What food reminds you of your childhood?

Not my face, that’s for sure! But so many other things, including music, movies, favorite photos of my parents when they were young, some foods (like pudding), Campho-Phenique (my favorite uncle used it for EVERYTHING), the stories I find myself telling to younger people, and much more… plus, sadly, some of the wiring I still carry around.

@Austinlad Food?

So many but probably the most evociative would be gribbenes; the cracklings that are left when rendering chicken fat. Cooked with onions and eaten on rye bread while hot, they are delicious.

rice pudding

Pop-Tarts and Tang

The smell of peppermint. My grandma had it all around her house on Frozen Dog Road, in Idaho. She believed it kept mice away. Now I crave peppermint sometime, like candy or even tea.

Mushroom soup. It’s still one of my favourite food.

My Mom’s homemade Mac and Cheese. She can’t remember the recipe anymore and I’ve never been able to duplicate it. :-(((

My mum’s apple and strawberry pie, my nan’s plate meat & onion pie, yummy!!!
I so wish I could make these the way they did!

Applesauce-Raisin Cookies

Biscuits remind me of my grandmother. And grits remind me of home. As does fried chicken and rice with milk gravy, black-eyed peas, fresh tomatoes.

Quisp cereal! That stuff rocked and is probably responsible for most of my cavities!

My family didn’t like fruitcake,so, my Mom made gumdrop cake. Oh it was wonderful. Basically an apple sauce cake, with large gumdrops cut up in pieces ( all the colors except black), nuts, raisins…..baked in loaves, it looks like stained glass when you cut it into slices. Hint if you try this: cut the gumdrops up with scissors. Cut one, then run the scissors through a pile of flour, and each time, before cutting the next one. It will coat the blades and keep you from going nuts with the sticky gumdrops. Mom tried using the small one once to shortcut this…..it’s just not the same. Easiest to do this on a paper bag cut and laid flat for a work surface (that’s part of the memory).
My Grandma made baked stuffed porkchops with gravy for family dinners. Mom made a veal and ham meat loaf for special occasions. I feel guilty because I loved it, would still love it, but the guilt with the veal hmmmm. Only had it like twice, I think because of the cost. It was great.
In the ‘50’s, jello came in waxpaper that unfolded to flat. Mom let me sit on the counter and lick the granules of the jello that stuck to the paper, after pouring off the rest, while we talked and she made jello.
Funny thing is, my Mom was not considered a good cook….guess that’s not what makes the warm fuzzies, huh? Just certain times.

Probably a good old fashioned PB&J. My parents never really cooked, so I have no memories of amazing kitchen smells. But I do remember coming home every day from school, starving for a PB&J.

Potatoes and herring.

christmas rice crispy treats

Peanut Butter cookies and candied sweet potatoes (my family doesn’t like them, so I don’t bother).

Korean grilled short ribs.

My grandma use to have a ribbon candy that cam in all different flavors and colors, but I haven’t been able to find it since she passed. But the one food was her potato salad I can’t make it taste the way she use to make it and I miss it.

@shego—Was it like this?

@Pied_Pfeffer no, but thanks.

Wolfburgers ;)

Old fashioned cooked oats

Corn on the cob

Baked Yams

Maple taffy, made by pouring hot syrup fresh from the evaporator pan onto clean snow.

Eggy bread