best. We still try other ones but they are never even close.

My Grandmother’s cabbage salad. Love it!

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s chocolate cake. It consists of a wacky cake (for some reason every cousin in our family, myself included, was allergic to eggs when we were younger) and the most amazing chocolate icing — so good that even though I know what is in it I still lick the bowl clean! Despite growing older and becoming different every single family member of mine always asks for grandma’s chocolate cake :)

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s shrimp scampi over linguine – it’s a go to recipe in our home !

Ceviche tacos! Perfect for a hot summer night!

my mom’s simple chocolate cake! it’s my favorite!

Our favorite is fondly called “Feta Chicken” although the official recipe is titled “Greek-Style Baked Chicken.” Peppers, tomatoes, feta, mint, oregano and chicken, served over orzo — yum yum!!

While interning in college my mentor introduced me to asparagus. I was hooked and I immediately started looking for recipes that contained asparagus. I found 2 recipes that quickly became family favorites. The most requested is a chicken and asparagus casserole that is really quick and easy, but full of flavor that can only come from asparagus. The second most requested is an asparagus casserole that contains boiled and chopped eggs, sharp cheddar cheese, etc. and then topped with crushed potato chips. Absolutely delicious. That summer when my internship was done, my mentor gave me a cookbook, Southern Elegance-A Collection of the Best of Carolina Cuisine. It has a section in the front called Y’all Come Menus. This was the first cookbook that I had ever seen with menus for different occasions and all of the recipes to make them. There is a menu for an After Theater Supper, Bridal Brunch, Dance Club Breakfast, Funeral Luncheon, Peach Harvest Celebration, and on and on. Each recipe even includes the drink recipes. I love this cookbook. It has more stains and tattered pages than any other that I own, (I have been using it faithfully since 1989!) and it has some really great asparagus recipes in it too! Since my husband and I love to garden, we have actually grown our own asparagus. It grows so fast that we sometimes pick it twice daily. This allows us to make lots of dishes containing this very tasty vegetable. Maybe you have a great asparagus recipe you would like to share sometime Annie?

We make a yummy pizza with fig preserves, pancetta, and gorgonzola to snack on while we prepare the big Thanksgiving or Christmas meal for that evening. It’s usually the best part!

My favorite family recipe is Crockpot Tortilla Soup! I even make homemade tortilla chips for toppers! Yum!

mmm! probably oatmeal coconut cookies – my grandma got it from her best friend who she’s known since college, and I think the friend might have gotten it from a paper or magazine. they’re full of butter and brown sugar, and the coconut adds a bit of flavor that’s just wonderful

I love love my great-great aunt’s peanut butter rice krispy treats. Oh my so good!

I would have to say Stuffed Shells. My grandmother Mildred used to always make them when my family would come to visit her. I always loved it when I was a little girl! Its has become a favorite of my husband and kids now!

My mom’s Irish Soda Bread!

I think my favorite family recipe would be this dessert my mom makes. The literal translation from vietnamese to english would be banana cake. but it`s not even a cake! ahah

My mom makes the best chicken papikash. Love it served with mini dumplings. Its a bowl full of comfort!

One of our favorite family recipes is a wonderful pumpkin bread recipe made by my mother-in-law. We are still working on our bread tasting as wonderful as when she makes it!

My favorite family recipe was my grandmother’s fried chicken. She’d tell me time and time again how to make it, but mine never tasted as good as hers.

My mom’s ladyfinger cake was always my favorite thing of hers. She did a few recipes well and this was one of them.

Roast chicken with potatoes. So simple but so delicious!

Blueberry crisp!

Beef with bacon roll-ups with Potato pancakes. I am sure there are meals far fancier but this is one my grandpa used to make. Making it brings back memories of childhood. And YUM!

Unfortunately, being in a family with 7 kids in 8 years (twins in there but still!), my mom hated cooking and only did the minimum to to keep us fed. My dad was working all the time but did love to cook/bake around the holidays. He made a Christmas stollen bread that we always looked forward to, especially because my mom did not bake AT ALL and any sweets we had were pre-packaged from the store. On the positive side, my sister and I have totally overcompensated for all this and LOVE to bake for our own families now.

My favorite is the “Cox Chocolate Cake”. My great great grandma started making this for my grandma who made it for her kids and grandkids. I have lots of memories of me and my grandma in her kitchen baking this cake. She taught me to bake before I was 5 and I had this recipe memorized shortly after. I LOVE to bake as an adult and especially love to bake cupcakes. This receipe is for a wonderfully moist chocolate cake and a frosting made with hersheys cocoa and tons of pecans that is poured onto the cake while the cake is still hot. I have baked this as a sheet cake and even super messy cupcakes more times than I can count. My 6 year old has started making it with me now and we talk about my grandma and my great grandma each time we bake it.

Tomato soup cake. My Mother’s specialty, and she always made it for my birthday.

My favorite family recipe is shepherd’s pie. My mother made it growing up and now I try to duplicate her results. It fills the house with the most comforting scent and never fails to transport me back in time.

Banana pudding! the real stuff, with none of that ‘jello pudding’ from a box. I have such wonderful memories in my grandma’s kitchen making this, and in fact, i’m the only family member that knows how to make it. It was my father’s favorite, so every year for his birthday, and just because, I’ll make it for him. My grandma passed away several years ago, and my only regret is wishing I had of spend more time in the kitchen with her!

Every year my grandmother made fruitcake at Christmas time. I know, I know fruitcake?!? But it always came by mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the box was HEAVY. It really wasn’t Christmas until we were sampling fruitcake for breakfast. I’ve eaten some really awful fruitcake, but Grandma’s was always moist and sweet and full of molasses and dried fruit and nuts. She passed away last year but I have the recipe in her handwriting and it’s the best gift she ever gave me, better even than my real China miniature tea set. Thanks Annie, for the walk down memory lane.

One of my families faves we call Baby Butterfingers. It’s time consuming to make but the kids don’t mind helping cuz they are so good. My daughter’s sorority even made them in her dorm room as a thank you to a group of guys that took them on a “group date”.

My great grandmother’s pound cake with almond extract. Yum.

Lobster and scallop Mac and cheese! True family comfort food.

My husband’s favorite family recipe is”Pencil Points” which I just recently learned are nothing more than ziti noodles with a peculiar name that comes from Trenton NJ!
My favorite is a pistachio creme de menthe cake that also hails from my childhood (hmmm, something wrong with a child liking – and being given that cake!)
Thanks for the opportunity to win this book and the delicious looking cupcake recipe.

My mom is famous for her deep dish cherry shortcake – homemade cinnamon rolls baked in cherry pie filling!

My mom’s grilled potatoes. They are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle with a hint of sweetness from the onion. Yum!

Hi Annie! One favorite food that my mom would make during the holidays was spinach balls – they sound healthy, but they totally aren’t. Lots of butter, herbed stuffing mix, parmesan, & egg with some herbs & a little bit of spinach! I love to make them when I entertain because they are a great appetizer/finger food.

My families favorite recipe?? There are so many. But I”d have to say the #1 item is going to have to be Chicken Enchiladas. They are a cream of chicken soup and sour cream based recipe. So easy and can feed a bunch of people. For dessert I’d say that the families favorite recipe is home made plain vanilla ice cream with the old fashioned ice cream maker. Then we all add different mixin’s into ours. Yummy. Might have to just make those Chicken Enchiladas next week.

Thanks Annie! One of my favorite family recipes is my grandmother’s anise seed cookies, we always made them at Christmas.

My family favorite recipe happens to be a favorite for each member of our family. It is my ice cream cake that is basic enough that it can be personalized for each family member. The last one I made ( just last week for a birthday) was a coconut ice cream, with brownie on the bottom and then a chocolate coconut frosting with toasted coconut. Divine and the birthday boy LOVED IT. =0)

My favorite family recipe is for from scratch chicken and dumplings. My grandmother taught my mother who taught me. I was SO nervous the first time I made them for her! This is both a comfort food for me as it reminds me of countless wonderful memories of my childhood, but also one that I’ve been able to pass on to my husband and children. The first day of winter always brings cries for my chicken and dumplings…although mom’s are still the best : )

My favorite family recipe is my great aunt’s meatloaf. People who don’t even eat meatloaf rave over this recipe! Thanks for the chance to win this awesome cookbook :)
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My family favorite is rice pudding

Black Russian Cake. My Dad and step-mom made this for me many years ago and I loved it. I make it for everyone and it is still my most requested recipe. It’s also the only cake I make that starts with a box mix…go figure!

Chicken and dumplings, hands down! Any recipe that calls for a half of an egg shell of water is a winner!

Hawaiian Chicken

My dad’s bean and beef burritos….his secret family recipe.

I love love love my vanilla cinnamon rolls.

I love my mom’s Chicken Divan. When she was little, my sister called it Chicken DiBus. It made sense to her. :-)

My favorite family recipe is chicken and noodles. My grandmother taught me how to make the homemade noodles and it was always the requested birthday meal while growing up. My mother still makes it for me every time I come home. A dish of comfort and love!

One favorite family recipe is “Tillie’s balls” — basically our family recipe for Russian tea cookies. My grandparents got the recipe from their friend Tillie, hence the name, which never failed to give my grandparents a chuckle.

Homemade dinner rolls…passed down through many generations!

My favorite family recipe has to been green chicken enchiladas. It is a receipe that has been handed down to my daughters. It takes some work to make them, but it is worth the effort.

Overnight cinnamon rolls! They’re expected for every special occasion and then some … it’s my own recipe, but homemade cinnamon rolls is a family tradition carried on from my grandma.

My dad’s chicken fried chicken! He used to make it for me when I would come home from college. It’s just amazing! I hardly eat fried chicken any where else because he has spoiled me so much.

We have a recipe that has been in the family for 3 generations called Tellerina. No clue where the name comes from but it is a hamburger casserole with egg noodles, corn, olives, bell pepper, cheese, tomato soup, cream soup, chili powder, cumin and garlic. YUM! It is a crowd pleaser and kids love it too! I would love this cookbook, but if I don’t win I will for sure buy it. I love supporting self starters! :)

My very favorite family recipe is something my mom makes that we call macaroni & tuna salad. I know it sounds nasty, but it’s a cold salad and is perfect on a bed of lettuce and with a side of sliced tomato. The best thing about it is that the longer all the ingredients hang out together in the fridge, the better it gets.

Angel food cake with strawberry fluff topping! yum!

ceviche…..it’s delicious :D

Baked clams! I grew up watching my dad and his brothers mix up a large batch with a baseball bat on our front porch.

My grandmother’s potstickers. No one in our family can quite make it like her even using the same recipe! Miss her so much!

Favorite family recipe -well, there are two big stand outs, both from my Grandma. Her cinnamon rolls are awesome and so is her dressing (stuffing). Yum!

Mmmmm… so many! Right now, probably hot potato salad :) Darn pregnancy cravings…

Goulash- elbow noodles, tomatoes, cheese, yummy! I used to scoop it into a piece of sandwich bread to eat it like a sandwich.

My favorite family recipe is Crock Pot Tamale Pie. It is layers of corn tortillas, ground beef, cheese, olives, beans, and enchilada sauce. My grandmother always made it for Christmas and it was always a nice alternative to the traditional ham or turkey.

My moms jello cream cheesecake!

Pumpkin Chiffon Pie at Thanksgiving! Of course you need the original, but the chiffon is always a necessary (lighter) must-have on the menu after round #1 of feasting!

these cupcakes look amazing! can’t wait to try them. my fam fav is a baked clam dish. always requested. friends duplicate!!! can be put in shells and then baked or in a low quich or pie dish and served with plain crackers. i like to dip veggies into it!

My family makes asphodel bread for every holiday. It’s thick like cake but savory snd delicious. Perfect with turkey!

My favorite family recipe is my Mom’s Peas and Dumplings. So simple, yet so delicious. I always request it when I visit.

My mother’s famous Three Hour Yeast Rolls. The holiday meal is not complete without “grandma’s rolls.” And she always makes extras for us to take home.

Yellow Butter Cake (I make mine from scratch but mom & grandma used a mix!) holes poked in it right from the oven, then spread a glaze on the hot cake made with the juice & zest from a whole lemon…….. Mmmmmmmmm wicked tasty!

This cookbook looks amazing! I actually just had my 7th and 8th grade Humanities students complete a class cookbook where each student submitted one of their favorite family recipes and one special occasion recipe from a culture of their choice. Then each student cooked one recipe and had we had a “Food of the World” day in class with their parents (on our last day of class together!) It was fantastic! The students really exceeded my expectations!

As I shared with my students, I can’t imagine Thanksgiving without sweet potato casserole. It’s more of a dessert with all the brown sugar, pecans, and melted marshmallows, but oh so delicious! Since my husband doesn’t like sweet potatoes, I end up getting to eat all the leftovers for days.

Brown sugar pie. The recipe is from my great grandma. The pie is so ugly but tastes so good.

Our family favorite is lemon raspberry trifle. We make this when the berries are in season!

The current favorite around here is my cocoa and spice-rubbed ribs…I smoke them on the grill for 2 hours, then braise them for another 2 in the oven.

My grandmother was known around our small town for her amazing baked goods, and perhaps her most famous were her apple dumplings. They had a flaky, kind-of-chewy pastry, and they were filled with baked apples in a gooey cinnamon-y filling. All apple dumplings are great, but hers were the best I’ve ever had, and I can’t imagine trying one that’s better. All of my aunts make them, as well as my dad, and I know I will be making them for years to come.

i LOVE LOVE LOVE my godmother’s snickerdoodles and am so happy to finally have the recipe!

My family loves a special treat for breakfast that we only make on holidays….French Toast Casserole! Every single person who has tried it, loves it. We even made it as a birthday cake for my uncle because he loves it so much. So many wonderful family memories involve this special breakfast item. It’s amazingly delicious.

We love chocolate cupcakes (made with coffee) with Swiss meringue buttercream (any flavor).

Any recipe I devise myself is automatically named “Anne’s Famous [insert name of food here].” The family favorite of Anne’s Famous recipes is “Anne’s Famous Chicken in Cream Sauce with [insert name of vegetable here] over Rice.” Couldn’t be any more simple: Cooked chicken in a white sauce, usually with some vegetable like broccoli or mushrooms and flavored with tarragon or thyme, served over rice. Leftovers are combined with the leftover rice and make yummy lunches.

Looking at these cupcakes makes me only think of my mothers peanut butter buckeyes and she only makes them around christmas! They are my favorite, so thank your for this recipe!

It would be our homemade ice cream. Yum! The cookbook looks great!

My grandmother used to make an amazing sweet potato casserole with Special K as one of the ingredients for the topping! It was great, and now three generations all make it! It’s so great to have those kinds of recipes that have been good for decades!

My Mom’s spaghetti and homemade meatballs. I think of her everytime that I make it for my family.

My favorite family recipe is for Crunchy Cheesy Potato Casserole. Creamy mushrom soup, sour cream, lots of butter and cheese, and crushed corn flakes spread over frozen hash brown potatoes. Annie, I cant even imagine how much more delicious this could be if you added your personal take on it. I can envision you swapping Greek yogurt for the sour cream, grating your own potatoes, and shredding your own mozzarella I would be honored to share the recipe with you if you would be interested!

Ice cream! When I was younger, I couldn’t have milk because I caused me to haves tons of ear infections. So my mom found a recipe to make ice cream and we would use rice milk instead of cows milk. It because a Saturday night tradition turning the handle on our little ice cream maker (it was the kind with the insert you put in the freezer and the a paddle that fit insider it you turned to scrape the frozen bits of the side). Now they have little automated machines that do it for you. Those kids don’t know what they’re missing!

One my favorite recipes is for puff pancakes, because my daughter enjoys them so much!!

I love the flavors and memories of making and canning my grandmothers salsa.

My favorite family recipe is a toss up between my grandmother’s brisket (so moist and flavorful with just the right amount of smokiness) and my mother’s cheesecake (which is truly the most awesome cheescake you’ve ever tasted! You’ll never eat another with the same relish!) I knew the work that went into the cheesecake because I helped my mother make that from a very young age – she always let me help her press the graham cracker crust into the pan and monitor the mixer. My grandmother’s brisket, however, I didn’t know. So, when I was newly married, I told her I wanted her recipe, but I was a little intimidated by the idea of making brisket. She looked at me with the “I don’t know why” look and said it’s just Claude’s Brisket Marinade. I was completely blown away because if you tasted this brisket, you would think it had all kinds of special rubs and seasonings. So, if you want some of the most amazing oven baked brisket you can imagine, head out to the store and buy yourself some Claude’s Brisket Marinade. You won’t regret it!

This cookbook looks awesome! A favorite family recipe of mine is a version of a seven layer dip…simple but delicious!

One of our favorite family recipes is Pulled Pork. Slow cook the pork tenderloin in a crockpot and add BBQ sauce and secret ingredients. So easy and always a crowd favorite.

My favorite family recipe is Grandma’s old fashioned potato salad. Very traditional with celery, hard cooked eggs, mayo, and pickle juice.

Sour Cream lemon pie….our family fights over the last slice! Delicious

Our traditional birthday cake – angel food cake (with a hint of raspberries in the batter), sliced in half with a thin layer of dark chocolate icing and raspberry preserves, iced and piped with dark chocolate icing, fresh raspberries on top. Started as my son’s fave years ago and quickly became everyone’s request.

Sounds a lot like my family – my sister makes a great masa, my mom and aunt take turns washing the husks (ojas), (sometimes a stray cousin comes and helps out). I cook the meat the night before and make the chili EARLY in the morning. Then we all – as you say – take our positions to actually make them. My daughters and daughter-in-law help with the spreading. My dad bags and counts. My grandmothers used to take part before they passed on. It’s a wonderful tradition filled with great memories. Your post brought to mind great memories. Thank you.

Without question… my grandma’s apple pie (or any other pie she makes)! She’s pretty much an expert at pie making. :)

I have always loved my mom’s home made macaroni & cheese with ham and broccoli. The mix of gruyere cheese and cheddar is awesome! Always topped with crushed club crackers. Thanks for the giveaway.

My favorite family meal is my mom’s red beans and rice, not your southern style dish.

My favorite family recipe is my Gran’s homemade bread. It sounds boring but it is always the first thing I ask her to make when we go visit her!!

Definitely lemon bars! They don’t last a day in this house!

My Mom’s baked beans. They are scrumptious! I wish I had a bowl full right now!

My mom makes the most delicious Vietnamese caramelized fish. I haven’t been able to replicate it just yet, but I hope to someday. Thank you so much for your great giveaway!

My favorite family recipe is my great grandmother’s bread recipe ! It’s a tradition to be made on Sundays too!

Hmm…it might be a tie between Mom’s meatloaf with homemade tomato gravy (can’t forget the rice and green peas to go with it) and chicken andouille gumbo. Both are delicious!

Steak Soup! It makes a huge pot of soup for little effort and $ (despite the name). My brothers & my favorite growing up, and now my family has the same reaction when they come home and smell it cooking along with the fresh baked bread!

A favorite family recipe is one we’ve all used for years for devil’s food cake…given to my grandmother back in the 1940′s by a Korean neighbor! Every time we make it someone asks for the recipe. I have also recently converted it to a gluten free recipe as my husband was diagnosed with Celiac last year. Now he can still enjoy it!

Ham and Potato Casserole, a OAMC recipe.

My favorite family recipe happens to be the only recipe of my mother’s that exists! She didn’t write anything down and since she passed away when I was 15, I thought I would never be able to make anything I grew up eating. UNTIL my sister shared the one recipe that she begged out of mom years ago – pumpkin bread! So now I make “Marmee’s Pumpkin Bread” at least a dozen times during the fall months and think of my sweet mommy every time.

Layered baked nachos!

This is a hard one, but I’ll go with my mom’s ‘caldo de res’ (beef stew). It’s a wonderful, heart warming meal made from scratch, where the beef cooks for hours and hours until it is tender and the broth is flavorful. The stew has all sorts of veggies and we eat it with my mom’s Guatemalan rice and fresh avocado.

My step-grandmother is the main cook in the family (aside from me of course) and always makes the most fantastic super-deep-dish apple crisp (it’s made in a hefty cast iron dutch oven) right around Christmastime, and never any other time of the year. Come crisp fall days it’s just about all I can think of.

One of my favorite family recipes is Crazy Cake. It’s a really chocolate-y and moist chocolate cake that’s “crazy” because it doesn’t have any butter or eggs. It’s insanely good.

My favorite family recipe was my mom’s Country-Fried Steak. She served it with biscuits and white gravy. I wish I could make it like she did. Unfortunately, she passed before I was old enough to appreciate her recipes. I have fond memories of her meals though.

My Grandma Dee’s gnocchi. Perfect potato-pasta dumplings made painstakingly by hand all day. My job was to help flip the gnocchi off the tines of a fork to get the ridges that hold homemade pesto or tomato sauce. Time together, a great meal and a cherished childhood memory!

My dad loves to make jambalaya

We love homemade pepper steak stir fry! It’s such a delicious combination of textures and flavors. And it’s healthy too. Chock full of veggies, lean steak, and served over brown rice, it makes for a great meal!

My favorite recipe is my Grandpa’s Oyster Stew. He passed away when I was 17 & I’m pretty sure I’m the last one in my family that knows how to make it. I’m so thankful he took the time to show me how to make it when I was a kid. I will be sure to pass the recipe down to my kids.

This book looks like a winner. I would love to own this book, but my prized book is my great grandmas. My great grandma was the one who taught me how to bake. We baked something every Saturday. One of my favorites, that we only made for holidays, was her peanut butter pie. Homemade pudding, peanut butter crumble on bottom and on top and then topped with her perfect merengue. She never messed it up! One Easter, as an adult, I was trying to make it, but the recipe I had was completely wrong. I had made it before so I couldn’t figure out how. My mom and I sat on the phone for a long while trying to compare the couple of recipes that we had (why she had 2 and one of the wrong I don’t know!) But eventually we got it figured out and the pie was a hit! I’m so thankful for Saturdays in the kitchen with her. I really miss her.

favorite family recipe, by landslide, is my mom’s chicken and dumplings… reminds me of how fortunately simpler things were when i was a child! nothing better than coming home from playing outside in the snow to a big bowl of thick chicken soup… loaded with huge buttermilk dumplings!

My favorite family recipe is chocolate pie!

One of our family’s favorites is fresh beef brisket, slow-roasted in a flavorful sauce and paired with cream cheese mashed potatoes and a vegetable side. No one seems to care much about the vegetables, though. The focus is mostly on the potatoes…and the gravy. Yum!

My mom’s lasagna – it’s a favorite :)

Our favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s Chocolate Chip Dessert. My dad says this recipe had to come with my mom before he would marry her. :) It’s made for everyone’s birthday instead of a cake. YUM!!

One of my favorite family recipes is something that my Mom first made for me in middle school (when I was a VERY picky eater) now referred to as “french chicken.” It’s basically just a roast chicken with herbs de provence and a little white wine as seasoning. Not only is it delicious but I love to hear my Mom tell the story about the first time we made it and how proud she sounds. She says that she served me at the table, turned around to make her own plate and was just turning around to ask me how it was when she caught sight of my plate–which was empty! She declares that I “basically inhaled” the chicken on my plate. Truth. I am now an avid cook and baker (baker first, cooking since my boyfriend-now-fiance moved in with me) and love to cook and try all sorts of foods. French Chicken is still something I only have when my Mom makes it for me, it doesn’t seem right to make it for myself. I do, however, look forward to learning how to make it for my own babes when they come along in a few years (Wedding in August!)….some dishes just need to come from Mom’s kitchen. Cheers!

Homemade toffee during the Christmas season! My mom has been making several batches for friends and family since before I can remember. She learned the recipe from her mom, and my mom will soon be passing it on to me!

My mother lovingly makes me a chocolate angel food cake for my birthday. Since I love to bake as much as Annie, it’s a special treat to get something made for me. I’ve never made one myself. It would somehow take the magic away. I like it with no icing, but she’ll occasionally add the special whipped cream frosting that keeps the whole thing light. Yum.

Grandma’s green lime jello it has mayo and cottage cheese but it is so delish, we have it at all of our holidays.

Baked Mac and Cheese! Thanksgiving tradition!

We would always make Italian Jam Bars for our neighbor. He would get our mail when we were on vacation!

A favorite family recipe of mine is my mom’s homemade lasagna! I always help her make it and even though it is a daylong event, it is SO worth it in the end! Delicious!!

Favorite family recipe is turkey sausage lasagna with spinach

Thanks Annie for your blog! Year after year our family go to (since large numbers) is a convenient and very tasty barbecue brisket done in the oven. Recipe from a DC women’s cookbook. Not only does my family love it, but shared numerous times upon demand! Alice

My mom’s famous strawberry cake. I am lucky enough to have the recipe. My in-laws always beg me to make it for them. It’s amazing!

My favorite that I could eat any time any place is my grandmother’s angel food cake with a cocoa whipped cream frosting. You can eat the whole thing and feel good about yourself, it’s that good.

We have a great corn casserole that we make pretty often. It’s my ultimate comfort food and making it reminds me of being home :)

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s peach cobbler–there’s nothing like it when it’s warm and topped with vanilla ice cream!

My favorite family recipe is what I would call “Foil Chicken” My mom would make this chicken and rice dish on cold winter days, and after she browned the chicken it would go in a casserole dish with rice and cream of mushroom covered in the famous Foil, and had to cook what seemed like FOREVER. So every time I would look in the oven to see what was cooking all I would see is foil. One of the best memories and favorite food!

My Dad is known for his BBQ chicken. It is so good and reminds me of lazy summer days with my family.

My Grandma’s “Shelley” beans (named after my sister who could never get enough) were the best. I have the very simple recipe…dry white beans, onions, bacon, spices and not much more, but somehow I can never quite achieve the magic of Grandma’s! Isn’t that always the case!?

Green Chili Chicken Enchiladas are a family staple that are always is in rotation!! Mmm, just might go make some right now ;) LOVE Alice, her blog is amazing!

Growing up, my mom, sister, and I always made candy cane cookies (the kind where you make a batch of dough, dye half red, then twist little logs of each color into cane shapes) at Christmas. My son loves making and eating them so much that I have made them at all different times of year in all kinds of color combinations. I have to keep actual candy canes in the cabinet year-round so we have them to sprinkle on top regardless of the season or the actual cookie colors because that’s the only thing that gives the cookies a minty flavor.

I have a wonderful Whoopie Pie recipe that I’ve been making since I was a child. Yum!

Mexican Lasagna. Started making it years ago. Family loves it!!!!!

My favorite family recipe is homemade wonton soup with Spinach! I watched my mother make it for years and I’m finally close to “mastering” it!

Discovered this site today and I love it! Something I wish I had the recipe for now that my mother is gone—her meatloaf. I know, simple right? It was an easy dish and one I remember with fond memories. I have never found anything close to it either—maybe because it was made with love?!

My mom’s chicken chili lasagna! A delicious Mexican inspired pasta dish!

My mom’s homemade pesto with pasta and shrimp!

One of my favorite family recipes is Ca Kho, which is a Vietnamese catfish dish that’s cooked in a clay pot. I love this dish because it’s cooked in a caramel sauce that’s both salty and sweet. This dish is soooooo good over rice, for me it’s like comfort food.

Baked macaroni and cheese was a favorite with our kids growing up and now is a favorite for our granddaughter. I’ve revised the recipe a bit and use whole grain or brown rice macaroni and a variety of organic cheeses without any food colorings. This healthier version looks a bit different from the original but still very yummy. Add some chopped, cooked chard for a nutritional boost.

My grandma’s Nanimo Bar recipe is my favorite family recipe!

My mom’s chili, which was passed down om my grandma. I crave it as soon as the weather turns cold!

I’m not entirely sure of a favorite family recipe. My mom wasn’t much of a chef or baker, but I’ve developed a love for cooking. Now, with my own family, I’m trying to create our own favorites. My husband loves my slow cooked ribs; My 4 year old son loves my home made mac and cheese; and my 2 year old daughter will eat anything with ketchup on it!! My son loves to help me bake and eat the ingredients along the way! I think my favorite is my oreo chocolate chip cheesecake! :)

Thanksgiving stuffing made with saltines and sausage!

I’m a lover of cookbooks! I’m always trying new recipes and have discovered numerous bloggers who offer awesome recipes! It’s hard to select one or two family favorites but my G’ma’s pumpkin pie is always requested for the holidays, and seafood spectacular gets raves at dinner parties!
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My favorite family recipe is my great-grandmother’s stickies. She always made them for me every time I came in from college. So good!

Mom’s chicken casserole is the best. I could eat the entire dish.

My family loves my “Skinny” Chicken Parmesan.

I LOVE Alice’s photography, and her recipe for taco seasoning is my fave! Would love this cookbook…great giveaway!

My Abuela’s spaghetti sauce is my all time favorite.

My sister helaine’s kugle recipe…..Jewish food for the soul, sweet, rich and a wonderful accompaniment to so many festive meals

A family favorite recipe of mine is my Mema ‘s Chicken Pastry! She hand rolls it very thin! It is THE BEST ever! I have tried to make it like she does, but I guess no one can do it like Mema:)
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It’s a tough choice to make, but one of my favorite family recipes is chicken adobo. In the pot, along with the chicken, goes onions, garlic, a few bay leaves, peppercorn, soy sauce, vinegar, and potatoes (or whatever you like). I’m always in the mood for my mom’s chicken adobo, which tastes like my grandma’s–after all, it IS a FAMILY RECIPE! :)

My mom’s pastichio (Greek Lasagna) is the best ever!!!

Favorite family recipe is homemade chocolate chip cookies or peanut cookies!! Yummy!

My grandma’s homemade paneer is amazing!

my favorite family recipe is for my grandma’s chicken cutlets! she’s taught me how to make them before so i can have them throughout the year, but i almost prefer to save my chicken cutlet experiences for when i see her at the holidays. i swear they taste better that way!

My grandmother’s famous German Chocolate Cake!

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup! I asked for it everytime I got sick growing up and my grandma would make it for me, complete with homemade noodles, a whole roasted chicken and everything!

My favorite family recipes is “better than steak” roast. When money was tight, mom would marinate a chuck steak in italian dressing overnight and dad would cook it on the grill. Of course, it was served with “better than steak” homemade yeast rolls!

One of our favs is Indian curry. My two boys don’t like cheese (yes, I said they don’t like cheese). I make lots of Asian dishes because….they don’t have cheese!

Blueberry crisp and my dads secret rib sauce!

Whenever my mom’s best friend from her childhood came to visit she would always bring a Butter Rum Cake with pastel sprinkles. YUM!

I would say my mom’s pork chops!

My grandma’s apple sauce, she has always put red hot candies in it instead of cinnamon so it has a great pink color and awesome flavor.

A family favorite of ours is my mother’s mac and cheese…creamy and delish!

My favorite famiy recipe is homemade pierogies. They are time consuming to make but are delicious!

Hands down it has to be Red Roast with mashed potatoes!

mmy favorite family recipe is a soy chicken drummettes that you literally cook for 12the hours and has 2 ingredients. Odd, but super yummy and a tradition in my family growing up and now frequently requested by one of my sons. Fun for Halloween because they look black when done :)

Our fave family recipe is a blackened chicken Caesar salad with homemade dressing and your homemade croutons. The chicken is spicy and pairs perfectly with the cool lettuce and delicious, hearty dressing. It also tastes divine with a cold glass of Sauvignon blanc … Which I’ll enjoy again after I have baby #2 :) looks like a lovely cookbook!!

My mother makes this amazing pork belly stew with quail eggs and tofu that’s served over rice. It’s got classic hearty Vietnamese flavor, and try as I might I can’t recreate it. Obviously she is better skilled at this than I could ever be!

My family favorite came from my mom. She called them Hobo’s. They are simply ground chuck covered in Velveeta cheese, salt, and pepper. On top and around the patty is potatoes and carrots. To finish it off, more salt and Velveeta for extra cheesiness and potatoes always need additional salt :). It gets wrapped in foil and cooks in the oven approximately 45 – 60 minutes until the potatoes and carrots are cooked. They are yummy!

Our family favorite is a delicious marinated flank steak served with grilled or roasted asparagus and wild rice. The steak is marinated in spicy chili sauce, fresh oranges, orange zest, and a few other ingredients. I don’t particularly like leftovers but this is delicious hot of the grill or straight from the fridge the next day!

One of my all-time favorite family recipes is my paternal grandmother’s homemade Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. She always made her version with fresh pineapple, raisins, and walnuts. It might sound a little odd for this type of cake, but the combination works very well and is incredibly delicious. My grandmother passed away in 1995, so this family recipe is one of the many ways everyone in my family can keep her memory alive.

our banana bread! and beef stroganoff so good :)

My family doesn’t really have a legacy of cooking. But recently, we all did a gingerbread house class and it has now turned into a family tradition. Next stop…an actual recipe to pass down :)

I love my dad’s peanut butter cookies! He pulled them out of some magazine years ago, and we make them every summer. I have to restrain my follow-the-rules tendencies every time he scoops out a rough spoonful of baking soda…!

One of our favorite family recipes is an oven roasted chicken marinated with tamari, country dijon, crushed garlic, thyme, juice of one lemon, salt and pepper, and olive oil. Every time I make it, I get rave reviews! And it’s a real comfort food as you can roast carrots and potatoes around it, and serve it with a salad. Yum!

One of my favorite, easy family recipes is goulash…my husband loves cresent roll chicken. So tasty!

my mom’s saurkraut and ribs. made in the pressure cooker. my sister and i used to dread the days she made this as it made the house stink. somewhere around high school we realized that we loved it!

My grandmother’s cinnamon toast – she says the secret is a dash of love ;)

My favorite family recipe shows up at EVERY summer event we have (which is at least two a month). Its a Tortellini Salad, with basil, tomatoes, cheese, and other deliciousness.

I must say that Eggplant and lentil stew is one of my favorite family meals..you can make in advance, it actually tastes better with time, and it feeds an army!

My favorite family recipe is a casserole my mom used to make for us. It’s Hamburger Corn Casserole. I don’t make it much anymore because neither of my kids like corn (unless it’s on the cob). :(

My favorite family recipe is my mom’s Mushroom Soup Chicken. It’s not very fancy (or healthy), but SUPER delicious.

One of my favorite recepies my mom makes is super easy and fast. Pork chops and rice. Through it all in a skillet with some tomatoes and corn add some salt and pepper and viola! So yummy.

My husband’s spaghetti is a recipe inherited from his mother that we love… when we make it we make a huge batch and have enough for dinner, leftovers in the fridge, and at least 8 meals worth to freeze for later too! Sadly, it’s a little too hot for spaghetti or I’d make it today!

This cupcake recipe reminds me of how much I love my mom’s peanut butter cookies. They are so much more crisp and yummy than any other recipe I’ve tried.

I would have to say there are two that stand out as favorites – butterscotch sauce for ice cream (oh, sure there nooooo calories) and fried ripe tomatoes. I know that sounds like a sacrilege here in the South, but the taste is nothing like fried green tomatoes.

I think one of my favorite family recipes has to be the strawberry cake! It reminds me of summer—- it was made every 4th of July and for the Labor Day neighborhood block party. Anytime I think about it or taste it, it evokes thoughts of my childhood summers and just takes me back! I think the best part has to be the chunks of strawberries in the frosting! One thing I love about the cake is that there is no artificial strawberry taste to it, it’s made with real strawberry juice! And the frosting is heavenly! It’s easy to make it dry when your a novice! but a true expert makes a moist, succulent Strawberry Dream!

One of our favorite family dishes is Lemon Angel Hair with Salmon and Asparagus. Anytime we have a special occasion it is requested.

My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s artichoke quiche – in addition to being easy and absolutely delicious, she listed “1 cup 100% love” as one of the ingredients and I love to read that and think of her every time I make it now that she has passed away. Each time I copy it for friends who request the recipe, I make sure to include the most important part :).

My Grandmother’s sausage & sage stuffing at Thanksgiving. Lovely lady & wonderful recipe.

home made cresent rolls. This is one of those recipes that reminds you of your grandmother and mother.

Bircher Müsli is a dish my mom used from her Swiss mother and was always our go to easy, healthy meal. It is a wonderful way to use seasonal produce and will always remind me of our family sitting down for a much needed break in our hectic schedules.

I love my mom’s rolls, especially when topped with homemade strawberry jam.

My grandad handed down a recipe for graham bread that I recently learned to make. I can’t wait to pass it down to my children and grandchdren one day. It always brings back the best memories.

A family favorite recipe I love is blackberry dumplings. During the summer, I would wake up around 7:00 a.m. to pick the plumpest blackberries I could find; so mom could make this sweet treat for dessert. It was perfect along side vanilla ice cream on a hot summer day.
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My favorite family recipe is for my great grandmother’s humantaschen! I make them every Purim and mail them to my family, just as the generations before me did.

My mom’s banana bread!!! The best. :)