Mom Made a Heck of a Pork Roast

iAMsmiling
iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
edited January 26 in Chit-Chat
Anyone else wish their Mom was still around to spoil them with a great home cooked meal?

Mom always inserted whole garlic cloves in to her pork roast. They would cook up so goood and flavor the pork.
I sat next to her and she always gave me the garlic out of her portion...because I was her favorite, of course.

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Be grateful for what you have.

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  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    My mom makes some awesome etouffee and gumbo. I ate the **** outta both this past year at christmas (last time she made both) and didn't give a damn about my calorie total for the day.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    you were a cute kid honey....

    my mom can cook....holy *kitten* can she cook....

    I love going home because everything always tastes better...

    (that could also be because she never completely follows a recipe so when I go to make it, there's always 5 million little changes and adjustments that had been made that she keeps up in her head so mine will NEVER taste like hers....but i'm learning how to do that myself so I can torture my daughter that way....)
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    very sweet
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    My mom makes some awesome etouffee and gumbo. I ate the **** outta both this past year at christmas (last time she made both) and didn't give a damn about my calorie total for the day.

    I still measure every gumbo against my mother's. I just can't eat it anymore with her gone.
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    My mom is crazy but she told me I was beautiful everyday and showed me how to flirt. She also is a voodoo priestess and will put a curse on anyone who did not agree I was pretty. For real though, I am happy I have a mother, so many ls theirs too soon. She really is a voodoo woman.
  • Allie_71
    Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
    :heart:
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Sigh. My mom cooked ( boiled) all vegetables till very soft, boiled all pasta till mushy, and argued bitterly with me about beef, which I wanted rare and she insisted could not have the slightest hint of pink or I'd "get sick". Finally,to shut me up, she asked my pediatrician, who said that I would get more nutrients out of it my way than if it was cooked into shoe leather. After that she shut up and let me cook my own beef. She hated cooking, said it wasn't worth her while as it all turned to s--t by the next day anyway. (WTF?) Once I was married, my hubby and I loved to entertain dinner guests, and she would always say " You don't have to COOK for them, do you?"
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    I'm 29, my mom passed away when I was 19. I would give anything, literally, ANYTHING, just to spend 2 seconds with her to tell her I love her. I never got to tell her hat.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Sorry you've lost your mom. I love hearing about great moms, though. Hope my boys talk about me with such love and respect when they are grown.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    I'm 29, my mom passed away when I was 19. I would give anything, literally, ANYTHING, just to spend 2 seconds with her to tell her I love her. I never got to tell her hat.

    (((Hugs))) taunto
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart:

    My Mom is still alive, but we live in different states, so we rarely see each other. I'd kill for some of her homemade stuffing, lasagna, beef stew, hell pretty much anything she would be willing to cook me.
  • jaxxie
    jaxxie Posts: 576 Member
    My mom is terminal with Peritoneal Cancer and I cannot wait to fly home to eat anything she wants to make and that woman makes it all from scratch and I know the only reason I can't cook as well (well ok at all) is because she pours her heart and soul into every ingredient, all with love!
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    My mom was a lousy cook unfortunately. Everything was burned (or as she put it "well browned"). I started cooking for myself when I was 13.
  • Silver_Star
    Silver_Star Posts: 1,351 Member
    My mom and I were never very close, but i remember her beating up a man who tried to molest me. I remember her screaming at her in laws when they did everything they could to prevent my parents from sending me to study abroad. I remember her always cooking up new dishes from all over the world. She traveled a lot, to more than 50 countries...and would bring back new recipes and I never will forget the time when she had to have three surgeries on her spine...and wanted ME there, and no one else.

    Yeah, she loves me. Even now when she is losing her vision and can barely walk, she is about to travel across the world to come and see me this November.:heart:
  • Rosplosion
    Rosplosion Posts: 739 Member
    Growing up I was never much of a fan of my mother's cooking. Over time as my taste has matured (and I think her cooking has improved) I've grown to love it. She makes a mean latke! Regardless, if my mom cooked up some nasty meal I would be grateful because my mom is still here with me.

    My mom is a survivor. She's been through so much in her life. Two years ago she lost her husband to cancer, before that a tree fell on her breaking her neck in two places. She has survived domestic voilence and managed to raise myself and my two sisters as a single parent. My mom is amazing in so many ways. I'm going to tell her that, right now.
  • mmddwechanged
    mmddwechanged Posts: 1,687 Member
    I'm 29, my mom passed away when I was 19. I would give anything, literally, ANYTHING, just to spend 2 seconds with her to tell her I love her. I never got to tell her hat.

    My husband's mother passed away when he was only 20. I was with him at the time, it was so hard to see him go through that. He was a very grateful and loving son. I can't imagine how hard it was for him and for you. * hugs*
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    My mom isn't a great cook, but that woman sure can bake. Her shortbread and her butter tarts make my mouth water when I even think about them.

    Her breast cancer returned, recently, but she's a fighter. Sorry to all who miss their mothers.
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart:

    My Mom is still alive, but we live in different states, so we rarely see each other. I'd kill for some of her homemade stuffing, lasagna, beef stew, hell pretty much anything she would be willing to cook me.

    My mama made the best beef stroganoff and spaghetti and meatballs. I miss seeing her often it's hard when you live so far apart.
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Sorry you've lost your mom. I love hearing about great moms, though. Hope my boys talk about me with such love and respect when they are grown.

    This :heart:
  • laserturkey
    laserturkey Posts: 1,680 Member
    Before I was vegetarian, my mother always made meatloaf with whole, hard cooked eggs in the middle. I also remember her shrimp creole fondly. After I became vegetarian, she adapted and found ways to make vegetarian versions of so many things! She died in 2000. I was extremely blessed to have the chance to tell her she had been a good mother before she passed.
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    My Mom's cooking is just okay.

    But I would NEVER ever ever hangup on her. I'd lose teeth for that.

    And I sure as shinola would not brag about it on the internet!
  • Kilokata
    Kilokata Posts: 111
    I'm 29, my mom passed away when I was 19. I would give anything, literally, ANYTHING, just to spend 2 seconds with her to tell her I love her. I never got to tell her hat.

    I'm sure she knew.
  • Some_Watery_Tart
    Some_Watery_Tart Posts: 2,250 Member
    My mom can't cook to save her life, but I still don't know what I'd do without her. <3
  • pspetralia
    pspetralia Posts: 963 Member
    :heart: :heart: :heart:

    Sorry you've lost your mom. I love hearing about great moms, though. Hope my boys talk about me with such love and respect when they are grown.

    This! I am so thankful for my mom who has always been my biggest supporter. I can only hope I am even half the mother to my children. :heart:
  • pspetralia
    pspetralia Posts: 963 Member
    I'm 29, my mom passed away when I was 19. I would give anything, literally, ANYTHING, just to spend 2 seconds with her to tell her I love her. I never got to tell her hat.

    I can guarantee she knew....moms just know! :flowerforyou:
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I made a beef pot roast in the crock pot yesteday. I am totally a meat and potatoes guy...thank to Mom!
  • DragonSquatter
    DragonSquatter Posts: 957 Member
    My mom is still around, but she lives thousands of miles away.

    I miss my grandmother though. She was a helluva southern cook. She made her cornbread and pinto beans in big cast iron skillets and pots that had been part of the family for 100 years or so. She was also a master quilter. She made me three quilts before her arthritis made it so she couldn't sew anymore. I cherish them, and I miss her every day.
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