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Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:17:09 GMT

Cleaning out paperwork in the office yesterday and found a magazine holder AND a 3-ring notebook full of recipes printed off in 1997 from the QVC web pages when we thought this board was being shut down!

It is the final wrap up from old timers like Inky Dinky Doo, Fuddles, Snowflake, D'AnnM and so so many other contributors and wonderful ladies! What a walk down memory lane. We had been going for years and were posting our favorites so we would have them. It is a treasure!

Were any of you there then??? So many happy and generous ladies with kind hearts. I miss them all.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

santorini — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:47:45 GMT

I only remember someone's famous dish being discussed often. Berta or Bertie? And it was either baked beans or potato salad. I think I read she passed away.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

shoptilyadropagain — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:14:07 GMT

I was around then and remember Inky Dinky Doo's BBQ recipe. I think I even made it once. I still have a few recipes I printed off from back then.

I think Aunt Bertie's famous receipe was for scalloped potatoes. I never actually made it but many who did said it was very good.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:25:35 GMT

As I remember those potatoes were simply sliced potatoes with salt and pepper and cream poured over to just cover then baked until browned to your liking. How bad could that be? Maybe even add some very thin onion slices?????

No cheese. Scalloped potatoes. Au Gratin have cheese.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

sunshine45 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:31:56 GMT

i remember......wish those were available again.

someone had archived them, but that isnt available anymore, i dont believe.

i think i may have a recipe or two in there......sunshine43 or sunshine45.

you can no longer access the host/vendor guest recipes anymore either.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Zhills — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:41:15 GMT

I have an online Holiday Goodies thread from 2005 in a PDF file on my computer.

Aren't they fun to go through!

I remember Mrs Murphy's Meatballs.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Harpa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:19:05 GMT

@Sooner Wonder if QVC could help you publish a QVC Community Cookbook with those? I believe there would be a ton of interest!

(And, it is very nice to see you posting! Happy Spring!)

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:27:21 GMT

@Harpa wrote:
@Sooner Wonder if QVC could help you publish a QVC Community Cookbook with those? I believe there would be a ton of interest!
(And, it is very nice to see you posting! Happy Spring!)

@Harpa Publishing books is what I mostly did for a living. I can even get you an ISBN and decide the paper grade and size and do and place the graphics. I even put together and published a hardback community cookbook!

However, I would have no idea about copyright issues and have no desire to go back to work.

There are hundreds of these recipes. Most with author's nicknames, and some without.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

AuntG — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:08:18 GMT

That is so cool @Sooner. I wasn't participating that far back, but I remember Bertie and someone with wolf in their name. I loved the days when you'd see new recipes every day. One I stll make, because DH loves it, is Chilighetti. Someone found it for me a few years ago. A nice salad, and cheesy bread from Aldi's makes it an ideal meal for him.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:44:51 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
That is so cool @Sooner. I wasn't participating that far back, but I remember Bertie and someone with wolf in their name. I loved the days when you'd see new recipes every day. One I stll make, because DH loves it, is Chilighetti. Someone found it for me a few years ago. A nice sald, and cheesy bread from Aldi's makes it an ideal meal for him.

@AuntG Yes!!!! Direwolf! So many neat people women and some men! The World Wide Web came into play in 1993, so we were off and running not too long thereafter with QVC. At first it was a different format called Shop Talk, which morphed into or was replaced by the chat boards.

I was one of the first webmasters anywhere in the summer of 1993 and that was a whole new adventure! I remember my first look a a website at work, was handed a sheet of simple commands and had a web page up that afternoon. I had used a computer at work since 1983, so I got the job!

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Zhills — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:37:44 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I was one of the first webmasters anywhere in the summer of 1993 and that was a whole new adventure! I remember my first look a a website at work, was handed a sheet of simple commands and had a web page up that afternoon. I had used a computer at work since 1983, so I got the job!

Impresisve! My company offered Computer Programming as a free class for people who were interested. The class was for the Data Corp and the Payroll Dept at the local AFB.

They had room for more so we had a chance to go, Free! Loved it! That was in 1974. Yep, 1974. Reels, punch cards, compilers. All long gone now.

The computer works the same....it just does it FASTER.

I've written the programs that let's you "fill in the blanks" and designed websites.

My computer is what keeps me going! Absolutely love it!

Congrats, Sooner! It's not easy!

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Lovestheshores — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:20:46 GMT

I still have, what I believe is, Mary Beth Roe's first cookbook that I bought from QVC ages ago. Anyone else have it?

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Shihtzursqmom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:18:26 GMT

I have a couple of notebooks of old recipes from the forums and the ones Hollie compiled

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Zhills — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:01:28 GMT

I had Hollie's site bookmarked but never printed it out!

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:22:05 GMT

@Zhills wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I was one of the first webmasters anywhere in the summer of 1993 and that was a whole new adventure! I remember my first look a a website at work, was handed a sheet of simple commands and had a web page up that afternoon. I had used a computer at work since 1983, so I got the job!

Impresisve! My company offered Computer Programming as a free class for people who were interested. The class was for the Data Corp and the Payroll Dept at the local AFB.

They had room for more so we had a chance to go, Free! Loved it! That was in 1974. Yep, 1974. Reels, punch cards, compilers. All long gone now.

The computer works the same....it just does it FASTER.

I've written the programs that let's you "fill in the blanks" and designed websites.

My computer is what keeps me going! Absolutely love it!

Congrats, Sooner! It's not easy!

@Zhills Wow what a career!!! So you too know why they call it "the cutting edge!"

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:23:43 GMT

@Lovestheshores I do have that Mary Beth cookbook!!!!

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

spabar — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:44:36 GMT

@Lovestheshores wrote:
I still have, what I believe is, Mary Beth Roe's first cookbook that I bought from QVC ages ago. Anyone else have it?

@Lovestheshores I still have both her cookbooks. One of my sons still requests her pork chops and corn recipe. (First book)

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

haddon9 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:22:28 GMT

I'm afraid that I'm not much of a cook so I never contributed a recipe.

However I can remember one of the posters took it upon herself to gather recipes and put them all in an online type of book. There were a lot from what I vaguely remember. This has to be at least fifteen years ago or more.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

house_cat — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:25:53 GMT

That predates me. I think my first post here was 2009.

Re: Found My QVC Recipes from 1997!

Sooner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:15:47 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
That is so cool @Sooner. I wasn't participating that far back, but I remember Bertie and someone with wolf in their name. I loved the days when you'd see new recipes every day. One I stll make, because DH loves it, is Chilighetti. Someone found it for me a few years ago. A nice salad, and cheesy bread from Aldi's makes it an ideal meal for him.

@AuntG I just remembered I've had other nicknames along the way as have most of us on that long. Something would happen, you'd have to get another one to log in and it would go back and forth as to who had what name. So there was more than one sooner, and from different places and times.