by Heather Sheire | Mar 25, 2013 | Casseroles
File this under easy kid-pleasing weeknight dinner or simple side dish. Much like banana bread is really banana cake, cornbread is really more like corn cake and who wouldn’t want to have cake for dinner, right? We ate this dish for dinner, and my kids cleaned...
by Heather Sheire | May 2, 2011 | Chicken, Oma's Recipes, Savory
UPDATE: Since I first posted this delicious and versatile recipe in 2011, it has become my #1 most popular post ever with over a quarter million views. Read on to find out why. 🙂 Time for another Oma classic. File this one under easy weeknight dinner. As an avid...
by Heather Sheire | Mar 19, 2011 | Beef, Gluten Free, Oma's Recipes, Savory
Featured in Gourmet Live’s Weekly Roundup: The Best of Beef You know you want it. It’s another installment of Oma’s cooking class. Like all of Oma’s meals, Oma’s One-Hour Homemade Spaghetti Sauce is simple, hearty and delicious....
by Heather Sheire | Mar 15, 2011 | Beef, Savory
Attention meat and potato lovers! Welcome to my Shepherds Pie with Beef, which I’m told by one of my readers is actually called Cottage Pie. This is essentially a thick hearty beef stew covered with light and fluffy mashed potatoes that are crisped up under a...
by Heather Sheire | Feb 7, 2011 | Beef, Gluten Free, Oma's Recipes, Savory
Back in the 40s and 50s, when my German mother-in-law (aka “Oma”) was a young girl in Northern German, rouladen was her family’s traditional Christmas dinner. Now, this classic meal is a common Sunday supper all over Germany, but back then, when...
by Heather Sheire | Feb 2, 2011 | Fish, Oma's Recipes, Pasta, Savory
Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Oma series, Oma’s Tuna Casserole. As you may remember from my post Oma’s Old-Fashioned Pot Roast, Oma is my German mother-in-law. She raised three healthy boys from infancy to adulthood feeding them hearty American...
by Heather Sheire | Jan 17, 2011 | Beef, Gluten Free, Savory
Pot roast is one of the classic Winter foods. Savory, hearty and satisfying, everything cooks together in the same pot. No muss, no fuss. Once the initial preparation is complete, this dish requires very little attention. It just simmers away, the perfect meal for...
by Heather Sheire | Jan 10, 2011 | Beef, Pasta, Savory
All through this Fall, my husband asked me periodically to make bolognese. For whatever reason, up until now, I just wasn’t in the mood. But then Jim purchased 1/4 of an organic grass-fed cow, butchered and packaged and stuffed into our downstairs freezer....
