Lol! My mother would’ve been ecstatic if I had started doing the cooking and used her recipes. My mother was a good cook, but hated cooking. I’m too lazy and don’t like cleaning up after myself, so I got banned from the kitchen, haha!
“You grandmother/great grandmother taught me how to make this. We really looked forward to having it every year. Want to learn how, too?” sure beats the heck out of “We had a cool (this or that) when I was young, but the secret to making them went away with ……”
Carry on the tradition. I am making Christmas Eve dinner for the family and the theme this year is foods you remember as a child. One cousin wrote that she loved _____ but has never been able to find her mother’s recipe for it. She was so happy that I have found a cookbook of that era that has a recipe in it that would be close if not the same. IT is a sad and exciting Christmas in that families are moving away and this will be the last for all of us. I am making a booklet of the recipes for each to take to their new homes.
My SIL makes Christmas Day dinner as she imagines it was. I know her since she was around 12 – it was nothing like she remembers. For one thing we were done by 8 pm to go out to the movies, she goes until midnight as she thinks it used to. The dinner involves very little cooking – she has a huge antipasto – Italian cold cuts, cheeses, breads, and oil soaked vegetables. Then we have to sit around for an hour while she “digests”. Then we have ravioli and tomato gravy – definitely not her mom’s gravy recipe too sweet and yet acidy from cooking too long. The gravy is the only thing she cooks – she has her husband boil the ravioli. Then she has to sit and digest for another hour. They used to have ham, green bean casserole, and sweet potatoes, but she eliminated that course as it was “too much food” and she doesn’t like to cook. (She would buy the ham cooked and leave it overnight in her car trunk in the garage because someone once told her that in winter one can leave things in the car trunk and they will not go bad.) She then has Italian pastries and cookies. She takes a plate and picks what she wants and puts it on that plate and then puts the rest out for everyone else to pick from.
Her mother’s dinners were much more welcoming and lasted only maybe 4 hours not 8.
roaming26-37 over 5 years ago
Lol! My mother would’ve been ecstatic if I had started doing the cooking and used her recipes. My mother was a good cook, but hated cooking. I’m too lazy and don’t like cleaning up after myself, so I got banned from the kitchen, haha!
clayusmcret Premium Member over 5 years ago
“You grandmother/great grandmother taught me how to make this. We really looked forward to having it every year. Want to learn how, too?” sure beats the heck out of “We had a cool (this or that) when I was young, but the secret to making them went away with ……”
stairsteppublishing over 5 years ago
Carry on the tradition. I am making Christmas Eve dinner for the family and the theme this year is foods you remember as a child. One cousin wrote that she loved _____ but has never been able to find her mother’s recipe for it. She was so happy that I have found a cookbook of that era that has a recipe in it that would be close if not the same. IT is a sad and exciting Christmas in that families are moving away and this will be the last for all of us. I am making a booklet of the recipes for each to take to their new homes.
seahagg22 over 5 years ago
The real question is What is marshmallow surprise?
DDrazen over 5 years ago
“Surprise! I’m taking over your recipe!”
KEA over 5 years ago
’twer ever thus, for kings and peons, raise your children to follow in your steps and when they do feel totally usurped
car2ner over 5 years ago
my mom was always in charge of the cranberry sauce. This year she is gone and we are “who knows how the sauce was made?”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
She should make it anyway as a back up in case of a problem.
mafastore over 5 years ago
My SIL makes Christmas Day dinner as she imagines it was. I know her since she was around 12 – it was nothing like she remembers. For one thing we were done by 8 pm to go out to the movies, she goes until midnight as she thinks it used to. The dinner involves very little cooking – she has a huge antipasto – Italian cold cuts, cheeses, breads, and oil soaked vegetables. Then we have to sit around for an hour while she “digests”. Then we have ravioli and tomato gravy – definitely not her mom’s gravy recipe too sweet and yet acidy from cooking too long. The gravy is the only thing she cooks – she has her husband boil the ravioli. Then she has to sit and digest for another hour. They used to have ham, green bean casserole, and sweet potatoes, but she eliminated that course as it was “too much food” and she doesn’t like to cook. (She would buy the ham cooked and leave it overnight in her car trunk in the garage because someone once told her that in winter one can leave things in the car trunk and they will not go bad.) She then has Italian pastries and cookies. She takes a plate and picks what she wants and puts it on that plate and then puts the rest out for everyone else to pick from.
Her mother’s dinners were much more welcoming and lasted only maybe 4 hours not 8.