Re: Soul food

Snig, how do you make your potato soup? That was a given when anyone was
sick at our house when I was growing up.

Mika
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> Wish I could make you a pot of my potatoe soup and yellow sweet corn bread
> in a cast iron skillet. That would fix what ails you.
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> "Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Chicken and dumplings and bread pudding. But it can't just be any
>> chicken and dumplings or just any bread pudding. My ex-MIL made the
>> BEST chicken and dumplings in the world. Needless to say, she doesn't
>> make them for me any more. My ex-GMIL, who passed away before we were
>> ever divorced, would make me real bread pudding whenever I was sick,
>> sad or blue. It was definitely the best "soul food".
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>> Nowadays...... well, I try making my own chicken and dumplings, and it
>> will do in a pinch, but it's still not the same. I don't even try to
>> make bread pudding and I even have grandmas recipe. Now when I am sick
>> or down, DH makes me Campbell's Tomato soup and grilled cheese
>> sandwiches, it works, most the time.
>>
>> When we got in Tuesday night, he had gone to the store and bought
>> everyone of us our "favorite" thing. DS, got a jug of chocolate milk
>> and a candy bar. DD got chocolate covered cherries on her pillow. I
>> had a Premium Dark Chocolate candy bar on my pillow and a can of black
>> olives on the counter. He had bought us each our personal favorite
>> flavor jug of Gatorade. Last night he took us out for dinner at Joe's
>> Crab Shack (my daughter's favorite). She ate like she hadn't eaten in
>> a month. I was sick at my stomach. But it was good and it was
>> relaxing and it brought us all back together in a happier environment.
>>
>> I think today I will make a big pot of home made macaroni and cheese
>> (not the Kraft kind, bleck) - for me and the kiddos, this is kind of
>> "soul food" when we have been through a rough time together.
>>
>> And tea. Thank God for Bigelow Constant Comment. It connected me to
>> reality and the feeling that "life will go on" after we made it to San
>> Antonio and again, before bed when we got back to Houston. A cup of
>> hot tea is definitely a "soul food" to me!
>>
>> Hugs,
>> Tina
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