But instead…I’m going to share those recipes with you. Recipes people had been asking about? There they were. I figured it was a bunch of junk that we didn’t want anymore (and some of it was) but I found some dishes of my grandparents’….and the recipe book. Philip had to clean out the basement closet (because we had too have a termite treatment-ick!) and pulled out a box of “stuff” that had been there since we moved in 2002. I had my grandmother’s bright orange recipe book on my shelf but never could seem to find the recipes that people asked about. I remember going through them and not recognizing too many of the recipes…but over the years people have mentioned recipes to me and asked if I had a copy of them. My grandmother passed away when I was fourteen and when my grandfather passed away when I was twenty-one I got my grandmother’s recipe books and a recipe card file that belonged to my great-grandmother. I guess they’re just things that I didn’t really eat as a kid, but it still seems strange to me that I don’t remember them. The strange thing is that there are lots of things that other people mention that my grandmother was known for of which I have no recollection, like tomatoes and artichokes, chicken stuffed with shrimp (now that’s a decadent dish!), and this classic macaroni salad. My grandmother had many signature dishes (like this strawberry pie and this breakfast casserole) and I grew up watching her cook dinner nearly every night (we ate at their house more nights than not because my mom didn’t get home from work until dinnertime). I’ve written a lot over the last three years about my grandparents and their influence on me-just overall as well as on my cooking. It’s easy and just a little different from the norm. This classic macaroni salad is another treasure from my grandmother’s collection.
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