re: #545 Alouette

When my sons got married, I gave my daughters-in-law a scrapbook recipe holder of all their favorite foods.

One of my daughters-in-law has steadfastly refused to ever cook anything in that book. She told my son, “I want you to remember your mother’s cooking the way it was.” She is a way better cook than I am, anyway.

My other daughters-in-law gave the book to my son and told him “it’s your turn to cook dinner!”

Zedushka keeps asking me to make a “barley and split-pea mash” like his mother used to make, which sounds utterly gross. Since I am working and he isn’t, he has time to putter around in the kitchen.

My husband makes Spanish tortilla (which is not Mexican tortilla, but is very different) with my boys.

I’m not allowed in the kitchen at that time.