All my "home" posts are involving my mom I noticed, but I can't help it. Living with her was totally home. This, now? It's just where I live.
Anyway. My friend Felicity, who I've been friends with since second grade when she cried in line on the way to gym, told me after the first time she came over after school that my mother was crunchy. When I asked what that meant she explained that my mom was into the earth and things that were pure. I assured her it was just a phase - she didn't always make her own soap. Felicity and I are still friends, and she still says my mom was crunchy when we talk about her.
If there was something that could be made at home, my mother did it. She bought vinegar and baking soda in bulk, and made all our cleaning products at home. Pasta? Made at home. I'd come home from school to see pasta hanging on hangers all over the kitchen. Peanut butter? Made at home. Clothes? It's a given. Salad dressing? Never from a bottle at the store.
Aunt Elaine's idea of making cookies is to buy cookie dough in a little dish at the supermarket and put it in the oven and take it out a few minutes later. My mother's idea of making cookies involved things like flour and mixing and putting in time.
Nothing was written out. I think I could probably make some of it, if we had a blender and food processor and some other stuff. These days though, it's seriously all mommy memories for now.
No idea what happened to all my mom's kitchen stuff. When I grow up and have my own home I can't wait to make it homey.
3 comments:
sam, if you weren't so far away i'd love you to come over and make home made pasta with me. i love it. i almost never do it because it takes a while, but the taste is just so much better than the stuff in stores.
and i think i never bought bottled salad dressing in my life.
Oh man, home made pasta is awesome. But like your previous commenter, I don't do it often because it is very time consuming.
As for making your own cleaning products, that's very cool. I can't stand the smell of vinegar, but for those who don't mind it, home made cleaners work great and are waaayyyy less expensive.
I like reading about your Mother, she sounds like an amazing woman.
I've enjoyed making homemade pasta with my kids a few times. And gardening and the like.
How did your mom find time to do all this?
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