There’s Nothing Like…
…dinner at my Mom’s. My mother is a wonderful cook and she usually fixes supper for the family about once a week. There is something about going “home” for supper, sitting down and knowing that she’s made stuff that she knows I like. As a wife and mother, I appreciate this a WHOLE LOT MORE now that I routinely prepare food for ungrateful, picky people. Last night’s menu:
Goulash, mashed potatoes, corn, fried cabbage and homemade biscuits. (Still can’t make a 
biscuit from scratch.) AND homemade strawberry ice cream with strawberry sponge-like cake with yummy strawberry icing. I spent an extra 15 minutes on the treadmill this morning to work all of that off.
But it was worth it.
What reminds you of home? What things to do you find you appreciate more as an adult than you did as a child?
June 1st, 2007 at 10:01 am
Mom’s cubed steak with surprise gravy, mashed potatoes (lumpy, please) and biscuits.
Drool.
Where’s my mom? Y’all guilt her in to cooking for me, okay?
June 1st, 2007 at 10:25 am
I appreciate everything my mom did more now that I see her doing it for my step dad and baby sister without much thanks. When I was a kid, she worked full time to support us, cooked every meal from scratch and kept our house anal-retentive clean all the time. She’s the best cook ever. DB is lucky if I put a frozen pizza in the oven for him…
My mom’s pot roast with mashed potatoes and baby carrots…that’s what its all about. Then the leftover meat would be simmered in green salsa and we’d make burritos the next day. Sigh.
June 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’m with Andrea, my mom’s roast with potatoes, carrots and corn bread…YUMMY! I need to make a phone call.
Kira
June 1st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Kimberly, aren’t mashed potatoes the best? That’s how my mother could tell if I was really sick when I was little. If I wouldn’t eat the mashed potatoes, then I was definitely ill.
Andrea and Kira, I love my Mom’s pot roast as well. And homemade rolls. Yum.
Anyone else getting hungry?
June 1st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I don’t know what Kimberly is complaining about, I cooked an “Australian themed” dinner Tuesday night.
As for cooking cubed steak, I haven’t cooked in so long the gravy wouldn’t be the only thing that was a “surprise.”
June 1st, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Sorry, Mom, sliding a pork chop from your plate to mine at Outback doesn’t constitute actual cooking.
Yummy, though.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:04 pm
LOL, ya’ll are too funny.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Lord, but it’s late!!! I remember my mom making my sister & me outfits alike for school & Chritmas (we are 16 months apart). I didn’t appreciate it then but I sure do now. My favorite thing for my mom to cook is salmon croquets, butter beans, cole slaw & cornbread, yum!!!!!!!!!!! Wonder if I can talk her into coming up really, really soon? Have a great weekend!