Respect Your Elders
Until I run out of them, I’m going to share with you recipes from my Great-Grandma Charlotte, who clipped and pasted recipes with neurotic precision, keeping them in a small binder so that her great-granddaughter Sunday could make fun of her long after she’d passed.
I love this woman — even having never met — and not just because she spelled macaroni “maccaroni’s” (and meant pasta) and salad “sallade”. To be fair, she was Scottish.
A caveat: most of the recipes in her book are perfectly normal. But then there are the ones that aren’t. Friends, I’d like to share with you New Wedding Ring Sallade Salad:
HAPPILY COMBINES GOLDEN CLING PEACHES AND REAL MAYONNAISE.
It’s worth noting that the recipe sounds really tasty, right up into the last sentence.
February 21st, 2010 | Respect Your Elders
What the–like you just eat it with some mayo on the side?
YES. I am tempted to just pass a big bowl of mayo next time friends are over for dinner. Just in case they want some.
At least it wasn’t miracle whip! :)
P.s I love your blog, I just never had the balls to tell you so. Keep on writing!
Lori
In truth: few things make me gag like Miracle Whip does. I can’t even — I don’t even know what to say to that.
P.S. I’m deeply pleased you grew some balls! I’ll keep writing as much as I am able. Things are a little topsy-turvy for me lately, but luckily I still keep eating food and carrying a camera.