From Sandy Starks…who will be putting on a Mother’s Day themed “Savor the Flavor” on Saturday at the Broadway Market (click here for more info and tickets)…
While planning our Christmas dinner my daughter Devon asked if we could have a family dinner celebrating our family’s heritage. After a semester of school cafeteria food she had a yearning for some of Babci’s (Polish for Grandmother) home-cooked specialties such as pierogi, Golabki, creamy mashed potatoes and of course, Grandma Laurie’s famous cheesecake.
Gone were the chestnuts, roast turkey, green bean casserole and other traditional holiday fare. But, what transpired that Christmas Day was a trip down memory lane where we celebrated our family’s roots through food favorites and past celebrations and traditions.
Grandma Laurie made the cheesecakes for the Turgeon family restaurants using a recipe developed by the famous Turgeon brothers. The Turgeons are part of our extended family so I started making the cheesecakes whenever we all got together. Later, Devon and I continued the tradition of making cheesecake for all of our family celebrations.
We had so much fun cooking together that I thought that celebrating family recipes through cooking with children would be an interesting Mother’s Day theme for the May installment of the Savor the Flavor presentation I have been conducting at the Broadway Market.
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