Things that make you smile

[2jakes]

Now that is fantastic!

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Thanks 1mach1....

I don't get this too often. Not that I'm into a "pity-party" for yours truly,
But when it does happen...
it brings a smile & good feeling all day!

 

[1mach1]

Thanks 1mach1....

I don't get this too often. Not that I'm into a "pity-party" for yours truly,
But when it does happen...
it brings a smile & good feeling all day!

I hear that, my friend. Loud and clear [emoji4]

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[HadleyH1]

this not only makes me smile ....but melts my heart....(((so much love)))I really love and I try to protect animals....and they really make me smile all the time!

 

[HadleyH1]

((( this too melts me lots of smiles... )))

 

[Touchofevil]

The anticipation of a good meal.

 

[HadleyH1]

The anticipation of a good meal.

Yum! me too!

 

[Touchofevil]

Yum! me too!

And a big ol’ goofy grin while eating it. Followed by a smile filled with yearning while remembering it the next day/ a year later/many years later.

 

[HadleyH1]

And a big ol’ goofy gri enjoyed hern while eating it. Followed by a smile filled with yearning while remembering it the next day/ a year later/many years later.

absolutely! when my grandmother was alive...she used to invite her son (my dad) and family (us)every week....and OMG she was such an amazing cook! everything was tasty and delicious.................the best of the best.....in her lovely dinning room....OMG how I miss her....how lucky we were me and my brother and sister ....to enjoyed her lovely food....and her company.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

absolutely! when my grandmother was alive...she used to invite his son (my dad) and family (us)every week....and OMG she was such an amazing cook! everything was tasty and delicious.................the best of the best.....in her lovely dinning room....OMG how I miss her....how lucky we were me and my brother and sister ....to enjoyed her lovely food....and her company.

Do you have any of her recipes? I miss those family gatherings too -- New Year's Day at my grandparents was the big family gathering when I was a kid. My own family is pretty much down to my 87-year-old uncle (my aunt passed away in 2014) and several cousins whom I was never that close with. But now the housemates have become my surrogate family and I go to their family gatherings. My new "mother-in-law" is a fantastic cook and makes a great pozole (a hearty Mexican soup made from chicken or pork and hominy).

 

[2jakes]

Do you have any of her recipes? I miss those family gatherings too -- New Year's Day at my grandparents was the big family gathering when I was a kid. My own family is pretty much down to my 87-year-old uncle (my aunt passed away in 2014) and several cousins whom I was never that close with. But now the housemates have become my surrogate family and I go to their family gatherings. My new "mother-in-law" is a fantastic cook and makes a great pozole (a hearty Mexican soup made from chicken or pork and hominy).

Took me about a year before I was able to determine what I
needed to do to make homemade biscuits like my grandmother
used to do.

I was able to figure out the right ingredients which eliminated
using modern ready mix flour for one thing, there were other
things as well.

Yet it took a while after trying for months even with the right material
and equipment.

The secret was in the "amount of time" required to mix the dough.
Something that all the cook-books that I read.... failed to mention.

Next on the agenda is how to prepare home-made tamales like
my aunts used to do when everyone would gather at my
grandmother's home for the holidays.
I miss them all so much!

 

[Zombie_61]

Do you have any of her recipes?

My mother-in-law was an excellent cook. When "Ma" (as everyone called her) was diagnosed with cancer back in 1982 my wife took it upon herself to write down several of Ma's recipes while there was still time to do so. Ma was literally one of those "pinch of this, dash of that" cooks, so they spent hours together trying to figure out more precise measurements for the ingredients Ma used, and there was quite a bit of trial-and-error and quite a few tasty meals involved as they verified whether or not their "precise" measurements were accurate. Fortunately, for the most part, they were.

Bring this back around to the main topic, I suppose that's my way of saying memories of Ma make me smile...and not just for her cooking talents. She was a wonderful woman who loved her family and would do anything for them, loved to laugh and had a great sense of humor, but wasn't shy about expressing herself when she felt she needed to. There was no ambiguity with Ma, you always knew where you stood with her (and my father-in-law, for that matter), and that was one of her qualities that I appreciated most.

 

[3fingers]

My grandmother made dumplings. One of my sisters was able to get ahold of the recipe by a strange coincidence, since we did not know one existed. She had written it out for a young wife who lived nearby. 50 years later that young wife gave the recipe card to my sister, in my grandma's handwriting.
We all got together at another sister's house to make dumplings. They didn't turn out as well as grandma's, but I believe that day was the most fun we have had together since we were kids.

 

[Touchofevil]

absolutely! when my grandmother was alive...she used to invite her son (my dad) and family (us)every week....and OMG she was such an amazing cook! everything was tasty and delicious.................the best of the best.....in her lovely dinning room....OMG how I miss her....how lucky we were me and my brother and sister ....to enjoyed her lovely food....and her company.

I talk about my grandma and her cooking all the time. Every meal was magical. She always had a big garden and fruit bearing trees so fresh produce, jams, pies, and canned peaches were always on the table. Fresh cornbread every meal. Southern dishes, but not limited to... cooked with love...memories...

 

[2jakes]

Touchoevil
I do believe that grandmothers back in the day came with a
garden, fruit bearing trees and everything else that
you've mentioned which was true for my grandma as well.

I close my eyes and imagine my grandmother in the morning,
watering her garden, the aroma of flowers and the coffee grounds
she would add to her plants.

I've got to smile to keep from crying!

 

[Touchofevil]

Touchoevil
I do believe that grandmothers back in the day came with a
garden, fruit bearing trees and everything else that
you've mentioned which was true for my grandma as well.

I close my eyes and imagine my grandmother in the morning,
watering her garden, the aroma of flowers and the coffee grounds
she would add to her plants.

I've got to smile to keep from crying!

My paternal grandparents, although poorish, did not have a garden. They lived amongst orchards and outside of town, but were too lazy to even raise their children. My maternal grandparents were very poor so the garden was needed. They also had a great work ethic and became financially well off. My father was fortunate to be adopted and raised by a wonderful aunt and uncle.

 

[HadleyH1]

Do you have any of her recipes? I miss those family gatherings too -- New Year's Day at my grandparents was the big family gathering when I was a kid. My own family is pretty much down to my 87-year-old uncle (my aunt passed away in 2014) and several cousins whom I was never that close with. But now the housemates have become my surrogate family and I go to their family gatherings. My new "mother-in-law" is a fantastic cook and makes a great pozole (a hearty Mexican soup made from chicken or pork and hominy).

She and several other friends of her, published a cook book.

She gave me a copy many years ago... and wrote a little dedication ....

I treasure it! Sometimes I look for easy meals in that book....

Sadly I am no great cook.....nothing like her ....not by a long stretch.

 

[2jakes]

Sadly I am no great cook.....nothing like her ....not by a long stretch.

Oh nooooooo....it can't be!

Say it ain't so!

You have such a lovely smile...I find it hard to believe!

 

[2jakes]

 

[Touchofevil]

Mornings where normally I would have to be at work, but instead I am at home sitting in my pjs drinking a cup of coffee and reading/watching a movie on TCM.