What were some of your family’s favorite meals that you served? Would you mind sharing any of those recipes? <\/strong><\/p>\nMeals were a big deal. Food was huge is quantity and importance.<\/p>\n
I realized that even though we love variety, we also love\u00a0structure. \u00a0Wednesday was always soup night during the school year. \u00a0A big kettle of soup and a steaming sink of sudsy water. \u00a0This made for easy\u00a0preparation and\u00a0few dishes between school and Wednesday night at church. \u00a0Sunday was mainly oven meals or spaghetti. \u00a0Saturday my husband gave me time to myself and said don’t come home until nap time. \u00a0He made waffles every Saturday for years. \u00a0I had a simplified version of once a month cooking that involved cooking 20-25 pounds <\/strong>of hamburger at a time. \u00a0I would make chili, lasagna, taco meat, etc. \u00a0I baked four loaves of bread every day (Wow, this sounds like a lot looking back!) and Wednesday and Saturday afternoons were my cinnamon roll ministry<\/strong>. \u00a0I would bake rolls for us and a pan or two to give away. Everyone got to take turns picking some one to give rolls to. \u00a0It was a sense of adventure to surprise people with food.<\/p>\nWe maybe went out\u00a0to a restaurant once a month with all the kids.<\/p>\n
Are there any particular foods that your grown children now ask for at family gatherings? Would you mind sharing those recipes and any story behind the dish?<\/strong><\/p>\nThe things my guys ask for most when the come home are cinnamon rolls, pizza snakes and gramma bread.<\/p>\n
Pizza snakes<\/strong> are made like cinnamon rolls but with cheese, spices and meat rolled up in the dough. \u00a0Instead of cutting into slices before baking, it is baked whole. \u00a0We have made the dough in letters, numbers and shapes for different occasions. \u00a0The best was the starship Enterprise for a Star Trek night.<\/p>\nGramma bread<\/strong> is dough about the size of a bun, flatted out with three slits (yes three and always three) cut in it, \u00a0It is then fried in a hot skillet in about 1 tbsp of shortening. \u00a0They rise quickly in the hot frypan and get golden where it touches the pan. \u00a0The shortening isn’t very much (they are not deep fried) but you do have to add some for each \u00a0batch. \u00a0My gramma made these as did her gramma. \u00a0The reason was on bread baking day the first loaves weren’t ready for the first meal, so this was a way to have bread when the men came in from the field. \u00a0We served it hot with butter and salt. \u00a0No, you can’t put jelly on it, it’s just not done.<\/p>\nThat sure sounds like a lot of delicious food to me… And what a wonderful idea to surprise a friend with homemade cinnamon rolls! I was just sharing this with my own mom who once had someone drop by with a delicious homemade pizza… just because. Wow! How nice!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nCheck back tomorrow to learn about Valerie’s family traditions…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each Thursday I share the stories of a new Real (Experienced) Mom and this week you are really in for a treat, as I am carrying out our latest mom’s interview for a few days. Yesterday I shared the first post from Valerie, a mom to five (now) grown men. If you missed it, please […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-experienced-moms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}