My Granny’s Cooking

I have many things to share, the water collection system, the new outdoor office. But, what strikes me as most important is to share the importance of food and cooking in our family. I’m thinking particulary of my Granny Barsch tonight. We had Barbequed Chicken, Coleslaw, and Corn on the Cob. I think of my Granny quite often, I think very often when I’m cooking. She was an incredible cook, she could take very little and turn it into a banquet beyond belief.

It’s really very weird, we had a chicken that Jim decided should become BBQ chicken, with leftover ingredients in our fridge, he turned it into a very close replication of what I remember barbeque chicken as a child, a little sweeter, but that was part of what was in the fridge. I always believe my Granny’s coleslaw to be the best she always added “different” things, things out of the ordinary for West Texas, Bell Pepper, Sour Cream, sometimes celery seed. BUT, she made the best cole slaw I have ever tasted. I did a replication of her recipe tonight, I didn’t have sour cream, but I did use plain yoghurt. I think she and my Paw Paw could have sat down, had dinner with us tonight and be very pleased and proud that they had done well.

I’m very blessed with great cooks in my family and will share in the future. My Granny Perkins, my Aunt Esther, Aunt Winnie, and my Mama.