Learning About My Heritage

Today I learned something very important about my Litunanian heritage. 

I was putting together my grocery list and meal schedule for the week and thought that I might try some recipes from my Lithuanian cookbook.  This thing is old school and very authentic.  Well, the first three chapters were bread, dessert and cookies.  Apparently, Dr. Atkins was not Lithuanian.  This explains so much.

It explains why my mother can not pass a beautiful dessert without at least a little taste.  It is genetic.  Ohhh the lovely, but not so tasty desserts that have passed through our house.  And let us not forget the Thanksgiving that she bought 5 dozen rolls for 8 adults and 2 children.  I'm not good at math, but that is something like 6 rolls per person.

Comments

[GG at VB]

Oh, yes I do remember that Thanksgiving dinner; it was the year we ran out of rolls.

[Robin]

I just stumbled across your blog today and had to comment to say that I say the same thing about cream sauce and my own Hungarian heritage - it's not my fault, it's genetic! I never really understood until I went there, but it's an entire country filled with rich creamy sauces and barely a vegetable in sight. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.