After Ted made us all breakfast, we sent our friends Laura and Mike off to visit their family in Kentucky, and I decided to organize my cupboard that is dedicated to Elle's bottles, tools, a toaster, and my recipe box.....great organization... Needless to say the recipe box had some dust on it seeing as I rarely cook. My Mom was a recipe junkie. She loved them. Cut them out of magazines, wrote them down from others or off a tv show, etc. She also apparently wrote some recipes out for me, when I wasn't looking. Her famous chocolate cheesecake that she made for Ted all of the time was handwritten in my recipe box with of course one of her famous notes.
"Good luck Melissa, Love Mommy" she even dated it....August 10th, 2005 (Christina's bday)
She was so good with little notes like this. It's almost like she knew I would one day really need these little words from her to remind me how much she loved and cared for me. I liked this note on the recipe so much that it's now framed, in my kitchen . Inspiration perhaps.
Now I feel guilty though. I'd never watch her make it to learn--I'd just steal tastes of the batter, she'd try so many times to make me watch. Clearly it was important to her if she left the recipe behind. But, once again, scared of failure I let my Sister master "the cheesecake". Well for Easter we are trying her "pig pickn' cake" (don't ask--just trust me--it's amazing) so perhaps I will make that one and let me Sister watch. We'll see.
I miss your desserts Mommy! You really left your mark with them.
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