The Family Table: Feeding a Crowd, However Big or Small

Readers share their treasured recipes

A recent batch of Nana's chicken and egg patties, made using four chicken breasts, six eggs, and one cup of grated cheese, enough to feed two to four. This batch was delivered to the author's grandson and his pregnant wife. Courtesy of Phyllis Jacobek

Submitted by Phyllis Pellerito Jacobek (retired librarian and mother of six children, Nana to 17 grandchildren), Mokena, Illinois

My grandmother was born in Calabria and came to the United States as a young girl. She never spoke English well, and so it was difficult to understand her stories as I was growing up. She loved to cook, however, and she left us with this family recipe, which I have made for my own family many times and have now passed on to my daughter and daughters-in-law.