Name Something Your Mother or Grandmother... | Pad Patter 10.14.16

My mom also made awesome fried chicken. I've made it a few times for my kids, but I'm lazy and usually just get KFC when we want fried chicken. I do know how to cut up a whole chicken. She taught me that which comes in handy when I get the rotisserie chickens at Sam's club. Another one of my lazy cook tricks.

Love the "drive us very carefully to her favorite restaurant." I've done that before. I'm like you I don't enjoy being in the kitchen. I love eating food, I just don't love cooking it. I'm a good cook, so that's not the problem. I'd just rather be scrappin instead of cookin. lol

That's so cool that you have a photo of your grandmother. My mom and her mom used to make chicken noodle soup. I remember helping them roll out and cut the noodles. One of my brothers and one of my sisters makes them all the time. Once again, I'm a lazy cook, so I just buy the country pasta noodles at wal-mart and make the rest of the soup like mom and Grandma Richens did. My hubby and kids never had them from my mom, so they don't know any better. I think they taste good too. Maybe not as fresh, but still so yummy.

Oh dear! That's too funny. Glad you don't hate chicken anymore.

Yum, Yum, Yum. I'm a sucker for pound cake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. I'm not a fan of angel food cake, so when they want strawberry shortcake for a family party, I always volunteer so I can make sure it's pound cake and not angel food cake. I should really learn how to bake pound cake, instead of buying it at Sam's Club. It'd probably be more cost effective homemade.

Oh yes! I loved my mom's roast beef, potatoes and gravy. My mom made the best, moistest roasts. The secret is to use a roasting bag and lipton beefy onion soup mix. I like to make roast , potatoes, andbaby carrots in my crockpot. I add a cup of water a packet of beefy onion soup mix and add a couple of cans of cream of chicken. It makes the most wonderful gravy and it's all in one pot to clean up.

My hubby never really liked roasts until he married me. His mom would cremate them. I remember eating Sunday dinner at his house when we were dating and wondering what the mystery meat/leather was we were eating. It was so dry, I had to smoother it in gravy. Turns out that his maternal grandma never cooked, so his mom had to teach herself when she got married.

She did end up being a good cook, but not as good as my mom. I've since tweaked many recipes, making them my own by combining the good from both moms. My hubby loves my potato salad and funeral potatoes more than his mom's. Now that both of our moms are gone, he volunteers me to make the things he likes for family gatherings.

 

We've had cereal for dinner many times, especially when hubby travels. My kids know how to take care of themselves, when mom says it's a fend for yourself night. lol

 

oh be still my heart! I love, love, love peach cobbler.

That's so cool that your first scrapbook was a cookbook of all your favorites and childhood memories. What a treasure indeed.

 

Oooh... that does sound good! Now, you've turned on my smelling senses and I'm thinking of my mom frying chicken. She used a big 'ole cast iron frying pan, lots of oil, flour, garlic salt and pepper. Gotta have plenty of garlic, that's what she said made the chicken taste so good. I can practically taste it now while I'm typing. Too bad she's gone to heaven and I can't have her fry up a couple of chickens for me.

 

You have one smart grandma! Handing the cooking duties on as soon as the child was old enough is genius. I wish I would have thought of that. Last year I decided that I was tired of cooking and having one or more of my kids complain that they didn't like what was for dinner, so I gave each of them a night to cook. That way at least one night a week they could cook something they liked for dinner. It worked for a few months and then died off when the older kids got jobs and had to work most nights. My 10 year old needs to learn how to cook more things, so I may have to bring back the kid cooking nights and help her learn to cook her favorites.

 

My sister used to make my Mom's Texas sheet cake when we were teenagers and it would be gone in a flash.... oh so yummy!