If you’re Italian, you might have a habit of showing people you love them by cooking for them. One of the first recipes that I learned to create was my grandma’s lasagna. Stacked high with layers of ricotta, cheeses, sauce, and pasta, it is a dish that not only fills up my stomach, but fills me with warm, happy memories and feelings. Now that I have a family of my own, I feel those same warm feelings while making them lasagna.
Okay so this is actually my great-grandma’s lasagna and my grandma wasn’t Italian at all. When my grandma, Louise, was younger, she moved up from southern Indiana to Chicago, where she met and married my Italian grandpa, Joe. They lived in a flat in a building shared with my great-grandparents and other relatives. While living there, my great-grandma taught my grandma how to make traditional Italian dishes. My grandma taught my mom. Who taught me. A recipe spanning 4 generations and possibly more.
Grandma and Grandpa, September 1962
Hungarian Goulash
Homemade Chocolate Bones
I brought these to the party, and they were gone before I could grab one myself
Don’t waste it anymore, throwing it away is a mistake: use it for plants on the balcony and in the garden
Samoa Bundt Cake
If you want a clean and fragrant oven, use these two ingredients after each use
My German friend taught me this dish, and my hubby has been requesting it weekly since!
Fun Kid Halloween Snack Board
Bomb discovery! He accidentally found a car at the bottom of the river and called the police