Native American Comfort Food Recipes

""The Creek Indians in Tennessee and Georgia were using corn ... for generations before the European settlers arrived.... This simple list of ingredients found in this famous Southern quick bread resembles Irish soda or wheaten and I cannot help but imagine how the Ulster-Scots settlers improvised and adapted to the new found colourful cornmeal...."

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Ingredients: cornmeal, eggs, fennel seeds...

"Comfort food can be healthy!!! this is Low in trans fats. Nutritional facts for the mayo dressing is here http://www.smartbalance.com/MayonnaiseFamily.aspx. Do make the whole recipe even if you don't have 20 to serve. You can top a Shepherd’s Pie, add it to soup for a gluten free thickener, croquettes, add to a bread dough recipe, stuff them in a..."

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Ingredients: pepper, light mayonnaise...

"This takes no more than 5 minutes to mix together, and is ready to eat in no time! Very versatile also!"

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Ingredients: creamed corn, eggs, honey...

"Also known as: "Guwakaan Dleeyí & Dzísk’w Dleeyí" From the SEARHC (SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium) website comes a recipe for using the extra venison and/or moose that it seems many Alaskans have in their freezers. "Deer and moose meat are lean alternatives to ground beef, and the vegetables..."

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Ingredients: cornmeal, dried parsley...

"There is a running joke in my family, that when you are hung over, you need a big bowl of Hangover Soup! lol...And it's true! No matter how sick you feel, you always feel better after a bowl. or two! ;)"

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Ingredients: pepper, elbow macaroni...

"The Sage Cafe at Barona Valley Ranch serves this Fry Bread between the hours of 5 and 11 PM. It is OUTSTANDING. Hands down it is the best fry bread I've ever eaten. Top with honey, butter and/or powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar and you'll swear you're eating manna from heaven. We like it so much we asked for the recipe and were quite pleasantly..."

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Ingredients: hot water, salt, shortening...

"the only way I fix corn on the cob. My microwave is 1000 watts."

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Ingredients: ears of corn, salt, butter...

"Trying to find a fry bread recipe that I would eat when growing up in the midwest"

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Ingredients: oil, salt, vegetable oil...

"First time I had this was during "Indian Taco" day for hot lunch at the school where I was a teacher on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. This was served at all the pow-wows out there! A friend's mother gave me her recipe; they make it for a church fund-raiser in Rapid City, South Dakota. GREAT FOR O.A.M.C. PLANNED OVERS!"

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Ingredients: warm water, salt, sugar...

"I love apples, and oatmeal. You may use quick or old fashioned oatmeal for this — just whatever you have. Try this with some frozen blueberries or any other dried fruit. I used Craisins and frozen raspberries often. This is another recipe from the wall of our old house. Which means, I have no idea where it came from after 7 years. I'm posting these..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, granny smith apples...

"Squash-haters, beware! This recipe is so sweet and tasty you'll want to eat the leftovers for breakfast. (Hey, I do...) Easily doubles to serve a crowd. This is from "Disease-Proof Your Child"."

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Ingredients: dried apricots, orange juice...