Archives for September, 2010
Hello Darlings, Woo-hoo! Miss Charlene Sands, our old friend and former Filly, has saddled up and will ride this ride way on Saturday. Many of you will remember her interesting blogs here at the Junction. Miss Charlene set the bar pretty high for the rest of us. Ah know you’ll be thrilled to get a chance [...]
Love and Laughter in the Old West Confession time: Cooking is not my thing. I came to that realization the day my then five-year-old daughter rushed home from kindergarten raving about the cafeteria food. To add insult to injury she couldn’t believe that the Jello kept its shape. That was the day I [...]
The stew I want to share today is absolutely the easiest recipe ever created. Whether you’re cooking for just you and your DH or the church choir, hopefully, it’ll become one you’ll add to your recipe box. How many of you still have recipe boxes anyway? Texas Tamale Stew Serves 2 to 200 … depending [...]
I love to cook (it’s the cleaning up after part I hate!). And I confess, too, that I like to experiment in the kitchen. I call it being creative. My less generous friends call it my inability to let well enough alone. <g> Anyway, I especially like hearty dishes that I can make a big batch [...]
I’ve got a true frontier bread recipe for you to try today. I wish I could claim this was handed down from mother to daughter from my great-great-grandmother, but I can’t. Since Linda beat me to biscuits, and Cheryl has a delicious-looking cornbread recipe coming on Friday–and I rarely plan far enough ahead to make yeast [...]
This recipe is fast, easy, healthful and tasty. I keep the ingredients on hand for unexpected company. My family loves it. 1 pound ground meat (I like ground turkey, but beef works) 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 16 ounce carton fresh cut salsa (I like Rojos Garlic but your favorite will do) 2 16 ounce [...]
I don’t reckon most cowboys in the Old West had ever heard of tortellini, and I’d bet my favorite western it was never eaten out on the range. But I do know sausage and pasta has been a favorite through the ages, so here’s a soup I’ve made for my family many times over that I’d love to share with you. Add [...]
At least I’m hoping that it’s better late than never. A family emergency has had me in its grip for the last 48 hours and so I was supposed to post one of my most favorite recipes in the whole world today. But up until this very moment, there’s not been an inch of time. [...]
Old fashioned in every way (except the healthier olive oil choice), you won’t be disappointed with this yummy no-fail recipe for the best pumpkin bread you’ve ever eaten. Tip: If you use fresh nutmeg, cut the recommended amount in half. Grandma’s Pumpkin Bread 4 cups sugar 1 cup virgin olive oil 1 large can pumpkin [...]
SAND SPRINGS TACO SOUP This recipe that I lifted from a church cookbook was the winning chili in our family’s Super Bowl Chili Cook -off in 2008. Tradition says the winner must take the “trophy” with him/her when they travel. So here she is at Wiamea Canyon, Kauai. Ingredients: 2 pounds ground beef 1 envelope [...]
I had a non-recipe beef stew I’ve made for years, but this past summer I came by a recipe that was so delicious I kicked the other method to the curb. It really is all about the gravy and personally I think the combination of browning the meat and the wine is the key. As [...]
2 medium onions chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced 2 (4 ounce) cans chopped mild green chilies 2 teaspoons ground cumin 3 (16 ounce) cans great northern beans, undrained 6 cups chicken stock or 6 cups canned chicken broth 4 cups chopped cooked chicken, to taste (Use canned chicken for speed) Throw it all in a [...]
Cowboys in the old West loved their homemade biscuits. Nothing completed a meal better and the lighter and fluffier the more they piled them on their plates. They even stuck some in their saddlebags to munch on later. Biscuits went with everything or just to eat by themselves, depending on the circumstances. 5 cups flour 4 tsp. baking powder [...]
In case your mind has slipped a cog since Friday, here’s a reminder about our Great Soup Round-Up. We sure don’t want you to miss it. Each day from Monday, Sept. 27th to Friday, October 1st the Fillies will post two or three recipes that feature all the fall weather things that warm your bellies–soups, chili, bread, and side dishes galore. [...]
Thanks to everybody for making my favorite wagonmaster Jeff Warburton so welcome this weekend! Rebecca Booth’s name got drawn for a pdf. copy of my inspirational wagon-train novella, Hearts Crossing Ranch. Please e-mail me at tanhanson@aol.com so I can get your copy off to you. Thanks again to all of you.
Tanya Hanson says: Our Teton wagon train adventure last month was perfect from start to finish, and much of the wonder came from wagonmaster Jeff Warburton, a real-life cowboy, a hard-working host, and a true gentleman. I couldn’t wait to invite him to Wildflower Junction to meet you all. Please make him welcome. I’ll draw [...]
Ah swear to my time, the Fillies are taking a week off again! No matter how much ah work to keep their noses to the grindstone, they still manage to rule the roost. But ah guess there’s no use in complaining. We’re not going to leave all you little darlins in a lurch. The Great Soup Round-up runs from Monday, [...]
Colonel Jean Alexandre François Le Mat was a Paris-born aristocrat–and Creole physician–who designed firearms in his spare time. On October 21, 1856, he was granted United States Patent No. 15,925 for a unique design of the first multi-shot percussion revolver with an 18-gauge grapeshot barrel fixed beneath it. The lower barrel was 5 inches [...]
Hello Darlings, You’re going to get a special treat on Saturday. Mr. Jeff Warburton, a bona fide wagon master, will pay us a visit. Miss Tanya met him last month when she and her husband signed up for their own wagon train adventure around the Teton Mountain Range of Wyoming. Mr. Jeff brims with good [...]
In just a few week Wyoming Lawman will be on the shelves. I thought it might be fun to do a blog on the “story behind the story.” Some books have deep historical roots. They’re based on the life of a real person, or maybe the story comes out of a real event and a [...]
Yee-haw! Our own Mary Connealy won herself an award and the Fillies are doing the happy dance for her. In fact, we’re ‘pert near busting our buttons we’re so darn proud. Miss Mary recently attended the yearly American Christian Fiction Writers Conference and walked away with the CAROL AWARD for her book COWBOY CHRISTMAS. Leave a comment and [...]
Sweet Danger is my first contemporary romantic suspense novel. Up until this point, I have stuck with writing western historicals, though Time Plains Drifter was a bit of a departure from that, being a time travel/paranormal. Sweet Danger is the story of Jesse Nightwalker, an undercover cop, and Lindy Oliver, his beautiful next-door neighbor. They’ve [...]
We have a winner! And it is…Tammy Boylan. Yea! Yea! Tammy, if you could email me privately so I can get your address and if you can tell me what book you might like, that would be great. karenkay.author@earthlink.net Let me offer you a choice of WAR CLOUD’S PASSION, SOARING EAGLE’S EMBRACE or BLACK EAGLE. [...]
Hello! Hello! Perhaps it’s the times in which we live. Or maybe it’s something else that joggles my memory to recall things I’ve read, things I’ve experienced. And my mind turns over and over again to Native America. To all the things that are a part of our heritage as Americans, each and every one of [...]
Singing lullabies to young children seems to be something hardwired into our brains. While I don’t have any specific memories of my own mother singing me to sleep, I do remember when my then-baby sister was moved out of her crib and into the king-sized bed with me and my middle sister that I would [...]
