Do You Fix Food From Your Childhood For Holidays?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
7 years ago
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Comments (26)I'm only 37 but miss my great grandmother's cooking the most. Every Sunday after church the whole clan would go to her tiny house and eat, everyone would bring something. It was heaven for a little kid who didn't love her mom's cooking. Fried apple pies made from her apples she grew, Greens, Poke, Turnip, and Mustard usually, Fried chicken, Chicken and Dumplings, Fried squash and okra, homemade Mac n cheese, chocolate pie, blackberry cobbler made with the berries from out behind her house, she grew a huge row of them and had a huge garden. I did not eat tomatoes then, but I would eat the cherry tomatoes she had with a bit of salt. My great aunt also would make us duck eggs fried in bacon grease getting the edges lacey like we liked and chocolate mayonaise cake. I have most of the recipes except the cobbler, making my mom look for it. My grandma made pretty good Purple Hull Peas and rice with a brown gravy. I cook very similar to this now, can't help it, it just tastes better to me. I don't really miss Kool aid or peanut butter and jelly, think I ate way too much of that and hotdogs as a kid at home....See MoreWhat do you miss about your childhood?
Comments (44)I miss having my siblings around. We all shared a room-some of us 2 in a bunk bed. I miss us all sitting around the kitchen table at dinner time and my Dad making Sunday breakfast. I miss going to my Grandparent's house and I miss their Scottish brogue. I miss my Grandpa showing off my Grandma's china cabinet and all that was in it to any new friend you brought to the house. I miss his dancing jigs around the dining room table and giving me grape Kool-Aid ice cubes wrappe in paper towel to suck on. I miss watching my Grandma M knit and embroider and her teaching me the stitches. I miss the family weiner roasts at my Grandpa's farm and the wheel barrow rides and banding the pigeons. My Grandpa H raised and raced homing pigeons and won tropheys. I miss the money tree and bananas growing on the pear tree. I miss my Grandpa H. I even miss the outhouse. LOL I miss playing with dolls. More than anything on this Earth I wanted to be a Mommy. I miss the backyard ice rinks and being able to skate all day on weekends and all winter. We had lots of snow back then. I am afraid to skate now because I am afraid of falling and breaking something. LOL I miss making tents out of blankets thrown across the clothesline and held down with rocks. My friends Mary Sue and Mary Jo and I would sleep outside in those tents on hot summer nights. I miss going for drives with my Mom and Dad and stopping for ice cream. I miss downtown Windsor when we had a nice downtown filled with stores instead of kiddie bars and strip joints. Stopping at Kresgies for a piece of cherry pie or pastries. Sitting on Santa's lap at Smith's and the smell of lavender from the lavender cart. I miss going to Hudson's Department store in Detroit. I miss my Grandma's pink aluminum Christmas tree. LOL I miss the hustle and bustle of Christmas in this house and my Mom baking up a storm and the smell of the turkey cooking when I woke up in the morning. I miss making leaf houses in the fall with all my friends. We would rake leaves into rooms and we called my friend Kathy Mabel. LOLOL I miss all of us neighbourhood kids getting together and playing hide-n-seek, or Red Rover or Mother May I or Stop and Go and playing baseball on the empty lot or playing tops with baseball cards. I miss the smell of the gum that was inside the baseball card packet. I miss seeing my Grandma M and my Aunt Cissie walking up my street from the bus stop in their matching red shoes and carrying a big string tied box of donuts, Napoleans and Cream puffs from Kresgies downtown for us to eat. Wow, this thread and the Christmas music I am listening to and decorating the treehas made me feel a little melancholy. Plus my sister Lizzie just called to chat and I haven't talked to her in a few weeks. Anne...See MoreChildhood foods you remember
Comments (22)Everything!! My mother was the best cook in the world, I thought. We had a homecooked meal every noon time. I walked home from school as we all did back then,. My dad came home from work for an hour at noon. Every day we had a huge dinner and always a dessert made that morning..a pie, cake, brownies, chocolate pudding, sticky buns..Never was there not a fresh dessert. It was a wonder we all weren't obese. I did not inherit her talent. She went to cooking school when she first married. She was your typical 50's housewife with an apron.....See MoreDo You Ever Fix Food For a Funeral Dinner?
Comments (19)I don't know people who only sit for a couple of days. As I said, different groups have different customs. "Shiva" is a form of the number seven which refers to the length of the initial period of mourning observed by the close family. There are many stages of the mourning process. After the first seven days are the thirty, and then the eleven months. Unless they're close to the family, the same people don't necessarily come every day of the seven, but enough people to conduct a service will come every day, so the services and mourner's prayers can be said in the home. If there aren't enough people, the neighbors will come over for the services. If the mourners are close enough by to get there in time, you just show up every day. Even though there isn't always a meal, per se, someone will put out some of the food that has been brought, since eating together is an important ritual. It's also easier for those in deep mourning if the food just appears, and someone hands them a plate, rather than having to organize meals and worry about feeding guests. People in mourning will also gather to eat during the extended mourning period, but won't attend parties and other revelry. Continuing into the longer periods, we support them with food and with invitations to meals. The salmon salad that I can't look at without wondering who died is really the kind of thing one takes on that first day. Besides being neither milk nor meat, it's made with canned salmon and staple ingredients like celery, and doesn't require shopping. Since the funeral is usually the day after the death, and always no more than three days, that's a consideration....See More
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