Who remembers when your family

[Mama Mangia]

Enough to stock a cafeteria for a couple months.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Great stories everybody! IC have you ever done a Clam Bake on the beach with the soggy seaweed and all? I am wondering really if anyone here has ever done that? I would love to do that I have never been to one in all my life, they sound wonderful!

[ricksrealpitbbq]

Cathy my family used to do the clambakes on the beach. It was a lot of fun.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Cathy my family used to do the clambakes on the beach. It was a lot of fun.

I just imagine it would be terrific indeed!!!

[tapas]

For my family, it was always the always-garlicky, always-delicious roast pork shoulder. It was a family EVENT!

Nowadays, I just do it-- which, I actually don't mind!

[Shelley]

All of our holiday get togethers have always been potluck. But I don't ever remember anyone getting together to make a large meal. My dad usually cooked in our house since he was home before my mother. No one ever taught me how to cook until I took a cooking class in high school. Ever since then I can't stop cooking and baking.

[chubbyalaskagriz]

[QUOTE=ricksrealpitbbq;38517]Wow Mama you brought back a lot of memories in that post. I remember the day I graduated to the big table and all the younger cousins still sat at the kids table. LOL ."QUOTE]

We had the kid's table and the "big" table growing up at our house, too! We lived in a huge old COLD uninsulated farm-house surrounded by flat, open windy fields... the house had all kinds of built-in cupboards, cabinets and shelves and such. In the kitchen was this strange sort of arch-way cubby-hole with a sort of "window-sill" that was just wide enough to sit a plate on, that looked like it was once used to house a telephone. When we had company and our table was cramped, we had a tall stool that Mom would pull-up to that cubby-hole that would allow one of us kids to sit and eat there. As one might imagine- that was a coveted spot- often fought for and wrestled over!