My Mom's Influence In My Kitchen! LOH #185
Family CookBooks Thru the Years! The Cookbook I made of my mom's recipes, on top.
Back about 20 years ago, I started thinking about family recipes. I knew I could always call my mom or my aunt and get some of my grandmother's or family recipes. HOWEVER, I wanted a better memory of the family recipes.
As a little kid, I remember Sunday's at my grandmother's house, the scents of a big Sunday dinner cooking. In my own home, my mom always cooked big meals too.
I remember learning this, one of the very first recipes, Pasta Sauce! Sunday's we were either at my Yia Yia's, or at home, and there was always a big pot on the stove all day, cooking and simmering the sauce!
Pasta and the sauce is probably one of the first meals I cooked, too. Using my mom's, and my Yia Yia's recipe. The real secret, really is that the recipe is made from scratch and probably different almost every time I make it.
for me, my sauces start the same: Browned seasoned ground meat. I cook with ground turkey, now. Slightly healthier than my mom's ground beef and pork. I use my own home made tomato sauce and paste from my own garden, where they used store bought.
The methods of cooking? Same. Seasonings? Same. But the extras? well,k that differed from week to week in our house growing up.
It was never really about the actual ingredients... as I came to understand later in life. The sauce became the sauce, with all the leftovers added in. The sauce became the sauce with all day simmering. The REAL secret of the sauce?
It was never about the food itself. It was in the hearth. It was the kichen that made the sauce. Gathering family all day, to laugh, cry, tell the same stories and sometimes hear new ones. It was the people gathered around my Yia Yia's stove, the scent of the pot simmering... her bustling about. The voices in the kitchen laughing,loud voices in the other rooms of the house too. It was gathering around my mom's kitchen table. Laughing and telling sometimes decades old stories. And the new stories of the day.
Even now, Sunday, gathered around my table, with my kids laughing and telling their own stories I see the recipe has been passed down!
But this all goes back to my first woman in my life, mom.
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It's an interesting thing to remember your mom who taught you great recipes which has now been passed down to your children. A great memory to cherish while being surrounded by your children on the table with a delicious meal facing you.
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It is truly a glorious thing, to be surrounded by family.
Yes, it is.
This is so amazing! Your mom truly had a great influence on your cooking for you to be able to develop cookbooks from her recipes! What a great blessing that is!
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There's even a cookbook in the picture I made, of a cookbook I put together from my wife's family recipes, too! History is important. Family History even more so!
Family was made in the kitchen and around the dinner table. And usually by mom. Its great to see you carrying your family traditions forward. We recently visited my son and he made some homemade pasta and tiramisu. Not family recipes and he's not much of a cook. But memories were made that will last.
As I mentioned, it isn't the recipe, so much as, the gathering itself!
THAT'S what makes the kitchen
I love mothers for their good hands at cooking
Growing up, I would always prefer my mum to do the cooking instead of my sisters, hehe
Are you also cooking? That too is both a gift received, and a gift for you to give as well.
Cook for people. Give to them
Greetings @bluefinstudios really your mother did a great job in influencing your cooking and the tradition of joining the family, a very valuable woman, beautiful recipe books that food looks delicious, plus the secret of the sauce. Thanks for sharing, a hug
oh, this is excellent! Your perspective on this is perfect, and your description gives us a good visual into the love & togetherness your family has! 💙
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thank you. I give credit to my mom and the generations of mom's before her.
Congratulations and good appetite. Cooking and eating as a family, this is how you feel the warmth and family love.
My mother cooked out of necessity and obligation, her passion was sewing, she dressed us, but she also fed us, she even taught my wife several recipes. Dad cooked, but he didn't clean, in the end in my family we all cook, each one has his specialty.
See you soon @bluefinstudios.
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