For mother’s day,
3 months after my Dad died,
& 1 year after
her own mother passed
I made my mother dinner
from her 1959
better homes & garden cookbook
with the cardboard gingham cover
I was 12
& proud to follow
3 fancy recipes:
Swiss steak jardinere,
carrot-raisin salad,
banana-walnut cake
with cooked frosting
I wanted to give her something
I planned & made myself,
& we 4 who used to be 6
ate every bite together.
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Susan, I have that very cookbook….from my Mother which her Mother gave her when she got married in 1959! AWESOME. Love where your posts take me…always!
Thank you–yes, that cookbook is now on my shelf too–you can find all the recipes in there except the cake 🙂
I still remember grating those carrots—in the era before food processors, some recipes were dangerous!
Oooooh, don’t I know it!!
on Good Friday, I think the seasoning in the potato pancakes was a few drops of blood–ewwwww.
Sad and a beautiful gift.
Thank you so much–one of the most intense Mother’s Days I remember…..