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Favorite Foods

Hello, my name is Tona and I'm a carboholic!
If I had to choose a food and drink for my last meal it would be yeast rolls and Pepsi! How's that for simply disgusting?

I mentioned on the cookbook cover that my mother was a "rustic" cook. Those are my favorite meals: pot roasts; chicken & dumplings; stews; chowders; hearty soups; fried chicken with mashed potatoes and pan gravy; and ham & beans with cornbread.

My mother did not like cheese for some unbeknownst reason and never cooked with it. Believe it or not, I was in high school before I knew there were other kinds of cheese besides Velveeta! So I have become a cheese connoisseur -- you'll find lots of casseroles in my cookbook and most of them have cheese as an ingredient.

Favorite desserts are pies and cakes -- just about any kind, anywhere, anytime.

I grew up on a farm where we had an endless supply of beef, pork and chicken. My father had milk cows for a few years, so there was always fresh milk, cream, and homemade butter. My folks usually had a small garden and of course, we always had eggs. In the summertime, my father knew where to find the wild blackberries and gooseberries.

By today's standards, this certainly isn't a diet that doctors will recommend. But when a person is raised on good food like this, those cravings just won't go away.