Dimitri wrote:
> OK the "Who taught you to cook" post got me thinking:
>
> What did your grandmother cook that you miss the most


When my father's mother was visiting, she would wait until my mother was
out of the house. Then she'd make hamentaschen with my brother and me.
By the time my non-baking mother got home, the entire operation would
be done, kitchen cleaned and only the cookies remaining.


Grandma encouraged creativity. She'd made the standard tri-cornered
ones with lekvar filling. My brother and I made sculptured cookies with
filling, layers, rounds, shapes, little turnovers, the works.


I wish I had the recipe. My aunt remembers that her mother liked Mazola
oil. I know the dough had a lot of eggs in it. (I hated eggs so much
that I was grossed out watching them go into the dough. I had to leave
the room until the flour went in.)


I know my maternal grandmother must have cooked at some point, but I
don't recall what. Plain broiled chicken comes to mind, but the memory
is murky.


--Lia