Just made my food memory. Do you have one?

[YumYa]

Years ago when I was in the canary islands I would get small potatoes with mojo sauce. I've never seen it on menus since. I adored it and often thought about it.
I vaguely remember trying make it a long time ago but it wasn't the same. Anyway today I found a recipe that sounded promising. And it's spot on! Gave some roast new potatoes and mojo sauce to dh and he was blown away.

I'm so happy 😊
Downside is it has a lot of EVOO in it. But that's good for you right?

@Inextremis I hope you enjoyed it?

Yes food does evoke memories.

I've been thinking of lots of food and good times since starting the thread.

I adore mojo sauce and make it regularly, I do prefer the green kind though. Reminds me of lovely family holidays in my early teens along with lots of warm bread with Aioli (or Lays jambon 🙈) which I cannot buy now as it's so calorific and I will demolish the tub in a day.

My food memory is probably a bit depressing and will sound awful to many but I still have it occasionally when the notion hits! As soon as I start eating it really does bring back the feeling I had then. It was like I was eating a gourmet meal when obviously that wasn't the case!

I was 16 back in the 2000s, just moved into YMCA homeless accommodation during a very difficult off the rails period. Had been surviving on a diet of cheap cider and blackcurrant and crisps.

There was basically a food pantry downstairs that you could use allocated tokens to buy food. One of my more sensible neighbors very kindly used her tokens to buy me 1x tin of stewing steak, 1 tin of chicken in white sauce, 1x tin of carrots, 1 of garden peas, tin of potatoes, pouch of microwave rice and a sachet of knorr chicken noodle soup. She cooked them all up for me over a few days along with running me lovely warm baths and just genuinely being there for me.

I can't explain to you how good they tasted after so many months of neglecting myself and the difference her little acts of kindness have made in my life. I know they weren't exactly nutritious but they felt comforting.

She passed away a few months later and I think of her often and when I'm really down and mentally thank her when I have my tinner dinners.

@GhoulNextDoor I'm sorry you had to go through that but glad you had a good friend.

@YumYa thank you , sorry to bring a downer to the thread but it's a food memory that will always stick with me 😅

Best red mojo is roasted red peppers, stake bread, cumin paprika , tonnes olive oil and sherry vinegar abs salt all whizzed up x

the green mojo is roasted green pepper stale bread, coriander, parsley garlic vinegar oil and cumin cx

absolute yummers x

@GhoulNextDoor You've reminded me that my granny used to heat up chicken in white sauce plus a tin of beans as lunch when I was at her house. I loved it back then. I did buy a tin of chicken in white sauce a few years ago but ended up giving it away as the idea of it didn't appeal anymore!

But they will never match the Israeli carrot and cumin salad I once ate. I've found recipes, made them, bought ready made versions,and been disappointed every single time 😔

Mine are all childhood things my mum would make really. I love to recreate them. Luckily mum left me all her cookery books. Sadly I think the apple crumble was her mum's recipe so never written down - I can never get mine the same.

Prune and peel rock cakes
Lemon drizzle cake
Apple crumble

I also like to 'recreate' a discontinued M&S sandwich - chicken and yogurt 😋

Ah, lovely thread. I actually made one today. I made a jam which smelled exactly like my wonderful aunt’s bottled fruit, it hit me like a wave and I missed her so much.

My grandad made jam roly poly that I’ve never been able to come close to replicating, nor has anything similar ever tasted the same.

I'm happy the thread is bringing back memories 😊

I came in from work after 10pm and ate some more mojo and potatoes 🙈 I'm working an early shift today so better go and try and minimise the garlic smell.

You’ve reminded me of a aubergine dish I bought in Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. It was cold, in a really sour tomato sauce.

It doesn’t sound great but it was utterly addictive. Luckily I have a recipe that recreates it, but it takes hours so I rarely bother!

Totally outing as friends know this story.
When in secondary I cooked a lovely quiche. Got good marks. Took it home and dps enjoyed it. I joked it had garlic in. Dps only ate plain food then (dm became more adventurous when df died) I went to get some and it had disappeared. I asked where it was? Dm said "oh we gave it to next door as we don't eat garlic " I said I was joking and you liked it!! I was fuming.

Thank you for the mojo recipe @YumYa I'll give it a go.

One of my favourite food memories is of my granny's Sunday roasts but thinking about it, by my standards today they were pretty awful 🤣 beef done for so long it was blackened on the outside, and pressure cooked sprouts that you didn't need to chew, they just disintegrated in your gob! Loved them at the time though. The smell of her roast cooking and the tumble drier going at the same time ❤️

@DollopOfFun yes people did used to cook veg to a mush. Some still do.

Get the book or check out the YouTube video from "Binging with Babish" for KFC. We wanted to have a Japanese Christmas eve and we had no restaurant near us. His recipe was excellent.

@Tomatocutwithazigzagedge I adore binging with babish. His Pollo a la Plancha is a go to meal prep for me! So good.

My food memory is a pork chop I had near Athens. Randomly in a fish restaurant. Even more random as I rarely eat meat and generally avoid pork on a menu. I saw it on a plate being carried past me when we entered the restaurant.

It was really simple, flame grilled, no sauce, just a side of fries. But it was juicy and mahoosive. I took a picture before and after. It was about the length of my forearm. I ate the lot. Didn't share a piece. Total meat sweats. 😂

Sometimes I pull the picture up to remind myself of how good it was. 😳

I could never copy the cut or the cooking of it. I'm going to suggest a trip back next year on a cultural basis, but secretly it because I want the pork chop again.

@Tomatocutwithazigzagedge I hope you find your chop 🙏🤣

As a child we has beignets (sp?) bought from a stall on the beach in the south of France.

They were sort of an apple doughnut.

I regularly check if the restaurant is open, and what the menu is. 😂😂😂 I hope it doesn't close before I get back there. 😬

@Alondrawhat is the ingredients list please?

My most recent one which has overtaken all others is a Thai meal in Munich at New Year, specifically the chicken penang which was honestly the best thing I've ever eaten and I think about it most days 🤣🤣

@Mumofyellows are there any decent Thai restaurants near you? Have you tried making it?

My Nan made the most wonderful chocolate sponge pudding.
I was in her kitchen once when she was making it, & watched it go in the oven not properly beaten; lumps of butter & cocoa clearly visible.
It was a glorious, light, fluffy, totally homogenous pud !
I'm a good cook, but never been able to match it.