Author: The Plot Twisted
Cooking Without Photos – Beef Pot Pie
Ahhhhhhh Lake Hamilton! one of our fave places to get away❤️. This week I chose a recipe out of the cookbook, “Hungry Like A Wolf” compiled by Lake Hamilton Bands. Lake Hamilton School District consolidated several smaller schools, one of them being the Bear community.
Bear, AR was once a boom town thanks to wild rumors of gold, silver and other precious metals being found in the Ouachita Mountains surrounding Bear. Folks flooded the area in the late 1800’s. As quickly as it grew and once the truth was found out, population declined just as fast.
At one time Bear produced two newspapers, had 35 mining companies, 5 hotels, 2 saw mills, a post office and of course their own school. Not everyone believed the hype about gold and silver being in the area. The State Legislature revived the Geological Survey of Arkansas and Theodore Comstock was sent to examine the mines surrounding Bear.
In 1888, it was reported that the survey disputed that there was anything of value in the hills surrounding Bear. Once this survey report was made known, mining company stock was made worthless and the town ultimately fell apart.
Sad day, Fam.
On to the recipe!!!
Y’all, when I saw this recipe, I just stared in amazement. How in the world have I never thought of this before? Using beef stew for BEEF POT PIE?! What?!
Couple things:
- You’re gonna need salt.
- I used jumbo biscuits but I can see how smaller biscuits would be good too.
- You could also use pie crust.
- Was it the best thing I ever ate? No. But for a quick dinner fix, we will for sure do it again.
Cooking Without Photos – Pasta Salad
Mountain Fork, AR in Polk County. Never heard of it? Neither had I🤔🤔. There’s just not a whole lot written about Mountain Fork. Seems to be just a tucked away place in Polk County, very near the Oklahoma border.
I’ve added a photo (not mine) of their Mountain Fork Bridge. This bridge is on the historical register and celebrates 100 years this year❤️
This week’s cookbook, “Heart & Soul Cookbook”, was compiled by the members of Christ’s Church at Mountain Fork. The community first began hosting Sunday school in 1954 at the school house. Construction of the church began the following year and the doors opened April 1958. They are still holding services today.
Since summer is upon us, I chose to make Pasta Salad. This was very tasty!
Couple of things:
- Kraft stopped making Seven Seas dressing in 2012. I chose to go with straight Kraft.
- I used Roma tomatoes because they just make sense as a pasta tomato. Not too much juice and I cut out the seeds.
- I also put the cheese in last because to me it gets too soggy if you put it in and leave it.
Enjoy❤️❤️❤️
The Plot Twisted 