Old Fashioned Lancaster County Macaroni Salad

A few weeks ago, our good friends Greg and Cauleen traveled back east to visit family in Lancaster, PA. They brought us back some great foodie souvenirs including the cookbook from which I prepared the above macaroni salad and an array of Kitchen Kettle Village goodies.

Kitchen Kettle website tells me that they’ve been preserving the bounty of Lancaster County PA for over 50 years and offer an assortment of jams, jellies, sauces, relishes and baked goods including a Shoofly pie that they’ll ship to your doorstep if you’d like. They also have a recipe section for their products, so I’ll be anxious to see what I can whip up with that jar of  pineapple jalapeno jam. 

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Cool Meals For Hot Days

It’s been hot in Denver. OK, everyone in unison, Johnny Carson style “how hot is it?“.

 

“It’s hotter than Billy Heck”. I have no idea what that means, it’s just something my mom says. Kind of like that saying my friend Vickie uses, “Drunker than Cooter Brown”.

 

It’s so hot that Billy Heck doesn’t even want to get drunker than Cooter Brown and drinks iced tea instead. Our poor air conditioner runs practically non-stop to keep the house a decent temperature.

 

It’s so hot that even I haven’t done much cooking. But it’s a dry heat.  Well, so is my oven, so I’ve not turned it on.

 

So here’s just a few things I’ve tinkered around with in the kitchen over the last week.

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