I don’t know about in your home but in my home, Sundays are family. Even when Charlie was little and David worked, I would make Sunday’s all about Charlie. Now, I use Sunday for a rest day for me and that is why I wanted to share another series from 🌿 LIFE AS WE BLOOM — Cooking Through Every Season where we will be sharing our Sunday Series: Grandma’s Skillet Love & Stories just like happened in my granny Dorie’s kitchen. Was your grandmother’s kitchen like this because Charie’s grandmother Sherry and my mom’s kitchen was as well.
Join us this evening for Grandma’s Sunday Skillet Potatoes & Sausage Dish which comes with A Little Butter, A Little Patience, and a Lot of Love and don’t forget some of the best meals were never written down. At least not in my parent’s kitchen. How about your parents?
Grandma Dories didn’t use measuring cups much. She used instinct.
A pinch of this.
A handful of that.
Butter until it “looked right.”
I don’t know about your home but in our home Sunday dinners were never fancy in our family, but somehow, they always felt important. Everyone was always welcome to pull up a seat and eat. Even if we didn’t have a lot my grandmother always made it work.
If you listen closely the skillet would already be warming before anyone even asked what was for dinner. Potatoes sizzling. Onions softening slowly for those that liked Onions. Which we all know isn’t David. Sausage browning around the edges while stories floated through the kitchen louder than the television.
Now we use the electric skillet more often than not because life looks different these days. It keeps things simple, feeds everybody at once, and somehow still brings everyone into the kitchen the same way those old stove-top meals used to.
David still talks about meals like this reminding him of slower Sundays growing up. C has learned more real cooking standing beside a skillet than from any recipe card because grandma-style cooking was never about perfection. It was about feeding people with what you had and making enough for everyone at the table.
Tonight’s skillet dinner is simple:
Sliced and peeled potatoes because LORD forgive us if we left the skins on them which you could do
Smoked Sausage I like Ekridge, but you can use any brand and any flavor your heart desires.
Onions for Gerald and I and none for C or David so it’s your choice if you use Onions or not
Butter the more the better if you ask me
Garlic Because it tastes good
Salt & Pepper, I use Kendricks the blend because it has Salt, Pepper and Garlic in it and it doesn’t bother David’s knees.
Turn the stove on low. Cook low and slow until the potatoes soften and everything turns golden around the edges.
Remember you don’t have to remember the recipe because Grandma-style skillet meals were never the same twice. Some Sundays we added Peppers of all kinds. Other times leftover cabbage which you will not find in my home corn which David and Charlie wouldn’t eat, or cheese which David and Charlie said bring on got tossed in because nothing in grandma’s kitchen went to waste.
Serve it with biscuits, cornbread, or simple sliced tomatoes for those that like Tomato’s which isn’t my family on the side and suddenly an ordinary Sunday feels like home again.
Sometimes the meals we remember most came from one skillet, simple ingredients, and people who stayed a little longer at the table.
If your family still gathers around comfort meals like this, you already understand the magic. ❤️
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