Where Family Memories are Made
General Store
Shop the KarenKave General Store and bring home a piece of the past to your kitchen today. Select from aprons for children and adults, tshirts and a newly published cookbook of vintage family recipes.
KarenKave Apron
Generations of Recipes
These recipes and more old time recipes are in the KarenKave recipe book:
Generations of Recipes in the General Store.
My story
Our family, the Joyaux’s and Allen’s had a tremendous love for food. Recipes were born, written on the backs of envelopes or the cardboard off of a cereal box. My grandfather, Micheal D. Allen was a chef in the Army in WWI, cooking for the troops before they all were sent off to serve their county.
I was blessed to receive my grandmothers’ (Marie Kempf Joyaux) 1950 Chamber Stove. I absolutely love knowing she cooked some of the same recipes I now cook on it. Her stuffed cabbage could be smelled miles down the road as Marie cooked it in the well of that stove.
He returned home after the war and after getting treatment for mustard poisoning, he made his career and worked as a chef, and the head chef in many of the largest country clubs in the Chicagoland area and Indiana. My mother learned to cook from him after she married my father, John Allen.
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Join me inside the KarenKave as I share the love of cooking and canning in a family tradition style that will bring memories of the past to your table.
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A story of tradition in the sauce:
