We cleaned out the garage recently, and when we opened one of the boxes to see whether it was dumpster-bound, we saw two of Mom’s old recipe boxes we didn’t even know we had. We had most of the recipes copied, and many have already been published here, but we found a couple that we thought were lost forever. Mamcik’s paté recipe is here, as … Continue reading from Mom’s recipe boxes
Auntie Ruth was Granddaddy’s older sister – a kindergarten teacher and the darling of all the tots in the family. She passed down the one truly infallible cure for hiccups, time-tested in all her decades of dealing with five-year-olds: ten swallows of water, with no pauses for breath or anything else. She also was a wonderful cook who turned out perfect, elegant meals in the … Continue reading Cheese and Mushroom Casserole
Dad, serving lunch at his parents’ house Our father loved the kitchen as only a devoted eater could. He made magnificent scrambled eggs, but his best meals, in our humble collective opinions, were served on Sundays. Because Dad was excommunicated from the Catholic Church after marrying our Protestant mother, he attended church only when his children’s baptisms and weddings required it. Instead, he went out … Continue reading Dad and Breakfast
Grammy and Granddaddy at their house in Fairway Lucille Lacaff Marshall, our maternal grandmother, was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. The second of five children (the others were Theodore – always called Bunce – Cordelia, Mortimer, and Frank, Jr.), she was the daughter and granddaughter of bankers and always was delighted to tell people she was descended from Revolutionary War veterans as well … Continue reading Grammy
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