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Hey everyone, I'm Courtney from New Hampshire.  I grew up in a small town all my life.  The town is mostly apple orchards; people theoretically come from all over the place to buy our apples.  Anyhow, my favorite food isn't an apple because I have had way too many apple dishes in my life.

I actually love all food except maybe cucumbers.  My favorite food changes probably daily, but I will go with the same dish I said in class: stuffed cabbage.  My mom is completely Polish; it was actually her first language.  My grandma still prays in Polish and also makes amazing Polish food.  Sadly, she now has Alzheimer’s disease and is slowly forgetting everything.  She also has blood sugar problems, very poor hearing and desperately needs a knee replacement.  As a result of all these problems, she mostly sits in her own world.  My mom and I visited her and my grandpa over the summer in Detroit to help out with things.  My grandma was doing pretty badly, but one night she suddenly started making stuffed cabbage.  She got out all the ingredients and started making the recipe like nobody's business.  My mom tried to help her, but she kept on telling my mom that she was rolling the cabbage incorrectly.  Stuffed cabbage is just cabbage leaves stuffed with ground beef and white rice topped with tomato sauce.  Anyhow, despite everybody's doubts, the dish came out great and we ate a ton of it.  It just really made me happy that someone like my grandma could still enjoy the small pleasures in life such as Polish cooking.  So, while stuffed cabbage may not be my ultimate dish, I really like it because of the way my grandma can still make it.