Clara Prepares Pasta with Peas

You remember Clara, the 91-year-old great-grandmother who shares her recipes for Depression-era meals?

Here’s another sweet video of Depression Cooking with Clara, preparing Pasta with Peas. While she fixes the food she recounts memories of what it was like to live through the Great Depression and how her family survived.

The inexpensive meal consists of potatoes, onion, canned peas and pasta, with a little tomato sauce added at the end. I actually think this sounds really good, though I’d use frozen peas instead of canned!

I really love watching these videos of Clara. They not only remind me of my own grandparents who also lived through the Depression and would talk about it once in a while, but also her style of cooking (cutting in the air over the pot) reminds me so much of one of my grandpas and my mom that I can’t help but smile.