Then she turned her attention to what she called ground cherries which reseeded themselves every year. Maybe I spotted them and their unique appearance and asked about them. Those are known by different names but are like little round yellow tomatoes in a husk like tomatillos. Sometimes we called them "little yellow tomatoes". She made preserves with them. I always meant to grow some, can't be too hard, but never got the seeds. Think you can get them at seed savers exchange decorah iowa. I love going through their catalog.
Walmart had some "golden berries", Reese brand they were selling out. Canned in juice like fruits which they are. They are native to Peru I think. I ate them for snacks cold out of the fridge. Delicious. Now they bring top prices if you can find any.
Now for a gripe. I can't find any of those hard-shelled but chewy marshmallow eggs in bright colors. Looked all over for them. They've ruined so much of our candy by discontinuing it. Guess young kids don't like it.
Just got off jet.com ordering some stuff. None there either. And they have lots of plastic eggs you can fill for the kiddies. Some are hinged. Some looked to me a little one could put one in their mouth and choke on it. I pray it won't happen.
Oh yeah, I think my grandma's potatoes were red. We took them back to the house and she cooked them for supper. My mother used to love to make little "new" potatoes, just a strip peeled around the center and put a white sauce with peas over them. I didn't like them but ate them. Now I'm kind of hungry for some. And I'm sure my mom never put nutmeg in her white sauce.
I think I will honor her memory and my "Papa" with a photo. She called him Papa so I did, too. My father was away in WWII so he was like a surrogate father. I adored him. Loved my grandma, too, so crippled with arthritis. Papa died in 1946, and grandma in 1958. I'm probably the only one alive who remembers Papa.
