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> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> > Your best mom memories?
> > -ginny
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> Wow - my Mom was an awesome cook. Her pot roast was the best. And
> vegetable soup - I can duplicate it, but I don't make it nearly often
> enough. And baked Macaroni and Cheese - the old-fashioned thick kind
> so many people love. It makes me sad to think about it too much.
>
> Like ginny said - it doesn't get better, just different.
>

My mom made that macaroni and cheese and it was one of the first
things she let us make on our own! She made really good chicken
and dumplings, terrific holiday dinners (that dressing, and yes it WAS
in the bird--there is nothing like it ..) but mostly she was a baker. A
really fine baker. The smell of baking apples and cakes and pastry
was one I grew up with. And cookies. And she made two dishes
I have never seen since--one she called "stuffed pork chops" and
one was some sort of pounded steak that was then lightly breaded,
browned then braised in a tomato based sauce. That sound familiar
to anyone? I cannot recall what she called it.