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Looking through a recipe box always revives memories of special dishes and the people who made them.
My mother-in-law gave me a recipe box filled with special family recipes when my husband and I married 10 years ago. To this day, I still flip through the box to find family favorites such as Betty’s Baked Beans and Harold’s Tacos. And I still have all of my grandmother’s faded recipes stashed in a box in hopes of some day finding the time to type them into a book for my family.
I know all of you have a favorite recipe that you’d like to share. And I’d like to share your favorites with readers. Please send me your favorite recipe, along with a short description of why you like it and a photograph of yourself, and we’ll publish those several times a month on this page as Readers’ Recipes.
Please send to llandini@paducahsun.com or regular mail to Leigh Landini Wright, Features Editor, The Paducah Sun, P.O. Box 2300, Paducah, KY 42002-2300.

Chocolate and Marshmallow Delights

National S’mores Day is just four days away (Sunday). What can be better than chocolate combined with an oozy marshmallow sandwiched between two graham crackers?
My former neighbors’ children came over almost every weekend last fall when we burned leaves. We placed marshmallows at the end of the hot dog roasting fork and hoped for the best. Of course, our s’mores had a slightly oak-smoked taste, but they were a treat after a long day of raking leaves.

Happily, though, we don’t have to wait for an open fire to enjoy the chocolate marshmallow taste. S’mores can be placed on the grill, which avoids an intermingling of leaf and stick debris flavors with the sweet goodness.
For the grill, place half of a chocolate bar on half of a graham cracker. Toast a large marshmallow over a grill preheated to medium, toast and then place atop the graham cracker combo. Top with another graham cracker.
Or for a cooler treat during the dog days, try a s’mores ice cream pie:
S'mores Ice Cream Pie
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
1/4 cup sugar
4 cups vanilla or chocolate ice cream, slightly softened
3 cups miniature marshmallows
4 (1.55 oz. each) milk chocolate bars, finely chopped
Whipped topping or sweetened whipped cream (optional)
Additional graham cracker pieces, miniature marshmallows and chopped milk chocolate bars (optional)

Instructions:
Butter bottom and sides of 9-inch pie plate. Stir together graham cracker crumbs, butter and sugar until well blended. Press crumb mixture evenly on bottom and up sides of prepared pie plate. Freeze 5 minutes before filling. Stir together ice cream, marshmallows and chocolate bar pieces; spoon into crust. Cover and freeze until firm.
Soften slightly to serve. Garnish with whipped topping, graham cracker pieces, marshmallows and chocolate bar pieces, if desired.
8 servings.