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Post by Jonel on Apr 17, 2003 14:30:41 GMT -5
:Dtdallasw  Would you please be my friend?  I can't believe your dad was the chef at Blair House. I am so impressed. I bet he had some wonderful dishes and recipes. Have you ever thought of compiling a collection or cookbook along with a memory book for his grandchildren, nieces, nephews? 1*-) 1*-) |
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Post by Aba21 on Apr 17, 2003 14:42:14 GMT -5
What a great thing, TD. I know your father was proud to be there in such a famous location with all its rich history. My question to you is can you cook? That's what I want to know! ;D ;D
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Post by iratherlikeme on Apr 17, 2003 14:53:26 GMT -5
My mother made some chocolate bread pudding for the first and only time (that I can remember) a couple of years back. That sure was some good stuff.
My mother made powered biscuits when I was younger, and I'd have to beg her to make them if I wanted any. She hasn't made any in a long time.
That was my childhood memory. ;D
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Post by Jonel on Apr 17, 2003 15:04:04 GMT -5
;DOkay, since we're talking about food. I miss "Dinner on the Grounds" at church. Now it's "covered dish dinner" in the fellowship hall. But, when I was little girl, homecoming dinner at church was spread out on plywood boards on top of sawhorses. It seemed like the table stretched for miles. And.....there was a lady in charge of the lemonade. She made it in a huge tin washtub and it had lemon slices floating in it. It was ice cold and you dipped the lemonade with a tin dipper into the tub and filled a paper dixie cup. Mmmmm good.
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Post by sukkafu on Apr 17, 2003 15:33:19 GMT -5
blair house is quite the place tdalgalpal! i am sorry to hear that dr. atkins passed away due to his severe head injury from a fall on the icy sidewalk in nyc. let's have a steak or tunafish in his honor-no bread pudding or ice cream or kk's today! jonel- that looks just like you!  |
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Post by earthangel on Apr 17, 2003 18:13:15 GMT -5
Man, I love some good peach cobbler but nobody makes it...  |
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Post by sukkafu on Apr 17, 2003 18:32:01 GMT -5
you need to learn at age 15 to make your own peach cobbler- just pull a recipe of the 'net and start baking away! you're a big girl! okay, big enough!
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Post by tdallasw on Apr 17, 2003 20:00:59 GMT -5
Well Aba, yes, I am a very good cook. Though I don't do the baking my dad did. I'm not much into breads, rolls, pies, or cakes. I'm a carnivore! Meat dishes and vegetables are my thing.
Jonel, I've got newspaper and magazine clippings from the 50's and 60's with some of my Dad's interviews and recipes. He was the first Black head chef at the U.S. Senate Restaurant in the Capitol in the late 40's, and served as the personal chef for Secretary of the Navy, Admiral Forrestal when he was in the Navy during the Korean War. I'm very proud of his accomplishments.
I love to cook - but not like he did. Wouldn't want to do it for a living.
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Post by Jonel on Apr 17, 2003 20:06:59 GMT -5
I think this is so interesting TD! and it would make very interesting reading...to know the various things that were his specialties. I know that the Temptations have a weakness for Sweet Potato Pie. Did your Dad make that?
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Post by tdallasw on Apr 17, 2003 20:13:09 GMT -5
He did - but that was a little too 'down home' for his taste. He preferred to make pastries, cream puffs, Charlotte Russe, Chocolate Mousse, French Lace cookies, sugar cookies, rice pudding, bread pudding with ginger sauce or rum sauce, etc.
My mom likes to do more 'Southern Soul Food' cooking than my dad ever did.
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Post by Jonel on Apr 17, 2003 20:23:44 GMT -5
;D Oh, the things he made sound so elegant and delicious. You must have some wonderful memories.
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Post by sukkafu on Apr 17, 2003 20:30:48 GMT -5
tdallasw= my sweet galpal! multitalented-charming, intelligent. attractive, funloving, and a total temptaholic!
she is very Christlike, and works hard for her church.
dats my kinda friend!
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Post by iratherlikeme on Apr 17, 2003 20:44:39 GMT -5
My ma looks around the internet for recipes--comparing them to hers, I suppose--and you know, she says that some of these people are crazy with how much of this and that they put in their desserts and things. Ma says, "trial and error."
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Post by tdallasw on Apr 17, 2003 21:06:52 GMT -5
  Here's my dad on the left -preparing some hors d'oeuvres trays (salmon mousse) and on the right - in the kitchen at the Blair House |
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Post by tdallasw on Apr 17, 2003 21:11:36 GMT -5
  Here are couple of his ice sculptures... First a vase and then, a mermaid. He did it the 'old fashioned' way - with an ice pick & chisel. Nowadays they use power tools. ;D WIMPS!! |
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