Best your mom, dad, or immediate family made

For us gravy was the Sunday sauce cooked all day with the meats (meatballs, sausage and pork) simmered in it.

Sauce was a quicker marinara sauce for pizzas, quick pasta dishes, etc.

Moms deep fried chicken tacos hold dear to my heart, whenever she would make them childhood friends would show up from all over the neighborhood. Weezer would make about 36 of these deep fried golden nuggets of delight and us kids would become fat a ticks consuming them. Its probably been about 5 years since I had a chicken taco, I think I'll give her a call!



Pete11 

My mom was 8 yrs old, her dad put a milk crate next to a wood stove, her Mom was ill, my Mom cooked for 15 brothers that were in the cane fields, her natural gravy was a thing to behold, browning the meat to a dark dark brown, pieces of meat sticking to pan, talking meat out adding a little water and stirring , cooking it down again, then adding water again. The gravy was so good you could drink it.,my wife watched her as Mom could not read and write, her father did not believe in schools, but she could cook, you couldn't cheat her on money, she would drive 600 miles to Brownsville Texas to meet my Dad when he first started Shrimping in that area. Oh my wife is now the gravy maker we have to watch my Daughter in law as she hogs the gravy for our holiday meals. HaHa

I have my Mom’s genes, a passion and love for cooking good food👌

I think a meal made by someone else always tastes better than when you make it yourself. My mom made all sorts of good stuff when I was growing up, some of which I can't replicate, some of which I actually make better. I took after her and learned to cook for myself. I'm now the cook for my own family, so I cook dinner every night. I just asked my daughter for her favorite thing I make. Without hesitation, she said, "chicken tortilla soup, and cauliflower soup".

My mom makes a mean chicken fricasee with biscuits. She'll always be the better baker. Her birthday cakes are to die for. ESPECIALLY her white coconut cake. I could put myself in a diabetic coma with that stuff.

" mom's Beef Stroganoff." Yeah, I can remember my mother's also...it was great.

But my grandmother used to make Schi, a Russian cabbage soup with beef, sour cream on top....now I make it (just as good). The only thing I haven't made is the selaudichi...pickled herring in a mustard sauce. That is up very soon.

   My Great Grandparents were from Russia & Austria, so I know good pickled herring. I grew up eating herring in a vinegar, sour cream and fresh dill and mustard sauce, marinated with sweet onions for at least 24 hours before enjoying. I made it last....New Years of 2011. 

My Mother would take every last penny she had to cook a meal so she could share with everyone close to Her, Everything she cooked was good, I'm not saying that because she was my mother, but because it was true, and anyone that shared a meal with her, would agree on the above.

My grandmother’s sweet potato pie with meringue was the best ever. No one left in my family that can come close matching her recipe.

AJ

Selaudichi sounds tasty and right up my alley.