I decided to make pork confit. I started with a nice little pork roast rubbed with Mrs. Dash’s Original Blend, a sliced Honeycrisp apple, a sliced sweet onion, some garlic cloves, and some oregano from our back yard.

I’ve since come to love it all kinds of ways, even slimy. Isn’t that strange?

And here’s another thing: Okra blossoms are GORGEOUS! Okra is in the hollyhock/rose-o-sharon family, and it shows.

There’s nothing quite like food made from a private recipe written in the dear one’s hand to keep her memory green.