Mom used to make a jellied salad with pecans and dark cherries and I don't have a clue where the recipe is. She'd serve a Smithfield ham. She'd make her Ribbon Cookies and Aunt Blanche's Pecan-Date Cake.

I located the recipes for the cookies and the cake plus the brownies my maternal Grandmother made.

I know how to copy Mom's stuffing. I know how to make the pecan pie and the lemon chess pie.

But.......it just isn't the same if I make them instead of Mom making them.

I really miss Mom's holiday meals !!![:'(]

 Thanksgiving has to have chestnut and sausage stuffing - as well as broccoli casserole.    For Christmas I need to make sauce with lots of meat - chicken, sausage, meatballs and porkchops.    I also need to make fried dough for breakfast on Christmas morning.

 VNW, I had an Aunt Blanche too. BAbs

babs:

 VNW, I had an Aunt Blanche too. BAbs

Me too. But Mom secretly called her "Aunt Biddy" LOL!

eyrehead:

I love the green bean casserole, and I usually make it, but I'm the only one that eats it!! Unless of course, the inlaws are coming and then my MIL and I just chow down...we both love it!! lol

deviled eggs , my stuffing ,  pickle tray , and some kind of jello stuffing ..

my nephew loves Macaroni and cheese , and my youngest has to have his yeast rolls to make it a holiday .

 Ariana that is so cute.  I had an Aunt Mayme. I always thought that was the strangest name.Babs

gayla50:

some kind of jello stuffing ..

???Jello stuffing???

Edey

my dear SIL makes it .  Jello with nuts , rainsin . carrots . 

she calls it Jello stuffing

perhaps Jello salad or something like that  

 I never heard it called that, but I like it. I make it with chopped walnuts and a can of fruit cocktail, using the liquid from the canned fruit as part of the liquid called for in the jello instructions. Give me that and a piece of chocolate cake and I'm happy.