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Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:03 pm to Cregg
My grandmother taught me how to cook literally from the grave. Prior to her death she made a cook book of family recipes that I reference regularly.
But that’s not what I remember her for. I remember her making simple stuff like pancakes with a food dye dinosaur/Mickey mouse/or whatever in the middle. Simple cocktail weenies with mustard and jelly in a crockpot.
As I’ve grown older Ive realized that you could cook her crawfish dressing, set it on top of your head, and your own tongue will beat you to death trying to get to it. Same goes for her deer Chile recipe, and countless others.
My dad would tell you her squirrel dumplings were her finest work. I’m not a fan of squirrel or dumplings. However it illustrates how people live on through their recipes.
Edited for grammar
But that’s not what I remember her for. I remember her making simple stuff like pancakes with a food dye dinosaur/Mickey mouse/or whatever in the middle. Simple cocktail weenies with mustard and jelly in a crockpot.
As I’ve grown older Ive realized that you could cook her crawfish dressing, set it on top of your head, and your own tongue will beat you to death trying to get to it. Same goes for her deer Chile recipe, and countless others.
My dad would tell you her squirrel dumplings were her finest work. I’m not a fan of squirrel or dumplings. However it illustrates how people live on through their recipes.
Edited for grammar
This post was edited on 11/5/21 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:10 pm to Cregg
Grandma on my mom’s side made the best beef in a gravy, while my dad’s mom made an out of this world crawfish jambalaya with home made bread.
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:24 pm to Cregg
Fresh killed hens from the coop and dumplings. Grandpa would wring their necks & Grandma did the rest. 
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:42 pm to Cregg
My grandmother honestly didn't cook much which is surprising, but she BBQ'd a lot ad I always enjoyed her hot dogs, burgers, chicken, etc.
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:46 pm to Cregg
Mom’s side: Chocolate pie, meatloaf.
Dad’s side: Italian recipe spaghetti
Dad’s side: Italian recipe spaghetti
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:49 pm to Cregg
I was raised by my grandmother. She was born in 1920 in rural north Alabama and, as was custom, was taught to cook by momma and grandmother. She grew up cooking on a wood stove but got fancy sometime after WWII and got a gas stove. She went to her grave without ever owning a microwave. She saId they “caused cancer”.
Her fried chicken was so freaking good, like out of body experience good. And she did it old school. And when I said old school, I mean her making fried chicken started with killing a chicken, getting out her flour bowl and spices, and frying the chicken in Crisco in her old iron skillet.
And then there were her biscuits. Made from scratch of course like everything else. Not to mention all the other things she’d make like fried pies, pear preserves, homemade pies, fried green tomatoes, and countless other old school Southern delectable foods.
Effigy: I forgot to mention her cornbread. I’d give anything to have her cornbread just one more time.
Her fried chicken was so freaking good, like out of body experience good. And she did it old school. And when I said old school, I mean her making fried chicken started with killing a chicken, getting out her flour bowl and spices, and frying the chicken in Crisco in her old iron skillet.
And then there were her biscuits. Made from scratch of course like everything else. Not to mention all the other things she’d make like fried pies, pear preserves, homemade pies, fried green tomatoes, and countless other old school Southern delectable foods.
Effigy: I forgot to mention her cornbread. I’d give anything to have her cornbread just one more time.
This post was edited on 11/6/21 at 12:08 am
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:58 pm to Cregg
Fresh bread in the morning,
Posted on 11/5/21 at 11:59 pm to Cregg
Biscuits & gravy
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:00 am to Cregg
Oyster shrimp and crab gumbo with that okra
Sonofabitch that ol lady could throw down in the kitchen
Sonofabitch that ol lady could throw down in the kitchen
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:01 am to Cregg
berry pie and ice cream...
when we were kids, she would give us a bowl and tell us to fetch some blackberries from the patch. me and my cousins would come back to the house with purple hands and mouths from eating our own in the patch, and scratched up arms and hand her a big bowl.
an hour later the house would smell sweet from berries cooking and the kitchen would be loud from the electric churn. then we'd eat till we couldn't anymore and watch wrasslin with her all night.
she's 95 and can't make us pie anymore, but she still loves wrasslin
when we were kids, she would give us a bowl and tell us to fetch some blackberries from the patch. me and my cousins would come back to the house with purple hands and mouths from eating our own in the patch, and scratched up arms and hand her a big bowl.
an hour later the house would smell sweet from berries cooking and the kitchen would be loud from the electric churn. then we'd eat till we couldn't anymore and watch wrasslin with her all night.
she's 95 and can't make us pie anymore, but she still loves wrasslin
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:08 am to Cregg
Chicken and dumplings. She would let me sift the flour, cut the dumplings after she rolled them out and then drop them in the pot.
Awesome and I have not had any to match. Unfortunately she passed in 96. Miss her and her dumplings.
Awesome and I have not had any to match. Unfortunately she passed in 96. Miss her and her dumplings.
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:08 am to Cregg
Normal food - I really miss my Mamaw,s fried chicken and potato salad. I haven’t had fried chicken that good since she died. My wife and kids and my friends here in Texas love the potato salad I can make from her recipe.
Holiday food - cornbread dressing with a cut-up hen in the pan. My Mom could make it pretty good, and my wife has learned and can make it well, but Mamaw’s dressing was awesome.
Holiday food - cornbread dressing with a cut-up hen in the pan. My Mom could make it pretty good, and my wife has learned and can make it well, but Mamaw’s dressing was awesome.
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:10 am to Cregg
Homemade chicken -n- dumplings
Posted on 11/6/21 at 12:17 am to Cregg
Dressing
Chicken and dumplings
Peach cobbler
My mom cooks circles around her though. Basically took everything she taught her and made it better
Chicken and dumplings
Peach cobbler
My mom cooks circles around her though. Basically took everything she taught her and made it better
Posted on 11/6/21 at 1:09 am to Cregg
two many to list: chicken/sausage gumbo, Okra gumbo, corn soup, meatball stew. The food was top notch but the conversations i used to have with her were even better. I miss my little cajun grandma 
Posted on 11/6/21 at 2:24 am to Cregg
Pretty weird but Only grandmother I knew is 95 and I never tasted a meal she cooked. My mom was the cook as I grew up, my grandmother had cooks/gardners/maids for her
Posted on 11/6/21 at 4:47 am to Cregg
Maw maw’s crawfish etouffee was on point. Also made an amazing chocolate cake.
Posted on 11/6/21 at 5:14 am to Cregg
Seven steaks smothered in a tomato sauce.
Posted on 11/6/21 at 5:15 am to Cregg
Scrambled eggs
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