Mom's food.

I will be going to WV March 6th with my sister to celebrate my mom's 89th birthday.  My mom lives in the house she & my dad built in 1963.  She still drives in the daytime to the grocery, DR, church, etc.  She cooks supper for herself every day-either a meat, vegetable, starch,salad. or she will make  spagetti, chili, ham & beans,etc, all from scratch.  Mom gardens( I do not like her to stand on a ladder to water her hanging plants!!!) ,quilts,reads & is a great sports fan, especially the Redlegs & WVU sports.
My sister & I do not allow her to cook dinner when we are at home, but Mom insists she have to do some cooking so she will make some of our favorites-chicken salad, pimento cheese, potato salad, butterscotch pie.  We cannot stop her from making breakfast- homemade pancakes, biscuits & gravy. 
What does your mom make for you or if you mom is gone, what were your favorite "mom" foods.
Also, my sister & I are 63 & 62, but when we are with Mom we are the "girls".

My Mother, God rest her soul, was a sought after Dessert maven, her Angel Food Cake, Meringues, and cookies, were legend, everything sweet was her specialty. She also made a fantastic Fried Chicken.

We all love our Mom's.  Like Clara, Mamaw Smith is 89 and lives next door.  She cooks regularly and has met many of our Roadfood friends such as Bushie, Poverty Pete, The Mayor and many others.  She is getting older but a really alert person with a masters degree in speech and hearing and almost a doctorate degree.  She has been retired for many years though.
 
We have a mutual garden and she works in it every year and still cooks a killer coconut cake and country fried steak which she made both for me for my BD this past week.  Since she lives next door, I have coffee and read the paper with her each and every morning when I am in town at 5:00AM
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

My mother was, without a doubt, the absolutely worst cook ever to set foot upon Planet Earth.

Michael Hoffman


My mother was, without a doubt, the absolutely worst cook ever to set foot upon Planet Earth.

As an adult, I have come to the same conclusion about mine. My first clue was when she stopped cooking the day I moved back in with her (I have no earthly idea what she eats when I'm working and can't cook, but I do see quite the collection of fast food bags in the garbage). She's really good at meat, potato, vegetable...but only if you like your steak broiled to death and your vegetables from a can.

My Mom was an excellent cook-everything made from scratch. Her macaroni and cheese was the best( I didnt even know Krafts blue box existed til I was married) But her chili stands out in my mind. She used a pressure cooker, and God only knows what her recipe was. I can still taste it in my minds eye, and I have never been able to replicate it in the least.

Scalloped potatoes and ham for me.  It was one of my favorites growing up and still is today.
 
Brad

My mom was a wonderful scratch cook making her own ketchup, mayo and salad dressings amongst many other things. She really loved to bake most of all and I always did and still do dislike desserts. My dad however, ran a hardware store so the customers and employees benefited from the cookies, muffins, pies and cupcakes that she would make daily. She died way too early almost 35 years ago and unfortunately didn't write anything down but I have good memories and still try to replicate some of what she made.

Egg gravy and hot biscuits are an all time favorite.  She's pretty good with red beans and sweet corn bread too..

My mom was a great cook, and looking back, I never realized or appreciated what she went through to get there, as she was a raised on a farm in Texas, strictly meat and potatoes, everything boiled or broiled, no seasoning, and forget about anything like a holy trinity.  Then she marries a guy from New Orleans and learns how to cook Creole and local specialties.  Her only experience with seafood was baiting a piece of string and pulling crawfish out of the "tank" which they fed  to the chickens.
Her one dish I would love to duplicate, and have never been able to is her chuck roast, what I call her Saturday night special, which made a wonderful gravy. I think we were the only family in NOLA that had rice and gravy with their red beans besides, chuck roast.
 

My Mom was a lousy cook with the exception of her Potato Salad. I ate tons of Jello with Fruit Cocktail in it. Couldn't eat jello for years after leaving home!

My grandmother was a wonderful cook. Whenever anybody asked for a recipe, she said, "I'll make it for you!" She could not be convinced to teach anybody how to make any of her dishes, nor to give away any recipes. The result was that she took all her recipes to the grave. My mother was a fine cook, as was my great aunt (grandmother's sister-in-law), but neither, by their own admission, ever got to her standards.
 
Bart

Chicken soup with Matzoh balls, she has shared the secrets and mine come very close. Otherwise, I am a far better cook than she...

 My Mom was master of all that was Swanson, Banquet,and Roni.
  Hmmm.... I had learned to cook fairly well by the time I was 10. self-defense? 
 @ Claracamille,  They make these cool plant hangers that have a ratchety thing inside so you can raise and lower plants while safely on your feet!  

I think that my mother must have been  Foodbme's  twin sister.  My  mother was a bad cook but she  made a wonderful  potato salad and  a good egg salad sandwich.  She served Jello so often that every stockholder in the company   gave her a standing ovation at their annual meeting.
 
I enjoy thinking about her Thanksgiving Jello salad.  It had to be the most dreadful jello salad of all times  It was loaded with fruit cocktail and  a  ton of chopped walnuts.  The good thing is that she always forgot to put it on the table for  Thanksgiving.  The next day,  she would  put it out with the leftovers and say "Isn't this great: I just found it in the refrigerator!"

Everyone raves about my mother's brisket.  I like her matzoh balls that I call sinkers.
 
My mother was a great cook in her time.  Now it's convenience foods and leftovers from restaurants.  I wish she was still able to cook for herself.

Its funny, while my Mom also made tons of jello salads, one was actually quite good. It was strawberry jello, with fresh sliced strawberries, walnuts and celery. Quite refreshing, actually.

My Mom made the best sausage stuffing, Chicken soup with spaeztle, sauerbraten and spaghetti sauce made with tomatoes from our garden in the Summer.
She's almost 92 now and isn't able to make these things anymore. My Mom was a great cook.

When it came to desserts, my mom made the lightest crusts I've ever eaten  She used to use the leftovers for little piles of baked crusts that we used for strawberry shortcake.

Mamaw Smith is 89 now.  I have been writing about her on this site for ten years.  She still cooks but she has a harder time of doing it than she use to.  She cannot see as well and she cannot hear as well and she cannot clean as well.  God love this sweet woman.  I have breakfast with her every morning at 5:00AM with coffee and paper.  She is very alert but the clock is ticking. 
 
It makes me so very sad to think about it.  I always call her at 4:30AM to alert her that I am coming over and she turns on the lights as I reside next door.  I am always afraid that she does not answer the phone.
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Sundancer7


We all love our Mom's.  Like Clara, Mamaw Smith is 89 and lives next door.  She cooks regularly and has met many of our Roadfood friends such as Bushie, Poverty Pete, The Mayor and many others.  She is getting older but a really alert person with a masters degree in speech and hearing and almost a doctorate degree.  She has been retired for many years though.

We have a mutual garden and she works in it every year and still cooks a killer coconut cake and country fried steak which she made both for me for my BD this past week.  Since she lives next door, I have coffee and read the paper with her each and every morning when I am in town at 5:00AM

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I believe the last event of this year's Glee Club meeting was my lunch with Sundancer at the Crown & Goose in Knoxville.  He brought me a slice of Mamaw Smith's coconut cake.  Buffetbuster, you'll have to imagine how good it was, to know that I ate the entire serving and wished for more.
 

Macaroni & cheese from the blue box with cut up hotdogs stirred into it.lol
Dilly Dip
Creamy Cucumbers
Tomato Pudding
Cincinnati Chili
Fried rice in a real wok
crabmeat casserole
beef roast, carrots, potatoes
chicken & dumpling soup

Norwegian Pizza
Marinated Carrots
any dessert. Seriously. She's a baker, I'm more of a cook. She makes this thing with blueberry pie filling, crushed pineapple, black raspberry Jello & then you frost it with sour cream? She hasn't made it in YEARS, not since Jello stopped making black raspberry.

Thanks for all the replies, just 8 days until I am at my Mom's.

What are you & your sister going to make first?

My Mom made the best oil and vingar dressing.No one in our family can make it like she did.
 
Unfortunately she liked her meats well done (black)...nothing like eating a black hamburger with all of the juices missing.Thank God we had mustard and ketchup.

Poverty Pete

Sundancer7


We all love our Mom's.  Like Clara, Mamaw Smith is 89 and lives next door.  She cooks regularly and has met many of our Roadfood friends such as Bushie, Poverty Pete, The Mayor and many others.  She is getting older but a really alert person with a masters degree in speech and hearing and almost a doctorate degree.  She has been retired for many years though.

We have a mutual garden and she works in it every year and still cooks a killer coconut cake and country fried steak which she made both for me for my BD this past week.  Since she lives next door, I have coffee and read the paper with her each and every morning when I am in town at 5:00AM

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I believe the last event of this year's Glee Club meeting was my lunch with Sundancer at the Crown & Goose in Knoxville.  He brought me a slice of Mamaw Smith's coconut cake.  Buffetbuster, you'll have to imagine how good it was, to know that I ate the entire serving and wished for more.

 
Thanks PP.  I will tell Mamaw Smith of your remarks.
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

My mother didn't like to cook much but we loved several things she made:  lasagna, pumpkin bread, cranberry bread, a few kinds of fruit salads, and apple pie.  She used to make the best meatballs.  Then one day my uncle gave her a recipe she liked better, so she threw away the recipe that I loved.  She and one of my aunts spent a few years making a cake recipe, that I think was in an ad in all the women's magazines:  make a sheet cake, use a fork to poke holes all over it, pour jello over the top so it would run down into the holes and solidify when refrigerated; and the frosting was some kind of pudding mix.

My mother's pork chops had you wondering why there wasn't an NHL logo on them...as my dad was a butcher, he was near to tears.

stricken_detective


Macaroni & cheese from the blue box with cut up hotdogs stirred into it.lol
Dilly Dip
Creamy Cucumbers
Tomato Pudding
Cincinnati Chili
Fried rice in a real wok
crabmeat casserole
beef roast, carrots, potatoes
chicken & dumpling soup

Norwegian Pizza
Marinated Carrots
any dessert. Seriously. She's a baker, I'm more of a cook. She makes this thing with blueberry pie filling, crushed pineapple, black raspberry Jello & then you frost it with sour cream? She hasn't made it in YEARS, not since Jello stopped making black raspberry.

What is Norwegian Pizza?

cavandre


My mother's pork chops had you wondering why there wasn't an NHL logo on them...as my dad was a butcher, he was near to tears.

 
I think in this day and age that'd be grounds for divorce.
 
When I was younger I swore that once I was out on my own I'd never eat another pork chop or roast again, since my mom apparently used the same cookbook as yours.  But then I met my future wife and my future father-in-law had been a butcher at one time, so I learned that pork could not only be edible but good as well!
 
Brad