In article >,
serene > wrote:

> On 6 Mar 2006 00:26:13 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >What was your favorite thing that your Mom cooked?
>
> Her matzoh balls, hands down.
>
> No, wait, her chopped liver.
>
> Dammit, maybe it's her spaghetti sauce that takes a day and a half to
> cook.
>
> Damn. Hard choices.
>
> (Garlicky lamb roast. Pork-stuffed wontons. Latkes! How could I
> forget latkes? Chicken and rice casserole. And on and on and on.)
>
> The other day, I was talking to her on the phone. God, I miss her so
> much. We had a lonnnnnng conversation about all my favorite things
> that she makes. Some of her own mother's recipes are lost to time,
> and I'm trying to learn all of my mom's before I lose her. The one
> thing she wished she had learned from her mom is her chopped herring
> recipe, and we've decided to try to duplicate it. Too bad we're now
> 500 miles apart.
>
> serene

500 miles is only a 10 hour drive..... :-)
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