FuzzNJ
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:32:25 PM
So, parents coming over. Mom, if you didn't know, has brain injury issues and Alzheimer's, and has been forgetting more things lately like where she is when she wakes up, where the bathroom is, her daughter that she hardly sees, etc.

She used to make this recipe that she learned from her mother, old school stuffed cabbage, east european/jewish style. I remember not liking it too much, but we're all hoping it will trigger some memories for her. I may have to make a sandwich later though.

Anyone still make stuffed cabbage?

DrafterX
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:35:02 PM
Ask your dad to go thru her recipe books... should prolly just copy everything anyway... 😟
FuzzNJ
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:36:36 PM

Ask your dad to go thru her recipe books... should prolly just copy everything anyway... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

I don't think there was one.

DrafterX
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:38:44 PM
my wife's grandmother kept a rolodex (more of a 4x6 card file box) with her recipes... my wife was able to grab it before it fell into the wrong hands luckily.... 😟
DrMaddVibe
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:39:58 PM
WGAF?
teedubbya
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:43:27 PM

WGAF?

DrMaddVibe wrote:

why do you talk to drafter like that?

DrafterX
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:46:32 PM
😢
wheelrite
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:23:07 PM
Fuzz,

hope your mom gets better,,,

wheel,

dubleuhb
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:31:23 PM
Stuffed cabbage, what are we in a depression ?........
tailgater
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:43:01 PM

So, parents coming over. Mom, if you didn't know, has brain injury issues and Alzheimer's, and has been forgetting more things lately like where she is when she wakes up, where the bathroom is, her daughter that she hardly sees, etc.

She used to make this recipe that she learned from her mother, old school stuffed cabbage, east european/jewish style. I remember not liking it too much, but we're all hoping it will trigger some memories for her. I may have to make a sandwich later though.

Anyone still make stuffed cabbage?

FuzzNJ wrote:

Dude, you're looking to feed cabbage to a lady who forgets where the bathroom is?

I loves me some stuffed cabbage when it's done up just right. MIL is a lousy cook, but she makes a mean golumpki.

Alzheimers is tough. My grandmother is slipping away fast. Can no longer remember most family members.

But I'll tell you what: she is happy when you visit even if she isn't sure who you are all the time.

I would google for a recipe and see which one sounds similar to what you've eaten before.

Good luck.

fishinguitarman
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:44:21 PM
EGADS!!!!
hvega1986
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:25:11 PM

Dude, you're looking to feed cabbage to a lady who forgets where the bathroom is?

I loves me some stuffed cabbage when it's done up just right. MIL is a lousy cook, but she makes a mean golumpki.

Alzheimers is tough. My grandmother is slipping away fast. Can no longer remember most family members.

But I'll tell you what: she is happy when you visit even if she isn't sure who you are all the time.

I would google for a recipe and see which one sounds similar to what you've eaten before.

Good luck.

tailgater wrote:

Golumpki sounds like some sort of urban dictionary rugby player position. Yikes

Alzheimer's sucks. No easy way to put it. Sorry to hear about that fuzz. Good luck with the stuffed cabbage

frankj1
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:29:48 PM
one grandmother made a Russian style, the other made a Romanian style, one was tomato broth the other sweet with raisins, both Jewish. Grew up eating both but wasn't crazy about the raisin style.

My mother and my wife have recipes somewhere for "unstuffed" stuffed cabbage that was pretty tasty. I'd hunt it down if you want, but probably won't be much help tonight.

Sad about your Mom, Fuzz.

frankj1
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:30:38 PM

WGAF?

DrMaddVibe wrote:

you're better than that.

FuzzNJ
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:38:42 PM

one grandmother made a Russian style, the other made a Romanian style, one was tomato broth the other sweet with raisins, both Jewish. Grew up eating both but wasn't crazy about the raisin style.

frankj1 wrote:

It was the tomato style, but no raisins. Sweet tomato sauce. I used brown sugar and apples. Tasted pretty good, but not the kind of food I'd want to eat too often.

My mother saw me put it on her plate and said 'my mom used to make that'. Was cute.

My grandmother was everywhere from Moscow in 1918, to Poland, Lithuania, East Germany and Germany and spoke 6 languages. She cooked a lot of what I know now to be jewish recipes and spoke yiddish. I never heard all the stories of the war, but she must have known a lot of Jewish people. I wonder what happened.

JuyceMan
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:57:11 PM
Golumpki! Yea, I still make it. My grandparents and great aunts and uncles are gone, but I still make it for my father (Polish). Mine is the tomato sauce based and stuffed with rice and beef, as well.
JadeRose
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:10:57 PM
Raisins and apples and cabbage in tomato sauce? Gaddam....have you guys been thrown into the gulag?
teedubbya
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 6:12:17 PM
I can only imagine what the gulag must have smelled and sounded like.
frankj1
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:18:14 PM

It was the tomato style, but no raisins. Sweet tomato sauce. I used brown sugar and apples. Tasted pretty good, but not the kind of food I'd want to eat too often.

My mother saw me put it on her plate and said 'my mom used to make that'. Was cute.

My grandmother was everywhere from Moscow in 1918, to Poland, Lithuania, East Germany and Germany and spoke 6 languages. She cooked a lot of what I know now to be jewish recipes and spoke yiddish. I never heard all the stories of the war, but she must have known a lot of Jewish people. I wonder what happened.

FuzzNJ wrote:

I think my wife's recipe for unstuffed calls for ginger snap cookies!

Your grandmother overlapped the tracks of most of my grandparents, a familiar trek whose participants are rapidly fading away. Much of the uprooting and resettling was forced, despite deniers, and much by choice before death or unwanted relocation. Yet somehow the food lived on! Food and memories, food and culture, inseparable.

hoyodude
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:40:05 PM

you're better than that.

frankj1 wrote:

...actually, I don't think he is...:-k

sorry about your mom, Fuzz. My grandmother went out that way, wife's grandmother too, and it sucks hard.