@Memphis Gal
Mother of 3, grandmother of 1 precious little boy and wife to only one man for 34 years. We are a reired Navy family and my kids are grown and two moved away. Our oldest daughter lives in Melboourn, Australia, our son lives about 3 miles from us and is the daddy of our baby boy. I was born and raised in Memphis Tennessee and spent 1/2 my life in Tupelo, Mississippi where both sides of my family are originally from. I am a southern girl born and bread. Cooking was taught to me at a very early age and by my dad. I learned with the method of a little bit of this and a pinch of that and a heaping hand full of this. Beans and corn bread, biscuits and gravy were a mainstay. My cornbread isn't like the kind you find in a so called "home style resteraunt" liver & onions, mustard greens, yams, beef stew. Yum I've cooked three meals a day most of my life and very little was from mixes. Home made food is what my kids got and learned to make. My motto was alwasy cheap, quidk and easy and it had to go a long way so there were left overs for the next days lunch. Things are different now. I have compiled a lot of my own recepies as well as some of my dad's and mom's and various aunts. A copy of my cook book was one of the first things I gave my son when he first moved out. Unfortunately his wife doesn't cook much at all and he still calls me to see what we're having for dinner.