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December 2018 Moms
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GTKY- Favorite Family Recipes
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I didn't see a GTKY started yet, so here we go!
What is your favorite family recipe? It can be something you/another family member cooks for your family now, or something your family made when you were growing up. It can also be something you love when other family members make, but you can't/prefer not to make yourself. Every day meals, special occasions/holidays, desserts, party food, drinks?
What is your favorite family recipe? It can be something you/another family member cooks for your family now, or something your family made when you were growing up. It can also be something you love when other family members make, but you can't/prefer not to make yourself. Every day meals, special occasions/holidays, desserts, party food, drinks?
Re: GTKY- Favorite Family Recipes
DD2 | June 2011
DS1 | Oct 2013
ADD3 | Oct 2014 (April 2001)
DS2 | June 2016
DS3 | Dec 2018
Due with baby blob August 2021
my mom always made it but I’ve adapted the recipe a little for my family.
Although, describing them at the moment makes me want to vomit
*Rainbow 8/2015*
*Expected Rainbows 12/2018*
*Loss of Twin 5/2018*
I have a bunch from my paternal grandmother. She made New England-style piccalilli, which is a relish made mostly from green tomatoes, peppers, and onions. It is amazing on hot dogs, burgers, but especially pot roast (sounds weird, but trust me). I eat it straight from the jar with a spoon. I don't currently make it, but my dad does, so I always have a jar on hand.
I also make her recipe for pfeffernusse at Christmas. They are little German spice cookies with molasses, anise, cloves, and black pepper. I can smell them now...
We also can tomato sauce every summer, from tomatoes we grow ourselves. The recipe is adapted from my MIL's (it's one of the only things the woman cooks - almost everything else comes out of a microwave bag). It is a PROCESS but man it is so good and we usually get enough to last a whole year!
The one I have that is just mine, that I will make sure endures, is a gumbo recipe that I have developed over the past several years. I am not even the least bit Cajun so I don't have any authority over whether I'm doing it "right" (but I do have a French last name now - thanks husband!) but I've read a bunch about it and just combined and adapted multiple recipes to my tastes and I honestly think it is amazing. I make a huge pot of it every year on Fat Tuesday and freeze portions to last, but the last batch was so good it's almost all gone now so I may have to make some more soon!!
*Rainbow 8/2015*
*Expected Rainbows 12/2018*
*Loss of Twin 5/2018*
Some of Paula's recipes are just the best. I will never ever make a red velvet cake recipe that isn't hers.
The other recipe is from DH's side of the family. His paternal grandmother has a recipe for chicken pie (not like a pot pie, but a normal-sized, double-crusted pie) filled with shredded chicken, shredded potatoes, shredded carrots, and some heavy cream to make it gravy-like. We top it with more gravy and I can just eat the whole pie! I never got to try DH's grandma's version (she died before we met), but ever since I had his dad's version the first time, I've been in love!!!
@kadeephd That jell-o cake actually sounds like a great summer dessert! I wanna try!
Started IF Feb. 2014
PCOS & MFI (low sperm count and motility)
3 Femara cycles w/natural intercourse over summer 2014, BFN
1 Clomid cycle w/natural intercourse Nov. 2014, BFN
IUI March 2015, BFN
IUI June 2015, BFN
IUI Oct. 2015, BFN
IVF Oct. 2016, fresh transfer, 2 day-3 embryos, BFN; nothing to freeze
IVF Nov. 2017, fresh transfer, 2 day-5 blasts, BFP; ectopic; 1 blast frozen
FET March 2018, 1 day-5 blast, BFP!
The tomatoes are a lot of work, but so worth it! They are probably the one part of summer that I look forward to the most. Unfortunately that's pretty much all we have space for right now at a large scale. We grow other stuff, but it's only enough to be eaten fresh, or maybe to freeze a few portions.
For me, growing up it was always my mom's quiche. Which sounds terrible right now.
My babcia (grandma) makes a mean polish potato salad. It's got a lot going on it, it's creamy and with tart apples and then crunchy parsnip. I know that prob sounds terrible, but it is amazing.
DH is a fantastic cook and I love trying all of his venezuelan favs from his childhood.
The most requested things I make for my family are my stuffed mushrooms, balsamic chicken, and banana pudding. Oh god I love banana pudding.
BFP #1: 7/15/15, SB: 11/14/15
Rainbow baby DS born 9/29/16!!
BFP #3 3/26/18 | Due 12/3/18
Started IF Feb. 2014
PCOS & MFI (low sperm count and motility)
3 Femara cycles w/natural intercourse over summer 2014, BFN
1 Clomid cycle w/natural intercourse Nov. 2014, BFN
IUI March 2015, BFN
IUI June 2015, BFN
IUI Oct. 2015, BFN
IVF Oct. 2016, fresh transfer, 2 day-3 embryos, BFN; nothing to freeze
IVF Nov. 2017, fresh transfer, 2 day-5 blasts, BFP; ectopic; 1 blast frozen
FET March 2018, 1 day-5 blast, BFP!
BFP #1: 7/15/15, SB: 11/14/15
Rainbow baby DS born 9/29/16!!
BFP #3 3/26/18 | Due 12/3/18
-put potatoes in the instant pot on their own for a little, take out and stick them in the oven to get skin crispy
-saute half an onion, 1 red bell pepper, one yellow bell pepper in the instant pot for 5 minutes, then add 1 and a half pounds of ground beef (brown it) and then add garlic, franks red hot buffalo sauce, packet of taco seasoning.
-mix it up and pressure cook in instant pot for 10 minutes
-DINNER'S READY.
-Cut potato in half, mash up the middle a little bit and add a couple spoonfuls on top
- Put some cheese on top if you're feeling special (:
So good, my mouth is watering now.
Kade Wayne born July 23, 2015
MC in February 2017
MC in November 2017
Oliver Dean (Ollie) due December 17, 2018
Here's the recipe that I go off of.
Kade Wayne born July 23, 2015
MC in February 2017
MC in November 2017
Oliver Dean (Ollie) due December 17, 2018
@asun123 tacos potatoes sound right up my alley. In the Wednesday ticker update thread I picked tacos or potatoes as my “if you could only eat one food, what would it be”, lol. Thanks for sharing! I’ll have to try them.
@kadeephd when I was a kid, my best friends mom used to make jello cake. I forgot about that! Hers was a little different. She’d make a box of white/vanilla cake in a pan following the cake directions. After it was cooked, she’d poke some holes in it, then she mixed up jello and poured it over the cake while it was still liquid. The whole pan goes in the fridge to set, then gets iced with cool whip. That sounds so good right now. I’ll have to make that too.
@hkom I’ve always wanted to try making sauces with fresh tomatoes. The most I do with them is make salsa. I have a community garden plot with some friends this year, and we just planted 4 different varieties of tomatoes, so hopefully we’ll have a lot of them to work with this summer.
Speaking of tomato sauce, I think my favorite childhood recipe is my dad’s (stepdads) spaghetti sauce. He doesn’t have a real recipe, so I can’t make it quite the same, but he puts a bit of everything in it: tomato sauce & paste, a pinch of brown sugar, worchestershire sauce, etc. It’s so good. Maybe I’ll have him write it down for me.
Also my birth father’s brownies. I requested a tower of them instead of a birthday cake one year. He’s pretty much always worked in the food industry, although he doesn’t have formal training, so he can make a lot of foods. I grew up with my dads cooking more than my mom & step mom, which is “unusual” for someone my age, I think it’s more common for younger generations.
Otherwise, I wish I had awesome family recipes to rely on like most of you! My mom didn't cook much when I was growing up, but she did make a dessert around the holidays. We just called them Peanut Butter Balls, but it's PB, corn flakes, and corn syrup. It's super addicting, but I stopped making them years ago because I try to avoid added sugars.
So without family recipes I have been making our own and sharing them with visiting family. I thought that our Mushroom and Tortellini Soup was a hit until our nephew ate my Sausage Gnocchi. He makes it once a week, and we figure it must be good when a busy high schooler makes time to cook for himself *high fives to self*
Dx: Unspecified IF
BFP#1 Nov 2017 • Blighted Ovum + MMC • D&C at nine weeks
BFP#2 Apr 2018 • It's a boy! • Born 13 Dec 2018