My mom's creamy chicken (poulet à la crème). It's delicious, one of my best favorites. No wonder that's how she got my dad...

My mom and I make New Mexico Green Chile Stew better than anyone. Partially because so few people have ever heard of it :)

My grandma's Salvadoran tamales are the best! She was making them vegan before I ever heard of the word.

My Mom's Fried Chicken is still the best thing I chicken I have ever had. I have tried to recreate it (including cutting the chicken the way she use to do it) at least a dozen times, but I can't. Even when I had her old cast iron skillet.. I get close, but it's not the same.

Her meat sauce (for lasagna, manicotti, spaghetti, etc.) continues to amaze most folks when I make it for them.

Thanks for the memories.. now I am hungry :)

My mom's Bread Pudding with Hard Sauce is the best. I prefer it to most restaurants, especially since it doesn't add things like white chocolate to make it sweet. Supposedly the recipe is from the old Columbus Lazarus Restaurant, but I'm too young to have ever been a "lady who lunched" there.

My mom makes the best matzah balls.

Duck magrets - I think ours is the easiest recipe ever, too: score the skin of the magrets, season. 5 mins in a very hot oven. Spread some honey on the skin, and finish off for 5 minutes under a hot grill. No messing around with pan frying, and spitting fat, lovely pink magrets.

These dishes all sound soooo good! Where are the recipes?

Beef Pho. Mom's is still the best.

Potato salad. For reals. The secret ingredient is melted butter.

I don't eat it any more but I used to make an amaaaaazing lasagne with bechemel sauce and a great ragu. None of that dry ricotta stuff!

Spanish rice, chilaquiles, and refried beans. Mmmmmmm.

My grandmother moved here in 1920 from Eastern Europe, she makes and has taught me to make, the best halupki (also known as Golabki in Polish cuisine) and generically known as cabbage rolls.

Additionally her bread and pierogi are amongst the best ever.

Carrot cake! Seriously! We make it using carrot baby food instead of shredded carrots. It's extremely moist and flavorful and doesn't need any extras like raisins to help it out!

My dad's roast beef. He was a chef, so many of his dishes were delicious. However, his health has steadily declined the last few years, so he's no longer cooking. However, his kids had the good foresight to write down some of our favorites, including the roast beef. We're still trying to perfect it but we're very fortunate to be introduced to a variety of cooking during our childhoods.

Thanks, dad.

1. My grandmother's meatloaf. No one in my family will eat any other recipe but this one. It's delicious right out of the oven and even better the next day as a sandwich.
2. My mother's biscuits. Super soft and light. She orders White Lily flour online just to make them.

My great-grandmother's stuffing. Delicious, especially because it is made with bacon, butter, veggies, and wheat bread. Rich, moist...Hmmm...I think I found what I'm making for dinner this weekend.

My dad's sausage gravy and biscuits cannot be beat! I have them in all sorts of restaurants and nothing lives up to my dad's! Every time I go home to visit, I request it (paired with a over-medium egg). YUM!

My grandma made the best fried potatoes EVER. I am a professional chef now, am pretty damn good at re-creating foods I've had, and I still can't recreate those potatoes.

My grandma's pierogies are the best. She learned from her mother, who came over from Poland in the 20s. I make them every Christmas for family and friends. I feel so blessed that she taught me how to make them.

Sorry Becky L. My mom's potato salad is the greatest (definitely no melted butter). Her mom's potato salad rocked, but my mom seemed to perfect it. I, however, don't seem to have the knack. Mine is passable. It's not secret ingredients. It's technique. Hers is perfect; mine is eh.

My mother makes the absolute BEST flan. I can't even tell you how many times flan haters have converted after trying hers. It's always perfectly smooth and not overly sweet. I know most people don't get really excited about flan, but somehow it's always the first thing to disappear from a holiday dessert table.

My mom makes chili-cheese dip every Christmas. So delicious and it wouldn't feel like Christmas without it. Years ago I found a recipe for butter cookies that my grandfather swears are the best ever.

My mom's pies have really ruined all other pies for me. I don't feel too sorry for myself though :)

My great-grandmother made the best Linzertorte (she died before I was born, so this is hearsay), then my grandmother made it and now I.
My mom makes the best Röesti. My father makes the best potato vegetable soup after a recipe of his mother.

Sweet Potato Casserole (its insane)
Pecan Pie (Trust me, most recipes are doing one thing very wrong)
Gumbo
Red sauce

It’s got to be my grandmother’s gnocchi. In my family it’s a rite of passage when you are invited into the kitchen to learn how to make gnocchi!

chicken pie! my mom has passed it on to me now & it's a staple every christmas (& in between too lol)

I have a secret family recipe for Tunnel of Fudge Cake. Everyone who tastes it wants the recipe, but it's a secret! The only way to get it is to marry into the family.

My mum's Kimchi (cabbage, radish, cucumbers...all of them really). She's like the queen of pickling. I can't seem to get it right. and now that she makes them healthier (less sugar, organic ingredients), they are so bomb :)

Homemade chorizo sausage, and lemon ginger chicken rice soup!

My Mom makes the best sugar cookies. They are the crispy kind, cut out into shapes with cookie cutters and carefully outlined with different colors of frosting that dries and hardens overnight. She spends hours outlining the designs on cookies (green for the top part of the tree, brown for the trunk, pink and yellow for garland zig zags and maybe some blue "ornament" dots).

I also like soft sugar cookies with squishy frosting, but they can be too sweet, and my Mom's cookies are the perfect balance of sweetness.

My mom (and her mom) are the BEST Christmas cookie bakers. pecan tassies. german candy canes. snowballs. ludicrously good. Mom makes miraculous baked goods and casseroles of all sorts, but the Christmas cookies are amazing.

I know everybody says this, but my mother makes the best chicken soup!

My sister makes the best giant chocolate chip cookies. I can't even describe them, they are by a very, very wide margin the best CCC's I have ever tried in my life. The only downside of these cookies is that every other CCC that I have had since she started making these has not even been worth eating.

I love this! "My mother..." "My grandmother..." There's something so special about family showing love through cooking.

Not so much a recipe, but my mom has a magic touch when it comes to salads. They are just amazing, every time.

My parents' fried fish is so, so good. Me and dad catch it. Dad fillets it. Mom makes the breading. Dad dips it, mom fries it. I eat it. So good.

My mom's beef stroganoff and and my dad's beef stew. But the last time he made the stew, he put powdered sugar in it instead of flour - he was horrified!

We are chicken salad monsters in my family. My grandmother, mom, sisters and I all have our own spin on chicken salad, but they are all fabulous.

Uncle Harold's salmon grilled over an Alder wood fire is legendary. Every time I make it, someone says they have never had salmon so delicious.

In Belgium, we eat our famous French fries with a kind of beef and onion stew, called 'stoofvlees'. I suspect very family in Belgium claims their family recipe is the best one, as each varies a bit in key ingredients: my mom uses brown sugar and mustard on a thick slice of brown bread and a bottle of brown Belgian beer.
She makes it on a winter sunday morning so it can stew a little all day, and bakes fresh fries with it in the evening. It's always a family gettogether when she makes it and more often then not she's having more then ten people over.

I think it's a toss up between my mom and grandmother's cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving and my mom's Chicken and Dumplins. To me, nothing can beat them.

My mom's roast chicken with veggies is like crack. People tend to invite themselves over, when they know mom is in the kitchen :)

My Paternal Grandmother's best was Angel Pie - a lemon curd pie with hard meringue crust and fresh cream on top.

My Maternal Grandmother's best was Lasagne - meat sauce cooked for days, fresh homemade mozzarella, pepperoni.

My Mom's is Key Lime Pie - baked to achieve a flan-like texture rather than the pudding stuff you get in restaurants.

Mine is brownies. Super fudgy, dense, crackly on top.

Harumph. All of the really good stuff from my family is labor intensive and I am the only willing to make them. But everyone wants to eat them. Pierogis, little kifli cookies with homemade fillings, long braised stews, homemade pasta.

My mom made them all when I was a kid but would rather stop by Costco now. How depressing.

Gumbo. Hands down. My mom's side if purely Cajun and several caterers and chefs in the area (and we live in New Orleans) have asked for my grandma's recipe. When we got married, we had it catered, but I had them use my grandma's recipe.

My dad is Cuban and my grandma makes awesome guava pastelitos. I think it's because they have grow their own guava.

Matzo balls! We have a family recipe but also a secret ingredient. And 100% vegetarian matzo ball soup

Nana's fried chicken dinner, mom's cornbread dressing, daughter's spectacular grilled cheese, and my duck and sausage gumbo - Only 2 of us cook often, but all of us have signature dishes!

My mom isn't a very good cook. She does make a good meatloaf and mashed potatoes though. I am a vegetarian and make my own specialties. I make a mean banana bread and a banana cake, awesome bread pudding, I make a mean broccoli cheese soup, hot and sour soup, and a great veggie strudel.

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Brisket! My mom has this recipe that braises it in a sweet and sour sauce. It never lets me down. She brings it to parties and usually ends up sending people the recipe.

My Peranakan Grandma's pineapple tarts. (Sweet pineapple jam on a crumbly, rich biscuit base)They taste best piping hot from the oven, and great mixed in with yogurt/icecream as a crumbly topping. Also melt in your mouth Beef Rendang curry stew and Pork Buah Keluak.
No one makes Buah Keluak like my family; with thick, black meaty gravy instead of the usual reddish oily type. It's literally liquid gold; so good eaten with plain rice or mopped up with crusty bread.

My other grandma's deep fried spring rolls and abascus beads (Yam dumplings stir fried with minced pork). No one could top that.

this makes me think we should have a "best family recipe" recipe swap!

we use potato roll dough for crescent rolls, sticky buns and cinnamon rolls. so moist and yum. also I have a few cookie recipes that would be fun to share. harder for those of use without a blog though...

My dad makes killer pancakes. Yep, so simple, but delicious. Fluffy, light, crispy on the outside, perfectly golden brown. I remember writing down his recipe when I was like, 8 years old because I was obsessed with his pancakes.

My husband's grandmother is the apple pie queen. My husband actually taught me how to make her pie crust and crumb topping (and I can count on one hand the number of times my hub and I have cooked together!). He and his two sisters both remember being in the kitchen with MomMom, learning how to make apple pie. This pie comes out every Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Grandma's potato salad and mom's raspberry ribbon pie.

My Polish Grandma's Old Fashioned chicken soup.mmmm..nectar of the god's. Anna I want you periogie recipe...