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In reply to the discussion: Those who cook will understand. [View all]The Blue Flower
(5,419 posts)17. Same here
My dear, sweet Mom passed away suddenly just before Thanksgiving 47 years ago. The holiday was a sad one for me for a long time. But my DIL gave birth last week to a baby girl, named for my Mom. I'll be meeting her for the first time today when they come over for dinner. I've come to believe my Mom died of the stress of living for 30 years with an unloving, cruel, alcoholic husband--my dad. My heart is so full at the thought that we now have a new little Pearl to love. That somehow her death has been redeemed. No one could have loved her family more, she gave us all she had to give. I'll be tearing up off and on all day.
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I've learned to cook the roux until it is the color of Vernors Ginger Ale. No lighter.
Siwsan
Nov 2022
#39
I know this will sound sacreligious, but I like to put a tube of Jimmy dean's sausage meat...
Karadeniz
Nov 2022
#6
I was thinking about oyster stuffing earlier... but I can't even be in the same room with a raw
Karadeniz
Nov 2022
#42
Bike ride first thing (have to get the exercise in) then put the pieces together.
plimsoll
Nov 2022
#9
I hear you. I am continuing the tradition and every year I wake and start cooking.
cayugafalls
Nov 2022
#13
Onions, celery, sage sauteing in butter--smell is a powerful tool to wake up memories
randr
Nov 2022
#14
Such love from ancestors lives with us all our lives. May we be worthy of them, and be
ancianita
Nov 2022
#18
OMG Atticus, you just answered my stuffing question. I will saute the onions/celery before I put
AnotherMother4Peace
Nov 2022
#34
Great memory and tribute Atticus! I have dishes and recipes that bring it back. Happy Thanksgiving!
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2022
#46