Category Archives for I’m Looking For Requests

Healthy Salads And Salad Dressings

I’m looking for some new recipes for salads and dressings for my family. We get so stuck in a rut with the regular old standby side salad. I know there are some great salads to be made and would love some suggestions! Thank you. 🙂 The Hillbilly Housewife: I’ll get us started. My SIL shared […]

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Wild Gooseberry Pie

My grandmother made the best gooseberry pies by memory. I tried to record her recipe several diffrent ways & times over the years without success. Grandma did use wild gooseberries when possible. I have also looked on the internet & in cookbooks for one over the years since her passing without success. Help, please. Thanks […]

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Raised Waffles

Yeast waffles that raise over night in the refrigerator and a buttermilk waffle recipe were a specialty in the 70s cookbook of BH And Gardens or Betty Crocker. The cookbook was lost in a fire. I’d like to find them again. Do you have a recipe that might work? Share it as a comment below. […]

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Bambino Huey Recipe

The Bicconi family in San Antonio has had a number of restaurants over the years. Every single one of them has carried an incredible dessert called “Bambino Huey”. For a time, we could pick this up frozen at HEB. At this time, there is no Bicconi’s restaurant in S.A. and no to fulfill this addiction. […]

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Refrigator Pickles

I would like a recipe for refrigator pickles. I am planning on planting cucumbers this year and would love to make them. Please help. I’m not much for canning, but I do like to use my fresh garden vegetables as much as possible. I freeze most of them. Thanks… Disclosure: Some of the links below […]

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Fudge Pie Recipe

My mother made what I call Fudge Pies for my brother and I. It was just a simple pie crust with a chocolate syrup type filling that barely covered the bottom of the crust but was so delicious hot out of the oven when we got off that school bus. He and I would split […]

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Broccoli Salad with Bacon

I am looking for a salad recipe that features raw broccoli with bacon bits. A crunchy, tasty salad with a light dressing. Thank you! From the Hillbilly Housewife: I have a recipe for a yummy broccoli salad here. It uses crumbled bacon instead of bacon bits because I personally prefer the flavor. You could certainly […]

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Cornbread Gravy Recipe

Lisa Asks: I came up money poor and love rich. We did not have much in our home, but when my Momma ,or my Daddy’s Mother, would make this on a Sunday Morning I promise you there was no one in the world who had more than us. Somehow you fry the leftover cornbread (if […]

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Skirt Steak Recipes Needed

Does anyone have a good skirt steak recipe? Susanne’s note – If anyone is unfamiliar with skirt steak, here is the description from Wikipedia: “Skirt steak is a cut of beef steak from the plate. It is long, flat, and prized for its flavor rather than tenderness. It is not to be confused with flank […]

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