You know your granddaughter REALLY liked your garlic mashed potatoes when she carefully gets the pot out of the refrigerator and reheats a bowl of them for breakfast the next morning.
YESSS!
I cooked from childhood. I was always very good. From 1996 to 2006 I quit cooking.
And I am still trying to get my groove back.
That decade turned out to be seminal for many things cooking-wise. Foods disappeared, changed, became available only in pre-packaged form.
I've gotten much better. And I have gone back to my natural tendency, which, I hear, is a big national thing now (I'm never original) to buy local, in season. and as cheaply as possible. Duh/ It is at its peak. It is delicious. And your point is?
One of my things these days is to find old cookbooks from women's groups in the past 50 years. or longer. I have my mother's 1935 Joanna Circle cookbook from the First UMC of Alamogordo, NM. Stoves then didn't have thermostats. The cookbook also includes my grandmother's hominy chili pie. It requires grinding the round steak and hominy. Hamburger wasn't that available at the time. I've never made the pie. I am sure it is delicious; everything she cooked was. ( tapioca. don't get me started on tapioca.)
A friend of mine just had family visitors from the East Coast. They spent 6 hours at the Fort Worth Zoo. Their children did not require medical assistance. Boy, their hydration is GOOD!
Today, I just stayed in. Grandkids are home. Gracie is really bored.
She is peeing on outings, though. I have leftovers. No need to cook. (Note to single young folks: yes, I have Lean Pockets. Ech!) I have leftover rotisserie chicken, green salad, black-eyed peas with snaps, garlic mash, baked ham, bacon and home-grown tomatoes...not to mention fresh strawberry cake and dark chocolate...
You know, with all this heat, I was feeling a little down. After reading the above, though, life seems right good.
Ya'll hug, gnosh, visit, and chaw, y''all. Comfort is what it is. I enjoy the food channel. I just don't buy into lots of pricy ingredients.
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yummo I want to eat at your house. I love real food, the kind that makes you want to enjoy the wholesome of every bite. My family is always in such a hurry, but they will always stop if there is some ribs on the menu!
yummo yourself. I love ribs. don't know how to cook them. And before I die, Lord help me, I WILL learn to make the fork-tender brisket I eat at other tables.
Garden tomatoes are still around, and a young checker in his 20s convinced me to buy the bacon.
"Come on," he said. "I'll quit eating bacon in September. But right now? BLTs." Oh yeah, wise young man. I'll have one today.
Thanks to Gracie, I've already been out and watered while she cavorted.(I must be verrry careful this smart pup gets no taste of bacon.)
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