Find it by what's
in the fridge.

Sliced apples with lemon juice, oats and brown sugar rubbed with butter over the top.

Apricots and light raisins simmered down first, cream cheese in the batter, an hour and a half low.

Oat bran muffins with dried apricots and dates stirred through at the end.

From nan's book. Dried apricots and dates soaked soft, buttermilk batter, hot oven.

From nan's book. Buttermilk loaf with orange zest, chopped apricots and pecans.

A pecan and brown sugar base, cheesecake filling, bakeapples and the rest of the crumbs on top.

From nan's book. Three ripe bananas and a splash of orange juice in place of the milk.

Three mashed bananas, melted butter, a full cup of chocolate chips.

Four things in a bowl, steamed an hour, or set on top of the dinner pot while it cooks.

Four kinds of bean under a sweet vinegar dressing, left overnight.

From nan's book, titled exactly that. Mayo and Miracle Whip both, sweet relish, paprika over the top.

Dark vinegar chocolate batter with a spoon of sweet cream cheese and chocolate chips dropped in the middle.

Whole berries packed into jars, covered with a light syrup, boiled fifteen minutes.

Graham wafer biscuits top and bottom, sweetened cream cheese, blueberry jam through the middle.

Stale bread torn up, cinnamon sugar over it, custard poured through, raisins and butter on top.

Hard sear, butter baste, rest. Fifteen minutes start to finish.

Celery, an apple, honey and lemon slices with the skin on, blended with water.

A plain roux with dry mustard through it, cheddar stirred in off the heat.

Sweetened cream cheese and white cake folded into Cool Whip, layered with cherry pie filling.

Chicken strips fried off, pizza sauce and zucchini simmered, noodles and cheddar over the top.

Yogurt and grainy mustard dressing, apple and walnuts through the chicken, spinach and provolone.

Beef, peppers and garlic browned in the Dutch oven, kidney beans and tomato in, half an hour.

Cake mix, three eggs, a tin of cherry pie filling and almond flavouring. Mixed and baked.

Holes punched in a warm chocolate cake, a tin of sweetened milk poured in, crushed bar on top.

Two ingredients, two minutes in the microwave.

Chopped cranberries tossed in sugar, orange juice and peel in the batter, pecans folded in.

From nan's book, in her older cursive hand. Molasses, bread crumbs and mixed fruit, steamed two and a quarter hours.

Half brown and half white sugar, orange juice, cinnamon, ten minutes on the stove.

One sour cream and mushroom sauce poured over whatever is in the dish, paprika, one hour.

Heavy cream, coconut milk, blueberries, flax and bone broth protein. All in the blender.

Vanilla wafer and peanut crumb base, cream cheese filling folded with a litre of Cool Whip, kept frozen.

Three big cans of juice in the bowl, gingerale and scoops of sherbet only at the last minute.

Cream of chicken soup, milk and parmesan warmed together, tossed through buttered noodles.

Three cups of natural bran, two cups of grated apple, half white and half whole wheat flour.

Graham crumbs, coconut and sweetened milk baked into a slab, topped with melted Aero bars.

From nan's book. Cream crackers layered with vanilla pudding and Cool Whip, lemon pie filling on top.

An unbaked graham base, three tins of fruit drained well, sweetened milk and lemon through the Cool Whip.

Mandarins, pineapple and mini marshmallows folded through sour cream.

Orange jelly set with pineapple, carrot and grated cheese, finished with Dream Whip and nuts.

Four spices, a cup of molasses, a cup of boiling water at the end. The batter is meant to be thin.

Oats, sunflower seeds, raisins and peanuts held together with a tin of sweetened milk.

A yogurt, lemon and garlic marinade, overnight if you can, then a hot oven on parchment.

From nan's book, spelled the way she spelled it. One avocado, a spoon of salsa, cayenne.

Brown sugar, vinegar, cloves and dry mustard, thickened with a spoon of flour.

A bag of hashbrowns, sour cream, soup and cheese stirred together and baked an hour.

Ground beef, two soups, rice and celery baked slow, a tin of noodles crisped on top at the end.

From nan's book, spelled the way she spelled it. A big batch of raisin tea buns, six cups of flour.

A pound of butter worked into six cups of flour, eggs and milk measured together to two cups.

Any jello you like beaten into Cool Whip and cream cheese over a graham base.

Bite size sponge cake folded through Cool Whip and sour cream, barely set jello poured over.

Dry orange jelly powder sprinkled over cottage cheese, folded with Cool Whip and pineapple.

Cottage cheese simmered right into the meat sauce, three noodles a layer, mozzarella and parmesan on top.

A crumbly shortbread base under a whipped lime gelatin cloud, sprinkled with coconut.

Hot milk poured over macaroni and cheddar, buttered cracker crumbs baked on top.

Seasoned hamburger in a chili sauce and tomato soup gravy, over egg noodles, marble cheese baked on top.

Melted Mars bars stirred through rice krispies, pressed flat, iced with dark chocolate.

Chocolate, butter and peanut butter melted, marshmallows and a tin of cream stirred in off the heat.

Cream cheese and sour cream beaten into hot potato, held in the fridge, baked before dinner.

Four sweet potatoes, olive oil, cream, salt and pepper. Mash until smooth.

Butter, molasses and sugar creamed with four spices, rolled out and cut, slow oven.

From nan's book. Heavy cream and coconut milk, blueberries, flax and bone broth protein.

Two and a half cups of oats, a pound of butter and sugar creamed first, chips or raisins to finish.

Crisp skin on top, potatoes underneath cooking in the drippings. One pan, one wash.

From nan's book. Three ingredients, no baking. Cookie crumbs and cream cheese rolled and dipped in chocolate.

From nan's book. She wrote the ingredients and nothing else, because she did not need the rest written down.

Jumbo shells stuffed with ricotta and cubed mozzarella, sauce under and over.

Peach jam, BBQ sauce and soya, simmered a couple minutes and poured over half cooked chicken.

Peach jello beaten with cream cheese, lightened with Dream Whip, fruit cocktail last.

Beets boiled tender, the juice saved and turned into the pickle with vinegar and sugar.

Ten pounds of beets boiled three or four hours, six cups each of sugar, vinegar and their own juice.

Pistachio pudding stirred straight into undrained pineapple, marshmallows and Cool Whip.

From nan's book. Bananas, mayonnaise instead of oil and egg, berries or chocolate chips.

From nan's book. Three cups of fruit, steamed three to four hours. The page is covered in her check marks and second thoughts.

Sixteen potatoes mashed with sour cream and green onion, corn flake and parmesan crumb over.

Montreal steak spice rubbed both sides, hot start, low finish, an hour standing before it is cut.

From nan's book, one of the later pages. Oats and vanilla protein powder, sweetened with stevia or sugar.

One medium pumpkin left overnight in sugar, oranges chopped peel and all, boiled slow two hours.

Bacon and onion cooked down, kidney beans and chili sauce, an hour in the oven.

Red velvet cake mix beaten stiff into brownie batter, sweet cream cheese swirled through.

From nan's book. Brown sugar sauce, boiled until thick. This is what goes over the steamed puddings.

Thin potatoes layered with cream of chicken soup and shredded cheese, paprika on top.

Everything in the dish at once, green pepper and onion through it, baked till the potatoes give.

Unsalted butter and icing sugar, dried cranberries and pecans, pinched off and pressed flat.

Dry cake mix, graham crumbs and coconut bound with a boiled milk and butter syrup, rolled in coconut.

From nan's book. A tube pan cake with almond, lemon rind, maraschino cherries and pecans.

Ribs rendered for an hour, then an hour more under a pineapple and chili sauce glaze.

A two layer moulded jelly salad, pineapple and cream cheese below, raspberry on top.

Butter cut into flour, egg and milk and raisins, straight into a hot oven.

Newfoundland fried bread dough. Molasses, butter, no argument.

Two peppers, radicchio and basil, a sherry vinegar dressing, eggs and croutons over.

What to do with the turkey and the dressing the day after, bound in an egg yolk sauce.

From nan's book. A boxed mix doctored with pudding and sour cream, layered with vanilla cream and iced with melted chips.

Mashed potato beaten smooth with cottage cheese and sour cream, rested a day, baked with cheese on top.

Twelve cups of flour, three loaves, with her molasses and spice variations at the bottom.

A pound of butter, red and green cherries, pineapple slices, three hours in a slow oven with a pan of water.

Wild cherry jello beaten into sour cream with marshmallows and fruit cocktail.

Cool Whip, yogurt and instant vanilla pudding folded together with a tin of fruit.

Zucchini cooked down with pineapple and lemon, set with a package of apricot jello.

Ten cups of zucchini and ten of onion salted overnight, turmeric yellow, thickened with cornstarch.