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romance,
adventure and generosity
My mother is a romantic. She loves to make things beautiful. She loves gardening. She loves holidays. She is also a very adventurous person who will head into a challenge with reckless abandon. This combination has given us memorable meals, oh, things like risotto made with champagne. One Thanksgiving, the gathering was small, so she bought a turkey breast and cooked it en croute. It was the most beautiful turkey we ever saw. If Christmas was at our house, she'd start the day after Thanksgiving making homemade Christmas pudding. We loved it. She said that in England children make Christmas wishes when they stir the pudding, so we got to make wishes very early. She made so much that when Christmas came she was giving it out to everyone she knew. My mother is a generous person. Mom is a gardener, and the garden determined some of her best meals. One year the mint was overgrown, so she made pesto with both basil and mint. The cherry tomatoes were pouring in, so she picked them and made cherry tomatoes stuffed with pesto. She planted a lot of kale because it's nutritious and then she'd make kale and potato gratin. One year she planted corn all over the back yard. We had corn every day. When it got to the end of the season, we were sick of it, so she made a black bean, corn and pumpkin soup. It was my favorite. Her greatest romance was her pot bellied stove. She and Dad installed one to live more naturally. Oh, we were natural. She cooked on the stove and made the best winter vegetable soup I ever tasted by simmering the soup for a full day on the low heat of the stove. The way it happened is a family legend that makes us all laugh. While it simmered, she had bread dough next to the stove to rise. It became her habit and we had her stoveside bread instead of store bread. We were lucky. Read about Debbie's discovery. ABOUT ALISON: Alison is a freshman at the University of Massachusetts. She has inherited her mother's sense of life and is preparing to go into medicine. |
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