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re: What was your favorite meal cooked by your grandmother?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:35 am to madamsquirrel
Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:35 am to madamsquirrel
By far my favorite thing my grandma on my dad's side makes is a chicken sauce piquante. The best I've ever had, bias or no bias. Besides that, her corn maque choux is way up there, and her chicken and dumplings stew are always pretty fire.
Grandma on my mom's side doesn't cook very well.
Grandma on my mom's side doesn't cook very well.
This post was edited on 8/28/15 at 10:39 am
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Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:37 am to madamsquirrel
My grandma had 7 kids. By the time I was around, she didn't cook shite.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:42 am to madamsquirrel
Paternal: her petits pains, which were white bread rolls baked in a muffin tin so each roll was extra crusty and light inside. Some butter and Steens on a warm roll....heaven. Maternal: a rum and pecan cake so heavy with nuts it practically counted as a protein bar. She'd make it around Halloween and regularly douse it with dark rum until Thanksgiving. Fantastic.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:42 am to madamsquirrel
Her crawfish bisque was fantastic.
My grandfather was always in charge of the potato salad and no one can make it quite like he did
My grandfather was always in charge of the potato salad and no one can make it quite like he did
Posted on 8/28/15 at 10:44 am to madamsquirrel
Maternal:
Fried chicken, pintos, mashed potatoes and some absolutely fantastic yellow cake with cooked chocolate icing, that no one has been able to reproduce. It was crunchy, and she's poke holes in the cake and dig out a big hole in the middle and let the icing flow into it, where it would harden. Also, her biscuits were, hands down, the greatest I've ever had. Her rolls... well, they came from the store in a sack. She couldn't do rolls.
Paternal:
Roast, Black Eyed Peas, fried corn and chocolate pie. And Rolls. Her rolls were awesome. Her biscuits, on the other hand, were flat, had not much "middle" and just weren't very good, because I like fluffy biscuits.
Now I'm hungry.
Fried chicken, pintos, mashed potatoes and some absolutely fantastic yellow cake with cooked chocolate icing, that no one has been able to reproduce. It was crunchy, and she's poke holes in the cake and dig out a big hole in the middle and let the icing flow into it, where it would harden. Also, her biscuits were, hands down, the greatest I've ever had. Her rolls... well, they came from the store in a sack. She couldn't do rolls.
Paternal:
Roast, Black Eyed Peas, fried corn and chocolate pie. And Rolls. Her rolls were awesome. Her biscuits, on the other hand, were flat, had not much "middle" and just weren't very good, because I like fluffy biscuits.
Now I'm hungry.
This post was edited on 8/28/15 at 12:46 pm
Posted on 8/28/15 at 11:55 am to SSpaniel
I forgot to mention my grandmother's Boston cream pie or her fudge. I've never tasted fudge that tasted like hers. Wish I'd asked her for her recipe.
I had fewer of my maternal grandmother's meals, because they lived a greater distance away and we saw her less often, but always big breakfasts with sausage and biscuits. Sunday dinners of fried chicken and cream gravy. So good. Even her sweet tea was better than any I've ever had.
I had fewer of my maternal grandmother's meals, because they lived a greater distance away and we saw her less often, but always big breakfasts with sausage and biscuits. Sunday dinners of fried chicken and cream gravy. So good. Even her sweet tea was better than any I've ever had.
This post was edited on 8/29/15 at 9:32 am
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:09 pm to Darla Hood
Maternal:
Roast, rice and gravy
green beans
corn (like maque choux, but she'd get pissed if you called it that and it was better than anything else I ever had called that)
White beans
Benigets (she sometimes called it fried bread, much different than cafe du monde style)
Fraternal:
Anything in her red gravy with pasta - Brucciluni, meat balls, pork roast, pork feet, even tripe (you didn't eat that with the pasta, though)
Stuffed artichokes
cannoli and cream puffs
She was 100% Italian, but also made a killer crawfish bisque (best I ever had) and could make a damn good gumbo, as well.
One of the top 5 reasons I want heaven to exist is so I can one day have one of each of their meals again.
Roast, rice and gravy
green beans
corn (like maque choux, but she'd get pissed if you called it that and it was better than anything else I ever had called that)
White beans
Benigets (she sometimes called it fried bread, much different than cafe du monde style)
Fraternal:
Anything in her red gravy with pasta - Brucciluni, meat balls, pork roast, pork feet, even tripe (you didn't eat that with the pasta, though)
Stuffed artichokes
cannoli and cream puffs
She was 100% Italian, but also made a killer crawfish bisque (best I ever had) and could make a damn good gumbo, as well.
One of the top 5 reasons I want heaven to exist is so I can one day have one of each of their meals again.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:12 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Maternal:
Chicken and Sausage gumbo.
Fraternal:
Roast, rice, gravy, and green beans. The roast was never that good, but the green beans were the tits.
Chicken and Sausage gumbo.
Fraternal:
Roast, rice, gravy, and green beans. The roast was never that good
, but the green beans were the tits.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:17 pm to madamsquirrel
Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes. Fantastic every time.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:37 pm to MetArl15
Where are you people with fraternal grandmothers from?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:38 pm to Darla Hood
quote:Both mat and frat from Vermilion.
fraternal grandmothers from?
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:40 pm to Darla Hood
Holy cow I forgot all about my grandmas dill pickles! They were spectacular. I would pay anything to get a jar to share with my kids and wife so they could try them.
No one has ever duplicated them
No one has ever duplicated them
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:49 pm to SSpaniel
Good save, SSpaniel!
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:49 pm to Darla Hood
quote:
Where are you people with fraternal grandmothers from?
I meant to say paternal...
Fixed it.
This post was edited on 8/28/15 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:51 pm to SSpaniel
I wasn't going to call you on it, since this is a kind of loving thread and I didn't want to sound mean, but then two other people did it!
Posted on 8/28/15 at 12:58 pm to Darla Hood
quote:
Where are you people with fraternal grandmothers from?
Alabama.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 1:00 pm to Darla Hood
quote:
I wasn't going to call you on it, since this is a kind of loving thread and I didn't want to sound mean, but then two other people did it!
Heck, I read back through the thread trying to figure out who did it. Whups.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 1:00 pm to Darla Hood
quote:
I wasn't going to call you on it, since this is a kind of loving thread and I didn't want to sound mean, but then two other people did it!
shite, I have to admit, I couldn't figure out where you were going with that question.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 1:25 pm to madamsquirrel
Wow, this brings back horrible memories. My paternal grandmother was dead before I was born so I have no idea what she cooked well.
My maternal grandmother was a HORRIBLE cook. Best meal she ever made me was steamed rice with ketchup because she couldn't make gravy (or didn't want to).
My mom inherited her inability to cook. Mom's best meal was a liver cheese sammich on white bread.
My father's weekend cooking saved me and Bro from serious starvation issues.
Now my two old aunts were a different issue. They were both unmarried spinsters and hosted holiday dinners for the extended family. Their specialty was roast beef with really dark rich gravy over rice. They were also really good with Turkey and stuffing. If there had only been more holidays me and Bro wouldn't have looked like survivors of a concentration camp.
My maternal grandmother was a HORRIBLE cook. Best meal she ever made me was steamed rice with ketchup because she couldn't make gravy (or didn't want to).
My mom inherited her inability to cook. Mom's best meal was a liver cheese sammich on white bread.
My father's weekend cooking saved me and Bro from serious starvation issues.
Now my two old aunts were a different issue. They were both unmarried spinsters and hosted holiday dinners for the extended family. Their specialty was roast beef with really dark rich gravy over rice. They were also really good with Turkey and stuffing. If there had only been more holidays me and Bro wouldn't have looked like survivors of a concentration camp.
Posted on 8/28/15 at 1:29 pm to Y.A. Tittle
My New York City one cooked a bone in leg of lamb with roasted potatoes, asparagus and homemade apple sauce and always had an upstate New York red wine with it.
She also did take out very well.
My Catahoula Parish one cooked stewed chicken gizzards with mashed potatoes, (never cooked rice) cornbread (a pan everyday and I now have her 8" Griswold cast iron that I make mine in)and any vegetable she picked from her one acre vegetable garden. Raised several hundred head of cattle and I never once saw them eat a steak. But she could cook a great pot roast.
My other one (my wife's and since we've been together long enough I just consider her my third grandmother) makes everything from scratch and about a dozen different pies which I will eat any of, but her pie crust is more tender than a woman's heart. God those pies are good.
She also did take out very well.
My Catahoula Parish one cooked stewed chicken gizzards with mashed potatoes, (never cooked rice) cornbread (a pan everyday and I now have her 8" Griswold cast iron that I make mine in)and any vegetable she picked from her one acre vegetable garden. Raised several hundred head of cattle and I never once saw them eat a steak. But she could cook a great pot roast.
My other one (my wife's and since we've been together long enough I just consider her my third grandmother) makes everything from scratch and about a dozen different pies which I will eat any of, but her pie crust is more tender than a woman's heart. God those pies are good.
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