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Chicken Divan

Whether you’re a meticulous meal-planner who knows what’s on the menu a week in advance or a seat-of-the-pants type constantly able to pull something together at the last minute, it can be frustrating to feel like dinnertime is a series of the same meals coming around over and over like a culinar

Eggs Benedict

These delicious, diner-inspired dishes will give you a blast from the past. Readers are sure to enjoy these nostalgic bites: Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast, Eggs Benedict, Patty Melt, and Classic Strawberry Milkshake. 

These delicious, diner-inspired dishes will give you a blast from the past.
Rae Hruby and family

Never let it be said that Rae Hruby let a holiday pass without cooking something specific to the occasion.

“I’ve just always done my themed foods,” says Hruby, who lives in Grafton, where she and her husband, Paul, are members of Wellington-based Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative. “I took four years of foods classes in high school, and I’ve always enjoyed doing creative things with food.”

Catherine McSwain has made her Strawberry Fields Steak Salad for years — it’s her husband’s favorite meal, after all. The day she got a little tired of serving store-bought dressing with it, however, was the day it went from really good to exceptional.