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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Dinner #4: Stuffed Bell PeppersMy Mom was a truly excellent cook, but there was one thing that she made regularly that I absolutely hated… Stuffed Bell Peppers… I knew as soon as I walked up to the dinner table and saw these beautiful red or green peppers stuffed with anything that I would soon…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #3: Mississippi Pot Roast
One of my goals in writing this blog is to share with my daughters…and perhaps other women also…some of our family’s favorite recipes. But looking back at the recipes that I’ve already shared and the recipes that I plan to share, I have realized that most of these recipes either…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #2: Hamburger Steak
In the next series of posts, I would like to share 31 recipes for some classic Southern-style meat recipes…comfort foods that you can use on a rotating basis to feed your family throughout an entire month. I have already shared my recipes for So we have 27 more recipes to go…starting…
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Continue reading →: The Red Plate Diner Blue Plate Special Option #1: Meatloaf
My Mom’s Mighty Good Meatloaf is one of 31 main dish options available choices that will appear on the The Red Plate Cafe menu. Growing up, I put meatloaf in the same category as black-eyed peas and butterbeans…those foods that I would never, ever make for my kids to eat…
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Continue reading →: 10 Things You Should Know About Blue Willow ChinaThe Blue Willow china pattern became extremely popular in America once the “Blue Plate Special” menus…along with the “meat and three” style of diners…became the latest and greatest trend. But the real reason I have written about the Blue Willow china pattern is because of its role in American history…
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Continue reading →: The Slaton Harvey HouseThe chain of Harvey Houses that originated along the Atchinson, Topeka & the Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) route. These “eating houses” and hotels were the brainchild of English immigrant Fred Harvey. Harvey partnered with AT&SF in building these “eating houses” after recognizing the terrible dining options available to travelers along…
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Continue reading →: The Journey Through the American Western Frontier Was Actually Conquered by Women
The American frontier was one hell of a place. Before 1876, even finding food as a high-society passenger in one of the fancy railroad cars headed out west was a nightmare. Your only choice was one of the many roadhouses located every 100 miles away from each other…at each water…
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Continue reading →: DelmonicosFinally, one American restaurant became a true competitor in this quest for cuisine recognition. The New York Times wrote the first review of an American restaurant ever to appear in an American restaurant. It read… “No nobleman of England — no Marqui of ancienne noblesse — was ever better served…
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Continue reading →: Red Beans and RiceRed beans and rice is a traditional Cajun food that makes the most of smoked sausage and spices…not to mention both time and money. Cajun cooks traditionally cooked red beans and rice on Mondays. Mondays were laundry days Red beans and rice was the perfect meal to make on laundry…
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