re: #532 EmmmieG

Totally OT.

Today’s project is switching over my recipes from the box (which is broken on account of falling from the highest shelf, and never worked well anyway) to the binder.

Some of the recipe cards date back to my bridal shower.

Why would you give a bride a recipe for squash casserole? She’s perfectly capable of finding things that the groom won’t eat on her own. Give that girl a recipe for baby back ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, or homemade pizza.

Some of those bridal shower cards are from my deceased grandmother. Luckily, not the squash casserole. Grandma had more sense than that.

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.