Food That I Like

[Rustyt1953]

JR is learning to grill.

 

[zeke]

Well since nobody else was paying, cooking and cleaning up.

Fresh country style pork ribs, marinated in Famous Dave's Devil Spit sauce and hickory smoked. Side of smoked and Cajun spiced Philly cream cheese as a side.

 

[Golddollar]

I miss reading OJC's Sabbath Day posts.

The one thing I like, and miss, was my Mom's meat loaf. IT was always tasty, she put little pieces of white cheddar cheese in it.

Plus she made a beef gravy with mushrooms to serve with it.

And it wasn't a recipie she had written down, just one that was in her head.

And sadly, like her, it's gone.

I remember we did some scambling to find some of my mother's recipes after she died. In particular we were worried that her recipe for baked beans was lost until my brother found it. So immediately I made a batch for a family gathering. When my dad pronounced that the beans I made were just like my mother's I knew we found the lost treasure.

Back when my mom was still alive, her extended family decided to put together a cookbook of receipes from throughout the family. Family recipes, including those left behind by deceased family members came out of the woodwork. My mom was one of the members of the committee that oversaw the project. What resulted was a cookbook that Betty Crocker would have been proud of. Sold for the princely sum of $7.00 (this was back in 1987) plus $1.50 for shipping, the family had 500 copies printed and EVERY ONE OF THEM SOLD! My uncle who headed the committee worked in the Federal Building in Chicago and he sold close to 100 copies there in the building, so there was signficant interest outside the family.

Today, you can't buy a copy of this family cookbook for love or money. I made a specific bequest in my Will of my copy to my younger nephew because this is a piece of family history that I don't want ending up in a landfill.

I mention this story because perhaps your extended family could organize such a project and not have the family recipes like your mother's lost to history.