Latest update on the cookbook:

I told my mother she should write down the recipes that she taught to me for my contribution.

She was insisting I send her my Jambalaya recipe as the thing I am best known for making.

Annoyance level to me: 10! No, not annoyance...narcissism and abuse!

First, I had to defend my sister, who our mother has “disowned”. This is the whole reason for the cookbook, to hurt my sister.

Then—

I actually told her off, but so nicely, she hung up happy that I gave her a contribution and thus, more purpose. She was beaming. Win/Win