family recipes

Left: Miriam Armendariz Piccolo with her mother, Genoveva. Right: the finished picadillo.

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She loved Mom's picadillo but never got the recipe. TikTok moved her to get creative

11:23am November 20, 2022

by Wynne Davis

After her mother died, using tips from her aunts, Miriam Piccolo re-created a dish that tastes like home to her. Coming home from school to this meal meant that her mom had been thinking about her.

Left: Lisa Hovis and her grandma peel potatoes in preparation for Thanksgiving. Right: Lisa's krumkake sits next to a hot pad with her grandma's krum kage (krumkake) recipe on it.

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Friends and family flip over these krumkake cookies

11:22am November 20, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Lisa Hovis learned to make these traditional Norwegian cookies by baking alongside her grandmother. The recipe and fond memories remain.

Wayne Wright shares a recipe for lasagna. He learned many Italian recipes from circus performer Edmondo Zacchini.

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The 'human cannonball' is gone, but his lasagna recipe lives on

11:21am November 20, 2022

by Wynne Davis

A circus performer known for being fired out of a cannon liked to make dinner for the people he worked with. One of them still makes his inspired lasagna today, and it has some surprising ingredients.

Maureen O'Reilly shares a family recipe for Irish soda bread.

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It took clever thinking to write a recipe for this Irish soda bread, a family favorite

11:20am November 20, 2022

by Wynne Davis

Maureen O'Reilly wanted to make the treat for her husband, but first she had to watch his grandmother make it — and measure out each ingredient rather than just eyeballing it.

Miriam Armendariz Piccolo shares her family recipe for Beef Picadillo.

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Favorite family recipes and the stories that make them memorable

8:00am November 20, 2022

We all have that one dish that excites our palates and calls to mind special memories with Mom, Dad, Grandma or a favorite aunt who created delicious, comforting dishes.

Medhu vadai, with chutneys and sambhar (a lentil-based gravy), are best served piping hot.

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How A Broken-Hearted Young Girl Found Healing In Her Grandmother's Vadais

10:00am February 21, 2017

by Awanthi Vardaraj

Love can come from where you least expect it. And while a girl learns from her grandmother how to make her favorite Indian breakfast treat, she finds that food, family and love are often intertwined.

Chef Isabella created a healthier and more savory alternative to sweet potato casserole.

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At Thanksgiving, If You Take Sides, Make Sure They're As Tasty As These

2:09pm November 23, 2016

by NPR Staff

Chef Mike Isabella, a renowned restaurateur, has devised some delectable spinoffs of traditional turkey accompaniments, while staying true to classic roots.

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After his mother-in-law's death, NPR's Marc Silver found her go-to cookbook, filled with her copious annotations to recipes. He used it to piece together her take on mandelbread, a Jewish version of biscotti, and other holiday favorites.

Keeping Loved Ones' Holiday Recipes Alive, Long After They've Left The Table

7:25pm September 22, 2015

by Marc Silver

NPR's Marc Silver lost his mother-in-law in 2005. But she remains a presence at family meals this Jewish holiday season, through his dogged trial-and-error attempts to re-create her favorite treats.