I would race across three neighbors' yards and Johnson's Creek to get home for roast beef and gravy and rice and whiteacre peas. But her family loved her meatloaf best. A quick office survey of favorite childhood family meals produced some mouth-watering memories. Consider tomato gravy over rice, fried potatoes with eggs, grilled barbecue pork spare ribs, various spaghetti sauces, corned beef with crunchy potatoes, roast beef, rice and gravy and stewed tomatoes, and Sunday breakfast with Irish bread, bacon, sausage, eggs and hot tea. Enjoying really good food always seems to make everything sparkle around the table.
People are glad to be there.
They feel convivial. The conversation flows, the jokes are funny and the laughter is loud. Hey, I'll see you at the grocery store. Rosemary Smith is Campus Page editor and a staff writer.