My Happy First Day of Autumn Present to Y’all!

The Lucy Cookbook is a labor of pure love. It’sall of my mother-in-law’s recipes bound into one keepsake,pulled togetherby my sister-in-law, Sandy.Mawmaw Lucy had lost her battle with Alzheimer’s by the time the project was finished, making the handwritten recipes that much more of a treasure to all of us.

The other night I pulled it out and began browsing the familiar pages again. It felt like Lucy was right here with me, especially since the recipes, well– some of them are hard to decipher....