So I've got a huge shoebox full of my mother's recipes
I got it from my aunt this week, she's been hanging onto it for years since my mother passed.
I'm kinda dismayed at how half-ass a cook my mom was. Almost all of these recipes are just combining different store-bought products. All her supposedly "homemade" dishes are full of name brands. So many name brands you'd think somebody had been paying her.
Her marinara sauce, that I remember the whole family raving about when I was a child, is literally canned tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil, and a McCormick seasoning packet. she does say to add fresh basil at the end, so I guess there's that. Why on earth did she feel the need to write this "recipe" down?
Chocolate Silk Pie: Whip a can of Eagle sweetened condensed milk until frothy and light, then fold it into a large tub of Cool-Whip. In a double boiler melt three Hershey bars, fold the melted chocolate into the Cool Whip until streaky. Spread into two Keebler graham crusts and run wooden spoon handle through in a spiral pattern. Refrigerate four hours.
Not a single damn ingredient in that isn't a name-brand. Sheesh, Mom! I know she was a product of the 1950s, but still.
Anyhow, it's nice to have something of hers. She was notoriously camera shy and looks like a deer in the headlights in the few photos I have. And it's nice to have a souvenir of the plastic fantastic times I grew up in.
I'm gonna make her lemon pepper chicken tonight. The secret ingredients are Hellman's mayo, and you guessed it: a McCormick seasoning packet.
I'm kinda dismayed at how half-ass a cook my mom was. Almost all of these recipes are just combining different store-bought products. All her supposedly "homemade" dishes are full of name brands. So many name brands you'd think somebody had been paying her.
Her marinara sauce, that I remember the whole family raving about when I was a child, is literally canned tomatoes, tomato paste, olive oil, and a McCormick seasoning packet. she does say to add fresh basil at the end, so I guess there's that. Why on earth did she feel the need to write this "recipe" down?
Chocolate Silk Pie: Whip a can of Eagle sweetened condensed milk until frothy and light, then fold it into a large tub of Cool-Whip. In a double boiler melt three Hershey bars, fold the melted chocolate into the Cool Whip until streaky. Spread into two Keebler graham crusts and run wooden spoon handle through in a spiral pattern. Refrigerate four hours.
Not a single damn ingredient in that isn't a name-brand. Sheesh, Mom! I know she was a product of the 1950s, but still.
Anyhow, it's nice to have something of hers. She was notoriously camera shy and looks like a deer in the headlights in the few photos I have. And it's nice to have a souvenir of the plastic fantastic times I grew up in.
I'm gonna make her lemon pepper chicken tonight. The secret ingredients are Hellman's mayo, and you guessed it: a McCormick seasoning packet.
