Hey Amy!

I got an email last week from reader Randy who said “Hey Amy! Can you share a recipe for cookout potato salad with no mayo?”  I know many of you are trying to cut mayo out of your diets (or at least reduce it) so I sniffed about my mountain of favorite cookbooks until I [...]

I will always be honest with you.  Today I share that I loathe coleslaw.  I have tried to tolerate, enjoy, even be slightly interested in it but I have had no luck.  However many of my loved ones really enjoy it, so I make it.  And I hold my nose while dealing with the cabbage.  [...]

If you have been lucky enough to enjoy Aunt Barb’s cooking, baking, entertaining, you will understand why you need to make these beans RIGHT NOW.  Aunt Barb has been wowing our family, friends, church members and strangers (she kills it at the bake sales) for years.  I have posted previously some of her delicacies and [...]

Any time you are BBQ’ing you want simple side dishes that are fresh and full of flavor.  This dish falls into that category.  It’s a vegetarian salad so it covers in two categories–vegetarian and side dish.  I can’t keep this bowl full when I have cookouts. Ingredients: 2 large ripe mangoes 3 to  4 large [...]

When I am home, my mom always has the Amish Macaroni Salad in the fridge next to the Lebanon Bologna waiting for me.  I love how sweet the salad is.  I found this recipe in one of my very old Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch cookbooks and it comes very close to what my mama gets [...]

It’s finally here.  The first weekend of summer.  When we can bring out those white shoes (yes ladies, the white shoes should be put away from Labor to Memorial Day).  In a salute to all the wonderful BBQ’s of the season, I am going to dedicate the weekend to many types of BBQ dishes–sauces, side [...]

I have experienced countless frustrating moments surrounding the lack of R.S.V.Ps to my events.  One year I entertained 50 people for an Independence Day party and over 20 guests finally sent their R.S.V.P. two days before the party!  Now all you fabulous hosts and hostesses know that I had already shopped for the food and [...]