Food That Take You Home

Chocolate chip cookies.
My Mom made the best CCC's.
I had homeroom with the wrestling team in HS and they'd shake me down for the cookies lol
My father's sister also made a great, but very different, CCC.
Whoever was handing me a plate of cookies made the best ones.
;)
After Mom passed away, Pop would make them, but they just didn't have the magic.
Pop started my daughter baking the cookies and it was a great time for them to be together. The cookies were good by any standard, but just not Mom's.
As Pop got into his mid nineties, one Christmas my daughter took it on herself to make the CCC's.
I walked into the house and almost cried.
Mom was looking over her shoulder.
She has the touch.
It is like a miracle.
I'm a happy guy.
 
Yeah, my mom makes damn good chocolate chip cookies.
Also, Mac N Cheese takes me home. Not stuff from a box or on a stove, but real mac n cheese. Mom's is the way I like it-- the cheese sauce is chunkier in parts, and there are no onions or breadcrumbs, both of which I don't think do anything for mad n cheese. It's absolutely delicious, and best served with slow-cooked dry-rub baby backs.
The things I ate in my childhood were mainly chicken tenders, so those have no real throwback powers. Although eating buttermilk biscuits always takes me back to the days after my surgery-- my aunt was here, and made them with every meal.
And cornflakes always remind me of the beach.
 
Swedish meatballs, lingonberry, knickebrot, fleskorg, red cabbage....early Holiday memories....

Chopped chicken livers, herring salad, herring in cream sauce, lox, good bagels, bialys....Friday night post-service feeds

Good pastrami, any time.

My mom mashes potatoes with ricotta cheese, really makes it creamy.

No one has ever broiled a lobster as good as my dad.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Ox tail soup. It's such a simple soup of ox tails, potatoes, tomatoes, celery, onions, and carrots, slowly stewed with nothing more than a bit of salt, garlic, and some peppercorns. Served with a bowl of jasmine rice, and I'm set.
 
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