This web site contains my favorite recipes. As you look at my recipes, you will notice the majority of the are very simple. This is the type of food my family enjoys most. I spent a number of years cooking for Marriott Corp., a country club, a hotel and an old english restaurant and I have come to enjoy cooking the things my family enjoys. Some of them will have stories and memories of the friends and family that share their recipes with me. Others are ones I have collected from cookbooks, magazines or the internet. I have tried to give credit where credit is due. I hope you enjoy some my favorite recipes.


I want to thank my mother for her patience in teaching me to cook. I started cooking for the family when I was in the sixth grade. My mom was working and my dad was going to school at BYU working on his masters degree. Mom would leave me instructions on what to cook for dinner and if I had questions I would call her. Thanks mom for the help and encouragement. I love you.

Under the tab Rick's Healthy Recipes are of course healthy recipes. There are some Vegan, Vegetarian and of course just plain healthy ones.


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Friday, January 1, 2016

Broken Glass Salad



This recipe is one of the first things I ever made, when I first started cooking.  It is now a staple for Thanksgiving and Christmas.


1/2 cup butter (melted)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 box vanilla wafers

Crush wafers.  Add sugar, cinnamon and melted butter.  Press 1/2 cookie mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 pan.

1-3 oz box red jello
1-3 oz box green jello
1 envelope Knox gelatin
1 15 oz can pineapple tidbits (drained, reserving juice)
1 pint whipping cream
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Set a 3 oz. box of red jello and a 3 oz box of green jello in 1 1/2 cups hot water in 9x13 pans. I set these first.  When set cut into small cubes. Make cookie mixture.  Dissolve 1 envelope of Knox gelatin in 1/4 cup cold water.  Stir in 1/4 cup hot pineapple juice.  Whip 1 pint whipping cream along with sugar.  Add Knox gelatin mixture.  Stir in jello's, pineapple, and nuts.  Pour over crumb mixture.  Top with balance of crumbs.
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