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What's your favorite food/meal your Mom, Stepmom, Aunt, and/or Grandma cooked?

I love my Mom's cooking overall but my favorites are chicken, baked beans, cornbread, and corn on the cob.
 

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My mom makes the best meatballs and steak. It be so damn tender.

My grandmom makes the best hot beef roast sandwiches. Like nobody makes them like her. Gravy from scratch and everything, I refuse to eat anybody else’s. Also her homemade mashed potatoes, cabbage, banana pudding and her “left over” soup. I miss my granny sooo much.

My aunt makes the best fried chicken. It don’t matter what kind she frying. Wings ,breast, strips & she even makes her own chicken nuggets.
 

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My Aunt used to make scalloped oysters every Thanksgiving. I have tried over and over to recreate it but mine never taste as buttery and creamy as hers did. *weeps*
 

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My mom has been dead since 1999 and at 49, I no longer eat this way. My favorite meal that my mom cooked was fried porkchops, fried cabbage w/ bacon, fried sweet potatoes and cornbread.
 

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everything lol
my mom can cook really well
my granny and my aunts can all **** really well

i do like when they make my favorite, curry chicken and roti
 

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My grandma’s collard greens, cubed steak, and hamburger and gravy

I don’t think my mom’s ever cooked except for one time. It was pretty good though
 
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Grandma - Caramel Cake and Duck Dressing
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Mom- Beans and bread
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Mom - stuffed mushrooms. Oh how I wish she would do it one more time before going into her vegan spells.

Grammie - her burgers. She didn't do anything special but season the meat and experiment with different cheeses.

Though my favorite aunt was known for her baked Alaska, her sister made the best chocolate walnut trifle.
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Mom - fried chicken and potato salad
Dad - BBQ ribs. His sauce is amazing. He is 87 and has the golden touch
 

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Woow so many. I grew up w/a mother, grandmother and aunts who could BURN! Eating out was not a "thing" for us. I don't recall having pizza more than maybe twice and tacos more than once in my life prior to college. Bought hamburgers were a treat but I digress....some of my fave meals were:

1. Fried green onions and eggs w/cornbread.
2. Fresh creamed corn, chicken wings and biscuits.
3. Jack Mackeral sardines w/rice and biscuits
4. Egg custard pie
 

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my dad is mainly who cooked but wen my mama cooks MAN the rarity lol..

chicken pot pie
french toast
rice krispy treats
she-crab soup
broccoli casserole
 

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The list is endless but some of my favorites are my mom’s salmon steaks, her rice and gungo peas, ackee and saltfish, saltfish fritters, and her grits and eggs. She also makes the best grater cakes when she uses fresh coconut milk for her rice and peas.

Both of my grandmas could throw down. My Bajan grandma made the best stew chicken and sweet dumplings. Her pudding was amazing. My Jamaican grandma can throw down with whatever, too. Her macaroni and cheese and her fried dumplings are a dream. Everything she cooks is delicious.

These posts are great, OP! But they have me missing my family so much.
 

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Mom - baked chicken and potato salad; she’s the designated potato salad person on holidays

Aunt - spaghetti casserole & peach cobbler

Sister - 4 or 5 cheese baked macaroni and cheese

Aunt (RIP) - red beans & rice and sweet tea

Grandma (RIP) - gumbo, greens, & fried chicken
 

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I hate my mama's collard greens.

I do like her salmon even though she says that I make the best salmon, hamburgers, spaghetti, and Mac n Cheese.

Aunt" Taco salad.


I never had grandparents.
 

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My grandmother's pineapple cake. I tried to make it, but I couldn't get the pineapple frosting as thick as hers. So, I'd have her bake me one instead. Love her biscuits and cheese rice as well.

My aunt's baked beans, not only that she puts beef in it, but a special sauce that she refuses to share. I also love her peanut brittle, cakes and gumbo.

I know you said the women in our families, but I miss my daddy's pancakes and BBQ. However, I know how to cook his BBQ on the grill, because I've watched. I loved his bread pudding and potato salad as well.

My mom's Jell-O, whipped cream concoction, she doesn't have a name for it. But I love it.

My sister's salmon croquettes and meatloaf, along with my brother's mixed drinks.
 

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My mom made a good pot roast.

My grandma made the best grean beans. However she seasoned and cooked them was perfect.
 

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My mom’s mac & cheese. I’ve tried and tried to replicate it but it just doesn’t taste the same. Love her fried chicken livers, pepper steak and bbq too. My dad’s seafood sauce & neck bones are also reallyyyy good.
 

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Grandma- eggs and toast, it was the right amount of butter that I cannot afford today lol. I can't remember the rest, unfortunately.
Mom- Boiled chicken w/ green beans, fried/baked chicken, fried pork chops, and ziti.
 

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Neither my mum nor grandma really make traditional food.

my mum - stuffed savoury pancakes with creamy mushroom sauce
Also her fricassee chicken is the best chicken she does. Doing a little shoulder jig thinking about it.

My grandma - literally anything. I wouldn't sell it in a shop but its just her unique combo of flavours, so good. But soup, if I had to choose it would be her Saturday soup
 

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I miss my moms cooking! My favorites were;
Blueberry Cobbler
Chicken Cacciatore
Macaroni
Lasagna
BBQ Ribs
Chicken and Dumplings
 
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My Mom.....anything requiring yeast raised dough and biscuits and banana pudding

Grandma.... creamed corn, fried catfish, lemon pound cake

Any aunt could throw down on a pineapple upside down cake and one in particular the best homemade ice cream
 

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my grandma makes the best macaroni pie, she's more of a baker so I love her breads, tarts, turnovers, puddings etc
 

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Mom
Chicken and Dumplings
Apple Cake
Zucchini Bread
Sauteed Collards

Aunty
Lemon Meringue Pie

Other Auntie
Rice and Peas w/Stewed Chicken

Grandma
Biscuits and Rolls
 

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My granny's Lemon Pound Cake and her Yeast rolls

My mama's homemade banana that she only fixes like once every 10 years

My Aunties fried chicken and potato salad
 

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Neither my mum nor grandma really make traditional food.

my mum - stuffed savoury pancakes with creamy mushroom sauce
Also her fricassee chicken is the best chicken she does. Doing a little shoulder jig thinking about it.

My grandma - literally anything. I wouldn't sell it in a shop but its just her unique combo of flavours, so good. But soup, if I had to choose it would be her Saturday soup

I’ve never heard of stuffed savory pancakes. That sounds so good!
 

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I’ve never heard of stuffed savory pancakes. That sounds so good!
This is a seriously overlooked great feast!! Crepes can be made in advance as can your fillings and the ideas for both are unlimited. My favorite filling is a riced cauliflower with green onions, shredded carrots, mixed with cheese and buttered bread crumbs. I make a cheddar cheese sauce from a white roux to serve over it.
 

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This is a seriously overlooked great feast!! Crepes can be made in advance as can your fillings and the ideas for both are unlimited. My favorite filling is a riced cauliflower with green onions, shredded carrots, mixed with cheese and buttered bread crumbs. I make a cheddar cheese sauce from a white roux to serve over it.

I really love savory breakfasts, but I’m not an eggs person. This is definitely something that I’ll try. I’m so glad you shared this, thank you!
 

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