Celebrating Mothers Day

[Gerry]

Mothers Day is a very special day, a wonderful day to gather and celebrate, a day of making memories. At our house Mothers Day means we gather for a weekend of family time as we do for most family celebrations. Occasionally it's been a trip to the city for Mothers Day brunch on Sunday morning, for most part we all seem to enjoy Mother's Day right here at home.

Celebrating this special day is the perfect time to make the family favourites, recipes with a taste of spring, recipes that make for memories as we honour our mothers, grandmothers and all the wonderful women in our lives as well as those we remember with love.

Sharing some of our favourites. Looking forward to your recipes be it for an appetizer, a decadent brunch, a light lunch, a delicious main course or an elegant dessert. Come on in and share your favourites.

Some of our favourite Brunch recipes

One of the family all time favourite brunch/breakfast recipes for generations and one we often make on Mothers Day weekend. http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/waffle ... ffles-1973



We love Galley_Wenche's awesome pancakes which have been added to our family Brunch and Breakfast cookbook.
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/pancakes-for-two-2917

One of our favourite breakfast sausage recipes. Makes great links or patties, always an empty platter and recipe requests for this easy to make old fashioned English sausage.
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/old-en ... tties-2294




Eggs in pepper rings a recent addition to our cookbook, our student impressed us all with this great egg dish that is not only easy and delicious but makes great presentation.
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/eggs-i ... kfast-5197




Adding Derf's scrambled eggs from Billboard to this years Mothers Day brunch – know we are going to love those eggs!
Derf's scrambled eggs will be great to add to Mother's Day brunch
Derf's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/parmes ... -eggs-9500

[Gerry]

Hoping for warm and sunny to get grilling outdoors as we gather for the weekend. We've come through a long hard winter here in Saskatchewan with very little greening out there ... but we are enjoying the gorgeous daffodils that are blooming so beautifully in our backyard garden. Perfect timing! The givens for our Mother's Day weekend grill.

Picked up a great rack of ribs, using one of our favourite mainades, Mainade for Steak and Ribs. Another given our Barbecued Chicken Breasts, and SIL's fantasitc Potato and Vegetable Grill.

Marinade for Steak and Ribs
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/marina ... -ribs-7234



http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/barbec ... easts-2997



http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/potato ... grill-5955




Salad choices for this Mother's Day weekend. Dissies awesome cucumber salad is a recent addition to my holiday cookbook as is Sue's great tasting low carbers alternative for potato salad ... and one of our family favourites, Zesty Corn Salad.

Dissies http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/cucumb ... -salad-763



Sue's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/caulif ... -carb-8571




http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/zesty-corn-salad-2201




One of the vegetable choices. Vegetable Bundles, super easy to make, taste as good as they look and make for great presentation. Have to love these lovely little bundles!
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/vegetable-bundles-124

[Sue]

What a great idea!

I think we are barbecuing this year- we live out of state and both our mothers have passed, but in the past it is usually cooking something nice and delish or going out to eat. And I *do* love cooking, so cooking on a special day doesn't bother me. In fact, I love getting an excuse to cook.

This year we are having a rack of spare ribs- bittersweet because they are the second of two racks, the first of which I was eating when I found out about my mom a few weeks ago.
I am going to try and recreate her special potato salad as well, which includes an orange French dressing as one of the ingredients. I haven't found the recipes that seems like the one I used to make when I works at Parks- it didn't have any tomato based product in it at all and included egg yolks. I did see a recipe in a book or the Working Garde manger, but it isn't exactly it. I know I have a recipe around here somewhere, but *where* is the keyword, as I have thousands of cookbooks. There is a recipe in the SIlver Palate cookbook as well, but it uses whole eggs. If anyone has a French dressing recipe that uses just the yolks and has neither ketchup or tomato soup. feel free to rescue me here. Otherwise I will just wing it.

For the ribs, I am probably using my beer barbecue sauce, because Dad always made a beer based sauce although he usually doctored the "Maull's" brand of sauce which you can get around St. Louis (my childhood home). I like making my sauces from scratch. And why not? It is so easy.
Berr barbecue Sauce
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/beer-b ... sauce-8673


Ribs we will be cooking on our new side smoker grill, using hickory chips as the flavor for the smoke.
Salad I am working on, and I will post a recipe and photos if I get that one done right.

I will probably also be making baked beans, seasoning up my recipe for pork and beans which turned out nice.
Campbell's Pork and Beans Clone
http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/campbe ... clone-8675

I'll doctor those up with some onion, garlic, molasses, etc.

Hopefully the sun will shine (has rained here for days) because I hope it is a day full of happy memories. *fingers crossed for sunshine*

[Chef shapeweaver]

My Mom passed away several years ago,but in her
memory I'm making some of her favorite things.
She loved fried chicken so I'm going to season some flour
with Kentucky Fried Chicken Spice Mix, mashed potatoes,and
of course gravy. I'm creating a new recipe for lima beans
( my Mom loved those
things). And creating a new carrot cake recipe.

[Gerry]

Mother's Day weekend make and takes at our house.



Bea's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/redhot ... fries-8662





Luv's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/creamy ... spread-571



Derf's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/marinated-shrimp-9403

[Gerry]

Our Mother's Day Desserts.

The strawberries at the market are so sweet and lush this year which had us really enjoying our weekend desserts. Unfortuantely I am needing a new pan as well as needed more time to arrange the berries. My photos just do not do justice to this awesome dessert! I did see some great photos of this one on a number of web sites. Will be sure to take more pics next time around.



My http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/austri ... torte-2808

Linda's http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/heaven ... ondue-4376 was a wonderful additon to the Strawberry Torte. No left overs with these two strawberry delights

[Dissie]

Mouth watering food pics! OMG food porn! I really liked to see the pics. Great recipes it looks like!