I never knew making a set recipe was so hard.

    My dear mom and I will be trying our hand in taking old family dishes that have been passed down verbally and by sharing the kitchen experiences of generations of women in my family.

   My hope, in the next few weeks, is to create these recipes my grandmother, mother and aunt shared with me, into reproducible dishes that will bring the younger generation of my family a link to their past of all the great women who had come before them.

My great grandfather, my grandmothers brother who lost his life in a camp in world war II, my grandmother as a girl, my great grandmother. 

    I never realized how hard it is to make a recipe with measurements that should work all the time! I now have a deeper appreciation of the chefs that make recipes for the home cook! So in the next few weeks wish me luck as I try to bring the verbal family recipes into written reality.

My children many many years ago!

The joy of life is in the moment! As Jacque Pepin says: Happy cooking!