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Directions:I am sure you all know that Nanny is a “Good Cook”. However, I didn’t start out that way.
When I was only eight years old, I hate to tell you the year, but it was somewhere in the Forties!!! Your Aunt Ann and I were the main cooks in the house, as Me Ma, your grandmother taught music night and day. We had to go to the grocery store down the block and charge what we bought and come home and cook. We managed to get in a few popsicles too. All we had to do was sign a ticket. There were no credit cards!!
Well, right after your Pa Pa and I were married, he invited his sister’s brother-in-law to dinner. I was so devastated, but proceeded to fix a meal of chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes and gravy. It turned out great!! Maybe that was the beginning of cooking, but it does take practice and courage.
Grandma Pauline Mollman was a great inspiration to me for the Sunday dinners. We spent so much time there eating and visiting. She fixed home cooked meals, nothing fancy, but cooked with a lot of love. We always looked forward to going there after church on Sunday. Perhaps that is why I have wanted to continue this tradition in our family.
We always looked forward to eating her chicken and noodles and Chicken salad sandwiches on Christmas Eve.
I enjoy continuing this Sunday dinner tradition and visiting with the family and all the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We are now adding on to the dining room so that we can fill more tables.
As I have grown older I have turned to a gourmet way of cooking. I love to try new recipes and host dinner parties, auctioned off at fund raisers or hosting my Red Hat group for lunch, it is always exciting and fun to be in the kitchen.
I am grateful for such a large family, one who likes to eat and enjoy the fellowship of uncles, aunts and cousins. I am grateful for my granddaughter, Kathryn, who instigated this cookbook and who also has taken up this culinary art of hospitality and good eats. |
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