Family Traditions

[TexasBob]

Holidays usually bring them out so let’s have some happiness around here. Extra points for small things. I’ll post a few throughout the day to keep it going.

Growing up, my grandmother made biscuits and gravy often. One of my favorite foods by a lot. My wife makes it for me on occasion, but without fail on the morning of my birthday. My kiddo helps now of course. The yellow cutter was my grandmothers and is cracked now so it only gets used on my birthday. The skillet belonged to my great grandmother and my grandmothers cast iron skillet got used for gravy as it has for probably 60 years now. I joke with my wife it’s not her skills, that skillet can make gravy on its own.




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[sailor]

Happy BD...

[Tomkat70]

All of my Grandparents have passed and we didn't really have any traditions other than sharing our love for one another so I have no traditions to share but Good stuff and I'm following!!! Happy Thanksgiving to all of my TBH Brothers and Sisters.

[CentralTXHunter]

We have several that specifically revolve around food.

My great-grandmother (Babe) used to make Chex mix (trash) annually around Christmas. I was a little fellow and didn’t like nuts at the time so I always got my own canister (usually an old Folgers coffee can) that didn’t have any nuts. She wouldn’t give the recipe to a soul. When she passed I went through her recipe box. There were numerous iterations of the sauce she used to season it. After about 9 different batches, I discovered the 1987 recipe was the one that recalled my childhood. I now make it every Christmas for family, friends, and my clients. It’s gotten out of hand how much of this stuff I make in December. It literally takes me an entire week to make it and package it all.

My Nana made a wicked banana pudding. We would only get it at Thanksgiving and Christmas. One of my favorite things was a bowl of it for breakfast the next day. She always served it to me in these green glass bowls. One of the few items I took from her home when she passed last month. She gave me the recipe several years ago and I’ve been in charge of making it for holidays. I also take it to friends houses for other gatherings and they can’t get enough of it.

My other great-grandmother (Grannie Johnson) had another awesome recipe for buttermilk pies which is eerily similar to the recipe I saw bumped today and originally posted by Smart. Again, a holiday only pie that I loved growing up.


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[curtintex]

My wife makes biscuits in my grandmothers cast iron skillet after rolling them out with my great-grandmothers rolling pin. She uses the same pin to roll out my grandmas dumpling recipe. I get chicken and dumplings on every birthday.

My mom has had her grandkids over to make Christmas candy since my oldest two were 2&3 years old. She ended up with six total, my four girls and my sister’s son and daughter. When they were in high school, that all showed up. When they were in college, they all showed up. Well, she still has all six grandkids over, along with 5 great grandchildren to make that same candy they’ve been making for 25 years. That’s a tradition that my kids appreciate, but my mom loves it!


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[TexasBob]

Chocolate meringue pie. Another recipe of my grandmothers. Well as close as we can have. Hers was add cocoa powder until the color is right.



My daughter and my mom (her moms recipe) with grandmas pie making pot. Just the bottom of an old pressure cooker but I wouldn’t trade it for a new truck.




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[Buckshot4900]

Made these Saturday night and my wife questioned the size of my biscuits


So tonite I made her very own biscuit



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[coachmas]

^^ lol.

[Smithwr]

It wasn’t really a tradition but this year me and my wife divorced and for some reason when my 7 year old put the star on the tree this year at my house I realized everything was going to be ok. I broke down and cried like a baby. I think that’s our new one

[Texas Grown]

It wasn’t really a tradition but this year me and my wife divorced and for some reason when my 7 year old put the star on the tree this year at my house I realized everything was going to be ok. I broke down and cried like a baby. I think that’s our new one

It will get better brother! I promise!

[oktx]

Always had chicken and noodles with a full thanksgiving spread. My grandma was raised during the depression and I think she was always worried about somebody not getting enough to eat.

[Oleman]

Pecan and pumpkin pie made by my southern GA wife. Nothing better.

[bowhuntntxn]

My family actually started a new tradition not long ago. Every year we pick a very non traditional food genre to cook for Thanksgiving. So far we have had Mexican food, Italian food, Steaks/baked potato/everything else, and this year will be German. It is fun planning what dish to make, and practicing cooking it for a year.

We have already decided that next year will be African food and by judging from recipes I found on line, it should be wonderful!

[KNP16]

We have several that specifically revolve around food.

My great-grandmother (Babe) used to make Chex mix (trash) annually around Christmas. I was a little fellow and didn’t like nuts at the time so I always got my own canister (usually an old Folgers coffee can) that didn’t have any nuts. She wouldn’t give the recipe to a soul. When she passed I went through her recipe box. There were numerous iterations of the sauce she used to season it. After about 9 different batches, I discovered the 1987 recipe was the one that recalled my childhood. I now make it every Christmas for family, friends, and my clients. It’s gotten out of hand how much of this stuff I make in December. It literally takes me an entire week to make it and package it all.

My Nana made a wicked banana pudding. We would only get it at Thanksgiving and Christmas. One of my favorite things was a bowl of it for breakfast the next day. She always served it to me in these green glass bowls. One of the few items I took from her home when she passed last month. She gave me the recipe several years ago and I’ve been in charge of making it for holidays. I also take it to friends houses for other gatherings and they can’t get enough of it.

My other great-grandmother (Grannie Johnson) had another awesome recipe for buttermilk pies which is eerily similar to the recipe I saw bumped today and originally posted by Smart. Again, a holiday only pie that I loved growing up.


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My dad was big into making chex mix, mainly to carry to the deer stand with him. It never failed first good cold front we had he would be making Chex mix. That torch has now been passed to me since his passing and I make it a ton of it in November and December.

But the most steady tradition I had was making divinity with my Grandmother. It happened every year sometime the week before Christmas (dependent on the weather) and it was an all day affair. I’ve also taken that for the last several years and make it for way too many people now myself. But i gotta say it is the best divinity I’ve ever had. If your interested I’ll make deal with you, I’ll swap you my Grandmother's divinity for your Grandmother’s Chex mix recipe. Just shoot me a PM if your interested, I’d not no worries.