I realize today is Cinco de Mayo, but I’m heading straight to Mother’s Day, so have a margarita for me! For my Mom this year, I decided to get a little ambitious and create a handwritten recipe journal with every single dish I remember my Mom loving whenever she visited me over the years. I know […]

I realize today is Cinco de Mayo, but I’m heading straight to Mother’s Day, so have a margarita for me! For my Mom this year, I decided to get a little ambitious and create a handwritten recipe journal with every single dish I remember my Mom loving whenever she visited me over the years. I know it’s traditional that Mothers pass down recipes to their children and families, but I wanted to share some of mine as a token of my love of food she cultivated in me — and so she can make these recipes for herself if she’s so inclined. I’m actually gifting her two journals, one with my recipes (and funny notes about our shared food history, like how much I hate tuna) and one for her to jot down recipes she’d like to share with me. So the plan is for us to trade them back and forth every so often and eventually pass them down to my daughter. I’m thinking I’m going to get a lot of “low-cal” and heart-friendly annotations from her, along with childhood stories around food that I’ll say I’d rather forget, but secretly crave to remember and tell my daughter while we giggle about fish sticks and s...