God Bless your grandma!!!! Back then all our grandmothers and grandfathers were cut from a different cloth!!!!!!

My grandson gave me the best compliment ever. He said "gramma, you sure are a good cooker!"

Grandma's are the best cooks, they cook with love 💕

I just got back home from NYC visiting my son daughter in law and my granddaughter. She marched in the St. Patrick Day Parade. When I got to their apartment I asked my son “ what do you want for dinner “ he said mom, chicken and dumplings. So that is what I made. My hope is one day my granddaughter will talk about me like you talked about your grandma.

Your obvious affection for your grandmother is absolutely heartwarming

I choose to believe that your Mammaw knows all about your channel, and is loving every moment of it. As she looks down on you, she is beaming with pride, and maybe even a few giggles. 💗

My Great grandmother would go into the kitchen and make a full meal and I never knew how she could do that as it seemed like there wasn't a lot of food. She always had a meat, potatoes, beans and a salad plus a dessert. I loved her so very much and still miss her today at the old age of 76.

I’m sure your grandmother is watching you from heaven!

I love you both so much. When you thanked mammaw I could feel the love you have then and still have to this day. So beautiful. Thank You Tom and Melissa for sharing this gem!

😢😢😢 you brought back A LOT OF MEMORIES! From my grandmother!! Your one of my best channels, your down to earth and heart! Grandparents were from Clay county, and McKee Kentucky she and grandpa comes up with the best recipes!! Ty for bringing back the 70’s and 80’s oh how I miss THEM 😢 one video a day isn’t enough how much I enjoy!! Your my open book!! Maybe just maybe Melissa will do a short recipe in front! From a Grandmother just maybe! Love you my friends!! Every Family should be like yours! A BLESSING!! Thanks Mammaw for this beautiful recipe!!

On behalf of grandmothers everywhere, thank you for saying such wonderful words and sharing memories of your Mawmaw in this video. No doubt she prayed many times for you, too! from a 20 year Mawmaw (Nancy from Arkansas)

Food, love, memories (and sometimes a few tears) certainly do go together. Thank you!

I love macaroni salad but, more I love how you talk about your Mamma. I had one too.

One other tip to everyone If you like a little tang, then add vinegar (about 1 Tablespoon). But if you have an empty or near empty Mayo Jar. Add it and shake it up to get the remains out.

❤️ we are lucky for the love we received from our great southern ladies! I love your memory of her giggle. When I think of my "Granny" I remember her laugh!❤

Your grandmother must have been a very special lady. I believe you did her proud with this delicious recipe. I'm sure if you listen closely you can still hear her sweet voice and giggle. Appreciate both you and Melissa not only for the great recipes, but also the wonderful stories that go with the them. God Bless.

My grandma was ftom west tenn around belles tenn. She only went to 3 rd grade. My grandpa was from russelville: dardanelle Arkansas. He went to 8 th grsde. They owned a grocery store, and my grandma was a great cook. Her cherry pie filling was canned under the Thank You brand pie filling- my uncle worked for Michigan fruit canneries in Benton Harbor Michigan and he was a cook when they started their pie filling. She also cooked for President Truman when he came to Caruthersville Mo on a campaign stop and stayed with a federal judge there. My grandma was his housekeeper and cook. So she got to cook for President Truman. He offered her a job cooking in the White House as his personal chef. She refused because she was raising her family and they owned a grocery store in Caruthersville Missouri. But she was a fantastic cook. I always had a huge garden, so made all of her own clothes, and sold Avon. She did all of her route for Avon on foot. She did not drive a car. She was crown queen of Avon one year because she had the most sales in her district. She only had a third grade education, but she was so very smart. her mother was full blood Cherokee Indian and her father was full blood Irish. Her mothers maiden name was Dulin, and her uncle, her mother‘s brother, was the leader of the Dulin gang, who robbed banks.

I think it's so sweet that you always give your wife the first bite of whatever your cooking.

I love your appreciation and bond you both have with family and people that have touched your lives. May God continue to bless your with friends and family. Thank you for sharing this part of your lives with us. 🤗

There ain’t nothing like having a sweet grandma.. I wish I could give mine another big hug..These kinda recipes are so special and need to be passed down to our kiddos.. Thank you for giving us your special recipe and don’t forget to “ Put A Lid On It “…….

I love that you never leave ingredients clinging to the bowl. That irks me too see on other channels! But if you do, Melissa is there to remind you. Love it! Love your channel. Y'all ooze friendliness!❤

I about cried when you thanked your Mamaw! I miss mine too. She was very special to me!

Tom, your Mamaw is right there with you as you cook. I think I heard her giggling. Love you both!❤

You’re blessed to have a grandmother. I never knew a grandmother.

I love that you are talking about your Grandmother!❤

I would be willing to bet that your Mawmaw already knows about your channel and is your staunchest supporter as she's watching you from her home in Heaven

I had one of those grandmother's also. She kept me out of trouble many times. I cried as you were talking. I felt the love. Thanks for sharing not only this recipe but all the other delicious dishes you and your wife share with us. Have a blessed day. ❤️

I love when you tell family stories!!❤

I hope my granddaughter remembers me with the love you remember your grandmother, and I have always tried to teach her our favorite recipes since we practically raised her. Now she and her mother have been living with me for awhile, they took care of grandpa until he passed and now they take care of me in my last days. Even though I am not able to eat I love watching the u tube cooking channels for new recipes. Love your channel.

During fish fry's for friends and family. He'd fry crunchy thin sliced potatoes, batter fried eggplant and squash. I miss my dad. My nannies cooked good. My mom passed when I was about 2 years old. He was a wonderful dad. I'm thankful for many wonderful memories.

Love that you let your emotions show….what a great mammaw you had!

Nice tribute to your Grandma. I knew when you admitted to being spoiled you were her youngest or only grandson. And to live 2 doors down was the kicker.

Oh my what precious memories we all have of our parents and grandparents..I miss mine everyday, I could feel your love for yours. Have a wonderful evening and love you both ❤❤

You were blessed to have a Grandmother like that. I never knew any of my grandparents as they passed before I was born, but if they were anything like my parents, I know they were wonderful. Thanks for sharing your story.

It was very touching to see & feel your loving affection for your grandmother! You are a wonderful grandson! I love watching your shows & how much you love to cook! Lots of love to you, your wife & everyone❣️🥰

Food can bring back wonderful memories. I am so glad you shared this memory (and recipe!!) with us.

Emotions are high. The salad looks delicious. Thanks for sharing this special recipe.

Grandmas are the best! The food, their stories just everything. It's always so touching to see how much family means to you both. I love your videos and appreciate the stories behind the recipes. This looks delicious and I will definitely be making it just as your Mammaw did ❤

My grandma was also a wonderful lady and loved us all unconditionally. She had 31 grandchildren. Great cook and very hard working lady. Grandma are AWESOME!!!

I am sure your grandma was a fabulous cook. I will try this. Thank you for showing us how to make it.

My grandmother was my best friend

Hey y’all 🙋🏻, Tom your mamaw’s macaroni salad looks delicious and I’ll be making it soon because I love macaroni snd potato salad both ! Tom you said you wish your mamaw knew y’all had a channel , well sweetie she does know snd so do your parents and all your loved ones who have passed ! Like the Bible tells us the soul never dies , if it did we couldn’t go to heaven and live with our father God and Jesus in the mansion he promised us was waiting for us ! Yes she knows and she’s very proud that you honored her and her macaroni salad today ! God bless ❤️🙏🙋🏻🌈🌈

What a sweet walk down memory lane with you and your Mamaw’s recipe. I love the way you honored her and I’m sure she’s watching from the portals of Heaven and approves of you carrying on her life stories. You touched my heart and I’m thankful for all you and Melissa are doing. God bless and keep you both for His glory! ❤️🙏

My Grandma made the best pork chops and always had her macaroni salad and other sides along with them! I can almost smell her cooking now. So wonderful!! She passed away in 1966. Thanks for the memories!!

My grandmother was Cecilian. She’s been gone 47 years. My daughter was seven months old when I lost her she was besides my mother. She was the love of my life and I used to love to love when she would make her own pasta sauce in her own pasta and so good so good

One way to judge seasonings when learning from your grandma, is to put some parchment over the pot or bowl. Have grandma sprinkle the herb or spice the way she normally does, and then measure it.

I love hearing you speak so highly about your family.

I’m glad you had such a wonderful grandmother

I watch you everyday, though seldom comment. As a retired Kentucky Elementary teacher, I appreciate your teaching style! Macaroni salad is something I love, but have never made to my satisfaction. Something tells me this is the recipe that will change that. Thanks, Mamaw

Hello Tom & Melissa- looks like a great recipe. Nothing like our grandmother’s also in my case mother as well was both great cooks & bakers. I often think of my grandmother she always made & canned Sandhill Plum Butter. When she opened a jar she would have it in a refrigerator glass dish with a glass lid. I am said that she passed in 1974 & nobody has her recipe for making the Sandhill plum butter. At meal time she would always set it on the table for us to put on our bread to have our meal. Then 10 days after she passed my grandfather passed with a broken heart . The doctor said nothing was wrong with him but a broken heart. Tom & Melissa - we were blessed to have wonderful grandparents. God Bless you both & we can continue to count our blessings. Thanks for continuing the wonderful recipes of your Meemaw. 🙏👏👏👏💕

Love how humble Tom is. I cried with you sir. I was the most spoiled grandchild of all 8 grandkids. My birthday, they would send me $100 and the rest they would send 40 or 50. They told me. I always used it to help buy my school clothes. They were always proud of me because I didn't just buy junk or toys. Thank you both for the videos. Love them❤.

Treasured family recipes are the best.

Macaroni Salad is one of my favorite salads. You talk about your Grandmother makes me homesick for my Grandmother. Thank you for sharing .

I would love to have known my Grandparents. Both sets died when I was a young child . They would have been so loved and pampered. To have those special memories are priceless.

You're one of my favorite channels on KZfaq. I'm a fellow West Virginian, and I grew up eating the same kind of recipes that you share. I love that you get emotional over some of the recipes you make. I'm the same way when I prepare food that my grandma and mom taught me. Thank you for sharing your family's recipes and the stories behind them. God bless you and your family.

We are so fortunate to have such great family memories. Not everyone these days - such great families. Divorce. Unmarried1 parents. Single parents. Poverty. Poor parental examples. Not great for forming great family relationships and memories. I loved my huge family. At 79 1/2 I have lost most of my family. Miss them so very much. I want to thank you for all your stories as well as your cooking instructions. ❤❤❤❤

Lester Laminack's "Saturdays and Tea cakes" was my first encounter of someone agreeing with my families spelling of Mammaw. I was blessed to attend sessions lead by Lester at a reading and writing conference. 💖 I'm a Mammaw of two young boys. I love cooking with the oldest one. I introduced him to yeast bread a couple of weeks ago. I also use half salad dressing and half mayo in macaroni and potato salads. Mom always used chopped bread and butter pickles and a little pickle juice. I find the Aldi store brand bread and butter pickles taste close to Mom's home canned bread and butter pickles. 😋

Thank you!!! For sharing the recipe and helping me remember good memories.❤

This video made me cry. What a tribute to an extraordinary woman! I only wish my own grands would recall me with such beauty! Plus- I've never produced 'delicious' macaroni salad.

All I can say is I was blessed to be raised by my mama and my papa and they both could cook Grandpa could cook the Mexican side of the food old school I'm talking Grandpa was born in 1893 and he had the old school recipes grandma and she could put some food together that fast just like your mama I can tell you they ain't nobody's cooking better than Grandma and Grandpa's cooking. And thank you for sharing your grandmother's recipe there ain't no better cooking and especially not in these fancy restaurants they ain't nobody going to be homemade cooking.

Ohhhh hi, gosh, I'm first?? ...wow! ❤❤I love macaroni salad!! Can't wait for this one!!!!! Thank you both for all you do!! ❤❤Much love from East Tennessee ❤️ ❤ Ms. C

It looks delicious

So greatful you are from the ole. School and love your parents,grannies and family.they are the only ones you will ever have.you cannot cherish them enough because they will always have a very warm spot in your heart to reflect constantly.

A lottery of the older people would tell you it trial and error and they’re cooking. Usually taste the best for the experiment with your different ingredients. My mom, my aunt and my mom was Texas cooks and I believe they were one of the best of Texas cooks.❤love

Hello Tom and Melissa ❣ I enjoy hearing about your Mammaw. The history of this salad makes it that much more special and loveable. I'll be making this special recipe for our game night and will share your story. My sister enjoy's hearing the stories you share as well as I do. Have an awesome day! 🥰

Grandma's can always make something from nothing. It's always mind boggling! Thank you for being a wonderful couple and extremely interesting as well. We're all sending you 💕💞💕 Have a beautiful and blessed day! Love, your Internet family

I love hearing about your family. I didn't spend a lot of time with my grandparents, but I was next to the youngest of 8 children so my mom was older, but she could cook like your talking about her. My mom grew up during the great depression and lived in West Virginia. She nearly starved. So when she grew up she loved food and fed everyone in the neighborhood. I loved her so much and miss her terribly. Thank you for sharing your food with us.

Tom, I could feel the love you had for your Mema. I'm sure she is looking down from heaven and is saying she loves you too. 🙏

I'm the end of a bunch of kids, therefore, grandparents on both sides had already passed away by the time I came around. I love to see when others have had great relationships w/theirs. 😊

My grandmother, we called her Mammy, cooked the same way, never measured anything. I was the one that loved to cook with her and I cook the same way. One of my cousins called me once wanting to know Mammy's recipe for her green tomato relish, to which I answered she didn't have one. I know what we put in it, but no idea how much of each thing was added, my job was to grind up the green tomato's, this was with a hand grinder that attached to the table top. I would grind with one arm till it was tired and switch to the other and it would take all day. I was always rewarded with several jars to take home with me. Sadly that recipe went with her, but I still have lots of memories of cooking and canning with her. Thanks for reminding me.

We'd love to see a picture of Mammaw!

I can’t talk about my wonderful grandma without tears either!

I really like how you lay everything out and how much you need in front of ingredients you’re gonna use that’s awesome.

Thank you for the precious memories and for all your videos,God Bless you and Melissa

My grandmother and mom were my inspiration for cooking too..My cousin Jody Payne was Willie Nelsons lead guitarist and my Grandmother would cook fried chicken with all the sides and us kids would take turns churning homemade ice cream and play baseball and she always baked a homemade angel food cake and My grandparents owned Red Gate Fishing camp in Garrard County and one year Jody brought Willie with him and it was a great time...I sure do miss those times...

Happy Easter. ❤

You are so lucky to have known your gramma. My dads mom died before I was born. He was the baby of 10 kids. She was in her 40s when he was born and got late diabetes. My mother was from Alaska, and I met her mom 1 time in my life. My step grandmother, she was more partial to her natural grandkids, my stepbrother and sister. Cherish those memories! I try so hard to be as wonderful a gramma as I can to all my grankids. I taught one to make fried egg sandwiches a few weeks ago. Now she makes them all the time! Lol

I love your channel. You and your wife are like "Peas and Carrots" together, and everything that your Grandma would have wanted! I miss my Mom so much. She would have made her salad the same way with the exception of using Miracle Whip only. Keep up the good work. I know that our parents and grandparents are watching us from above. They would bless every concoction that we create and give us a thumbs up!

The love you have for your grandmother is truly obvious!

You brought a tear to my eye...missing my grandma. She lived 2 houses down from us, too. She definitely spoiled me. She made the best pies, and I learned to crimp the crust from her. Thank you forthe memories.

You know your mawmaw is giggling in heaven as she is watching you two

Isn't everyone's Grandma the best cook?!

Broke my heart when he started tearing up about his Mama maw. I miss my Grandmas they are the best, but my favorite was my Grandpa and I was his favorite too. I was his little stubble duck, when he was in the hospital he told my colleagues (doctors and nurses) I worked with that I was his little stubble duck. I can't tell you how many days I had to explain what a stubble duck was. I so miss my Grandpa, he was the same way he could do math so fast in his head. I love you Grandpas and Grandmas if your listening thank you and I will leave the World better than when I found it.

Love your recipes . Thank you for sharing. Love the way you and your wife work together!

Ther is nothing better than Mamaws food. I was always an old soul so u would work in the kitchen with my Mamaw to learn her cooking methods and go on walks with Papaw and listen to all of his stories. I will cherish this moments forever! 💝

I love hearing about your "Mamaw." This sounds similar to our family recipe minus olives and Parmesan. I still make it occasionally.

I always enjoy watching you cook. I get so hungry waiting till you take that bite. Allot of things has happened to me this last couple of years. I lost my home. My job and last week my car got wrecked. But I'm not giving up. I'm still trying to stand on my feet. At 68 it's not easy. So please say a prayer for me and keep cooking. Love from Texas Janet

Thank you Tom and Melissa for sharing this macaroni salad. And thank you for the wonderful memories of your grandmother. Your emotions started flowing and so did mine because of all the love you had for her. I bet she has been watching from up above. Every once in a while you have forgotten maybe one step or ingredient and I’ve heard you say “oh my I forgot”. The reason you remembered was that your grandmother whispered in you ear “Tom you forgot to add so and so”. I love macaroni salad but never with olives. Think I will follow this exact recipe for our Easter buffet. ❤️

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Warms my heart hearing you honor your grandmother ❤

I had the best mamma anyone could have! Also had a sweet granny! Sooooo blessed.

It shows that your grandmother loves to cook and you still miss her. She sounds like a wonderful woman Nice salad. Love 💕 and Hugs. 💙💙💙

Love your cooking channel! Really enjoy the stories you tell about your recipes. Your mammaw is probably watching from heaven with the biggest smile on her heavenly face and feeling such love that you honored her by sharing her recipes and remembering her with love!

That looks so yummy. God bless your grandma for her salad

I love, love, love this video! The recipe sounds yummy, but you speaking about your relationship with your grandmother was the absolute best part!

I love the story about your Grandmother! I hope I can be that Mom/Grandmother when my son is grown and has a family!!

Honoring your mom and grandmother is so awesome. I was closest to my husbands grandmother. We also called her Mamaw. She couldn't read or write so only a few of her recipes have records. Everything from memory. I finally manage to duplicate her pound cake and fresh coconut cake. I still miss her everyday. I love macaroni salad, but only homemade. Deli stuff is too sweet.

Thank you SO MUCH for all you do. You definitely make me feel like I'm part of your family. Especially when you always tell us how we are welcome to eat at your table. Too bad we aren't neighbors. Y'all seem like a great addition to your local neighborhood! Please keep making videos and spreading good food and love! 😊❤

When you choked up talking about your Grandma I felt that in my heart! I feel the same way about my Grandmas, Momma & my Aunts. The way they taught us with love served in every bite...nothing compares! Thankfully I cook like Grams because trying to write her recipes when they were...enough of this until it's the right consistency, whatever veggie that helps the color, the seasonings that go best with what you are using & well, you know what you all like, etc... Yeah, try to write that!! 😊

You are truly a great person. Always remembering your relationship with your family. 😊