I remember steak and salad as a favorite meal of hers.
She taught me the secret of her wonderfully crisp salads (it's in the order of the tossing- pepper, then salt, then vinegar, then oil.) I had a steak and salad last night, in her honor.
I recall her "cave"- her black and red living room, with plastic on the upholstry, in the 1960s. As the children cleared out of the house, she finally went through a white stage.