I had to think about this one. I grew up before fast foods and frozen foods were available. Mom cooked every day of the week. I don't even remember going to a restaurant until I was a teen and it was on a date.

I loved her potato salad, green beans, the different ways she'd fix pinto beans, and I especially loved her spaghetti, which was just ground beef, spaghetti noodles and tomato sauce. I'm sure that was all there was, but it was really good. She'd, on occasion, make a lemon merengue and chocolate merengue pie. I'd take a sliver of both. Yum!