This past April 7 marked two years without our mother. You always know that your parents are going to get older and one day they will no longer be around, but it is still difficult when they pass away.
From time to time people who have not seen me in a while will ask me how my mom is doing, and then I tell them that she passed away. I want to wish all mothers a Happy Mother’s Day and to the daughters, if you still have your mother and feel you don’t know your mother like you would like to know her, sit down and have a conversation with her before it is too late. Find out what her life was like as a little girl, where she met your dad and get her to write down some of those recipes that you like so much. I used to ask my mom about some of the things that she would cook and she never had a recipe. I would just have to stand in the kitchen and watch and try to figure it out. After it was all said and done, I became a very good cook, not because I watched long enough to figure out the contents of the recipe, but because I found books with the recipes of the things that I liked to eat. I would work on those recipes until it tasted the way that I wanted it to taste.
I was listening to a radio show the other day and they asked listeners to call in and talk about a favorite dish that their mother made. I can think of so many. My mother made great deviled eggs and now so do I. She made the best Jell-O molds. Jell-O molds were very chic back in the ‘60s. And my mom had perfected Jell-O. She would serve it with pineapple, grated carrots, grapes and celery. Sometimes it would be multi-colored and she would put it in a round mold and then when it was jellied she would slice it and serve it on a bed of lettuce. It was something we would have on Sundays after our roast beef, potatoes and fresh-snapped green beans.
Oh, and she would make the best gravy from scratch. I used to get a kick out of watching her whip up a batch of mashed potatoes. Once again no recipe. She would boil those potatoes, peel them, mash them with a metal potato masher with a green wooden handle and then pour milk and butter into the pot and whip the potatoes until they were smooth. My mom also made great navy beans. They were my father’s favorite and sometimes that would be the whole meal or a pot of lima beans and ham.
So ladies and gents, get to know your moms. I’m speaking to the younger readers, also. You never know how long you will have mom around and there may be some important things you would like to know. In the meantime, make your Mother’s Day the best ever.
(Email Debbie at debbienorrell@aol.com.)
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