What I'm Reading This Week #31
Good morning and welcome to August. Time is so weird, isn't it. It's insane we're starting the 8th month of the year but yet if I thought back to where we started the year in snow, that seems like a lifetime ago. It's been a very long year yet seems to have gone fast - how does that work? Anyhoo, I hope you're ready to roll for the weekend and the week didn't drop kick you too hard. Once again our HOA was refusing to do their job and wanted to check the drainage. This problem is on our subfloor. ..above anyplace for drainage to be an issue with no gutters above it. Then the woman in power sits on emails all friggin' day and purposely sends things out on her way out the door so another day gets wasted. Oh the things the Mr and I say about her that I can't say here. I was shaking so bad Monday night I wanted to go out and rip the damn siding off myself but we worked out instead to try to work off the frustration. I called o...
When I was a kid I absolutely loved the sticky bun rolls my grandma made. Everybody fought over them because they were so good and I probably ate more than my fair share every Thanksgiving and Christmas with the extended family but she always made sure we had plenty. Then one year I asked my Mom for the recipe and she broke the news that my Grandma basically just doctored up some store bought ones. Well I guess that explained why they were so good and how she seemingly had an endless supply!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could've recreated them right when we were in VT the first year but the only recipe I got from your mom was "pinwheels covered with glaze." LOL
DeleteMy grandmother's cornbread dressing recipe. There's nothing earth shattering in it, it's just a really solid basic recipe. It took mom and I several years to get the amounts of the ingredients right - when Monie wrote the recipe down she was already experiencing the early stages of Alzheimer's, so the ingredients were correct but the amounts were vague. Like your noodles, it's the non negotiable at the holiday table.
ReplyDeleteYum! It wasn't until Grandma's was in the same stage that I recorded her making them. It was the last time she was able to do them. It helps keep them close to us. <3
DeleteWe make a sweet roll recipe with butterscotch pudding and walnuts. That rises overnight and gets baked up while we open presents. The kid really likes ham so we do that instead of turkey.
ReplyDeleteOoh that sounds yummy! I'm with the boy...after Thanksgiving, I've had enough of turkey for a little while! LOL
DeleteI would have to say my mom's beef roast, her stuffed mushrooms with pepperoni and a bunch of other bits of goodness, and her myriad of cookies. Although the standing joke is she's an amazing cook and her gingerbread cookies are phenomenal but they never form right on the cookie sheets! Every year they'd look all spread out and deformed no matter what she did, so it was always a crack up because then she'd start making funny faces on them instead. But man, the taste of those things... YUM!!
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