Mom’s MAID-RITE… made right!
- High-quality 80/20 hamburger meat
- Hamburger Buns
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Jodi’s addition: garlic and onion powder to taste
- Shredded cheddar cheese, optional
- Potato Chips, optional
Maid-Rite Special Sauce
- 1 large onion, chopped
- Finely shredded cabbage
- Dill pickles, chopped
- Mustard and mayonnaise
Heat oven for lightly toasting the hamburger buns. Brown loose meat and season with salt and pepper, garlic and onion powder to taste. Drain off nearly all fat. Add a small amount of water to keep the meat “juicy.” Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl. The amount of mustard and/or mayo in the sauce is a matter of preference.
Each person prepares his/her own MAID-RITE. Spoon loose meat with a slotted spoon onto warmed hamburger buns. Top with special sauce and sprinkle shredded cheddar cheese on top. Serve with potato chips. Enjoy!
Comment: This is the original MAID-RITE recipe according to my mom. She has been making these hamburgers since 1939 and also had the honor of eating her first ones in Muscatine, Iowa *home of the MAID-RITE sandwiches*. CLICK here to read more about Mom’s 1939 experience…
Comment: You can trust that this non-steamed recipe tastes eerily like the first constructed MAID-RITES!
Because I believe FUNNY is better than sackcloth and ashes . . .
Jane: “Hey, Marilyn, have you read Jodi Lea Stewart’s latest novel, The Accidental Road yet?
“Honey, I was her main consultant!” Love, Marilyn
~ The Accidental Road ~
First-place Historical Fiction, Adventure-Drama, winner in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.
The Accidental Road
Kat’s almost-full-time job has become dodging the embarrassing tsunami of male attention aimed at her mother Ellie, a social butterfly who bears an uncanny resemblance to film star Marilyn Monroe. To add to Kat’s woes, her stepfather, Roy, has lately grown irrationally jealous of his beautiful wife. Kat buries her worries in movies and classical novels, but when Roy’s rants turn violent, she and Ellie plan an escape via Route 66 to the freedom of a new life in Las Vegas. Instead, they wind up in a small Arizona town crawling with the mafia. Trouble escalates when Ellie attracts the eye of a mafia Caporegime who, along with Roy, is determined to have her at any cost.
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Author Jodi Lea Stewart ~ Laughing Makes it All Worthwhile! ~
Jodi Lea Stewart is a fiction author who believes in and writes about the triumph of the human spirit through overcoming adversity. Her writing reflects her life beginning in Texas and Oklahoma, later moving as a youngster to an Arizona cattle ranch next door to the Navajo Nation, and, as a young adult, resuming in her native Texas. Growing up, she climbed petroglyph-etched boulders, bounced two feet in the air in the backend of pickups wrestling through washed-out terracotta roads, and rode horseback on the winds of her imagination through the arroyos and mountains of the Arizona high country. Her lifetime friendship with all nationalities, cowpunchers, and the southern gentry allows Jodi to write comfortably about anything in the Southwest, the South, and BEYOND.
What’s next from Jodi?
Another epic historical fiction novel catapulting the reader from Texas into Mexico, Argentina, China, British Hong Kong, Italy, and into the epicenter of another action-filled human drama. Yes… there is an elephant in it, lol! Watch for it in early 2023!
Other Recent AWARD-WINNING Publications by Jodi Lea Stewart
TRIUMPH, A NOVEL OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT is a 2021 International FIREBIRD First Place Multicultural Fiction Award Winner
If you loved To Kill a Mockingbird, and want a dramatic, different, and sometimes humorous version of New Orleans life, St. Louis, and Texas in the early to mid-century 1900s, wrapped up in beguiling plot twists and unforgettable characters, read TRIUMPH, a Novel of the Human Spirit by Jodi Lea Stewart.
TRIUMPH was a finalist in three categories in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards contest, won a Readers’ Favorite with Reviewers, and is also a 2021 Firebird First Place Award Winner in Multicultural Fiction.
BLACKBERRY ROAD is an International CHANTICLEER First Place Multicultural Award Winner
Trouble sneaks in one Oklahoma afternoon in 1934 like an oily twister. A beloved neighbor is murdered, and a single piece of evidence sends the sheriff to arrest a black man who Biddy, a sharecropper’s daughter, knows is innocent. Hauntingly terrifying sounds seeping from the woods lead Biddy into even deeper mysteries and despair and finally into the shocking truths of that fateful summer.
“Beyond the humor and entertaining antics of the main character, Biddy Woodson, BLACKBERRY ROAD has depth and meaning as it explores stirring universal themes that we expect in great literature” ~ D.B. Jackson, acclaimed Historical and Western author
BLACKBERRY ROAD is engaging, entertaining, and a book that is sure to linger with you . . . the trip is well worth the time ~ Cyrus Webb, Host of ConversationsLIVE, president of Conversations Radio Network, tv show host, author, and Amazon top reviewer
Do you love stories set in Exotic Locations?
Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves trilogy will satisfy all your exotic-location cravings!
Author Note to YOU: Many folks, including some librarians, think this series is for kids only. Don’t believe it! Our feedback has proven over and over that most of the “Silki fans” are full-fledged adults . . . like you! There is an earlier version of these novels that leans a bit more toward younger audiences, but they, also, were not merely kid lit. The new enriched series is for every age on the planet. Test me! ~ Jodi
Jodi Lea Stewart’s award-winning adventure-mystery trilogy, Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves, is set smack dab in the middle of the Navajo Nation, USA! Her stories feature unforgettable characters, mysteries at every turn, plot twists, humor, plenty of Native American lore & legends, a glossary of Native words, and surprise endings!
