Recipes from Gramma Joan

My Grandmother, Joan, died awhile ago. The loss of her was felt upon all of us in the family, especially when it came to cooking. My Gramma was a great cook. She never really thought so, but so many of my memories of her have to do with food. Whether it was watching the Olympics eating chicken wings cooked just so in a cast iron frying pan, or having a family dinner with the cooked cold broccoli dipped in Italian Dressing, or the stew... oh my goodness, her stew. I think my mother still has dreams about the stew. There really isn't a lot that can top a good Gramma Joan Beef Stew.

When she died we had to clean up her apartment, and for whatever reason I ended up with most of her kitchen items, including the coveted stew recipe - which was in a little white recipe box. I also ended up with her knitting "recipe" box. I think it's called patterns but either way, it was in the same kind of white box, and had the same kind of 3.5" x 5" recipe cards, and it was written in the same way as her recipes, so in some way they were recipes. Foot Mitten Recipes... doesn't that sound delicious?

I've been trying to find a way to actually go through and use her recipes, but there are so many, and reading her hand written recipe for how to cook Brown Rice is still a little difficult. Also, I think that it would be good to transfer a lot of her recipe's digitally, as the cards are starting to show a bit of age.

Brown Rice: Mexican Style (There is one that shows how to cook
PLAIN Brown Rice)

Over the years I've added my own recipes, and it's always easy to see which ones are mine, as I rarely used white cards.

So my plan is to start using her recipes. I'll have to adapt a lot, as I cannot eat gluten, and my Grandma LOVED flour. So, when I put the recipe I'll put what I used, but just understand that it's been changed somewhat.