Are you ready for a little dessert? This is the final day in my series highlighting recipes from my mother’s collection.

It has been a lot of fun for me, and actually very illuminating too. Because I have had this cookbook my brother put together after my mother passed away for about 15 years, but until this week I had never cooked from it.

The first few years it was in possession I honestly was not that interested in cooking. Then, once the interest in cooking took hold, I would occasionally peek through the book. But those peeks were more like a trip down memory lane than anything else.

But this week I did cook from this book. In fact I cooked 7 times! Each time was like a reintroduction to my mother, because each of the 7 recipes reminded me so much of my mom for all kinds of different reasons.

So I thank you for allowing me this indulgence. I realize it may have been a bit overtly sentimental for your average food blog, but you gotta realize the associations I make with food are strong. So once I got started I just had to take the journey where it led. It’s a good thing a decided beforehand to limit myself to one week of recipes though. Because it might have easily devolved into a whole Julie/Julia scenario– can you imagine what a warped movie that would make?