She was (is) a great cook, they were always light and fluffy. Usually we'd have them with applesauce but sometimes she'd make them with a lot of onion and we'd eat them with ketchup.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ew. I don't know about ketchup. We always have sour cream.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I love my aunt and have very fond memories of oniony, ketchupy latkes but I don't eat ketchup with my potatos anymore lol.

In my defense, I was a child. I'm not even sure where she came across them, we're not Jewish (we were Baptists, from the midwest).

She also makes an onion pie that's pretty great.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Christ that looks good.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's also so easy to make that even my mother can't fuck it up. Which, if you ever had my mother's attempts at cooking, is very impressive.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lmao. Does her cooking make you nostalgic?

My mom regrets that she didn't learn all of her mother's cajun recipes. I regret it, too.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It does not. She's a much better cook than when I was a kid while still being a terrible cook. But at least her idea of offering me dinner is no longer a defrosted turkey burger every night.

There were also the dreaded dinnertime words of my childhood: "This was an experiment."

Because the "experiment" was usually something like, "the recipe called for two cups of sugar and that's too much sugar, so I substituted cottage cheese."

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

That sounds horrendous. Kind of adorable, though.