All Things We’re Cooking (You Can’t Eat It! ), A Tribute to My Grandmother, Alan Mishell

All Things We’re Cooking is a series highlighting family recipes that have special meaning to you, our readers and listeners. Earlier this year, we asked you to share your most prized recipes and explain why these dishes evoke such fond family memories. We received responses from all over the country as a collaboration with NPR member stations. We’ve been interviewing some contributors and will continue to share their stories through the holiday season. All recipes and photos were provided by NPR audience members.

A daughter recalls her immigrant parents and her father standing by the stove making scallion pancakes on Sunday mornings. Her siblings now make the pancakes for their children.

A pancake for Passover can be eaten during the year. And Alan Mishell learned the recipe from his grandmother, whose family escaped Poland ahead of the Nazi German invasion.

Merjem Mededovic’s Recipes for a Rosh Hashanah Salatke, a Potato and an Onion

While growing up, Merjem Mededovic cooked with her grandmother and learned names of various things in Bosnian. She found a recipe for a latke, a potato and onion dish.

Instead of picking one brisket recipe for a Rosh Hashanah meal, these college roommates combined their grandmothers’ recipes into one. It did not go according to plan.

Grandmother Petra’s love for her family was expressed in sweet and well-balanced capirotada. Her grandchild had to recreate it from memory because she didn’t write it down.