Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Clara the Cook

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Clara the Cook

Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old piece of work. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara’s Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America’s spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy of living. Full episodes here.

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Rodger the Real King of France 12/01/2009 10:49:00 AM 9 Comments

"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. "
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9 comments:

JMcD said...: Brings back old memories and new memories.
Noodles and english peas was still a popular dish at my house up into and through the 40's. By the 50's my mom had evolved it into Hamburger, noodles and peas... When I got grown and did some cooking I still made it but had introduced Asian flavors into it and the canned peas had been changed to the firmer and sweeter frozen ones. My daughter now wrianilamakes it as well (Asian).By Asian, I mean using soy sauce, oyster sauce and patis in the ingredients.... It is a favorite of my grandson (the college man).; 12/1/09, 11:36 AM
pdwalker said...: Wow, she looks like an interesting woman. Thanks Rodger! Good catch!; 12/1/09, 12:26 PM
Anonymous said...: Where did you find this jewel of a woman Rodger? God bless and love her! We ate many a similar meals having four kids for our parents to feed. Some days we had pancakes for dinner. Americans today are far to spoiled (self included) with our great abundance of food choices and physical comforts. Clara's advice is still timely, especially once the "revolution" begins. Yes, I lika da pasta!
Juice; 12/1/09, 3:10 PM
AndyJ said...: One of my favorite meals when I was young, and it still is a favorite of mine was fried cabbage and egg noodles. Shred a head of cabbage, and fry it in butter with 1-2 diced onions. When it is cooked down, mix in broad egg noodles. Easy to make and to me, delicious.; 12/1/09, 3:52 PM
Anonymous said...: Real German Dumplings; 1/2 flour half mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and caraway seeds . That is the food that got my folks through tough times.
RAK; 12/1/09, 5:13 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: We're sauer kraut, smoked sausage and dumplings; 12/1/09, 6:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Oh yeah sausage or pork chops at Grandma's with hot oil(lard)laced with caraway seeds poured over the dumplings and sauerkraut; Soul Food!
The next morning for breakfast; diced up dumplings fried with sausage and eggs.
RAK; 12/1/09, 6:55 PM
Anonymous said...: My father-in-law told me that his grandmother (turn of the century?)used to drink sagebrush tea. He said it was gawd-awful.

THor~
III; 12/2/09, 2:35 AM
JMcD said...: My gramma used to make for me some sassafras tea.... Looked to me like boiling a little chunk of red wood.; 12/2/09, 7:36 AM

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Clara the Cook

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