Doris's Cooking

Mom may have prepared more than these dishes but all I can remember are: spaghetti with meat sauce simmered a day or two, chili, cornbread, macaroni and cheese, corned beef hash, tamales from a can, avocado on mayo sandwiches, corn on the cob, corn chowder, jello salad made with banana, pineapple, grated carrot, diced celery in the large yellow mixing bowl. On occasion she would make fudge, always without a recipe. If it was runny we'd eat it with a spoon--too hard we'd chistle it out. "Get the big spoon and the phone book!" This meant she was ready to add butter and beat it on her lap in the living room. She also made her own cakes and homemade banana ice cream for our birthday parties.