Thread: A kitchen daddy/daughter tradition. What's yours?

Since she was a little girl my daughter and I will periodically put up jars of marinara from a recipe from Carmine's in Manhattan. They made a cookbook which is chocked full of fabulous recipes.

Do yourself a favor and get a copy.

Some of the recipes I follow to the letter, others I go a little astray from the book. The marinara we follow the book closely. It is a base recipe like the bread crumbs that you use to make many other things. Normally we do it several times a year depending on how many jars we put up. We have made as many as 30 quarts but it becomes too hard without a commercial kitchen to do that many. In some of those cases we have done it on the porch using a turkey frier set up on the porch. This was November 2013

These days we usually just do 6 to 10 quarts. Quality control is easier plus that way it is more often and we can have fun with it.

We take most of the day doing it. We listen to standards by the greats like Ella, Louis, Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughn etc. and dance around the kitchen....

...and at the end of it we have quarts to use for dinners for weeks to months. Today we only put up 6 quarts plus another quart or so for sauce with sausages for tonight.

We make some really good sauce for dinners but mainly we make lots of memories.

Anyone else have family traditions like this? I'd love to hear about them.