Oriental Chicken-Rice Salad

This is a potentially great salad that looks like it could make about 8 servings. You can skip the extra salt and use low sodium soy sauce, plus reduce the amount of oil if you like.  The oil, salt, soy sauce and sesame seeds are used to make a kind of a dressing that flavors … Continue reading

Broccoli Salad

This recipe card is a clear departure from Jane Kelley’s pretty 6×5 cards, as is the handwriting and her name! Here she has identified herself as Janice Kelley…or perhaps Janice could be her mother/aunt/sister, etc. That would explain the different handwriting.

Herb Grenda’s French Dressing

Herb Grenda must have been a friend of Jane’s. He was born in 1909 in Indiana, and can be found as a varsity football player for the Missouri Tigers back in ’33, ’34 and ’35. He was married to Alice on July 4, 1937 and they were together the rest of their lives. Herb died … Continue reading

Cobina (Jane Kelley)

This could be a recipe for cobina, or it could be called something completely different. The word “cobina” doesn’t match up to anything, really, except Greek yogurt and actress-turned-socialite, Cobina Wright. Maybe Jane Kelley was inspired by Cobina Wright to create this salad?

Green Noodle Salad (Jane Kelley)

Thanks to Jane Kelley, you will soon be able to feed a large group! I did not know Jane, but she left a rather beautiful recipe box behind and I managed to find it at a curio shop. It’s larger than a standard recipe box, solid maple with dovetailed corners, and “Recipes” on the front … Continue reading