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Skriven 2014-11-01 15:00:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Sunday dinners
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 10-29-14  20:44 <=-

 RH>> We were about 4 hours from Mom's family so went there for
 RH>> Thanksgiving, they came up to our house for Christmas. After my
 RH>> grandmother had her first stroke, we went down there for Christmas
 RH>> (usually a day or 2 later) too.
 NB>> Indiana and Mississippi were a bit far from New York (maternal) or
 NB>> even Maryland (paternal).  :)

 RH> Like us, most years we've not been home for holidays, especially after
 RH> Steve joined the Army. Until we moved to GA, we probably were home for
 RH> less than 10, total in 30+ years.

Living in the same vicinity of our parents, we were spending holidays
with family, either mine or Richard's (or both)... still do with my
family, not any more with his, now that his mom's gone....  
 
 RH>> We'd visit grandparents (grandfather passed away when I was 4) and
 RH>> aunts/uncle several times a year.
 NB>> We had visits from grands, great-grands, aunts/uncles from time to
 NB>> time, sometimes for holidays, but more usually during the better
 NB>> weather months of the year.  When we were living in Mississippi,
 NB>> we spent summers in the DC area, and were fairly close then to my
 NB>> father's brother and his parents...

 RH> So you got to know family then. Even tho our girls were raised with
 RH> limited contact with cousins, anunts, uncles and grandparents, they
 RH> now have a close relationship with just about all of them.
 
We did get to know most of the family, aunts/uncles/grands/etc... just
not usually at holidays.  Even then, there were a lot to get to know.. ;)
 
 RH>> I don't think my parents bought either pickles or olives the last
 RH>> few years. My sister might bring some up, but I can't say for sure--
 RH>> we've not been there for holidays much, even since we moved back
 RH>> east. anyway, it would be the regular black olives, unless I
 RH>> brought some kalamatas. (G)
 NB>> Not every one has progressed to kalamatas...  ;)

 RH> I suspect we're the only ones in my family. (G)
 
Depends on if/when people get exposed to them... and how wide they let
their taste range go..  :)  I think there are some besides us in my
family that like the kalamatas... and probably the full range of
olives...  ;)

 NB>> Sometimes the family was given fruit cake or the big box of assorted
 NB>> chocolates... I don't remember my parents ever buying it themselves,
 NB>> and certainly the fruit cake wasn't homemade, at least by us... ;)
 NB>> Daddy would sometimes buy the ribbon candy, though... :)

 RH> One year we had ribbon candy; I must have been somewhere between 6 and
 RH> 8 years old then. I remember having it but there was nothing to tie it
 RH> to a specific year. Mom made the fruitcake up until, IIRC, either the
 RH> first year we were in HI or some time while we were in AZ. After us
 RH> kids left home, she made smaller loaves to send to those of us who
 RH> wouldn't be home for Christmas. Steve's mom made more of a fruit and
 RH> nut, with very little cake, fruitcake; my mom's was more cake than
 RH> fruit and nuts. 

I think I'd like Steve's mom's cake better than your mom's...  ;)  I
like it with just enough cake to hold the fruits and nuts together.  :) 

 NB>> I bet those tasted pretty yummy...  :)   Pizzelles she might not have
 NB>> thought looked like a cookie... and maybe she just wasn't wanting
 NB>> molasses cookies... ;)  And, again, probably didn't look as festive as
 NB>> the pumpkin/mincemeat bar...  :)

 RH> She was familiar with pizzelles from my having married into Steve's
 RH> family. His mom brought an assortment of cookies, including them, for
 RH> our wedding reception and my mom had them other times as well. Dad
 RH> does't like mincemeat so she rarely had a mincemeat pie (only a couple
 RH> of times to my memory). The mincemeat in the cookies was a rare treat.

That's probably most of the reason, then... :)  A rare treat is awfully
hard to pass up.. :)

 RH> The molasses cookies were small, thin & crisp cut outs, not her usual
 RH> thicker chewier cut outs.
 
So, probably not as appealing to her, either..  :)

 NB>  RH>>> Very much so--we have a "butler" (island on wheels) in the
 RH>> It'll be used in the new kitchen as well.
 NB>> I'd expect so... :)  That sort of thing is quite handy... and having
 NB>> it be moveable, you'd not have to leave it behind like Janis did her
 NB>> custom-made island..   :)

 RH> We're trying to figure out if we can hang the pot rack or not too. I
 RH> may end up hanging my pots on the wall, just to free up cabinet space.

As long as you have the wall space, that can be a good option...  Are
the ceilings higher in the house?  Or is it just a question of whether
or not the ceiling can take the weight of the pot rack...?

ttyl         neb

... It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. - Waverly Root

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