Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

"Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off."

Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

Tiffany Kjos' family Betty Crocker cookbook is held together with fat rubber bands.

Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

Tiffany Kjos tries a carrot cake recipe with her mother, Barbara Kjos, whose handwritten recipe for a family-favorite carrot cake disappeared. With a mixer absent, everything - mixing, grating, creaming - was done by hand.

Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

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Tiffany's Table: Mom's cooking lessons

The carrot cake recipe from bettycrocker.com, with some personal adaptations like lemon zest, resulted in a pretty, delicious cake.

Tiffany's Table: Warm memory can be best of ingredients

When people are gone, we often regret having not spent enough time with them. That's one regret I don't have when it comes to my Grandma Alice, who died several years ago.

Tiffany's Table: Warm memory can be best of ingredients

Tiffany's Table: Warm memory can be best of ingredients

Tiffany's Table: out of the past comes the 'mold'

Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" was tops on the Billboard charts.