About Momma

 

Momma loved bringing her cooking flair to gatherings. She would cook her magical dishes for co workers and church potluck. But her greatest meal performances came at family holidays and gatherings. Once, she cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner for over 40 people (all family) from her small kitchen.

As her daughter, I cannot remember a time where daddy would barbecue without her barbecue sauce. It was the only "spice" allowed on his super tender, super juicy, always perfect steaks! Barbecuing was a special "thing" in our family (just like it probably is in yours.)

Momma and Daddy would head out to Margie's Supermarket in West Tawakoni, Texas to buy hand selected meat that came from Margie's very own raised cattle, hogs and chickens. Like I said, barbecuing was a "thing". They would come home with perfectly selected cuts of meat; steaks for momma, daddy and my brother, and chicken thighs and legs for me (I loved eating chicken legs because the sauce would get all over my face and fingers, which was always an indication of how yummy it was). They would also bring home the ingredients for mommas' sauce, stuff for salad, and a huge potato for each of us with all the trimmings!

I can remember being outside playing in the yard and smelling her sauce aroma coming from inside the house. We lived in a small, three-bedroom mobile home with roll up windows, so it was easy for the aroma to seep out of the house. I always knew the smell and that it meant a delicious dinner was in the making. I didn't know it then, but we were pretty poor. Most of my childhood, momma was the sole provider in our home because my daddy was disabled. So when a dinner like this came along, it was very special.

As the years progressed, momma taught us how to make her barbecue sauce, and once we were grown and raising families of our own, we were teaching our children the family traditions. As the years continued to pass, and we lost daddy to a blood clot, and then lost momma to lung cancer, I became the head cook for the family. I began to play with momma's recipe to discover different and unique flavors. I would test the newest flavor on my sons during one of our weekend barbecues, they would give the thumbs up or down, and sometime during that twenty-year span, I developed the southern BBQ sauces you use today.

Thank you, momma for giving us a product that we could one day honor your memory with.