These noodles are the definition of comfort food.
My mom is a great cook. She comes by it naturally, and she is obsessed with it. My mom will be the first to tell you she has an eating disorder—then she will say it’s just like how her daughter is an alcoholic. So much for anonymity.
They spent the afternoons mixing dough; my mother helped roll it out. She pinched it closed before placing it in the long loaf pan, which she had smeared with butter. After Frank put it on top of the stove, she didn’t move for two hours, until it was ready to bake. She readcomics as she waited. Every couple of minutes she looked up to see the level of the loaf, because she knew that when it peeked from the top like a cloud, it was ready.
Frank would make my mom a grenadine “cocktail” with a cherry, and she’d sit at the bar. Frank would put a bowl of beef and noodles in front of her, and she’d devour it. My mom usually fell asleep on a couch backstage and would wake up the next morning at her grandfather’s to the smell of caramelized beef. Sleepily, she would wander into the kitchen. She sat down at the same table where she and Frank made their bread together.He began to unwrap what looked like a hunk of meat in butcher paper, tied up pretty with twine. When he turned around, he was holding a shiny new pair of shoes.“Yes,” he said and slipped them on her feet. She wiggled her toes inside them.
“Perfect,” he exclaimed. He wrapped it snug with a kitchen towel and set it in a cool, dark corner on the kitchen counter.
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