RECIPES FROM MANA'S KITCHEN (and a few of my own!)

These are many of Mana's favorite traditional recipes with additions from some of her kids who learned to cook by her side. I've personally added quite a few but they are tried and true delicious recipes. I learned to cook from my mom and since she worked, I cooked or at least helped with many of the family meals. I've been told I'm a good cook so I owe that to her. There are a few stories and memories interwoven.

Keto Friendly Strawberry Mousse

Ingredients:

1 cup cottage cheese

1 cup strawberries or 128 grams

¼ cup heavy cream

3 tablespoon collagen peptides (20 grams)

1 teaspoon gelatin

3 tablespoon water

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Mana learned to cook by trial and error and eventually became a good cook. Mana's mom, Grandma Grant, taught her to cook when she was young. Grandma had taught Athol how to cook biscuits and 10 year old Martha was jealous that her brother knew and she didn't. The next morning she got up and made them the way she thought they were made but didn't put any shortening. The biscuits were hard as rocks, but her mom just bragged and bragged on how wonderful they were....but taught her how to make them correctly.

The first Thanksgiving after Pappy and Mana were married, Mana got a large hen to cook and baked it. When Pappy went to slice the hen he found the wrapped innards (gizard, neck, etc.) still inside that she hadn't taken out.

Pappy liked shrimp, so shortly after Mana and Pappy married, she stopped on her way home from work at the fish market to pick up some shrimp and cook him his favorite dish. She coated the shrimp with cornmeal just like she cooked fish and fried the shrimp to a perfect golden brown. When Pappy started eating he laughed and laughed with every shrimp he ate as he had to pull off the cornmeal coating and then peeled off the shell that she had neglected to remove!

When Pappy was in seminary and they didn't have a car, he worked in downtown Ft. Worth. One day Pappy got a ride home from work with a colleague and told him to keep driving until he smelled the green beans burning! Mana burned almost every pot of green beans she ever made, especially on Sunday morning when she was cooking breakfast for seven, starting lunch, and getting five kids dressed for church. With so many things going on at once the beans were usually forgotten until the burned odor was detected. Pappy called it the "burnt offering!"

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