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Grandma's dishes — the urgent list

Documenting all of Grandma's recipes is the single most time-sensitive slice of this whole cookbook — her dishes are the ones most likely to live only in her hands, measured in fistfuls and "until it smells right," and never written down. This is the focused capture list for her repertoire: every dish she makes, cooked with her, before any of it is lost.

The rule

Cook alongside her, one dish at a time. Weigh the pinches on the spot, film the tricky steps, and — this is the point — write down the cues a recipe never captures ("the oil's ready when the mustard seeds dance," "done when it leaves the sides of the pan"). Then cook it back from the notes alone; if it's not right, the entry isn't finished.

Her repertoire

Order of capture: the festival and special-occasion dishes first (made rarely, so fewer chances to catch them), then the everyday ones.

Beyond the recipe

While cooking, the stories come out — where she learned it, whose wedding it was made for, what her own mother did differently. Write those down too, in the dish's entry. The recipe feeds the family; the story is why it's hers.