Is there a food that instantly reminds you of someone you love?

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My granny made the BEST scrambled eggs, bacon and cream of wheat… She’d also make me a little cup of coffee so I could feel like I was having my morning coffee with her loll…

Of course mine was probably 15% coffee and the rest milk, cream and sugar lol.

I lost her a few days ago, so I’ve been thinking a lot about little memories like that lately ♥️..

What food instantly makes you think of someone you love?

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

I’m so sorry for your loss💔 I feel like I’ve heard you mention her before, I’m sure you were close. That’s so cute about the little coffee she made for you, haha. It’s nice that you have these memories! I lost 3-of-4 grandparents between 10 and 14, because my parents had me old af, lmao. Grandpa Smitty made it til I was like 20, but everyone else, my memories are few and fuzzy. I wish could’ve known my grandparents as an adult.

Grandma Mac was negative cooking stereotypes about white people personified, lmfao, my dad says she never seasoned anything, not even salt and pepper. But when we went to visit, she had the full diesel Coca-Cola cans ON DECK, with bendy straws. Crushing 2 or 3 of those was the highlight of every visit.

Grandma Smitty always had those Andes chocolate mints in a dish in her living room, and I’d eat them while laughing at my older cousins’ school pics with terrible 70s clothing and hairstyles😂 And Grey Poupon. When we went to visit for the day, she’d always have cold-cut sandwiches for us, and Grey Poupon. So I thought they were BALLIN’, lmao, I was like “This is the bougie side of the family😎”

And my mom, I’ll always miss her Chicken Pot-au-Feu. That was definitely my favorite meal she made. I think I have the recipe somewhere, but I can’t make it with that mom-love, y’know? That’s the secret ingredient, haha. Oh, and her stuffing at Thanksgiving was excellent. Controversial, but she’d put a little crumbled Italian sausage in it, and that took it over the top.

This exercise is making me feel the pressure to really perfect a few meals so someone will have something good to say about my cooking when I’m gone, lmao

HawkPerception · Accepted Answer

A lot of people in my family have specialty dishes that remind me of them.

For my grandma it's bake (a Trinidadian fried bread kinda thing) with ham and cheese and her signature pepper sauce.

For my mom, it's her jerk beef, calaloo, split pea soup, and fettuccine Alfredo.

And many other dishes other family members make.

James The Foodie · Accepted Answer

Scrambled eggs with butter and a hint of cheese always take me straight to my mom’s tiny kitchen, where Sundays smelled like toast and coffee ☕️

But the strongest one for me is miso soup. My Japanese host grandmother used to wake up at 5 a. m. to make it. Whenever I taste that gentle, salty warmth, it feels like a quiet hug across time 💛

thegreenyogi · Answer

Rosmarine ... it reminds me of my dad and the days he used to take me to the market where he'd sell the herb plants he used to grow...

TonyMetal___1986 · Answer

There's no particular meal that reminds me of someone, and i'm sorry for your loss...

Shiprex · Answer

Fried Rice reminds me of my wife but so does pot noodles

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Yeah, ham & mushroom pizza. It's her favorite

Massageman · Answer

Oven-baked "fried chicken" my mom would make.

AgentG111 · Answer

Coffee and Whiskey!

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