Recipe for a perfect 'Tea Party'

So, this isn't really an official 'recipe' but it's a great memory of how Grandma always went out of her way to make sure that us grandkids had fun. 

I remember when I was little and wanted to have a Tea Party with my dolls. Grandma would make me a little plate of gingersnaps (with butter on them, of course!) and take me outside to the little, round black wrought iron table. We would set up my dolls around the table and enjoy the cookies with milk. It was hours of fun. Who would have thought you could make a gingersnap taste any better?

Salsa Recipe

The genius of their salsa:

I remember sitting in Nanny's tiny kitchen watching her make salsa in her worn wooden bowl with her incredibly efficient and worn chopper (officially known in the culinary world as a mezzaluna). I remember grandma would sometimes use the coveted silver aluminum cup to chop her chili...whoever won the fight to use that cup for their ice tea always had a tingling sensation from the lingering chili.

• fire roasted green chili (peeled and seeded)
  
• garlic cloves
• fresh tomatoes, peeled (fire-roasted or boiled, mom help??)
• salt to taste
• fresh lime juice (deb and i added this i think)

add garlic to wooden bowl and chop fine, add green chili and tomatoes and roughly chop, season with salt and lime juice.

The other picture

Of the thirty or so photos I took that evening this photo and the one below are the only ones with that interesting glow...personally I think Aunt Lynn was there...what do you all think?

One of my favorite pictures

I took this picture of Grandma and Trisha up at Aunt Janis' house Thanksgiving 2004. To me it is a beautiful and magical picture. The steadfast pride and regal air that Grandma always exhibited in photographs is completely softened by Trish's arm's around her. And then there is the ghostlike image above their heads. Believe me, if you look at all my photo's taken that night there are only two pictures with that ghostlike image above them...

Hello Everyone

Mom and Aunt Janis decided we need a place to all come together to start gathering recipes, stories and anything you'd like to add about Grandma Pearl. Eventually, we could put together a book dedicated to all those wonderful recipes sprinkled with little "Pearls" of wisdom that we all remember so well.