Written for my grandfather after he passed away:
Fallen Hero
Today a great man died
He was my personal hero
I wish I could someday follow
Follow in his footsteps
I hope to be remembered
For as much as he was
I hope to instill as much
Respevt and love as him
In those who knew me
He is immortal for
He lives on in my heart
Who was this great man
He wasn't a world leader
Nor was he a famous athelete
He was a simple man
But far from ordinary
He was my gradnfather
And he is my personal hero
What I did to honor my grandmother after she passed away:
I baked pumpkin bread for my immediate family for Christmas. It was something she did almost every year. It's something my siblings and I always looked forward to each year. Her pumpkin bread was second only to Cherry Delight (pretty much the standard McAdow dessert (I am a black sheep of the family for not being addicted to it)) for being most likely to disappear quickly in our family's stomach.
Pumpkin Bread
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups pumpkin puree
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large mixing bowl, beat eggs until frothy. Add sugar, oil and vanilla to eggs and beat until thick. Stir in pumpkin puree. Sift together dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture; mix well. Pour into two greased and lightly floured 9 x 5 x 3 inch bread pans. Bake 1 hour or until done (wooden toothpick comes out clean when poked in the center of loaf).
(Basically the recipe I use to make it. Though I found, after running out of vanilla once, that it was better without it.)
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