{"id":6060,"date":"2020-11-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crazy4fiction.com\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:37:29","slug":"francine-rivers-on-family-traditions-and-comfort-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/francine-rivers-on-family-traditions-and-comfort-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Francine Rivers on Family Traditions and Comfort Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/Francine-Rivers-on-Family-Traditions-and-Comfort-Food-header.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/Francine-Rivers-on-Family-Traditions-and-Comfort-Food-header.png 820w, https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/Francine-Rivers-on-Family-Traditions-and-Comfort-Food-header-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/Francine-Rivers-on-Family-Traditions-and-Comfort-Food-header-768x292.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This holiday season, maybe you&#8217;re reminiscing about fun family memories or that delicious recipe your grandma made every year around Thanksgiving or Christmas. What are some of your favorites?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francine Rivers, <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyndale.com\/p\/the-masterpiece\/9781496407917?utm_source=Francine%20Rivers%20Thanksgiving%20repost&amp;utm_medium=The%20Masterpiece&amp;utm_campaign=C4F_Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Masterpiece<\/em><\/a>, shared a few of her own family memories. Read about them in this article by Francine Rivers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Certain foods bring back wonderful family memories of dinners. Grandma Wulff always fixed \u201cMore\u201d when I visited her at the farm.&nbsp; The recipe calls for saut\u00e9ed onions,&nbsp; browned ground beef, cooked elbow pasta, corn, peas, chopped tomatoes and tomato sauce and spices all mixed together and then topped with cheese (or ketchup).&nbsp; My brother and I called it \u201cMore\u201d because we always wanted more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/irina-89UsTc5bjsw-unsplash-2-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6068\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/irina-89UsTc5bjsw-unsplash-2-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1832\"><\/a>Grandma also fixed \u201cpull-apart\u201d bread. She made dough from scratch, let it rise, punch it down, let it rise again, took bits and roll them into balls, covered them with butter, cinnamon, chopped nuts and raisins and put them in a pan and let them rise again before baking. We\u2019d sit around the table talking as we pulled off hunks of gooey sweet bread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad favored Grandma\u2019s angel food cakes. Mom loved her candied almonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/anshu-a-twni7IlpUDE-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg\">Whenever I packed our three children into the car and headed north to Oregon for a visit with my parents, Mom had two things waiting for us upon arrival: a jar full of tollhouse cookies and a big pot of thick stew. I called it Mom\u2019s Stone Soup because it had everything in it: bits of meat rolled in seasoned flour and fried, diced potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes, turnips, parsnips, squash, celery \u2014 anything and everything she had grown in her garden or purchased at the Brookings-Harbor Ray\u2019s Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every Tuesday afternoon, you\u2019ll find me in the kitchen baking chocolate chip cookies (with Heath Bar bits added) for our weekly Bible study. It\u2019s become a tradition \u2013 like Grandma\u2019s \u201cMore\u201d and Mom\u2019s \u201cStone Soup\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published on Crazy4Fiction on November 23, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tyndale.com\/p\/the-shoe-box-25th-anniversary-edition\/9781496409126?utm_source=Francine%20Rivers%20blog%20post%20republish&amp;utm_medium=The%20Shoe%20Box%20novella%20CTA&amp;utm_campaign=C4F_Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/crazy4fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/Copy-of-CTAs-29.png\" alt=\"Read the Christmas novella The Shoe Box by New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers\" class=\"wp-image-6074\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday season, maybe you&#8217;re reminiscing about fun family memories or that delicious recipe your grandma made every year around Thanksgiving or Christmas. 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