Comments on: Giveaway: Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:10:21 +0000

I always think of my mom’s pumpkin bread during the holiday season. She taught me how to make it and every time I cook up a batch during the holiday season, it reminds me of home. Thank you!

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:44:12 +0000

My fondest memory is coming home for the first time from college. Home-cooking never tasted so good!

By: Frances Kirby

Frances Kirby — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

I lovingly remember my mother’s recipe for ham loaf. She ground the ham and the veal herself in a big metal meat grinder and mixed it with eggs and graham cracker crumbs…It was sooooo good!!! But it was a special treat and when we requested our birthday meals, it was one of the few dishes that got asked for time and again. I have tried making it myself, but the love is missing that she put in and it is not the same.

By: Gail Shelton

Gail Shelton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:47:42 +0000

I’ve been baking pies all week. Did buttermilk pies (older son Loves them), pecan pie and now working on a fudge pie–new recipe to me. I love pie. Pie is the right size dessert-cakes are often too big. Pecan and chocolate meringue pies are comfort foods for me. Also tamales. I guess because I’m a Texan, tamales mean home to me.

Your home culture shows from the foods you eat on holidays. Texans tend to do tamales on Christmas eve (whatever their ethnicity) and black-eyed peas on New Years…

By: Janelle Davis

Janelle Davis — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:16:31 +0000

My best comfort food memory would be a couple of days after Christmas, and it involves homemade apple pie.

One of our neighbors always makes homemade apple pies. As soon as one comes out of the oven, she walks it down the street to us–still warm from the oven, carrying it in her oven mits

.Last year it was raining the day she brought it. After she left to check on another pie, I cut a slice and sat down with a book. There was nothing better than listening to the rain, reading and enjoying fresh apple pie.

By: Frances Hunter

Frances Hunter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:21:18 +0000

My mom recently passed away, so I have thought often lately about favorite comfort food memories. It was not at all unusual to come home from school and find that Mom had made cookies or cupcakes. Just because she liked us. I feel lucky to remember.

For some reason lately, I have thought about, and even dreamed about, these very thin shortbread/butter cookies that she cut into diamond shapes and topped with sprinkles. They were so thin you had to watch them like a hawk so they wouldn’t burn.

Last Christmas before she died I made dog-shaped cookies with her old cookie press and everyone loved seeing them again — think I will do it again this year.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:02:09 +0000

I haven’t had it in years and have never tasted fried chicken as good as what my mom used to make. Mmmm.

By: Jen Janofsky

Jen Janofsky — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:02:01 +0000

We love spaghetti and meatballs. Everyone is involved from making the sauce to rolling the meatballs! A real family tradition on cold winter’s days.

By: VickiJo

VickiJo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:14:23 +0000

My favorite comfort food as a child was pork and beans my mother once took a picture that I still have of my head in a bowl of them fast asleep..

By: Pamela Toler

Pamela Toler — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:53:17 +0000

Almost every morning of my childhood my mother made us a hot breakfast of biscuits and bacon gravy. She’s not a morning person so it was a real act of love.