Food According to Elise

Elise in Her Kitchen My Momma, Elise, was a great cook! She wasn't a gourmet cook by any rights, but she cooked every single day until her last few years. She was good at it! Her cooking was not particularly adventurous, nor did she use any exotic ingredients. She grew up on a farm in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression and learned to use the food from the land. As long as I can remember she tended some sort of garden. It may have been 5 acres of vegetables, a blueberry patch or simply her roses. She was a tiny thing and weighed 120 pounds dripping wet for her entire adulthood. If that crept up at any point, she "dieted" until she was back at 120. She and my Daddy, Maxwell, were committed to feeding a family of six. We four children never went hungry as they had in childhood. My Daddy worked, but it was contract work and sometimes there was no work. Feeding us was a priority, so they worked diligently to make sure there was not just enough, but ple