What’s
Cookin’
in
Catt’s
Kitchen

A collection of wonderful recipes and stories shared by
our very own MCLeader Catt


This Book is lovingly
dedicated
to the memory of
my Mamaw (Grandmother)
and my Mother


A Collection of Recipes and Family stories published on

the internet by a very special person.
2004


Introduction



My name is Cathy, I have been a member here at MyCoupons.com
since 1999. I am married to Matt, and we have 3 boys still at home,
ages 12, 8 and 6. I have 2 grown children.

I lost my mom in 1996, and a few years later I started going through
her recipe box. It was like reclaiming part of my life, to see her handwriting,
and the spots on the cards......so I started posting here on the
cooking forum, and the rest is history.

To understand the reason my kitchen is the heart of my home,
You have to see inside my soul…

October 11, at 1:16 God called his most precious Angel home.

My mom slipped through my fingers 7 years ago. I miss her so much,
and there is not a day when I don't think of her. I hate it my kids have
no grandparents, and for the most part I look on the positive side. But I thank God my mom raised
me with the strength to go on without her, for that was the best gift of all. I in return, eased her gently
to the other side. When she died, even though she was bedridden, she was at my home, my sister
and I by her side. She was in no pain, and she just stopped breathing. That was it. She had on a clean
gown, her hair was combed, I had put some make up on her, and I know this may seem harsh, but
when the coroner came after my mom died, she pulled me aside and said "let this give you comfort -
of all the people I see in this business, your mom is beautiful - she was clean, looked nice, and was
in a nice calm clean home. Know that you gave her the best gift of all - a gentle path to God."


While that does give me peace, and I live with no regrets, I still cry myself to sleep. There are times,
when I am in a room full of people, or a crowded store, I've never felt so alone. However, she firmly
believed in the circle of life, she told us about it whenever the situation was right, and we even
played "The Circle of Life" at her funeral. I know I was blessed with her as my mother.

The recipes I pass on to you guys are recipes my mom and Mamaw had. They are in their writing. I
don't claim they invented them, unless I really know they did (like my Mamaw's gumdrop cake.)
The Carmelita recipe, I am unsure where it came from, but I know the legend it had in my home. At
the time my mom and sister made them, I was in elementary school. I never thought to ask them
how they got it. Actually, recipes took on a life of their own after my mom got a hold of them.

Yes, I do often put my name in front of a recipe - to let you all know they are tried and true. That is
the whole idea I wanted to create behind this forum. How many times have you made a new recipe,
only to find it tastes like crapola, and you wasted all your ingredients? I can be faulted for many
things, but one of them is not steering anyone wrong.

If my name is in front of a recipe, it's a good recipe. Tried and TRUE!

When people make my recipes, there is always usually a story to go behind it - and that, makes
memories for your family. I'd rather touch just one family, than win a dozen contests.
I share recipes I’ve gathered along the way from various sources and don’t take credit for being the
“CREATOR”. I merely want to share a reason to draw your family close together and sit down to a
“heart warming” as well as “tummy filling”. So from my heart to your kitchen, Please enjoy the
recipes I use and wanted to share.

Catt


Let’s start with some recipes every home should have...


Recipe for a Happy Home

4 CUPS LOVE
2 CUPS LOYALTY
3 CUPS FORGIVENESS
1 CUP FRIENDSHIP
5 SPOONS HOPE
2 SPOONS TENDERNESS
1 BARREL LAUGHTER

Take love and loyalty, mix thoroughly
with faith. Blend it with tenderness,
kindness and understanding. Add
friendship and hope, sprinkle abundantly
with laughter. Bake it with sunshine.
And serve daily with generous helpings.

How to Preserve a Spouse

Be careful in your selection. Do not
choose too young. When selected, give
your entire thoughts to preparation for
domestic use. Some wives insist upon
keeping them in a pickle, others are
constantly getting them into hot water.
This may make them sour, hard, and
sometimes bitter. Even poor varieties
may be made sweet, warm, and tender
and with kisses, wrap them in a mantle
of charity. Keep warm with a steady
fire of domestic devotion and serve
with peaches and cream. Thus prepared
they will keep for years.

4 Ingredient Success

Combine one part self-confidence, one part open communication, one
part active parenting and one part knowledge, stir them together and
what do you get? The recipe for a secure, well-adjusted child and the
secret to a happy, healthy family.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Beverages, Soups and Salads
Breads
Main Dishes
Side Dishes
Desserts

Cakes
Cookies
Pies
Miscellaneous Desserts


Party Favorites

Special Holiday Cooking

Mother’s Day

Thanksgiving Section

Weekly “Sample” Menus
Index or Recipes

Page 6-8
Page 9
Pages 10-25
Pages 26-32
Pages 33-51

Pages 52-53
Pages 54-66


Pages 67-75
Pages 76-79

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Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.