have a shelf filled with these cookbooks. They include recipes of my mom’s and dear friends from the different places we have lived. Lost mom in 1982. She was 55. She loved us well with planned dinners of recipes handwritten or typed and collected on cards from friends.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Recipes sure do bring those loving memories close.
It's true, even just the reading of the recipe can take me back to when she first made it for me. And these cookbooks with their personal touch are so much more meaningful than any other on my shelves.
I, too, am very sorry for your loss. I miss my inlaws so much!
Two things to share. First I have Methodist women’s cookbooks from 1950 to 2015. From Springfield Illinois to Scottsdale AZ. Second, this past Thanksgiving, the sisters and SIL laid down the law to the 20s and 30s, single, coupled, or married they were required to bring adult dishes to Thanksgiving. They outdid themselves! Pretty sure Pinterest was overrepresented but they were so proud of their dishes. Cousins coordinated some appetizers, gourmet desserts. Recipes were shared.
It is love within a family of sharing that builds those bonds.
Thank you, Trisha. Now, you are making those memories with your 20s and 30s and these are the things they will cherish in time.
PS. Pinterest really is wonderful too, I loved it for many years. But I can't escape the algorithm and if I am going to be told what to make, it might as well be from people who loved me and their families enough to preserve their best recipes.
I’m so sorry about your sister in law. I, too, lost my sister in law a year and a half ago to cancer. Since my mother in law had died before I married my husband, this sister in law taught me to be a “Naylor”. How to cook favorite family dishes, so much family lore and family history stories, and so much treasured information about my husband when he was young. I miss her every day. But I feel close to her when I open Our Family Cookbook, which she put together about 20 years ago. It’s a compilation of (easily) a hundred or more tried and true recipes that our family loves. I, too, feel stagnant in my cooking, often making the same 5 dishes over and over. But when I open Our Family Cookbook I’m inspired by the recipes and the love that went into putting that together and it gives me a little inspiration to cook another day.
Thank you, Darcie. And thank you for sharing your love for your sister in law with me. There is nothing like cooking an old favorite recipe that can bring all those memories flooding back.
have a shelf filled with these cookbooks. They include recipes of my mom’s and dear friends from the different places we have lived. Lost mom in 1982. She was 55. She loved us well with planned dinners of recipes handwritten or typed and collected on cards from friends.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Recipes sure do bring those loving memories close.
It's true, even just the reading of the recipe can take me back to when she first made it for me. And these cookbooks with their personal touch are so much more meaningful than any other on my shelves.
I, too, am very sorry for your loss. I miss my inlaws so much!
Two things to share. First I have Methodist women’s cookbooks from 1950 to 2015. From Springfield Illinois to Scottsdale AZ. Second, this past Thanksgiving, the sisters and SIL laid down the law to the 20s and 30s, single, coupled, or married they were required to bring adult dishes to Thanksgiving. They outdid themselves! Pretty sure Pinterest was overrepresented but they were so proud of their dishes. Cousins coordinated some appetizers, gourmet desserts. Recipes were shared.
It is love within a family of sharing that builds those bonds.
Thank you, Trisha. Now, you are making those memories with your 20s and 30s and these are the things they will cherish in time.
PS. Pinterest really is wonderful too, I loved it for many years. But I can't escape the algorithm and if I am going to be told what to make, it might as well be from people who loved me and their families enough to preserve their best recipes.
I’m so sorry about your sister in law. I, too, lost my sister in law a year and a half ago to cancer. Since my mother in law had died before I married my husband, this sister in law taught me to be a “Naylor”. How to cook favorite family dishes, so much family lore and family history stories, and so much treasured information about my husband when he was young. I miss her every day. But I feel close to her when I open Our Family Cookbook, which she put together about 20 years ago. It’s a compilation of (easily) a hundred or more tried and true recipes that our family loves. I, too, feel stagnant in my cooking, often making the same 5 dishes over and over. But when I open Our Family Cookbook I’m inspired by the recipes and the love that went into putting that together and it gives me a little inspiration to cook another day.
Thank you, Darcie. And thank you for sharing your love for your sister in law with me. There is nothing like cooking an old favorite recipe that can bring all those memories flooding back.