Refreshing the happy moment at Lydia's Home

Mother's Recipe Mothers of my mother’s generation are very capable and cook excellent dishes. It’s like a nature gift to them. Every mom has some special recipes to bind their family together that even they have eaten in numerous restaurants, yet still their mother’s dishes always occupy an untouchable corner of their mind.

Linda’s mom is an excellent cook. We had heard Linda say it many times and we had had the pleasure of tasting her excellent dishes two years ago.

On Dragon Boat Festival, we went to Lydia’s home to reward ourselves for our accomplished job at D67 Installation Ceremony. Linda brought different flavors of Zhongzi and a big pot of chicken soup made by her mother. It was couriered to Linda the day before the festival and Linda generously shared it with us all. With so much food on the table, the soup received the best compliments and was the only dish completely eaten up. Everyone kept saying how lucky Linda was that she could enjoy her mother’s cooking from time to time even she lives way down in ZhangHua.

This reminds me of my mother’s cooking. To me, Her best dishes were meat balls, Sausages and ZhongZi. We got to eat her meat balls once a week, but sausages and ZhongZi only once a year. I don’t know if it was because of the rareness of the serving of them that we four children loved them so much.

It has been more than twenty five years since my mom stopped cooking because of her falling health. Every year I missed her sausages and ZhongZi very much. There are no any other sausages and ZhongZi can compare with hers. I have not learned the tricks to cooking the same delicious meals. I guess I will leave no any special dishes for my children to remember by.

I should tell my mom how I loved her meat balls, sausages and ZhongZi, and that she’s a much better mom than I am while she can still understand me. Yes, tell her, today!
Trini