The family had gathered at our ancestral home, after a rather entertaining and heartwarming service at the local church. A service attended by family and friends from far and near and without exaggeration almost a member from every household in town. The eulogies honoring and celebrating grandma truly and fittingly described her as a woman well before her times,a lady who touched many a life with her compassion, wisdom and endearingly naughty nature and warm hospitality.

I have vivid memories of many childhood summers spent at grandmas. Grandma donned many hats, she was a Montessori school teacher, she called herself grandpas best friend, but for us children she was the magician in the kitchen. A faint expression of the desire to eat any particular food had her rush into the kitchen to create it. Her home was always inviting, warm and always so full of appetizing aromas fleeting out from her kitchen.

Grandma was a great one for quotes. She often said, “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to grill in the rain” Not one to conform to the typical and predictable, she took it upon her self to challenge and break the norm. One thing she did differently from the rest is, while the neighbors invited her to their BBQ’s in peak summer, she had her grilling sessions in the dead of winter! She said, “its always warm when you’re tending the grill” The steaks she created were a meat lovers delight. Exactly to your taste, as you desired, all you needed was to voice your preference of rare, medium rare, medium and well done. She spoke aloud as she cooked, and we wondered was it addressed to us or to the meat being cooked! It was always to the meat. And her favorite words every time were, You’ve such a lovely temperature! We always wondered why and how! Until she let us on to her secret till as recently as last year. She used what she called her magic poke. The CHEFS BASICS SELECT DIGITAL BARBECUE THERMOMETER.

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