Clara Cannucciari's Great Depression Cooking...Will we need to learn how to do this too?

Some people say we are heading into another depression. Wherever we are heading, feeding my family healthy meals for less would be nice, especially when my stepkids are here (feeding two teenagers...wow!!).

There is a 93-year-old great-grandmother who hosts her own online cooking show named Clara Cannucciari. She cooks the meals her mother made for her during the Great Depression on her show called Depression Cooking with Clara.

Clara Cannucciari even has a blog too. Her web site is Great Depression Cooking. Clara's YouTube channel is here.

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Filling Up On Appetizers

Something I always do when we go out to eat (which isn't often given the price of everything and number of mouths we have to feed) is fill up on appetizers. I don't mean to but they taste so good! There are times when all I order are appetizers. One of my favorites is spinach artichoke dip. My daughter and I can finish these by ourselves without help from the rest of the family.


Since we can't to go out to eat all the time, I have found an online site, Myrecipes.com, that has appetizer recipes, including my favorite. With the upcoming holidays, these recipes are going to be needed. I'm not an imaginative cook but I can follow a recipe. This site is great!

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Cooking Not My Thing

I am not a very good cook. It's not that I lack talent (I don't think), I lack the desire. Period. I do cook but I don't get all fancy like my little sister does. I am basics. She genuinely seems to love to cook. I guess I didn't get that gene. She is a fantastic cook. She can take a recipe and turn it into a feast for several families. At family gatherings, everybody looks forward to what she brings to the table because we all know it is going to be good. I am making myself hungry thinking about it, lol. I probably shouldn't be blogging about cooking at lunch time!

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