Obligatory old school photo of mom, Sharon, and me. I don’t care what my future children look like so long as they have Sharon’s legs.
Please pardon our delay in announcing a winner. Maggy’s been on vacation and I’ve been in FL helping my parents move from their home of 35 years to a retirement facility. Our KitchenAid “Cook for Mom” winner is #167 Angie who says, “Having lost my mother-in-law and own mother in recent years, I will be reflecting on my happy memories of both of them. I will also enjoy basking in the love I will receive from my two girls and husband.” Congratulations!
We aren’t much of a gift-giving family, not at least in the ‘box, wrapping paper and bow’ sense. For us celebrations are about the food and the people and long-winded cards that wax poetic about our love and respect for one another. We used to do presents, but then the company and the menu were so superior (especially when we were old enough to add a splash of wine to the mix) that those earrings, blouses, and calendars just didn’t add that much to the feel of the event anymore. So we long ago decided to put all our effort (and money) into food lovingly prepared, drinks carefully selected, tables beautifully laid, music painstakingly chosen, and the moment we should share together.
On Mother’s Day, more than on any other special day, we do this for our mother because she is so worth it. She has the most generous spirit and giving heart of anyone I know. There is no person better at celebrating you than Pam Anderson. She cheers the loudest, supports the strongest, offers the most, gives the biggest. Not just to us, but to everyone in her life. So on this day, we do for her. And truth be told, she’d be happy with a grilled cheese, a bowl of homemade tomato soup and a cold craft beer, because that’s who she is. Though she is a great lover of memorable food, for her it’s far more about the moment than the dish itself. Her style is unpretentious and all-inclusive and I believe this is the greatest thing I have absorbed from all my years in her presence.
This year, we are excited to be working with KitchenAid on a special Mother’s Day series called, “Cook for Mom.” We know a lot of you will be looking for menu inspiration this week as you plan what to cook for your mom or the mother figure in your life.
Here’s the menu that mom and I created together. Today, we’re sharing the recipe for Cornmeal-Scallion Waffles with Caramel Corn and Maple Syrup and we’ll be posting the rest of the recipes throughout the week!
Raspberry Ice Bellinis
Asparagus Salad “Nests”
Cornmeal-Scallion Waffles with Caramel Corn and Maple Syrup
Strawberry-Rhubarb Galette with Whipped Cream
To help us celebrate, KitchenAid is giving away all three of the following appliances we used to one lucky winner! I think we all know that there’s no better stand mixer out there. Hands down. After using a far inferior blender for years, this is without doubt the Rolls Royce of blenders. And that waffle iron? The best. It lets you make two waffles at once!
KitchenAid Raspberry Ice 5 quart Stand Mixer
KitchenAid ‘Cook for the Cure’ Edition Pink 5-Speed Blender
KitchenAid Pro Line Black Waffle Iron
To enter, just leave a comment telling us what you’re doing for Mother’s Day this year! Giveaway closes on Friday, May 11 at 9PM EST.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s out there!
My adult children are coming over to fix me breakfast in bed and they are even doing the dishes afterwards!!!!!
I recently moved out of the country to be with my husband, so this year I’ll be Skyping with my mother – and hopefully not being late on her gift delivery! :o)
The kids and I will be apart this Mother’s Day. I have never believed in the sanctity of a dictated holiday, by religion, family or by Hallmark, so this doesn’t bother me in the least. I have asked that their gift to me be any time at all that they can spend with me this summer. It doesn’t matter what day. It matters that we are sharing the day…any day…the three of us…survivors all…
Heading over to my sister-in-laws for a champagne brunch. Then shopping all day with the women in our family.
I am taking my mother out for a really nice brunch.
This year for Mother’s Day I’ll be cooking dinner for my mother and grandmother at my apartment.
Since both my children have families of their own and live a distance away from us, we will do our “usual” Mother’s Day dinner. My husband and I will go to a Chinese Buffet – it is the only day of the year he will go with me and I have not been since LAST MOther’s Day….
I will be enjoying a day out with my active duty army hubby – who is here this year and not deployed!!! – and my beautiful five-year-old son. Brunch and then who knows, maybe the zoo – we have a beautiful one here in Colorado Springs!
i am flying out to california to surprise my mom! i’ll be on the red eye from new york and when she wakes up in the morning, I’ll have a fresh pot of coffee and some blueberry-strawberry scones to surprise her!
I’m cooking for my mother and bringing my boys over to do yard work and cleanup for her.
My mom is going to wake up to a sparkling house (she is all about a clean house) and a sparkling room. Also, she’ll see that my room and the garage (both long over due cleaning projects) are spotless. She’ll have her favorite Meditteranean breakfast and a day full of surprises, especially a massage 🙂 Its full of things that she loves-clean house, good food, and relaxation.
For mother’s day, I’ll be putting in the topsoil of my very first herb garden, with the help of my green thumbed mom.
Probably playing in the dirt in our vegetable garden….
We’re having a family dinner at my Grandma’s house. My dad is smoking pork chops and grilling asparagus. I’m doing salad and strawberry tart for dessert. I hope the moms like it!
We will have a BBQ at my sisters house our mother. Simple, but nice to all be together.
I have the honor of spending time with not only my fabulous mother on both Saturday & Sunday, but enjoying time with my mother-in-law and two grandmothers as well! Count me lucky and loved 🙂
Probably cooking for my tribe…but they are all here and that’s what makes mothers day sooo great. Nothing better.
Both of my children live at opposite ends of my state. So instead of them coming home for Mother’s Day, we are all meeting in SF!!!!
Can’t wait to see my boys and having lots of laughs…besides great food.
Happy Mother’s Day to all.
I’m going to be spending the morning with my mom- go out to breakfast and give her her gifts. Then the rest of the day I’ll do what we always do- whatever she wants.
I will be spending the day with my 98 year old mother. She still lives alone in her own home.
Since my Mother lives in a different country over 3000 miles away I’ll be making sure to call her. I sent her a small gift over a week ago so I hope she gets it in time!
After church we will continue to celebrate a week of celebrations, daughter’s 45th birthday the 10th, husband’s 74 birthday the 12th and then my 50th Mother’s Day. Sure could use a new KitchenAid mixer for all the cakes and pies this week. My KitchenAid is 45 yrs. old plus I am a 12 yr. breast cancer survivor!!!!!
I am having brunch with my mother, sisters and daughter and then I am having a mani/pedi with my future daughter-in-law.
I’ll be spending Mother’s day with my future mother-in-law in town. Dimsum for brunch!
I’ll be spending the day with my mom and family having brunch.
Whatever Mom wants
I’m taking my mom out for breakfast to our favorite place!
We’re celebrating Mother’s Day on Saturday this year because I have to work on Sunday. It’ll just be a little get-together with close family and great food!
I will be checking in on my 10 month old grandson!
And then hanging out with my daughter!
We are actually spending Mothers Day attending our oldest daughters college graduation..What a fabulous mothers day gift…
Will spend the day doing whatever Mom wants to do….she is 87!!!
I’m taking my mom out to lunch, and then shopping to her favorite stores!
My family takes me out for brunch every year but this time grandma will be in town. So,we’ll have a dual celebration and I’ll be certain to make her favorites for dinner.
I am treating my mother to River Crab brunch on the St. Clair River in St. Clair, Michigan. I’m not cooking because their brunch is the best ever and we get to watch the water as we chow down. 🙂
I am going to my parents house, we will cook and eat and talk and sit on the porch watching the dogs play in the yard. <3
I’m hoping for breakfast in bed, followed by a day of leisure.
Experiences have always been our favorite presents! This year, while my 2 year old is at home with Daddy napping, I booked an appointment for me and my mom at the new hair place in town called The Blow Dry Bar. Just thinking of the scalp massage, hair rinse and styling has this haggard feeling mom a lot less stressed! Can’t wait to see the Raspberry Bellini recipe. The Peach Bellini was mom’s and my favorite “souvenir” from a long ago trip to Venice/Italy.
We are all going out for brunch, something we have been doing for the past several years.
Spending the day doing something fabulous with the little ones who gave me the famous title of mommy!
My two beautiful girls Raquel (8) and Rebekah (5) will be making me breakfast (my absolute favorite meal of the day) with the help of my beloved hubby and letting me enjoy it in bed, then off to church to worship with our church family. I’ll call my mom who lives in NJ and then to the garden to plant which if my mom was with me, we would do together.
Hopefully I won’t be cooking dinner on Sunday! We’ll go out for dinner with my mother-in-law, and I’m hoping a nap will also be in the plans.
This might sound odd, but it’s been a tradition so long it just seems ‘normal’ to us! Each year after church, Mom, Kristen and I, and all the grandkids (both 2 and 4 legged!) picnic at the Doylestown graveyard at my grandmother’s site. Before we picnic we plant a new flower of some sort, spruce up the old plantings, spread mulch and water it all. After my grandmother’s site is complete we head over to my great-grandmother’s grave and do the same. Then we have a picnic, remember the “good ol’ days” and head home for a nap (which sometimes is just quiet reading without the concerns of housework!). I think Mother’s day should last for a few days…
I will go to church with my husband and children. Then they are planning to take me to dinner. I am not sure what else we will do, but I will be with my family so I’ll be happy!
Lunch with my lovely daughter, son their spouses and my husband.
Gardening, fishing and playing with the dogs. We get together with our families when they’re in town and adopt others who need a good meal. Sounds like your family has figured out a wonderful way to celebrate. Its is all about the company and the food.
I live 5 houses from my mother, and I have two sisters who live out of state. They are coming in for the weekend, and we are taking our mother to lunch after church. I love when family comes to visit.
This is the first Mother’s Day in Phoenix in her new home close to me for my Mom. Dad died in December, so she’s adjusting to a new reality. Everyone else will be out of town, so I’m taking her out for lunch at a new restaurant she has been wanting to try.
Spending it with my parents and my children and husband 🙂
Having brunch with four of my favorite ladies – my Momma, my Sister, and my two Aunties.
It looks like Mother’s Day is being postponed until a later date here! I think it will just be me and the dogs. We’ll probably go for a walk.