tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post4496530470619211769..comments2023-10-21T07:08:45.820-04:00Comments on Eggplant To Go: A Tribute and a RecipeSharon Ruddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598263732896925616noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-44368898780757239732011-12-31T17:38:44.273-05:002011-12-31T17:38:44.273-05:00Eggy what a sweet tribute to the importance of fam...Eggy what a sweet tribute to the importance of family and traditions. Is there anything as long lasting as those lessons we learn from our grands? VERY generous of you to share this family recipe for chocolate cake. Baking is not something I do, but if I did, I would start the New Year with this cake for breakfast..... great beginnings and all that.<br />Happy New Year!<br />Blessed be youfishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-24737274362286655762011-12-30T23:59:41.560-05:002011-12-30T23:59:41.560-05:00awww, I love this post and promise I will give you...awww, I love this post and promise I will give your Grandma's recipe a try. I love what you said about learning at someone's elbow. I hope that's the case with my Nephew and I know it's how I learned much of what I know. What an honor for you to receive her box of recipes and I still think you to devote an entire post about that name of yours and your post. ;-) Happy Happy New Year Dear Eggy!Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280822962202098606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-76184830791920145642011-12-29T21:44:26.559-05:002011-12-29T21:44:26.559-05:00Chicky! This chocolate cake is good any time of ye...Chicky! This chocolate cake is good any time of year :)<br /><br />To answer your question, Grandma R moved to TN because that's where my dad (her only child) was living when she became too forgetful to remain at the "apartment building for the elderly" in her native Nebraska. It was heart-breaking to see her decline, and I'm sad to say that by the time I made that calendar in her honor, I don't think she grasped much about it. I much prefer to remember her in her younger, jauntier days - like when she was only 80, in that photo.Sharon Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598263732896925616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-16390433492273998632011-12-29T21:22:51.507-05:002011-12-29T21:22:51.507-05:00that sounds really good - buttermilk choc-cake! I ...that sounds really good - buttermilk choc-cake! I have to wait until I fall off the new years resolutions wagon. Nobody ever showed me how to cook anything...not really. I just started really trying this past decade. Ive got a few things i do well. I loved this post and thought about the smells of my grandmothers house: mint. cigarettes.<br /><br />why did Grandma R move to Tennesee?chickoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11814762747054617499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-27357244774721363632011-12-29T19:59:37.365-05:002011-12-29T19:59:37.365-05:00Aunty, ooh yeah to the “fresh ground cawfee aroma ...Aunty, ooh yeah to the “fresh ground cawfee aroma felt warm as a blanket” and thankee again for the swell Christmas story you concocted.<br /><br />Moi, yes, indeed to the “learning at someone’s elbow” and love imagining you on that red stool next to the stove :)<br /><br />Diva, you make an interesting point. My blog posts probably are more representative of my cooking than my accumulated recipes too. As to whether being a “clever and creative” cook is inherited, I’m not sure. I wouldn’t put my either of my grandmothers in the “creative” category, but they were certainly solid cooks who always put out delicious, if simple, food, and who knew how to stretch things, given their Depression-era backgrounds. On the other hand, food cooked from scratch was something I was exposed to throughout my childhood. I feel sorry for people who didn’t grow up that way, and I probably can’t imagine how differently they view food and cooking, as compared to me.<br /><br />Moi and Diva, so glad you liked the chocolate cake recipe – it really is a winner. If you try it, please let me know how it turns out for you. The cake is pretty straightforward, although the icing can be a bit tricky (especially in humidity, Diva).Sharon Ruddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598263732896925616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-37670313095762806342011-12-29T09:17:55.843-05:002011-12-29T09:17:55.843-05:00PS: thanks for sharing the family recipe for choc...PS: thanks for sharing the family recipe for chocolate cake!LaDivaCucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06000430029590301972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-68623864545753966262011-12-29T09:17:21.346-05:002011-12-29T09:17:21.346-05:00What a sweet post, Eggy! How lucky you were to ha...What a sweet post, Eggy! How lucky you were to have such a loving grandmother, I never had the luxury with any of them.<br /><br />I too think the ability for some of us to be clever and creative cooks is not only intuitive but inherited. Sometimes it's just in the blood. <br /><br />I also wonder what anyone would think of the recipes I have in my cookbook once I'm gone? It's mostly other peoples' and not necessarily ones I even tried! All of my every day cooking is on my blog posts...that would be the better indicator of how I cook. (maybe I should print them all for posterity's sake?!) I only was sent some of my mom's (deceased since 1973) recipes by my cousins in the last few years, and of course, they are precious to me.<br /><br />Nice, thought-provoking post, Mizz Eggy!<br /><br />By the way, did your dad like his book?LaDivaCucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06000430029590301972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-54784027446065821792011-12-28T08:27:23.449-05:002011-12-28T08:27:23.449-05:00This is a great line: there is no substitute for l...This is a great line: <i>there is no substitute for learning at someone’s elbow.</i> So true! I still have the little red stool I insisted my mother buy me when I was about five or six so I could stand by her side in the kitchen and watch her cook . . .<br /><br />Grandma R sounds like she was a real kick. That photo is full of personality. Ninety-six? Right on. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing the chocolate cake recipe. I'm obsessed with perfecting mine (haven't done it quite yet) and will definitely try this once I've shed a bit of the holiday bloat.<br /><br />Glad you had a great time and are home safe!moihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824043795171732429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4316997354640264566.post-36260996967448920862011-12-28T07:59:53.645-05:002011-12-28T07:59:53.645-05:00Lovely tribute to yore GrandMother! She would be s...Lovely tribute to yore GrandMother! She would be so pleased at this remembrance on her birthday.<br /><br />I has wunnerful memories of visitin one of mah GMs in Louisiana whar' the fresh ground cawfee aroma felt warm as a blanket. She taught me to respect ingredients no matter how incidental to a dish. <br /><br />Happy youse traveled safely wif'out snowy snags.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.com