Mommas Best Cookin' (:

Oh man, spaghetti with Ragu sauce - usually mom would brown some hamburger, and sautee some green pepper and onion to go in the sauce. My dad hated spaghetti, so we pretty much only had it when he was out of town on business, or for my birthday dinner.

Rhubarb coffee cake. Not a meal but that was great stuff.
When my dad was out of town my mom would make fried bread dough sometimes for dinner. We would eat it with syrup. It was kind of a special treat just between us.
My mom's potato salad was really good. She would make it for potlucks or gatherings in a large amount.

My moms cooking was horrible. But my dad would do sunday meals. Lunch was a simple soup and sandwiches. Dinner would be a roast, meatloaf, lamb, whole chicken... something like that, with mashed taters and gravy and some sort of veg. Still my favourite.

My mom made lovely banana bread and jelly donuts though, and we'd gobble them up with a pot of tea.

I think my mom did her best, but as a stay at home mom I feel like there should have been a *few* memorable home cooked dinners. I did grow up real fat. We ate hamburger helper several nights a week.

The one recipe she still makes is Spanish rice, I'm sure it not authentic at all but she makes it with bacon grease (like 1tbsp instead of oil) and oh man, that one is killer. I make it better though to be honest! I add a bit more spice and fresh garlic. She has a spaghetti sauce recipe my siblings adore but I always preferred a chunky sauce with veggies over a pureed looking red sauce. Spices were great, but I had more food taste in common with dad who never got a say.

Sorry I'm not more sentimental for moms cooking!

Pork chops cooked in a pan plus egg noodles that were sautéed in the pork chop drippings plus baked cinnamon apples on the side.

You are a very fortunate young man to have such a mom and memories and the opportunity to thank her and get her to teach you and your kids to make those dishes. I loved my mother's banana pudding and coconut cake. These were special occasion dishes. She died young and I've never been able to get the banana pudding just right. I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

Additional food memory: My mom was from upstate New York, my dad from rural Florida. Mom did not really know how to cook when they got married, so my dad taught her some. She had never had banana pudding, you know, layers of vanilla pudding, sliced bananas, 'Nilla wafers, merangue, before he made it for her. She loved it, and asked where he learned how to make it. Dad said, "It's an old family recipe." I'm not quite sure how long it was before Mom noticed it was on the box of cookies.

One of my favourite foods is a bamboo stew made with bamboo shoots, mushrooms, squash, and either chicken or pork poured on a bed of white rice. It is a traditional Laotian dish.

My mom knows that it's my favourite and she makes it sometimes when I go visit her. It's not fancy by any means and is kind of a 'growing up without a lot of money' dish but it really makes me happy when she does make it.

My mom also makes really delicious spring rolls. She gets requests for all the family functions - it isn't family dinner if they don't have spring rolls.

My mom is not a great cook (though she's an excellent baker), but she makes the best macaroni and cheese I have ever tasted. She gave me the recipe, and I have watched her make it countless times, but I can't get it right. Luckily, she is thrilled when I invite myself over for dinner and request this dish.

My mom never cooked, sadly. It was always takeouts or dining in. My parents still eat out or order in for every meal to this day.

My mom was NOT a good cook, let alone dealing with comfort food. However there are TWO items that sort of stand out in my mind.

- Vegetable Beef Soup with homemade dumplings - whenever I go home to visit we make this together still using the same wooden spoon my great-grandmother used to make the same soup. I can't seem to replicate this soup.
- Whenever she would make a pie, she would make extra crust but spread it over a baking pan sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. I used to eat the whole pan.

Very little. My mom cooks ala-Stouffers, though she makes a killer sloughed onion (macaroni noodles, canned tomatoes, bacon, minced onion/garlic), chili, bacon roll-ups (a strip of bread with cream cheese wrapped around some bacon), and ham roll-ups (a slice of ham wrapped around a pickle and cream cheese).

I have to admit though that I have a strong hatred for any sort of meat cooked in a Crockpot thanks to her. Chicken often becomes too liquidy and falls apart like fish (thank god she doesn't cook fish -fish in a crockpot would probably turn into fish soup) and pork has a strange texture. My mom does a ton of crockpot meats, though it takes just as much time putting stuff in the crockpot as it does to dump the meat/sauce in a pan/skillet and bake/sear it (I have taken responsibility for cooking most meats).