Family Heirloom
Welcome to Family Heirloom, where we feature your stories and recipes handed down from generation to generation. Take a scroll down to browse the titles.
My story for this old recipe is as simple as the recipe itself. Here it goes: The fall months in Brolo, Messina, Italy were times of gathering locally grown fruits, vegetables, olives and nuts.
My mother grew tomatoes in her vegetable garden in Ohio, where the summers were hot and it didn't get very cool overnight, either. This recipe makes me think of her and is one of the reasons I am such a tomato lover to this day.
My mom had a hard time getting us kids to eat our veggies. This recipe was a way to get us to eat veggies, even without sugar.
When Rachael was asked what to do with leftover spaghetti, my mom (Margaret) remembered this recipe, which we used to have at family picnics. My mom and dad have been happily married for 66 years.
This recipe is one of the many from our family's cookbook, Eating Italian, which is also a loving history and photo book. It is in honor of three sisters, including my mom.
My mother, Josephine, learned to make these wonderful stuffed artichokes from her mother-in-law, Rachela. The heart of the artichoke is especially delicious.
This famous family recipe is an heirloom because my gram, Shirley, made it for over 65 years. It's quick and simple.
I'm 60 years old, and my mother is 93. All the women in my family have been strong women, on both sides.
My mother and I were visiting relatives in Regina, Saskatchewan during the Canadian Centennial in 1967. These muffins were made for the occasion and we enjoyed them so much that we brought the recipe home to Ontario and have enjoyed them since.
In the ancestral land of the native people of Colombia, South America, where fertile coffee farms thrive, lived an intrepid individual, Julio Uribe (my father). In his passion to embolden the culture of his heritage while living far away from his country in New York City, he set out to create a salsa to remind those who long for the combined taste of life and culinary delight so common to our home.
