re: What is your favorite meal that your Grandmother cooked?

cornbread dressing at thanksgiving and christmas
fried cornbread (hot water bread)
turnip greens
pots of homemade vegetable soup
carrot cake that was about 5 layers high

You never went to her house without eating something! My mom is just like her!

Gumbo

Fried deer meat mashed potatoes and gravy and homemade biscuits.

Wish I could have her make it just one more time.

My Nana was such a good cook that it's hard to pick a single favorite. For her holiday meals I loved her oyster dressing and her yeast rolls. Oh, the yeast rolls were addictive!

My maternal grandmother fried chicken like nobody’s business. Absolutely perfect.

My paternal grandmother was an amazing country style cook. My grandfather had about a 3/4 acre garden where he grew every vegetable they ever ate, I believe. He was a man who had expectations as well. He expected a full breakfast every morning. Eggs, homemade biscuits with homemade jelly, one of bacon, sausage, or country cured ham (the really salty kind). And at lunch there was a full meal. Usually some sort of meat dish with some combination of fried okra, fried green tomatoes, fried squash (are you seeing a pattern?), green beans, corn, cornbread, peas, etc. amd there was always homemade cake or pie.

The one meal that stands out to me was fried chicken, ironically enough made by my paternal grandmother. She also made a wicked fried chicken gravy with the drippings. I ate so much of that gravy and biscuits that I literally made myself sick. What I wouldn’t give to be able to taste that again.

I always loved my MeMe's vegetable beef soup with cornbread and a glass of sweet tea. Also, her cornbread dressing. I've gotten close, but it will never match hers.

I'm surprised how many 'chicken and dumplings' responses in this thread. It's not really a cajun dish as far as I know. Neither sides of my family made this dish.

Anyway, my maternal grandmother was the best cook in the family, and everyone learned from her. Number 1 was easily pork roast, rice & gravy.

However, her fried bread dough could not be denied. When I was a kid, there were home made dinner rolls at every lunch... think school cafeteria rolls. There was always bread dough in some state of rising/baking, etc. But in the morning, she would stretch it out to the size of a pancake, and deep fry it. We'd have it with powdered sugar or syrup, or just plain with coffee. Those are the best memories of Mawmaw.

Roast, rice and gravy, fresh Lima beans, black-eyed peas and homemade Angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries.
What I would give for just one more meal at her house, with the family there…

Me in the 80s: Mom can we have McDonalds?
Mom: We have McDonalds at home.

McDonalds at home:

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her making is hamburger sandwiches, hamburger patty in the skillet and two pieces of white bread

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