Nonna’s Recipes

My family has experienced a lot of tragedies this past year, including a monster hurricane damaging my grandmother’s home in Louisiana, and then losing my grandmother and my mother most recently. Because of the water damage following the hurricane, I couldn’t handle being in the house after the storm. Physically or mentally. But my mother, with more sentimental fortitude than I have, stubbornly salvaged some antique furniture and dishes, oil paintings, and my grandmother’s handwritten and typed recipe collection. She did good. There are recipes going back many decades from my mother, grandmother, great-grandparents, great-godmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, coworkers, family reunions, dinner parties, and church functions.

So to honor my lost loved ones, and to have a little fun, I’ve decided to make each recipe and post them on the blog. I’ve no pictures to guide me, with an exception of fuzzy memories of some of the dishes my grandmother made more frequently (like her divinity and peanut butter fudge every Christmas). To make it even more interesting, I’m not that great of a cook, and some of these recipes look downright silly (all of the jello fruit what-the-hells), so this is going to be an adventure! I’m nostalgic, excited, and slightly terrified.

I won’t go back and edit this post with each new recipe until I’m finished with the whole stack, but you’ll see everything I’ve posted from the whole series by clicking here: Nonna’s Recipes or by following the corresponding board on Pinterest.

For my Nonna, who was my favorite human and role model, and who I loved “the mostest.” And for my mother, who would always tell me I looked pretty even when I didn’t, and who would undoubtedly enjoy this cooking adventure. May you both Rest In Peace and continue to laugh at my shenanigans from above.