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WELCOME
Dear Friends ,
Welcome to DINNER , Volume I of Mama’s Legacy Cookbook Series.
 
This series was created in honor of all the wonderful women in my life who not only taught me how to cook, but also shared with me their love of cooking.
 
I have been collecting recipes for over 60 years - the sources are numerous – beginning with my mother, then friends, professional colleagues, and church groups.
 
Some are in the original form – copied exactly from the paper on which they were originally written. The origins include old cookbooks going back to my early married years, recipes found in product packaging, and magazines that I have kept in a box in my pantry for eons.
 
Some have morphed a little over the years and some are newer versions of long-held recipes that have been passed from friend to friend to friend.
     
Writing a cookbook has been a long-held dream of mine. I have a great passion for well-prepared, delicious food, and hopefully this series will inspire you to stretch your creative cooking wings and begin to build your own collection of recipes that can be shared with others.
 
DINNER is the first volume in the series. The 27 dinner recipes I have included are a small representation of dinners that allowed me to feed my children well, a minor obsession of mine. Even though I was married for the first 20 years of my children’s lives, I always had to work – so there wasn’t a lot of extra money or time for gourmet cooking. I needed recipes that could be prepared in a reasonable amount of time – and stay within a tight budget. These recipes met those criteria. 
     
I love to cook and have other recipes that are more complicated, but thought that I would begin with the easier family favorites. Most of the recipes in this volume range from very easy to easy, with only a couple that are slightly more difficult.
 
A good friend of mine once said to me that there are three great pleasures in life:  Laughter - Great Food - Making Love…. I agreed when he said it, and I still agree all these many years later. 
 
What are your three greatest pleasures? I hope that food is one of them and that you will find great pleasure in creating the dishes in this book as much as I found in writing them.
 
All the best,
 
Nancy N Wilson
 
P. S.  I would love to hear about your cooking adventures. Please feel free to send me stories. Your personal favorite recipes are also welcome, if you feel like sharing. If I decide to use them in a future cookbook, you will be given credit.
 
You can contact me at [email protected] .

SECTION I - BEEF & PORK

AMAZING POT ROAST
    Pot roast is one of my family’s prime comfort foods. They love the aroma of the roast wafting through the house as it slowly cooks. This one-pot meal is juicy, tender and full of flavor.
    Ingredients
3 lbs brisket or blade pot roast
3 T. vegetable oil
½ C. flour
Salt and black pepper to taste
2 T. Dijon mustard
2 T. brown sugar (packed)
2 cloves garlic, crushed
¼ tsp. nutmeg
3 large onions, sliced
1 C. beer
1 C. beef stock or consommé
6 med-Large carrots, peeled and quartered
6 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into 3” cubes
    Procedure
Pre-heat oven to 325º F (170º C)
Heat oil in heavy, lidded roasting pan or Dutch oven,
Coat roast with flour on both sides.
Place floured roast into hot oil and brown on both sides - salt and pepper generously.
Turn off heat.
Pour beer and stock over top
Combine next 4 ingredients in a small bowl, spread mixture over roast and layer with onions.
Cover with tight lid or heavy-duty foil and place in pre-heated oven for 2 hours.
Add vegetables around beef, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper - cook covered for another 1½  hours, or until roast is tender.
Increase oven temperature to 350º F. and remove lid for last 20 to 30 minutes to brown roast.
Remove beef and vegetables to serving platter
Thicken juices with 1 T. cornstarch blended with cold water. Bring to a boil stirring to thicken into gravy