Celebrate Mom!

My beautiful Mom!

It's time celebrate Mom. What better way then through special food and times together.
Now that I am a Mom too I try to make Mother's Day for my Mom a separate holiday from mine. This year is no different, especially since we have much to celebrate with her. My Mom just had (post 3 weeks) a hip replacement surgery. She is getting around well with the walker even with steps and with virtually no pain. AMAZING! I cannot tell you how happy she is these days. Just singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow brought her to tears, tears of definite joy these days.

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One afternoon while I was over checking in on her and so what all she needed she was watching one of her fav cooking shows. She dropped a major hint after seeing the menu...and for those of you who know my Mom know she is so good at that. So I knew what I wanted to do, cook up these items for a special dinner for her. 
First here is the dessert, since that is what peaked her interest on the show first- Pomegranate Cherry Sherbet. She even shared her dessert with the boys. Everyone was happy as we watched Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays . Side note, if you haven't seen this yet, available on HBO now, you must watch. The part on speaking Yiddish (and needing slip covered furniture) is some classic stuff!

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The main meal, as my son likes to say, were the calzones. Which were supper easy to make. I made mini ones so that I could pack the left overs in my son's lunch. Make sure to roll out your dough very thin otherwise they come out a bit doughy. 




Happy Mother's Day to all the Mother's out there!