What was your favorite recipe or meal that your mom prepared...

My mom was a great baker. She could make and decorate cakes, even sold some wedding cakes. And she could bake a mean pie. Both regular apple pie and Dutch apple pie; blueberry, cherry, and peach pie; two kinds of strawberry pie, one of them baked that would blow your mind (not the kind with raw strawberries in a gelatinous suspension topped with whipped cream, it had a regular pie crust, then a layer that was sort of like cheesecake, and after baking the strawberries became darkened but the flavor was amazing.) Oh yeah, she also made good cheesecake. And coconut cream pie. One Halloween someone threw a pumpkin at our front porch and she took the large pieces, washed them, roasted them, and baked an excellent pumpkin pie. She was a wizard at baking cookies too. She cranked it out for every family holiday. Are you familiar with cookie-press cookies? She made those. She made these date nut cookies shaped like strawberries, rolled in red sugar, and decorated with green frosting leaves. Those were amazing. And all that’s just a sample.

She overcooked her vegetables. But she made good applesauce. A lot of my favorite dishes growing up weren’t as good when I asked her to make them again. But she has a great recipe for a sausage and egg breakfast casserole that is still awesome. I could probably eat that every day.

Sunday lunch was always fried chicken with mashed potatoes grown from garden

My mom wasn’t that good a cook, but she made pretty good fried chicken. Everything else she made was casseroles with various creams of soups. The beef stroganoff casserole she made was okay I guess.

My mom made a badass sloppy joe; it’s either that or the pan fried pork chops.

I miss a lot of the things my mom made, but some of the stuff she made was awful (sorry, Mom).

But the one thing I really miss was her crawfish etoufee. I actually have her recipe (that was originally from her mother), and I can’t make it taste as good. My sister has tried too- no luck. She always made a huge Magnalite pot of it for Easter and we’d eat it for days after.

I’d have to say her spaghetti and/or pot roast. Man, her spaghetti was and still is something serious. Became a Sunday tradition during my late youth/early teenage years. When I married my wife, she was so use to just having it just heated growing up, she became infatuated with it.

Just the meats she puts in, seasonings she adds, etc. I haven’t been able to recreate it, even with the recipe.

My mom is okay as a cook, but my dad and sister were SUPER picky so we kind of just ate the same stuff all the time when I was growing up.

My MaMaw, on the other hand...that woman could COOK. Chicken and dumplings, potatoes in white sauce, fried corn. Plus, my PaPaw had an amazing garden so everything came straight from there to the table. My best meals were at their table.

Meatloaf with the little roasted taters and fried cabbage.

Eggplant Parmesan. Thankfully, she taught me how to make it.

Fried chicken or pork chops and mashed potatoes and it was outstanding. Wish my mom was still around to cook that for me.