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homemade tacos
enchiladas
fried catfish
pound cake
toast (I swear to you, her toast was the BEST I've ever had in my life! I don't know why)
peach cobbler
pecan pie
fried chicken
collard greens
corn bread
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LOL...it's odd, but BOTH my g'mothers were horrible cooks. However, I did like my maternal's spaghetti sauce (sorry, Lacey - gravy) because it didn't have big chunks of things like my mom's did. My dad's mother was from Ireland. I would have loved her Irish soda bread now, but back then, I didn't like raisins. I liked her beef gravy because she thickened it with flour, whereas my mother thickened hers w/cornstarch and it was never very thick, where Nana's was thick as wallpaper paste, but I loved it. Both g'mas cooked everything till it was burnt. Too bad they didn't have smoke alarms back then. They would have known the second dinner was ready!
My gradmaw always had a garden loaded with fresh vegetables, and she was a great cook. My favorite yummy dish that she made was creamed/skillet corn, the kind where the corn is scraped from the cobs and slow cooked in a skillet with butter and milk until it becomes a thick, gooey mass of heaven . I also loved her wilted spinach salad with bacon and onion, the fried okra, the purple hull peas, the fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and the squash. Lol--I'm sitting here trying to remember what kind of meat or dessert that she served, but I can't.
Many many things, but the stand out in my memory are her biscuits. Man! Nobody could make biscuits like hers. My mom's are close, but well....... She would always have a big pan of them every holiday, and I remember them sitting on the counter ready for the oven - with three finger marks across the top where she dipped her fingers in the bacon grease and pressed it on them. As a child, I loved raw biscuit dough as did my brother and sister, and granny would always have one raw biscuit set aside for each of us. LOL Daddy used to say it would give us worms!
Nana was such a good cook...fried catfish, chicken liver pate, latkes, kolache...list is endless but her absolute very bestest was a buttermilk pie. It was a pie that was made of eggs, sugar and buttermilk that had the consitency of a cream pie but the taste of cheesecake. Topped with fresh whiped cream it was - literally - ambrosia.
This one is easy. Fried Chicken, Peach Cobbler and Butter pound cake are the dishes she put her whole foot in. She later came down with Alheizemers (sp) and still remember the day I had to tell her she could not cook anymore. Take about heart breaking <sigh>
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