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easygoingfemme · 11-22-2012, 09:50 PM

I did a lot of cooking outside of my realm over the past few days.

My grandmother died earlier this week. She has been ill for the past few years and has not been able to cook, so during those years we changed traditional menu items up, tried to recreate some items she was known for, just muddled our way through it.

Now with her gone, my mother asked me the other day if I would take on honoring my grandmother by making some of her more famous dishes and put together a Thanksgiving meal.

It was a great experience. I live in my grandmother's house and was able to cook her dishes in her kitchen, right on the stove she used. ( I have her 1945 gibson stove)

So I made her cornbread pudding with sour cream and real butter, her winter squash with brown sugar and cinnamon, my daughter made her pumpkin pie with fresh roasted pumpkins and more sour cream, topped with whipped cream made from real full on heavy cream, we made her cranberry relish and Brussels sprouts. Stuffing was always something that my gram, mom, and I made together when I was little. We'd dry loaves of bread and break them into crumbs and make a long slow baked stuffing. My grandma and I would make the gravy together, just the two of us. My daughter and I helped make the stuffing this year. We didn't even try to make the gravy. My mom made something but that one item seemed to be too intimate to take on this week.

Was a very healing and honoring day of cooking and eating.

11-22-2012, 09:50 PM	#700
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,974 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I did a lot of cooking outside of my realm over the past few days. My grandmother died earlier this week. She has been ill for the past few years and has not been able to cook, so during those years we changed traditional menu items up, tried to recreate some items she was known for, just muddled our way through it. Now with her gone, my mother asked me the other day if I would take on honoring my grandmother by making some of her more famous dishes and put together a Thanksgiving meal. It was a great experience. I live in my grandmother's house and was able to cook her dishes in her kitchen, right on the stove she used. ( I have her 1945 gibson stove) So I made her cornbread pudding with sour cream and real butter, her winter squash with brown sugar and cinnamon, my daughter made her pumpkin pie with fresh roasted pumpkins and more sour cream, topped with whipped cream made from real full on heavy cream, we made her cranberry relish and Brussels sprouts. Stuffing was always something that my gram, mom, and I made together when I was little. We'd dry loaves of bread and break them into crumbs and make a long slow baked stuffing. My grandma and I would make the gravy together, just the two of us. My daughter and I helped make the stuffing this year. We didn't even try to make the gravy. My mom made something but that one item seemed to be too intimate to take on this week. Was a very healing and honoring day of cooking and eating.