On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:34:50 -0600, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:25:18 -0700, "Dimitri" >
>wrote:
>
>>
>>"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "Kswck" > wrote in message
>
> Wish I
>>> had watched my grandmother more though. I certainly miss some of her
>>> meals.
>>
>>
>>What did she make that you miss.
>>
>>My Russian side Grandmother made a KILLER stuffed Cabbage. Crap see what
>>you started? Now I'm going to have to make some.
>
>My paternal grandmother and her sister made the BEST sweet potato pies
>that I have ever had. I have tried to duplicate them to no avail.
>They had a citrusy flavor to them, besides the regular sweet potato
>filling.
>
>They also made the best rolls ever. Two incredibly good southern
>cooks, that didn't measure, and didn't write down what they did... I
>wish I had been old and cognizant enough to copy what they did, while
>they were still alive.
>
Yeah. And there were some ingredients that disappeared (from my field
if vision, at least) with that generation. My paternal grandmother
used to serve the tiniest little peas -- she called them field peas --
but nobody I know raises them anymore.

Lordy, I did love them so.
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modom
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