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Dear ##firstname[Friend]##,
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My mom was not a big one for Mother's Day. At least, she didn't care so much about cards and gifts. The one thing she did enjoy was being kicked out of the kitchen every Mother's Day and leaving the food-prep up to my brother, Dad, and me.
I can't say we made any four-star meals, but my brother was a dab hand when it came to breakfast. Dad would roll out the grill and make whatever Mom wanted (as long as it was steak or burgers). And I was generally consigned to making some kind of monstrous salad (raw vegetables and croutons were the only things I could be trusted not to ruin as a kid). I don't know that the menu we provided was anything Mom would have made for herself, but maybe that was why she enjoyed it so much.
In my own family, my wife is much more accepting of cards and gifts (this year, I'm giving her a copy of one of our new ecookbooks for her iPod. It's a great way to have recipes at your fingertips, they're available for Nook, Kindle and iPhone/iPod, and they make awesome gifts. Hint, hint). But now that my older children have earned some kitchen privileges, it's also time to dust off that old tradition of making food for Mom on her special day. Working at a place like Healthy Cooking, I know we'll be able to come up with a range of creative dishes broader than eggs, steak, and salad. And whatever we make, it'll be food made with love, which is all any of us—mothers or their children—really want, any day of the year.
Happy cooking!
Best,
Steve
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