How about sharing that whiskey sauce with us?

my cheesy potato recipie my mom gave me.
sooo good! cream of chicken/celery, onion, sour cream, shredded cheese, and of course hashbrown chunks.
mmmmm

Another recipe I treasure is my Spanish mother's meatball recipe.

My mom's brisket or chicken curry salad. they're two things i could never have enough of- eating then bfast, lunch, and dinner till they were gone. unfortunately i can make my own chicken curry salad(unfortunately because i could eat it till it comes back up) but i can't get my mom's amazing brisket just right. they're both comfort foods to me.

My great aunt's oatmeal cookies, apple dumplings, and no bake cookies are special. We always made them together when she came to visit us when I was little.

I also have a chocolate potato cake and meatloaf recipe that were my grandmother's specialties. I always think of her when I make them.

my grandmother's coffee cake recipe

...also her poppyseed cake recipe. Both remind me of Christmas in New Mexico as a little girl.

My gumbo, pot roast, and deer steak with gravy. Only because my kids tell me all the time when they get old they are still going to call and have me make this for them.

When my mother was a newlywed in 1950, my parents lived on the third floor of a rickety old walkup in the Chicago suburbs. The old Italian lady downstairs gave Mom the recipe for her family's spaghetti sauce. It's the one I still make today, from canned tomatoes from my own garden. We are spoiled; my three brothers and I have never been able to stomach commercially available sauces, so we all make it from that old recipe.

Thanks, Mrs. Scartozzi!

my grandma's chiles in nogada recipe... i tried but they naver taste the same

i loved my mom's stuffed bell peppers growing up, so that is one of my most treasured recipes. the topper has to go to my grandmother's peanut butter rolls and potato soup recipes!

I'm afraid my father and I never cook with recipes. I've stolen a few dishes from him by watching him cook them a lot, but nothing ever tastes the same, and he never writes anything down.

My grandma's spaghetti sauce recipe. It was a staple growing up. I tried to make it once, but it didn't taste right. She swears it was Al Capone's mom's recipe...

my grandmas bits-o-brickle cookies...

My moms chicken and mole over spanish rice (yummmm) I cna never make it quite like hers tho'

grandma's fried chicken, pie crust & snickerdoodles, mom's ching po leung (chinese medicinal dessert soup), spare ribs with plum sauce & stuffed poblano chiles, auntie's manicotti & spicy sausage lasagna, cousin's chipotle mac 'n' cheese, other cousin's mango & linguica stir-fry, and my artichoke heart salad, lemon drop butter cookies with rosewater icing & haupia (hawaiian coconut pudding)!!

My shortbread recipe. Those cookies are little pieces of heaven.

I have a good recipe for NY style cheesecake. It's excellent, and it ruined me for other cheesecake. To date, I have not had a better cheesecake. Nothing else compares.

@esk4, what are bits-o-brickle cookies? i love cookies and i love toffee, so i am intrigued!

So many!

For me, I have a few...for one thing, my mom has a recipe for beef stroganoff that is amazing. I want the whole cookbook because it isn't just that recipe, the old betty crocker prange book (its from the 80s) comes out and I know dinner is going to be amazing.

Also, my Nanny's Fudge, which, I can't make it turn out, but i can't find a fudge with that consistency anywhere...my maw-maw's choclate meringue pie and her neighbor (who was like my mom's adopted gparents when she was alive) yeast rolls. It's nice having a recipe that my mom remembers fondly as a child. It's almost like heirlooms. I certainly will pass them down, with the stories, to my kids.

Unfort, my nanny won't make her fudge for us anymore because she thinks we need to lose weight, but one day I will get it to harden and THEN I shall have some! It's fudge, with heavy cocoa, that has a grainy texture. It's amazing. She got it off the cocoa box years and years ago...it's in her head and on my paper now!

haha you know what else? for the first time ever, I helped cook in the kitchen 4th of july with my mom and aunt. My aunt's baked beans were amazing, and now i have her recipe from watching! That was a memeory and taste I won't forget!

I love all my recipes, I'm a big collector.

dameneko - I'm coming to your house - yummy foods galore!

My mothers pan con chumpe, tamales, pupusas basically all the food from home that takes days to make!

Great Grandma's Salmon Patties

My grandmother's cake...a yellow cake with homemade chocolate frosting and whipped cream filling.

My mom has this wonderful chocolate chip zucchini muffin recipe that's to die for... my friends who did not grow up with me (aka from college, etc.) had no clue what the hell I was talking about until I brought a batch back with me from home - they're beyond delicious and it's a recipe I refuse to share.

My grandmother's jam cake recipe. All the women in our family make it every Thanksgiving. Also, my brother-in-law's late father's cheesecake recipe - all the men in the family make that every Christmas.

Onion Pie!

my grandmother's cha gio...she would make them whenever we would visit and set the table with the fine china. it was always a special occasion when she brought out the cha gio!

my grandmother's chicken and dumplin' recipe is the best. She never measured anything, just a pinch of this and a dash of that. She also has a recipe for Hot Hominy. It is made with canned hominy, onions, spices and cheese whiz. It may sound gross, but it is really good! We always had it at the holidays. My mom makes a great fruit salad and Mississippi Mud cake.

my mom's recipe for chile rellenos, mole, chicken soup (with a little bit of mint), and my grandmother's recipe for tamales wrapped in banana leaves. Maybe I'll give my mom a call and we can make tamales this weekend!

my mom's canolli or tiramisu

My mom's hot chicken salad casserole, my aunt's apple cake, and my grandma's chicken and dumplings. Oh, and Grandma's apple crisp....soooo good! The chicken and dumplings weren't from a recipe, I just learned by watching. How I miss those amazing, loving, special women!

My MIL's tamales I'm so glad she taught the husband and I to make them. They're so dang good I take orders for them at work. yummy.

Probably my mom's White Chili - it's really the only recipe that I've asked for again and again. So good in winter!

My grandmother's Christmas sugar cookies. With the frosting, coloured sugars and bits and pieces of peppermints they’re scrumptious. They're so good my uncle Martin stashed some for himself once during a holiday gathering...hoping that we wouldn't go look for them! Ha ha ha think again Martin :-9

- Clam Sauce
- Puttenesca Sauce
- Salad Niciose
- Tomato Salad
**All recipes by my dad!! YUM!