Posted in Homemaker-in-Training Thursday

Eyebright is coordinating something new called Homemaker-in-Training Thursday. Each Thursday, participants post about something they are doing to prepare to be a homemaker someday. If you're interested in participating, check out Eyebright's posts here and here.

I'm not always very homemaker-ish. But a while back, I did get motivated to start collecting a few things for a hope chest. For Christmas, I asked for a recipe book. I thought it would be great to collect some of my favorite recipes that Mom makes around our house in a book to take with me someday. And lo and behold, I got this.

A recipe book and a lovely set of recipe cards. And...a look at the inside.

I then scoured all of Mom's recipes and demanded that various and sundry members of my family help me copy down recipes. I found quite a few, so we're still working on copying. For fun, I'm trying to have family members copy out their own "specialties".

So...what about all those killer recipes of your Mom's that you're going to want when you have your own house? Seems to me that now would be a grand time to start collecting them. They don't have to be in a fancy recipe book--you could start you collection on index cards and store them in a box.

Speaking of killer recipes, here's one of my favorite main dishes at our house.

Swiss Chicken

Boneless chicken breasts (skinned)
Swiss cheese (sliced or grated)
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1/3 cup milk
1 c. Pepperidge Farm stuffing
1/4 c. melted butter or margarine

Place chicken breasts in bottom of greased 9x13 pan (any amount that fits). Layer swiss cheese over chicken. Mix cream of chicken soup with milk and pour over chicken. Top with 1 cup or more stuffing. Drizzle butter or margarine over stuffing. Bake at 350 for 1 to 1 1/4 hours.