I cheated for Mothers day dinner.....
Judy Good
5 years ago
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Comments (11)DD, the pics are of my guests (kids & grandkids) & they served as placecards. My kids tease me because I love to use placecards yet I always seat everybody at the same place @ family dinners. LOL I know that y'all will understand...it gives me something extra to jazz up the table. ;o) Hubby did do most of the cooking...I only made the parfaited strawberry shortcakes. Luvs, that is a poem on teh wire thingamajiggie. It's Somebody Said..... The "pedestal plates" are crystal candlesticks w/ a glass plate set on top. I used a bit of double-sided tape to help adhere them w/out having to permanently glue them. Jay, I've had those curtains for over 5 years. I got them @ either Family Dollar or Big Lots...I think I've gotten my money's worth out of them ;o) & want to switch them to lined black & cream toile drapes. Normally this time of year, I've replaced them w/ white lace to go w/ my spring & summer look but I am determined not to change them again until I get the toile. Don't you think the black & cream toile will work through all the seasons? I'm sorry your kids didn't honor you the way they should Purple! ((((hugs)))) My mother wasn't there this year. I got her last year for a Mother's day brunch so she spent this year @ my sister's lake house. Betty, your husband is a sweetheart! Thansk for all the compliments y'all! Today we had a blog party, showcasing our favorite parts of the house & I featured my table & tablescapes. Check it out when you have time...there's a whole lotta pics. Here is a link that might be useful: Creating Myself blog...See MoreI hate Mothers Day
Comments (4)I'm late in responding so I hope you do check back. It is sad that you are not recognized. I plan on both my daughters, when possible, to be with me and go out to dinner. Interestingly, my oldest said that many of her friends were not going to see their mothers. I told her I thought that was horrible! If your kids can't think of seeing you on their own, why not invite them to you? As you mentioned you were a good mom and probably never put yourself first. As a result your kids probably feel you are okay with not getting recognition. Make a plan for next year. Talk about it with your kids way in advance. Let them know how much it would mean to you to have them all together on Mother's Day. Don't mention how bad you felt not being recognized. It's about starting a new tradition that means something to you....See MoreHappy Mother’s Day!
Comments (10)Happy Mother’s Day to all ❤️ We had a small group of DH, me, DS2and my mother. The kids nominated DS2 to buy plants for my mom and me. We had a very lazy day, with lunch of quiche Lorraine I had made yesterday, and a dinner of chicken prepared like schnitzel ( cutlets pounded thin, dusted with flour and paprika, dipped in egg and rolled in panko and cooked in the smallest amount of oil possible), on a bed of creamed spinach and mushrooms, served with saffron rice. Watermelon pieces as a salad and coconut cake for dessert, all made by me. Our club restaurant isn’t open for sit down meals yet, and I did not want to risk going elsewhere just yet, so I had this all planned and it took just an hour to put it together. We ate in the informal dining area and I used one of the azalea plants the kids gave me as a centerpiece. Nothing fancy for a change, and I found a box of unused tray liners from Hester and a Cook when we moved and used those as sort of faux placemats. So glad we did not have a big do that required a lot of cleanup, as after dinner DH got a call, his mother died on Mother’s Day evening. She was in her late 80s and had Alzheimer’s for more than a decade, cared for in her own home according to her wish by round the clock helpers. DH and DS2 had driven to Alabama to see her the day before and found her especially frail, so it was not a surprise to anyone. Still, any passing is a blow, a jolt in the road. I’m more thankful than ever to have my mother! DH’s brother, a physician, was with their mom at the end. We will have a very quiet family funeral in a few days. “A life well lived is not to mourn, but to envy and inspire hope.”...See MoreMother’s Day Cooking Q&A
Comments (11)My mother was an awful cook. She fried almost everything, yet she was slender as were my sister and I. She had a 5-6 dish rotation: smothered steak (fried round steak cooked in brown gravy until tender-ish); fried pork chops; fried chicken; fried frozen shrimp on Friday nights (we are Protestant but she served fish on Friday); over-cooked, shoe-leather tough roast on Sunday; and at some point every couple of weeks, the worst spaghetti you’ve ever tasted. There was no such thing as a casserole. Green salads were rare to non-existent. I never could understand the penchant people had for mac and cheese when I was growing up. Here is Mother’s recipe: Cook elbow macaroni until it is flabby. Drain and put in a rectangular baking dish. Beat 2 eggs. Add milk. Pour over macaroni. Top with a few slices of very mild cheddar cheese. Bake until the macaroni is hard again. We had an abundance of vegetables because we had a huge garden (couple of acres) that we shared with the people who worked for Daddy. Mother did not can food, but she froze a lot of vegetables. I ate a lot of fresh tomatoes growing up. We had them for every meal, including breakfast, when they were in season. I would sneak into the garden, find a good one and eat it like an apple! Then there was fried okra; fried field corn (corn cut off the cob and cooked in a skillet with butter or bacon drippings); pole beans; yellow squash; cucumbers, butter beans (harvested when they were tiny) and crowder peas. For such a lousy cook, Mother had very high standards. Vegetables had to be small and tender. Tomatoes had to be vine-ripened unless they were being used for fried green tomatoes, in which case they had to be truly green and hard. Fruit had to be unblemished. We had no processed foods ever. I didn’t know what American cheese was until I was 23. It wasn’t that Mother was purposefully a healthy eater. She just didn’t like the taste processed foods. Mother never baked a cake from scratch, except a coconut cake at Christmas. The coconut had to be fresh (as in ”first you buy a coconut…”) and finely grated by her own hand. Her pie crusts were always from scratch and always flaky and tender. She had 2 pies she made, lemon meringue and chocolate. Biscuits and cornbread were made without a recipe and were always perfect. Mother’s best dishes were her potato salad and her cornbread dressing. I can’t make either one to save my soul. My sister comes really close on the cornbread dressing. Mother was over 90 when she died. She was living by herself in her own home, doing her own housework and cooking her own meals (still nothing processed). She did the light portions of her own yardwork but hired a really good-looking, very buff young man to do the heavy lifting and mowing. We teased her that she found things that needed doing just to get him to come to the house! I suppose my ”rebellion” is not cooking like Mother did. But I wouldn’t mind having her yard man mow my grass. 😉 ETA: My sister just sent me these pictures of Mom. She may have been a lousy cook, but she went some interesting places!...See MoreUser
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