This recipe from the Nonna’s Recipes series is my mother’s “tater soup” that she wrote down for my grandmother in 1980. At the time, my 22 year old mother was newly graduated from cosmetology school and a single mom. So it makes sense that this is poor folk comfort food that we likely had very often. This cheap, […]
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Nonna’s Glazed Carrots
Taking a break from sweets, next in the Nonna’s Recipes series is glazed carrots, and easy side dish my grandmother Nonna copied from a friend in the 1970s. I have no memory of eating it, so this recipe was an experiment with a great outcome. I recommend serving these carrots with poultry and would be complimented with […]
Nonna’s Divinity (First Attempt)
Well, an attempt was made. Riding a high from the peanut butter fudge success, I successfully screwed up the second recipe in the Nonna’s Recipes series, my great-grandmother Mawmaw’s divinity that my grandmother Nonna made every Christmas. I remember her struggling with it when the humidity was too high, so living in Houston, I’m already set up […]
Nonna’s Peanut Butter Fudge
First in the Nonna’s Recipes series is my great-grandmother Mawmaw’s peanut butter fudge that my grandmother Nonna made every Christmas. I have fond memories of her making it (and divinity) and fuzzy memories of my sugar buzz after eating as much as possible. So this recipe was easy to recreate since I distinctly remember the […]
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, […]