Later in Cleveland Ohio, she participated in the Hudson, Ohio Gourmet group where dinner experience included pre-planned menus and advanced preparation. Through this period, we collected a book of recipes based on input from many people.  We have now online shared them with our family and now with you.

Ralph came from Bucks County with the local Pennsylvania Dutch people with their unique German based menus. However, after college the business travel in USA and later England, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Japan he would return often with a new recipe book. Ralph was introduced  to new tastes and it provided family stimulation for adventure into new and menu recipes. The kids, however, varied in their interest in our food experiments.  They survived and later even picked up and even expanded the challenge.

Soon I found a need to begin mixing semolina flour, olive oil and eggs and then rolling them into pasta from scratch. Fran had previously found a good Italian meat tomato and marinara sauce and in big batches we made new recreations of Italy.

In Houston, Texas there was a new life style for both of us.  We found the best Mexican restaurants to explore.  We found ranch and trail foods with the best hot sausage. There also were local Cajun and New Orleans seafood with new spiced rice cooking.  Here is where Ralph began the search for the best way to reproduce a versions called Ralph's chili.

The move to Mystic, CT introduced new local sources for seafood Chowder - but mainly with Clams. Thus Ralph's Chowder varied with milk or just clear or sometimes Manhattan. This chowder became a new experiment in version. 

The Stew and Soups with vegetables have always been Ralph's preferred meal. 

Irish Stew became the Mystic winter alternative to Chowder of course with Guinness and lamb or beef.

But we never stopped making big batches of the Ralph's chili.

When the grandchildren come we always serve lunch with either chili, chowder or soup/stew.

Here now, we share our recipes based on experiences for your enjoyment. As you can see the internet FoodTV.com  has continued and expanded our recipes each day even now.

Fran uses Masterchef software for her many recipe and her downloads are for your use.