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Mom's homemade lasagna, bread, and apple pie.

Favorite family dinner would have to be my childhood birthday meal of Earl Abel's fried chicken and black bottom pie.

Really anything, as long as it's accompanied by family and laughter. We often have shrimp scampi in the summer and a roast with Yorkshire Pudding in the winter....mmm.... :)

spaghetti and meatballs

It depends on the weather for me, but at this time of year it's roast chicken, mashed potatoes, peas (homegrown, please; frozen peas from the store are inevitably overripe), green salad, and pie.

My favorite family dinner would have to be posole. We have it every christmas eve with fresh tamales and it is sooo good.

ribs. lasagna. soup. anything my mom makes

Our favorite comfort food is mapo tofu - spicy and warming - over rice with some sauteed greens. Something about one bowl foods you can hold in your hand do it for us...

Boring but comforting - an overly stuffed tuna salad sandwich, on wonderful crusty rye bread, a slight smear of mayo, crisp iceberg lettuce, juicy tomato, cut in half please.

barbeque salmon and broccoli slaw, mom's favorite summer specialty

(I posted this in the wrong place earlier today--so this is a "re"post!) A general comment about all the "Cook the Book" posts and recipes: The publishers are very smart to provide five free copies to SE because your write-ups have caused me to go online and buy many many cookbooks that I never would have known about otherwise! Sometimes I enter the giveaway with a comment, but I know my chances of winning are slim, so I go ahead and order the book in a frenzy of impatience. The Mark Peel cookbook is an example; it will be winging its way to me today because I love the cover photo and the recipes for green bean salad and mashed potatoes--and I can't wait to receive it! This has been true for several other cookbooks, too. (One time I actually won the cookbook in the SE giveaway, and had to give that second copy to my son. He was Seriously Happy!)

Homemade pizza! Usually 3 different varieties... last time it was alfredo sauce, fresh mozz, marinated artichoke hearts, baby spinach, leftover grilled chicken; marinara, fresh mozz, diced fresh pineapple, julienned canadian bacon, and oregano; and marinara, shredded mozz, and pepperoni for the kids. Everyone gets to help and everyone gets what they want. Then a big caesar salad w/homemade croutons and dressing.

I would have to say that my favorite has always been a tie between my grandmothers beef roast and fried chicken. The roast was always cooked with carrots and potatoes that was grown in our garden, served with green beans that we canned our self, and cabbage slaw made with Italian dressing. The fried chicken was always served with mashed potatoes, fried squash from our garden, fried okra from our garden, and green beans. Their was always rolls to go with it, slathered with jelly she had canned. She always makes gravy, brown from the roast, or light white gravy from the fried chicken. It's always better when my grandmother makes it, even if my mother tries to replicate it.