Missing Mother's Cooking

you guys are making me so hungry

Sometimes it also works out that way too. I have changed a recipe or two and it's come out even better. Hubby always says that he won't let me have his recipes because I always make them better. He's a great cook though.

I make an hashbrown casserole that I also had eaten while working in an office. The girl gave me the recipe but I figured out how to make it better than her recipe. If you would like how I changed it around hit me up as friend and send me an email and I will reply back

That must be such a good tasting candy. Reading through your response though could not give me a full idea of what it is like. You are such a good mom in order to have kids who would always prefer to have a taste of mother's cooking over anything else! I am very happy for you.

I want some of your cooking too!

Hi trinidadvelasco. I tried to find this candy online and didn't find a thing. All I can say to try to describe it better is it's a thick vanilla butter cream candy rolled into golfball sized balls, then rolled so it's longer than it is round, maybe like a very tiny sweet potato, then covered in cinnamon. They had to be kept refrigerated because when they got to be room temperature, they weren't as firm and made quite a mess when you tried to eat them. winterose, I'll have to plan a date and have everyone come for a visit and I'll do all the cooking. Err, on second thought... Maybe one at a time.

nope I don't know those dishes but they sound wonderful

I wonder why we cannot reproduce the foods we loved so much as kids

apple dumplings sound delicious how do you make them?

Simple. You need a apple person person, Granny Smith or any other firm , tart apple. Pillsbury Pie crust mix, white sugar, brown sugar , cinnamon and a lemon /lime soda. You make the pie crust from the instructions. Peel , core, and slice the apples . Place them in a bowl and pour the soda over them. The lemon in the soda will keep them from getting brown. Make a circle of pie crust for each apple, about the size of a sauce for a coffee cup. Place them on a greased glass 13v9 casserole dish.Mix the white sugar with the cinnamon. Place apples on the pie crust circles. sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on the apples. and then take the corners and semi close the crust. It is ok if there are apples showing out from the top. When you are finished with each dumpling . Sprinkle some brown sugar over the top and some of the cinnamon sugar. Place in a 350F oven for? about 15 minutes? Or until the crust is a light brown. We use a spatula to get them out. I'm sorry I can't tell you exact measurements of the sugar or cinnamon. I thought I had the recipe written but I can't find it. easy isn't it. I can still remember how mom wuld make the crust , I would peel the apples and mix the cinnamon sugar. It is like she is back with me , helping me to write this for you . I hope it works out. Please let me know.

thanks hon, this sounds like a pie, not a dumpling?

I wish I could come and taste your food, but we have restaurants here from viet nam so I can get to taste the cooking here, thai food is very popular here as well as most asian foods

I just read your response! I was in Vietnam and used to eat food that the nuns from the orphanages had cooked. It was always warm and since I was from the U.S., unusual scents and tastes, but I learned to like the cooking when I was there

As you know, in Asia people eat too much rice instead bread as in European. So there are many food to each match with rice. The conection is perfect. With breads, you can just eat with cheese and a little other food. But with rice, you can make a lot of things to each with

well partially the answer is we are just not doing something right, maybe missing an ingredient, or preparing the dish wrong or using too much of something and not enough of something else, and the other thing as you say is psychological, we cannot compete with a memory. It will always be better in our memories.

cheese cake is just so much work

I don't know, I've never made it, but then again, I don't NEED it

yep they certainly knew how to feed a lot of people much easier in the past

Groceries cost so much less then. That was in the 60's.

my grandmother is gone now so some of her recipes I will never do anymore

send some to me lol

you are lucky you can still go home to have your mom's cooking

yes everyone has there own way but we do miss our mom\s cooking nothing every seems to taste as good when your mom was a good cook that is