I have a bit of an addiction to cookbooks. It’s really quite a problem. My collection has officially outgrown the storage cabinet in the kitchen, so they’ve recently worked their way to my office and into their own shelving unit. Like many food lovers, I devour the pages of cookbooks and food related magazines more so than novels.
If I am really geeked about a cookbook, I’ll preorder it on Amazon, so it arrives on my doorstep pretty much on the day of its release. That was exactly what I did for Alice Currah’s debut cookbook, Savory Sweet Life, which hit store shelves on June 5th. I get really excited when fellow food bloggers secure book deals and it’s pretty fantastic to see their recipes, stories and photos transform from the web into tangible pages.
I met Alice a couple of years ago at BlogHer Food in San Francisco and she quickly became one of my absolute favorite sites to read. Her genuine approach to food and life allows her to connect with her readers in a truly special way. After you read just a few pages, you’ll feel right at home in Alice’s kitchen as she expertly guides you through each of her recipes.
Alice’s book, Savory Sweet Life is full of 100 delicious and beautifully photographed recipes that are perfectly divided into family occasions. Whether you’re looking for a menu for a birthday celebration, a lunch with friends, or scrumptious snacks for family game night – Alice has you covered with her simple and creative recipes that are sure to create meaningful memories.
From the moment I first flipped through the book, her recipe for chocolate chip cookies immediately caught my attention. Alice dubbed this recipe “The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever”, and I must say, they are quite incredible – in fact, I made them twice within two days. Her use of dark brown sugar creates a deep, rich flavor that pairs perfectly with the crispy bottoms and soft, chewy centers. There is really no question why this recipe became one of the most viewed recipes on Alice’s blog.
You can find Alice through her blog, Savory Sweet Life and also through Facebook and Twitter.
Because I think Alice’s cookbook, Savory Sweet Life is incredibly lovely, I want to give 3 MBA readers a chance to win a copy of their very own.
HOW DO YOU WIN?
Simply leave a comment within this post telling me about your favorite food memory.
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-Winner(s) will have until 6/29/12 to claim their Savory Sweet Life cookbook or we will choose another winner.
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Savory Sweet Life's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: 4 dozen cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon sea salt
2 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chipsDirections:
1. Preheat oven to 360°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Using a hand or stand mixer, cream the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until nice and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one ay a time, then add the vanilla, and mix for 2 minutes. Reduce the mixer speed to mediium-low and add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. When the cookie dough has absorbed the dry ingredients, stir in the chocolate chips and mix until they are well distributed.
3. Drop 2 tablespoons of dough (or use a medium cookie scoop) onto the cookie sheet for each cookie, spacing them 2 inches apart. Bake for 15 minutes, or until the edges are nice and golden brown. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and allow the cookies to cool for 2 minutes. Then slide the parchment paper, with the cookies still on top, onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes:
- Kosher salt can be substituted for the sea salt.
Source: Savory Sweet Life Cookbook
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favorite food memory…gosh…how about my childhood love of Jif brownie mix (super cheap) but it sure made great brownies!
Wow, those look good.
One of my favorite childhood food memories is decorating Christmas cookies. You know the kind, sugar cutouts with all the trimmings. On the 6 person dining table, which sat center stage in the kitchen, covered in newspaper, each of us, myself and 3 siblings, would create our characters. With my Mother as the cutter/baker, the cookies were evenly divided, and then the colors, both of the icing and sprinkles, flowed.
I can still see us on Christmas morning, searching for our signature snowmen or Christmas stars.
When my brother and I were little, my grandparents would come and stay with us for a week (while mom and dad went camping). We always looked forward to that week, as Grandma would make us favorite dinners, including taco’s!
These sound so freaking delicious! Love it!
Blackberry picking with my sister and cousins – then smushing those juicy berries in a pot with some sugar to make a hot, fruity syrup to pour over vanilla ice cream. Summer fun in a bowl!
my dad was the cook in our family and I remember many italian family-style dinners in my house growing up. He makes a mean eggplant parm
Visiting my grandparents and knowing Grandma always had a homemade pie for dessert. You can’t beat homemade pie with berries picked from the farm!
my first time making brownies without a mix, I didn’t know it was possible
Ohhh, my mom’s homemade raspberry pie (with chocolate ice-cream) and homemade bread. The whole house smelled wonderful!
My favorite food memory is being taught by my grandmother how to make her famous tomato sauce before I moved into a home of my own. I still use her recipe all the time!
My favorite food memory is getting up early on Thanksgiving day to help my mom and grandma with the turkey, stuffing, and all the other wonderful food we would have that day.
We ate an awesome meal in Chicago that my fiance STILL talks about!
One of my favorite food memories is my grandma making peach ice cream from her fruit trees when they were ripe. Nothing is better then homemade ice cream
Eating lamb pizza at Pizza Hut or Dominos (not sure which one it was) in Morocco with my family for my aunt and uncle’s anniversary b/c everyone wanted something “familiar” by day 4.
One of my childhood memories is something I used to do with bread. I used to take a white piece of bread and add a spoonful of sugar on top and eat it just like that. It was so good but I do not think I would ever let my kids do it!
my favorite memory is my mom letting me lick the beaters when she made cake…can’t wait to let my boys do it too!
My favorite food memory is a trip to Hong Kong that I took with my brother and mom when I was very young. We landed around 9 or 10pm Hong Kong time, and after we got off the plane, our family friends took us out to dinner. We had a 10-15 course meal, and it was the first time I tried sashimi. I think we finished our dinner around midnight!
I love thinking of my childhood days spent on the beach in the Philippines eating roasted pig and steamed rice in banana leaves.
I’ll never forget the first time I ever had a Monte Cristo at the Blue Bayou in Disneyland! I couldn’t believe my evil parents were making me eat at a sit-down place when I could have been riding rides, and no cheeseburgers? Sacrilege. I pouted relentlessly, until I tasted my sandwich. I’ve had other Monte Cristos since, but none compare to the Blue Bayou’s.
my favorite food memory is helping my mom make homemade bread, full of flour and then lick the wooden spoon…yum
Eating my grandma’s homemade cinnamon applesauce. Still one of my fondest food memories even though I found out the hard way what happens when you eat gluttonous amounts of cinnamon.
My favorite food memory is the first time I made a dish by myself (probably only scrambled eggs or baked ziti, but I was young!) and how proud it made me feel.
I have so many great food memories, but one in particular would be sitting at the counter stuffing and rolling eggrolls with my mom. Quite a process, but the end product was always SO worth it.
I remember my favorite snack as a child was mixing peanut butter, powdered milk and honey and eating it on some toast or just with a spoon from the bowl. Yummy!
favorite food memory: dyeing easter eggs, making sandwiches afterward
My favorite food memory is the time that my uncle was making spicy shrimp using my grandma’s recipe. He mistook teaspoons for tablespoons and LOADED the shrimp with chili powder, cayenne pepper, etc! So spicy that you could only eat one, maybe two before the heat got to you. We still tease him about it to this day if he’s serving his ten-alarm shrimp!
These cookies look amazing, but then again most chocolate chip cookies look so dern tasty!
Favorite food memory is probably making marbled cake from a box mix with my mom and sister. My sister and I would pour in the batters, but not scrape the bowls down that way we were sure to have enough cake batter to eat with a spoon as we waited for the cake to bake. I’m pretty sure no more 3/4 of the batter ever really made it to the pan.
Favorite food memory…that’s a hard one because so many of my memories are wrapped up in food! But I guess my favorite would be eating raw corn off the cob when I was a kid. My parents never managed to cook any of the corn we grew because we kids would grab it when it was still small and eat it raw. Mmmmm….cold and crisp and sweet!
Making lefse with my family every Christmas. Thanks for the chace to win!
Those cookies look delicious! My favorite food memory was just a few years ago, when my mom and I switched roles in the kitchen: I taught her how to make my red-velvet cookies for the Christmas dessert table. Watching her carefully focus, measure and pour as I guided her through the steps was a total a-ha moment for us.
My favorite food memory is baking and decorating sugar cookies with my mom during the Christmas season.
Making sugar cookies at Christmas with my family.
My favorite food memory is baking Christmas cookies with my mom and sister when I was little. I also have a couple memories of my grandparents and their homemade applesauce.
My favorite food memory is making rainbow jello with my grandma when I was little.
definitely baking with my grandmother growing up. she ALWAYS encouraged me to lick the spoon
At Thanksgiving dinner when I was only 3 or 4 years old, my mother served a wild rice pilaf. This was a new food to me, and apparently I wasn’t appreciative of it. My grandmother, whom I was sitting next to, went to eat a bite of this pilaf and I freaked out a little bit and yelled at her, ‘Don’t eat that! It has birdseed in it!” I didn’t quite understand why everyone else just laughed. These days, I really enjoy all kinds of crazy types of rice and rice salads!!
eating onion fritters with masala chai on a cold gloomy day
My favorite food memory was from middle school; I had a project on family traditions so I did a family cookbook. The best cook I knew was my grandmother and part of my project was to spend a day with her writing down and measuring everything that she added to the pot “by eye” or “by taste”…I got a good grade, a great memory and a perfect gift for those marrying into my family by sharing her recipes as part of a unique family cookbook.
Favorite food memory: being the one to lick the dasher in my papa’s hand crank ice cream freezer once it finished churning and he fervently tugged to free it. Delish!
Can’t wait to try this recipe! My favorite food memory is making chocolate chip cookies with my mom, and that unforgettable first bite of the cookie fresh from the oven!
Eating dunkin’ donuts with my Paw Paw every Saturday morning that we spent the night with them…
…or the Vanilla Blue Bell with chocolate syrup at the end of the day
when my Mom and I would bake Christmas cookies and I would be in charge of decorating them with lots of sprinkles!
My favorite food memory is making Christmas cookies with my mom. It was the only time we ever made cookies…such a delightful occasion!
My grew up on the west coast and my dad’s family was on the east coast. Our visits were few and far between but I do remember visiting my great-grandmother and watching her make blueberry dumplings. I’d never had them before and was entranced by the pillowy sweet-tarness of the treat. It remains, some 25 years later, one of my favorite desserts.
My mother loved cinnamon rolls. All bread, really, but most especially, cinnamon rolls. She was a very slim, beautiful, always put together woman who ate like a bird, but she enjoyed those cinnamon rolls so much. She died very unexpectedly (and way too young) in 2004. Every time I see or think about cinnamon rolls, I remember my mom. Miss you, mom.
I would always make pancakes for my family on saturday mornings growing up
The holidays we would all get together at my moms house,be given a task and bake. In addition to the wonderful baked goods, we would have so much fun spending the day together talking, laughing and hearing stories of the past.
Favorite recent food memory – and one that will last for a while: I blanched, shocked, and peeled peaches for the first time ever last week. Heck, that I blanched, shocked & peeled ANYTHING is a major deal for me: I don’t cook! I’m kind of easing into sneakily cooking anything sort of backwards and slyly, so that I don’t even notice and can’t freak out about it
So a cookbook? Yeah, that would be hugely wonderful!
My birthday dinners – we’d get to pick whatever we wanted for our birthday dinner. Mine was always pepper steak followed by coconut cake!
My favorite food memory happened the first time my (now) husband came to dinner at my parents’ house. Mom forgot about the basket of marinated veggies on the grill. By the time she remembered, they were pretty much burned beyond recognition. Jon had TWO helpings, claiming that he thought they were awesome. We still tease him about trying to get in good with my mom by eating those burned veggies!
I love great food combined with great company. Many wonderful food memories, but it all started when my family would cook meals together, like pork burritos or chicken fettuccini alfredo. But I also fondly remember baking bread and making jam with my Mom.
My favorite food memory would have to be when me and my dad had a pumpkin pie cook off the night before Thanksgiving! I think we tied though…but it was fun cooking with him and cracking jokes!
Growing up, my favorite late night treat was dusty sundaes – vanilla ice cream, Hershey chocolate syrup, lots of malted milk powder on top. I’ve introduced them to my kids, and they love them as much as I do!
Believe it or not, my favorite childhood food memories are of making chocolate chip cookies. Whether it was with my mom, my sister, or my cousins, it was always a fun adventure with tasty rewards at the end!
I was with my parents on a business trip to Victoria, British Columbia. One night we had dinner at a little French restaurant. It was the first time I’d been to a French restaurant and the first time I ate rack of lamb. So delicious, I picked the bones clean and then for dessert I had chocolate mousse.
Grew up on a farm in Central NY and always had a garden of fresh vegetables. But we always finished a meal with dessert. Cookies, Pies, Ice Cream Cake; there was something sweet at every meal. Still can’t walk away from the table without a sweet treat!
The first time I made CCC w/ my dad to surprise my mom. Instead of using her recipe, which none of us knew (I was like 8 at the time), we used the recipe on the back of the CC bag. They were completely flat and nothing like the chewy fluffy cookies mom made! She appreciated the effort though. That was my first time baking, even if it wasn’t completely by myself.
When my parents told me that the fish they were serving me all the time was chicken! I appreciate their “little white lie” because I attribute that to my healthy eating habits. I, inturn, did the same to my kids and laugh till this day laugh and joke how I tricked them and I’m sure they will do the same to their own children!
My favorite childhood food memories are watching my grandmother make the sauce for spaghetti bolognese – it was and still is one of my favorite dishes!
My mother would make chowmein in her own special and all of 4 of us girls would devour it. i have never been able to replicate it!
My grandma always made M&M cookies and would keep them in the freezer for me. I really love them frozen
My brother and I grew up in the country next door to our great grandmother. Because we didn’t have a lot of neighbors close by, trick-or-treating for Halloween didn’t produce much in the way of goodies. So every year, my great grandmother would make a batch of her homemade pecan candy, cut it into small squares, wrap it in foil, and present it to us when we knocked on her front door that night. It was the most delicious treat in our bags.
Baking and decorating Christmas tree cakes with my Grandma at Christmastime.
My favorite memory is probably eating my mom’s pies when I was growing up. She was a wonderful baker. I think my favorite was coconut cream pie, or maybe her chocolate pie or maybe the peach custard. Frankly, they were all good. I miss those days…
My mom’s spaghetti sauce , made with kidney beans and chili powder.
Why kidney beans?
Why not?
Yum!
My favorite memory is making Japanese gyoza dumplings with my mom!
My mom’s TX Chocolate Sheet Cake. Love that cake and love making it with her!
I grew up not having much while dad was mostly out of town on business. Mom was around 24/7 tending to me & 6 siblings. I remember vividly my breakfast consists of a nice cup of hot cocoa and 5 cream crackers. My mom would spread a little butter and sprinkle some sugar on it and that was pure heaven to me!! Now that I am married and live thousands of miles away from her, I would go to the asian supermarket andsearch for that cream cracker to make me feel closer to her!! I love my mommy to bits!! <3
I have too many years of food memories & it was hard to choose. My stepfather was Italian and loved food, so I cooked … a lot. When he loved something he wanted to share it with everyone. He loved my tacos. He would eat 14 at each sitting, my sister would often match him. These were not little tacos. One night after his 14, he decided to have a taco party for his office – I cooked taco shells, one or two at a time for several hours. I made 72 tacos, chile rellenos, enchiladas, guacamole, & all the taco fixings. At the end, I had several burns from oil popping & nothing was left! The best part was watching people try to put the enchilada in the taco shell – some had never had Mexican food before!!
my favorite food memory is my dad in the kitchen making filipino dishes for us. when he passed away, we realized that none of us knew how to make them and none of the recipes are written down. i have tried many times to find them on the internet but i don’t even know what they are called!
one favorite memory is eating Appian Way pizza, which is a mix that comes in a box, when I was a starving college student. Objectively it didn’t make very good pizza but it tasted great to me back then
Favorite food memory, what an interesting question! Mine would be my college graduation, instead of going out to a fancy dinner to celebrate, we went to a local state park with all the goods for a laid back cookout. So much fun!
My favorite memories are of Thanksgiving! The “just okay” catered meal at the large family reunion, which we just had a small portion of to tide us over, followed by the amazing feast at my Grandmother’s house. Thanksgiving is still my favorite holiday!
My favorite food memory was when I made my first Thanksgiving as a married woman. I gathered every guests favorite recipe and made them for dinner. We had quite a feast, I learned some new recipes and every person at the table had a favorite comfort food. We still do this tradition with the kids every year. It backfires at times (Tuna casserole was requested last year) but it makes everybody happy.
My favorite food memory was during our first year of marriage and I had made Strawberry Balsamic Pork Chops for dinner. When I had set the plate down in front of my husband he kind of snarled his nose. I told him to just try it. By the time he was finished, he was licking his plate! It made me laugh b/c he didn’t think it was going to be good but as a good husband, tried it anyways, of me.
Love the cookbook!!
My favorite food memory is baking brownies with my mom and her letting me lick the bowl despite her LOVE of chocolate. Talk about a mother’s sacrifice!
Sunday mornings would always be a special breakfast day before going to church. Whether my dad’s buttermilk pancakes or cinnamon or orange rolls that we would bang on the counter to open. It was always warm, sweet and delicious!
My favorite food memories revolve around eating homemade ice cream!
One of my earliest food memories is baking banana bread, fresh plum jam and deviled eggs with my grandma. Not all at the same time, of course, but those were the first things I remember learning how to make and always looked forward to eating afterwards!
My favorite food memory is tied to my all time favorite comfort food. My grandmother used to make leftover fried rice in a style stemming from their stay in the internment camps during the 1940′s in Manzanar. I’ve made it for my kids (now grown) and many of their friends. Now, my daughter is making it for her new husband. It’s seriously my favorite comfort food. When I cook/eat it, I immediately think of my grandmother.
My hands-down favorite food memory is gathering with my family for Mom’s Sunday pot roast dinners! Falling apart roast beef!!!!!!
My favorite food memory is of my mother making my favorite food, lasagna, every year for my birthday.
My favorite food memory is my mom’s homemade chocolate chip pancakes
My favorite food memory…….helping my grandma make her delicious divinity. She’s the only person I knew that could make divinity……..and now that she has passed I would love to have that recipe so I could try to make it. Probably wouldn’t be successful but it would still be worth a shot just for the memory of her.
My favorite food memory is baking my Grammy’s sand tarts every Christmas with my mom. From a very young age I was employeed as the egg washer and sprinkler, and I loved every minute. we would make thousands of cookies as every family member and friend would place their “order” the year before. I loved when they would be a little too brown, and those became our samples!
Favorite food memory? Where to begin…
Summer picnics with the family. Potato salad, burgers, baked beans & brownies.
Although it could be ANY food as long as it was enjoyed with family and good friends.
My favorite food memory involves dinners at my grandmother’s house when the star dish would be her famous broccoli-rice casserole. To this day, I’m still trying to perfect that recipe…
Not sure if this is a favorite, but since you post is all about ccc’s, this is what I thought of. As a teen, I used to make my mom’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies all the time. She kept buckets of flour in our food storage. To keep flour from going rancid and keep the weevils out, she’d put a couple bay leaves in the buckets. One time I scooped up some flour and didn’t see one of the leaves. I baked cookies with a bay leaf in it, it got all chopped up into the dough and we didn’t know until we tasted the cookies, which were pretty inedible! I know bake ccc’s more than anything else and love trying new recipes.
My favorite memory is with my mama and my daughter. We bake a lot together! This one year we were making sugar cookies and gingerbread houses. We had powdered sugar and flour everywhere! We tok the icimg and pit icing on our noses with a red gum drop to look like Rudolph! We took tons of pictures and have great memories too!
One of my favorite food memories is about being in the kitchen with my mom at Christmas time as she taught me how to make my Italian Grandmother’s braided cookies. It is how I learned to braid for the first time!
Being there were 6 of us kids, I most loved when it was my turn to help mom bake. If it was your turn you also got to lick out the bowl. Yummm!
My favorite baking memory is making Rice Krispie Treats with my sister on summer days… We would eat half the pan and then make a new batch so our mom wouldn’t know how much we ate!
my favorite childhood food memory was going to my grandmothers when she was making pies. she would always give us the extra dough clippings to use as play-doh. we would play with it till it was black! lol.
This book definitely looks like one I’d use! Love the title and the concept. One of my favorite food memories is eating fresh caprese salad in Florence – heaven on earth!
my favourite food memory is summertime when i was a kid back in wisconsin and my great aunt (she passed away in November at the age of 90) would bring over 2 pies. one was always rhubarb (my dad’s favourite) and cherry (for my mom). i miss that rhubarb pie. it was amazingly tart and juicy and her crust (made with lard) incredible. i have my own crust recipe using butter and it’s very different, but i really miss that rhubarb pie.
My memory is making cut out sugar cookies every year at christmas time. I contiuned it with my children and now grandkids.
. A bittersweet food memory is when I last baked with my mother. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and could no longer bake or cook on her own. But one day we made the classic toll house cookies. I had my mom do it, while I led her. That day, those were the BEST chocolate chip cookies ever.
Whenever I would stay over at my Grandma’s as a kid we always baked something. I was the flour sifter! I was about six years old and we were making rumballs for a party she was going to. It was almost lunchtime and I was getting hungry, I told my Grandma and she said, “Have a few rumballs.” And she meant it. Ah, the good old days of the mid-1990s. LOL I didn’t have any, by the way. My favorite food memories are baking with my Grandma and eating ice cream from all over the country when our family went on vacations.
My favorite food memory is of a Christmas many years ago when I was a teenager. I was sitting at the island in the kitchen reading “The Firm” and watching my mother make Mocha Truffles (taste of home) for the first time. Since then every Christmas I make those truffles. When I bite into the coffee-chocolate-cream cheese-wonderfulness, I flash back to that moment.
My favorite food memory is making spritz cookies with my mom for x-mas.
Making christmas cookies with my mom. Every year it was a big production and we’d make the same set each time.
My favorite food memory is being a kid and coming home from school in the winter and Momma would have a beef roast in the oven. The warmth from the oven made the dining room windows sweat and the smell of that roast was so yummy. We always had it with homemade rolls, creamed potatoes, and English peas. This meal and setting gave me such a safe and secure feeling. Yep, by far my best food memory.
My favorite food memory is such because it is the day I learned how to laugh at myself in the kitchen. Even though I am an amateur baker, I decided to get aggressive in the kitchen by attempting to make my own homemade fondant. Alas, my kitchen aid mixer was NOT large enough to hold all of the gelatin, corn syrup, and powdered sugar, and when I turned the mixer on the give it a stir, the contents of the bowl exploded out and immediately the kitchen was covered in a dusting of sugar, now cemented to every surface it touched due to the sticky corn syrup. Twenty minutes later, my mother found me on the kitchen floor crying, covered in sugar from head to toe. To this day, that is the single most high and low point of my life.
We used to pick raspberries at my grandparents’ house. Fresh raspberries,still warmed by the sun, were heaven. Grocery store berries bring back those memories, but they just aren’t the same.
My favorite childhood food memory is eating french fries and ice cream cones from McD’s after swimming with my dad. Not the healthiest but a special time with my dad who is now watching over us.
Favorite food memory…lemon meringue pie. My very favorite treat. I’d sneak spoonfuls from the leftover pie from the fridge.
Favorite Food Memory…I don’t do favorites well, but in thinking back it’s very hard to beat my mom’s fried chicken. She was ahead of her day and always used skinned chicken, but yet the chicken was still crunchy and perfectly seasoned. Have tried to duplicate, but had sadly failed at reproducing her efforts.
BTW – she didn’t buy skinless chicken. That was what we had from our butchering method. They were all skinned instead of plucked, cut into pieces and put in the freezer. The family would do about 100 at a time….yea, by the end of the day you were tired of looking at chicken for a while.
Favorite food memory is spending the afternoon in my aunt’s kitchen. She creates masterpieces from the things she has on hand and is never limited by a recipe.
My favorite food memory is being so bored in 7th grade Home Ec since I already knew how to cook and bake and sew as I had been doing it for years with my Mom. I wanted to take shop instead but they wouldn’t let girls do that way back then!!
My favorite food memory is my dad perfecting my “grandma’s rolls” so we could have them anytime, not just when we visited her. Plus, his homemade jam was always the best!
My favorite food memory is very recent. Because of a lifelong (unhealthy) addiction to food, I recently underwent gastric bypass surgery. I won’t go into details, but I am now three months post-surgery and it’s the best decision ever!!
That being said, my favorite food memory is being able to eat REAL FOOD after eight weeks of puréed glop! I had a bite of tender chicken and two bites of the best crispy, lightly sweet Belgian waffle ever. My relationship with food has changed for the better and changed for good.
My favorite food memory would be eating seaweed and rice – for breakfast, after school, for dinner. (This is before you could buy it at Trader Joe’s!).
My favorite food memory from childhood is helping make flour tortillas in my grandmother’s kitchen. She would tell me what she was putting into her “torilla bucket”, had me add certain ingredients, and then I got to help her roll them out before she put them on the griddle. She would let me roll mine out and they were always much smaller but thicker than hers and man were they good with melted butter!
two that I can’t choose from.. begging for homemade ice cream and finding out *I* had to be the one to crank (shows my age, huh? lol) the ice cream maker while my favorite guy everrr (grandfather) added the salt and Ice.. or.. eating watermelon on my great grandparents front porch. watermelon that they grew, and had just brought in from the field.. super juicy, super sweet (with a bit of salt sprinkled on), on a very hot texas afternoon.
Growing up my parents would always make our favorite meal for our birthday. I love steak and cream of spinach with wild rice. I love it now but don’t have it quite as often.
My favorite food memory is probably from March of this year. I finally had a large enough place of my own to host my immediate family. For St. Patrick’s Day, I made the requisite corned beef and cabbage along with a Guinness chocolate cake. Everything came together better than I could have hoped for and I felt so proud having my siblings and mom there. We don’t get together often but when we do, it’s full of love. I got to host that love and it felt awesome.
My favorite food memory is from cooking with my great-grandmother. She certainly knew a lot about using everything that you had. When I made cheese biscuits with her, she would always sneak the bowl back from me and manage to scrape out one or two more biscuits from the batter left in the bowl. She made the BEST biscuits and fig jam. Definitely miss that.
My favorite food memory is making Christmas candy with my sister and mother each December since I was very small. We wrap up in fuzzy robes and sweaters to make baklava, coconut macaroons, peppermint bark, chocolate-dipped pretzels, and much more. The treats are then wrapped up and delivered by myself to our neighbors, the rest going with us to my grandmother’s house to share with family on Christmas Eve.
Baking with my kids and including the special ingredient of “kid love” which they sprinkled into the recipe.
My Dad passed nearly 2 years ago- My wanted to make him a cheesecake for his birthday when I was 14 all by myself. I got the jello no bake cheesecake box out and made it- after it was in the fridge for half the day i got it out and it still was watery- I couldnt figure out why……I have left out the whole cheesecake mix! its was crust with milk! I was horrified so I tossed it and made a cake for him…..The cake ended up tasting wonderful but I was upset and in a hurry so I baked them in pie pans not realizing it till after they baked – He had a UFO cake that year
My favorite memory is waking up early on Sunday mornings to help my dad make breakfast and homemade biscuits. Because of his job he was only home on weekends so it was always my chance to get to spend a little extra time with him.
My mom would always try to make food special and exciting for us. Sometimes she would make her meatloaf into a layer cake, using mashed potatoes as the frosting. I loved that. I miss it, especially now, because the boyfriend won’t touch meatloaf, so I haven’t had meatloaf (cake, or regular) in years.
This may sound cliche but most of my favorite food memories involve being in the kitchen with my grandma. I would go visit my grandma for a week or two in the summer. She would always make us something good even when she couldn’t eat it herself because of her diabetes. One year we went to her friend’s house and picked a bunch of apples. We then went back to grandma’s and she made fried side pies. I loved every minute of being in my grandma’s kitchen but I think it was more about the food then then spending time with her. Now that she’s gone these memories are extra special to me. For this reason, I try to get my own children in the kitchen when I can or when they want.
My favourite food memory reoccurred many times throughout my younger childhood. I would visit my grandparent’s dairy farm and they had many wild blackberry bushes growing in the backwoods of their property. My grandmother and I would go blackberry picking, with lots of sampling, and we would make blackberry and apple pies a classic, British combination, as her parents were from England. The berries were so big and juicy and sweet, and we always ended up with purple fingers.
My favorite food memory is playing in my great grandmother’s garden when my sister and I were little. We’d shell the raw peas and eat them right there in the garden.
i remember baking gingerbread cookies with my aunt carol at christmas!
I love Disney World and my husband took me to Cinderella’s Castle in Magic Kingdom for a very romantic dinner with great food. It was such a fun night!
I remember my middle school aged self cooking something in the kitchen, I don’t’ remember what, but I remember acting like I was on a food show and was explaining all the details of the meal.
My grandmother was not a great baker, but she made these Apple squares with a baked topping that I loved!
Favorite food memory…. hmm… I love thinking of all the times when we cook christmas dinner together.
I still remember the time I cooked my first cake (for my mom’s 50th birthday), and the pyrex exploded in the oven! We all went out for ice cream instead.
My favorite food memory is helping my mom bake several batches of cookies around Christmas time when I was younger. It’s a tradition I have carried on myself.
I’m a cookbook junkie too. They are EVERYWHERE in my house. Favorite food memory are my grandmother’s Fried Apricot Pies.
My favorite food memory is hard to choose because they all involve family time and memories with those I love. So.. I would have to say memories of family which almost always involves food!!!
my favorite food memory is eating barbequed hamburgers with beans, maccaroni salad, and watermelon on a summer evening outside by the pool with all of my family.
My favorite food memory is my grandmother’s Pot Roast. We used to go to my grandparents’ house almost every weekend for dinner, and her Pot Roast was the most tender, delicious meal ever! I loved helping her in the kitchen, and I have the old metal pot she used for this great meal. What great memories!
making cookies with my kids
I have so many great food memories, it’s hard to choose! One that stands out is the ice cream my brother and I would get on our family vacations at the lake. The place was called Granny’s and it was the only place that served an ice cream called Blue Moon. Yup, it was bring blue in color, and tasted like Fruit Loops. We could never find it anywhere else, so we would gorge ourselves on the stuff one week a year, insisting that we stop at Granny’s anytime that we ran into town from the lake.
Last year my mom, sister, me and our best friends went strawberry picking and then spend the whole afternoon making jam. That was a fun, new experience with great company. Love it!
I looove good chocolate chip
cookies! My grandmother was a cook for the high school and at that time every thing was homemade, but my favorite was her cream puffs.
My favorite food memories have to be my kid’s birthdays. I always make them a fun cake but keep the design secret. The look on their faces when they see it is always priceless.
I remember making peanut butter fudge with my sister–so delicious. I still make the same recipe every Christmas–only four ingredients.
My favorite food memory is growing up watching my mom bake me cookies…such happy times!
Walking into my Italian Grandmothers house and seeing loaves and loaves of fresh, round, Italian bread on every square inch of the kitchen counters….needless to say, the smell in the house was amazing, and she was more than happy to let me eat as much as I wanted!
My favorite food memory is visiting my grandmother. She always had homemade chocolate chip cookies, sausage balls and banana nut bread waiting for us. My grandmother passed away years ago. I have scoured all of her cookbooks and recipes for those famous chocolate chip cookies, but have not found it. I can’t wait to try these and see if the come close!
Hard to choose just one memory, but I’m going to go with making, and eating, Fluffernutters. Even still, they just scream childhood to me.
Growing up I loved baking cookies with my mom during the holidays. Her cookie baking process began in November as we would start some to freeze. Then as we got closer to the holidays we would spend the day frosting them. It was a tradition and it was something I always will remember and look forward to sharing with my kids.
My favorite food memory was my mom making spaghetti when we were small. Just having the whole family together enjoying it. Now, I have the whole family over and I make the spaghetti!
Friday was always pizza night and Sunday was always grilled chicken marinated in Wishbone’s Italian dressing. Now that I have two kids, we still marinate in Italian dressing and add some white wine and oregano
I would love to own a copy of Alice’s cookbook as well!!!
Oops, I didn’t read the instruction correctly… My favorite memory of food is watching my mom stand in her kitchen cooking meals 3 times a day. She is an incredible cook and was fun to watch her cooking skills.
My favorite food memory is my grandma making tamales every December in time for Christmas.
My favorite memory is of when my grandma would bake her famous Chocolate Chip cookies and call my Dad (We lived just a street away) just before they came out of the oven to drive over and pick them up for my brother and I!
I remember how wonderful they smelled and still warm and gooey I will never forget those days!
I sometimes wonder if she knew she was creating such a wonderful memory:)
My dad making me homemade chicken fingers and French fries on a Saturday night
Hm… favorite food memory? I think its when my mom made spaghetti for me for every birthday, because it was my favorite food. It was from Prego, which is my favorite jarred pasta sauce *0*
My favorite memory is making spagetti with my mom everyweek. she always made sauce from scratch and it was always soo good:)
My favorite food memory encompasses more than just one day. My Maternal Grandma was Greek and the “gourmet” chef in our family. She hosted most family events, doing all of the cooking herself. I inherited her love of reading cookbooks and collecting cookbooks and recipes (as well as several shelves of cookbooks and a box of recipes she had clipped out of the Chicago Tribune for years). It is because of her that I go through my cookbooks and recipes weekly to find new things for the week ahead and take my family on a culinary adventure!
Making sugar cookies with my dad since I was 10 years old- still do it too, but rarely with him. I’m very appreciative of the practice I got!
Favorite memory is having all major holiday, birthday, and any reason to celebrate with food day dinners at my Grandma’s house. We would all huddle around her dining room table… which was very small… and eat the greatest foods from recipes she had been making her whole life. We did this all the way up until she passed at 104 years old. And I remember always sitting in the same exact seat… with Gram at the head of the table. Pot roast, ham, mustard sauce, scalloped potatoes, gravy, jello salads and rhubarb cake. Best. Memory. Ever.
Fave food memory is getting to pick what I wanted to eat for dinner on my birthday growing up – I still do it now and I still choose pizza!
Favorite food memory – would have to be birthdays. Not only did I get to pick what I wanted for dinner, I got to pick what I wanted my Mom to make for desert. I would always help her with the baking but would usually opt out of the cooking – also, I didn’t have to do any dishes, not even my own! The little things in life
My grandmother didn’t bake. Or cook. She did store-bought food. And that’s why to this day no matter how good of cookies I make, the best thing in the world are Freihofer’s chocolate chip cookies. If only I could find them where I live.
One of my first memories (and favorite food memory) is as a little girl, 4 or 5 years old at the most, and frosting Christmas sugar cookies with my mom.
My favorite memory of food is making any kind of cookies with my mom and aunt. We would have a ball and make such a mess, and every time we can all get together today, we still make a batch up!
Favorite memory…..learning how to make oeuf a la neige with my French born mother, for a school foreign language project.
My favorite food memory is making chocolate chip cookies for my hubby for Valentine’s day. Our first baby was 9 months old and he sat in the high chair and banged spoons and beaters around. Then, he enjoyed his first ever cookie.
My favorite food memory is decorating birthday cakes with my mom and sisters. We would get really sticky!
It only took me a split-second to think of my favorite food memory….because it is so recent. My husband and I have been married for 26 years and our kids are 23 and 18 and are currently living with us. Every Saturday I flip through my cookbooks to find our family’s favorite recipies to prepare a family dinner. My daughter does the shopping with me and then we turn on some music and all four of us spend hours cutting, chopping, mixing, baking, grilling, talking, laughing, dancing and just really enjoying life together as a family. We have had really rough financial times over the past three years but I hope when my kids look back on this period, the memory that is most prominent is our family cooking adventures, dinners and laughter shared and not what a rough financial time we have had.
My mom always made my favorite, a fresh Coconut cake, for Christmas. I remember when, as a child, I would drink the milk after my daddy put holes in the coconut to drain it. During the last Christmas I had with her, my mom took a picture of me protectively holding a bowl with the “last” piece of cake. I was stuffing my face and looking as if I dared anyone to take it from me:)
My favorite food memory is going to my grandma’s on Thanksgiving morning to help her make her delicious cornbread dressing!
a chocolate chip cookie is like a warm hug, isn’t it? those look amazing! yum!!
My Mom used to bake us the Jif Brownies for an after school snack. She would always put the best chocolate icing on them. They were the best brownies (at least, I thought so back then). Boy, does that ever bring back good memories!
My very favorite memories in the kitchen are watching and helping my grandma. I was always in awe. I couldn’t wait until I could have a kitchen of my own and cook/bake all of those amazing things! It just feels so good to have someone enjoy something you made, and know that they are happy because of your hard work! Thanks for all of the recipes you share and for the opportunity to win!
My favorite childhood memory was my grandmother visiting at Christmas with tins of cookies she had been making for weeks! Several of those recipes I still make each Christmas 50 years later!!!
My favorite food memory is baking Christmas cookies every year with my family on Christmas Eve for Santa!
My favorite food memory is baking with my mom at the age of four or so. Thanks to my chef father, she rarely cooked and baking even more rare (I think this memory is the ONLY time I’ve ever seen her touch the oven)… Anyway, I was so excited at the idea of helping and felt so incredibly loved when I started eating these the sweet and warm “open mouths laughing” balls. (It’s a Chinese snack) I’m 32 year old avid cook and baker today and my heart warms at the memory!
My favorite food memory is eating my mother’s chicken every Friday. It was the best! I can almost taste it now.
One of my favorite food memories is going to Carmel with my family, stopping by the two bakeries in town that have the most amazing variety of baked goods in the window, and having my favorite – a big chocolate-covered biscotti. Alice’s cookies look like perfection!
my fondest food memory is making homemade paella with my dad! its usually a 2-day affair and we always have such a blast – not to mention its delicious when we get to finally eat it!
My favorite food memory is making homemade lasagna with my mom and aunt as a kid. My aunt would come over with my cousin and all 4 of us would spend the day making the lasagna – it was so fun and delicious!
My favorite food memory is of my mother every year making Chocolate Waffles for our family’s Christmas Eve dessert. We only ever have them on Christmas Eve and not throughout the year which made them very special. We served them with Vanilla Bean ice cream and a drizzle of homemade hot fudge sauce.
I really love creating food memories with my young girls. Having them help create a dish (usually a dessert!) that they find that much more delicious just because they made it!
My favorite food memory is making French Cookies during the holidays with my mother, sister and grandmother. I love yearly traditions!
My favorite childhood food memory is making taco salad using our garden tomatoes and eating fresh sweet corn from our garden. Then my Mom would make homemade pies. Yummy!
My favorite food memory was when my now 28 year old son had, at age 5, decided he wanted to make his own cookies, from scratch, and bake them all by himself. Well, I let him decide the ingredients and the amount, he dumped them all together in a bowl, mixed it up, and dropped the dough in mounds on the cookie sheet. He baked them, watching them closely, and took them from the oven. He was so proud of himself…and the cookies were good! Only bad thing….we never wrote down what we did, so couldn’t replicate it!! I have to admit, I wasn’t thinking those cookies would be very good, but they were delicious and the family ate every one of them!
When I was little, sometimes the whole family (mom, dad, grandma, brother, me) would gather around the kitchen table to make traditional Chinese dumplings together.
When she showed the difference (before and after) and told me the secret ingredient in the soup. Before was good but after was magical.
Favorite food memory is a tough one. But right now, one the memories that I do cherish (though I’m still in the middle of) is making baby food for my kiddos. I grew to love it so much with my oldest and am now doing it with my second. I really love knowing that my kids have never had baby food from a jar and that I’m introducing them to whole, real foods right from the start. I know that I’ll cherish the memories of making it for them in the years to come.
I had four siblings so I would get up early for school so that I could have the bathroom all to myself. Then I would make them all breakfast while they fought over the bathroom! My favorite thing to make was donuts from the Pillsbury dough can. Yep, deep fried donuts, rolled in cinnamon sugar! Not so healthy but we sure did love them!
My favorite food memory is Thanksgiving – after the meal was over. Everyone would just sit around the table and talk and talk and talk.
I think my favorite food memory would be the time when I was in middle school and my whole family grilling outside in our front yard. I remember being just really happy because all of our huge family gathered together to talk and laugh while I played around with my sisters.
Eating a defrosted Pepperidge Farm coconut cake, sliver by sliver, after dinner, with my mother and sister. We did this often – sometimes it was a pound cake instead!
My favorite food memory involves my grandfather, Paw-Paw. We used to get to stay the night at our grandparent’s house as kids, and every time, he would be sure to have a box of Oreos and milk on-hand, just for me. He’s also the first person to ever give me chocolate – good old M&Ms! He was just the best.
One of my favorite food memories is eating fruit from the fruit vendors truck that came around our neighborhood twice a week. When he would take my Mom’s order into the house, all of us kids would grab a piece of fruit or veggie from the cart, thinking we were “getting away” with something. P.S. He knew about it all the time and didn’t care!
Favorite memory would be my mom making maple longjohns for breakfast, oh they were so delicious!
My favorite baking memory is baking banana bread with my mom. Licking the bowl was the best part!
My favorite food memory is eating warm chocolate chip cookies. YUMMY!
Favorite food memory? I have lots, but I get misty when I think of the grilled cheese sandwiches every Sunday, after Mass. I loved sharing those with mom. And when we could go shopping, we would stop and get grilled cheese out, served with some hot chocolate and whipped cream. I love baking with my kids now, mostly because of the great memories of baking Christmas cookies with my mom. Anyway, I mostly just wanted to say that I want one of these cookies, now!!
My favorite food memory is eating my aunt’s sweet potato cake at Thanksgiving dinner.
Favorite food memory? Mine would be making chocolate chip cookies with my mom in her kitchen, and of course…licking the dough!
My favorite food memory would be … baking with my grandmother.
My favorite food memory is my Mom’s 9 Layer bars. We always knew something special was happening when she started making them. And boy, oh boy! They were our absolutel favorite! I make them now for my family on special occasions and they are a favorite here as well! Nothing brings back my childhood like those bars….
Sunday dinners..popping grease from cast iron pan because mom was frying chicken…upside down pineapple sheet cake on brown paper bag…
Eating watermelon at the lake with my grandpa
My favorite food memory is eating almost a whole pie one year at Thanksgiving. Gotta love that metabolism!
My favorite food memmories would be cooking with my dad and my great grandmother. I bake ALOT and decorate cakes and I atrribute my interest and success to both of them. I miss them so much but carry those times in my heart.
Baking with my grandma and licking the wooden spoon – perfect memories
My parents are English and moved to the USA when I was an infant. Once in a while on a Sunday my mother would spend the morning baking for an afternoon tea. She prepared all our favorites: scones, mince pies, sausage rolls, cucumber sandwiches, Victoria sandwich cakes, and more. My sister & I love it. Those times were so special to us.
I love to cook and bake so I have a lot of fun food memories! But my favorite is getting to make jelly with my aunt. She lives out in the country and has all kinds of fruit trees. Since I was a kid, I’ve always enjoyed going out to her house and getting to make different kinds of jelly. One of my favorites is mayhaw. The other fun part is making homemade biscuits and enjoying the jelly! And always “cooking on the floor” by making big messes!
I love to make up my own recipes, and I remember the first time I got rave reviews from hard critics.
When I realized I was capable of cooking and baking from scratch, as I was never formally”taught” to do do. It took several recipes and my husband insisting the outcomes were great before I was convinced for myself.
Watching my grandma cook was such a fun time. I loved watching her put together big pot roast meals…a little of this and a little of that, no recipe needed. It always smelled and tasted fantastic!
Helping my mom make a German chocolate cake and getting to sample the extra frosting
My current favorite food memory is baking with my granddaughters…everything from the annual King Cake party I’ve had with the 2 oldest the past 10 years to the cupcakes I make with the 3 year old!
My favorite dessert when I was little was blueberry buckle. One bite takes me back to happy, simpler times. I crave it every summer!
My Mom made buns and cinnamon rolls often. The smell was so good! As soon as a batch was out of the oven, we would grab one and eat it hot, no butter. She would yell at us to let them cool and use some butter for pete’s sake!
As a kid, we made a trip to my grandma’s house twice a year. Although we usually arrived middle of the night, she always had meatball soup ready for me (Italian Wedding Soup). I’ve never had a version that tasted as delicious as hers. Maybe it’s because I spent hours in the car thinking about it, but I prefer to revel in the thought that homemade Italian dishes are one of a kind.
Homemade ice cream on special occasions when I was growing up…turning the handle, lots of ice, salt poured over the ice, checking the ice cream to see if it was ready…Yum!
My favorite memories are of my mom teaching me to cook. I am excited to try this recipe.
My mom and I used to hand-make pizza every Saturday night when I was a kid. We did the crust ourselves, then added sauce, toppings, and cheese. It’s a tradition I’m working on with my own kids.
One of my favorite food memories is when we would make homemade pizza for family dinner night when I was a kid. We each got our own individual pizzas to top and dress up however we wanted. We would play games and enjoy our pizza together
My favorite food memory is the week I spent last fall at a Tuscan villa as a student of a cooking school. It was heaven!
My favorite food memory is the smell of my mom’s chicken curry. Still brings me back to my childhood today
Favorite food memory was when I was only 12 years old, I remember going thru all of my mother’s old cookbooks and baking books, and I decided at that moment I would start baking for my family…. Many times as soon as I got in the door off the school bus, I would bake homemade chocolate chip cookies and sometimes cakes too! I have so many memories of the many smiles and love I would recieve from my surprised parents! This is why I still LOVE baking today, love to make the ones I care most about happy!
I’m totally in love with these cookies. And I love that they’re chocolate chip. It’s been a while since I had the traditional chocolate chip cookie.
As for my favorite food memory, it has to be the time when I’m taking a huge bite out of Father’s Office Burger. It’s this amazing burger joint in Santa Monica, CA and I have not had a burger better than this place.
Every December my Mom made gingerbread houses and I remember the wonderful aroma of gingerbread filling our house. After building the houses she would let me help her decorate them with all kinds of candy as I would eat a few gingerbread scraps. These warm, loving memories are probably the reason why I love baking so much.
My favorite food memory is cooking with my grandma bread dolls. It was so much fun been able to create my own doll that I could eat after.
My favorite food memory is baking chocolate chip cookies with my sister while my mom was working. We always had so much fun together. I really miss her.
Watching Nannie pull out her homemade yummy biscuits! There are no others like them!
Happy Tuesday! One of my favorite food memories would have to be from my childhood watching my mom make beef stew from scratch. She put so much time and effort into it and it always turned out tasting WONDERFUL! Love ya mom! Have a GREAT day, everyone!
Turning the hand crank on the ice cream machine on a Sunday afternoon, and eating it after church.
My sister and I used to have restruarant nights where we would fix dinner, make a menu of different foods, then mark the entree everyone could order (the food we had made). Then we served dinner to everyone. Started my love of cooking.
My favorite food memory would have to be when I had my first home cooked meal by my husband’s Italian grandmother. Home made pasta! I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
I’ll bet the recipe for my favorite food memory isn’t in this cookbook! Yet, try as I might, I can’t get it out of my head. I was making caramel apple cheesecake. I inadvertently grabbed the jar of onion marmalade instead of the caramel sliced apples that I’d cooked and put in a jar until it was time to use them. As soon as the onions hit the beaters, I saw what had happened. It was too late. My quadruple recipe for cheesecake to feed 40 people became an interesting disaster. The funny part, you might say, was that the cheesecake was to feed a group of international students who were coming to our home for the dessert portion of a progressive dinner. Many of them had never had cheesecake, let alone ONION cheesecake. It was amazing. About 4 of them came back for seconds, so maybe it wasn’t a total loss.
Watching my 3 boys decorate the gingerbread house at Christmas time every year is one of my favorite food memories. It has been so fun to watch their creativity grow each year, even now as they are teenagers. It is also fun to watch them develop team work as they come together to decorate one house.
My favorite food memory would have to be cooking and baking with my great-grandmother and my grandmother when I was younger. I’ve always loved all things culinary since I was a little girl and learned all of my cooking and baking skills from them. If I had to pin point an exact memory it would be when we made Tanta Lea’s cookies – a secret family recipe – together! Such a wonderful memory!
My grandparents visiting from FL and my brother and I running ot the baggage claim where there was always a brown box of cookies waiting for us! I loved those cookies and the special time with my grandparents!
My favorite food memory is making peanut butter fudge with my Grandma. She didn’t use a candy thermometer and she would make a soft ball in cold water, then we would stir and stir and stir until the fudge lost it’s gloss. I can never make it as creamy as hers, and I try every Christmas!
my favorite food memory is when I was small and we would do our christmas baking. I would get a big ball of sugar cookie dough to roll into my own shape and decorate them in whatever colored sugar I chose. I also remember getting to “taste test” all the broken cookies.
My favorite food memory is eating my first Italian gelato at the seaside in Tuscany… experiencing the richest chocolate gelato ever!
My favorite food memory is of my grandmother teaching me to bake braided challah. It is one of the reasons I bake now.
Learning how to make home made mac and cheese from my Mom-Mom. It’s still my all time favorite comfort food and I swear you can taste the love in her version. I adore cookbooks they are so beautiful.
One birthday, my Mother made me breakfast. As I sat in the kitchen, I was overjoyed as I was eating this meal knowing that she had prepared it especially for me.
I was recovering from major surgery. My brother called me in the hospital and offered to bring me one of my favorite foods from a nearby restaurant. You’ll laugh, when I tell you it is a special hotdog
I’m not a hotdog geek by any means, but this one, from a little hole-in-the-wall hotdog joint, will go down as an item I would ask for my last meal if I was on death row. It’s that good! I told my brother, “okay, but just one” (i usually polish off 2)…I didn’t know if I was up to eating something like that yet. When he arrived, with the little paper bag, he said with a smile, “I brought two…they looked small today.” I finished off 1 and 1/2 and it had never tasted so good in my life! I’ve had these hot dogs time and time again, but the love that came with that small paper bag that day, is a great memory 
Baking Christmas cookies every year
Favorite food memory is my grandad’s bread pudding. We had a small bakery next to our house when I was a kid and I always look forward to his fresh baked bread pudding. =D
Favorite food memory…my Grandpa making my brother and I fresh green beans and potatoes from his garden. So fresh and yummy!!!
one of my favorite food memoriess is making homemade fudge with my mom for all my teachers.
My favorite food memory (or memories really) is being my dad’s “sous chef” when he cooked for dinner parties and holidays while I was growing up. This mostly meant stirring things and chopping, but eventually I became the “pastry chef” in charge of dessert! This is really how I learned both how and how to love to cook.
My favorite food memory is baking cakes & making donuts,, I started baking when I was bout 9 and always made my own birthday cake.To this day I still have the recipe from my home economics class from 7th grade for sugar cookies and the paper is old and creased but I still use it to make Christmas cookies for my kids 36 years later
One of my favorites is making three different cupcakes that I got from your blog and throwing a birthday party for a good friend! Snickers cupcakes were my faves!
Homemade mung bean ice cream bars in the summer with my family
Growing up, scrambled eggs on sundays with my mom and little sister. apparently mine tasted best, which was a big deal for a 7 year old!
First of all, these cookies look amazing! I need to make them for my hubby who loves chocolate chip cookies! My favorite food memory is when I was 16 and just beginning to cook for my family I wanted to make chicken cordon bleu…I needed some dry white wine for the sauce and we didn’t have any. My parents were at work so I called my aunt to bring me some…it was so funny trying to explain to her that I wasn’t going to drink it, I needed it for my recipe!!
Watching my grandmother cook in the kitchen to make homemade noodles
Pie is serious business in my family. Every Thanksgiving my uncle counts the pies as they come through the door. One year this same uncle must have answered the phone every time someone called to ask what they should bring. Come Thanksgiving day we had 12 pies for 14 people! I still think he thought we were a little short.
My favorite memory is baking Cookies with my mom when I was a little girl
Anticipating the holiday season when my Mom would bake dozens and dozens of amazing cookies – and shared them with family and friends.
My favorite food memory – the first time I made cookies by myself. I was probably 12. I begged my Mom to let me try. I made the recipe off the back of the peanut butter chips bag – Reese’s Chew Chocolate Cookies. After that, I was hooked. To this day, it’s still one of my favorite recipes to make!
Can’t wait to try these cookies out today!
My memory is coming home from school and walking into my moms kitchen weans smelling the wonderful aroma of spaghetti sauce simmering on the cooktop. It would fill the entire house and we would all be anxiously awaiting dinner!
My favorite food memory revolves around a food accident. I was about 10 years old and helping my mother make food for a 4th of July picnic. We were working on the coleslaw. She was in a hurry and was using a pre-made slaw dressing. I was returning to the counter after putting something on the kitchen table behind her. She went to shake the jar and the lid wasn’t on correctly. The lid flew off and I was immediately coated in the dressing. It was dripping down my head and all through my hair. It’s been a joke ever since then that I won’t help my mother make coleslaw because I don’t want to be “slawed”
My Mom was the best baker in the world….
For Christmas she would make a Poppy Seed Cake…
I havent had it in years and would love it right
now with a huge glass of milk……
Thanks for the memories Mom…
I think every holiday has a childhood food memory associated with it. But I love that we are now creating our own with our children. Christmas cookies? Snickerdoodles. Christmas Eve dinner? Indian food.
I would have to say the ice cream social at my church when I was little. Everytime I have peach ice cream (homemade) the memory shoots me back there.
My favorite baking memory is the night in high school when I had my 2 best friends over and I was trying to make mac and cheese from scratch (it turned into soup!) and they were making chocolate chip cookies while sitting on the floor (my brother was helping them get ingredients) all around midnight!
My favorite food memory is the first time that I had ice cream at a local creamery. It was super chocolately and melting everywhere do to the heat of the day, but it was delicious.
My favorite food memory is of my Great-Grandmother. Growing up she always made the best homemade buttermilk biscuits. When I was very small she would mix the dough and then give me my own little bowl with flour and she’d pinch off part of her dough so I could mix my own biscuits. Then we’d flour the kitchen table and she’d let me help roll out the dough and cut the biscuits. She’d always let me sneak pieces of the dough to eat. Even today I think of her every time I make biscuits.
While making Thanksgiving dinner last year. My mom’s oven mitt caught on fire (small fire) via one of the gas stove top burners! My sister and I were laughing hysterically watching the look on her face as she put it out! In fact we were laughing to hard to move to help her out, which she still reminds us of now! Just one of my priceless small kitchen fire memories!
My favorite food memory is when my Uncle first turned me on to cooking/baking when I was younger and we made a pumpkin cheesecake w/ gingersnap crust to bring for dessert to our family Thanksgiving. I was so proud of that creation!
My fondest moments were where when I was a little girl and mom and me use to make cookies, pies, rolls, and noodles together for the holidays. When you would walk into the house the smell was amazing. Still to this day when I bake I can still smell that old familiar amazing smell from yesteryear. For one moment it takes me back to the innocense of being a child and having a mother.
My favorite food memory has turned into a family cookbook. My Grandmother used to pierce and broil an eggplant until it was fully cooked, scrape out the insides, and chop them with a little oil, salt and pepper. Then she would spread it on a slice of white bread, top it with sliced hard boiled eggs, and a slice of cheese-then place it under the broiler for a few minutes to melt the cheese. This is what she would call “A Meal in Itself”, for obvious reasons, because it was very filling. I have since compiled all of our favorite family recipes into a cookbook for my grown daughters, and have entitled the book “A Meal in Itself”.
Thanks for the great giveaway! Sara Denbo
Making chocolate cake with the best chocolate frosting ever with my grandma.
Making homemade peach ice cream every summer!
My favorite food memory is of my Mom teaching my best friend and I how to make breaded chicken when we were younger. It took us some time to find and make the mix we wanted to bread it with, and a lot of it found its way onto each others faces in the process. Flour fights in the kitchen are always fun, and the chicken ended up being pretty good too.
Teaching my young little friends on how to crack an egg to make scrambled or sunny-side-up eggs
fave food memory is without a doubt homemade mac and cheese!
My favorite food memory would be our family sugar cookie decorating time at Christmas. We all get together and everyone decorates cookies. Its so much fun to hang out together and to see all the fun things we come up with.
My favorite food memory is from when I was growing up. We were southern transplants living up in way north in PA. My friends all wanted to spend the night on the weekends because my mom would make biscuits and sausage gravy every Saturday morning- they didn’t know about sausage gravy apparently but they loved it. They also didn’t know about cornbread dressing- so my friends always stopped by on Thanksgiving also!
pancakes and bacon on saturday mornings!
My Grandma’s Chicken and Noodles. She made the Homemade Noodles, and she raised the Chickens she prepared for the pot (the prep of that Chicken is another story…kinda’ gross!). I have spent years trying to duplicate the delicious taste.
Thanks for the chance of winning Alice’s beautiful cookbook.
As a young child, It was fascinating, to see my mother turn white tapioca pearls into a sea of pink, yellow, green, yummy goodness. Still one of my favorite dishes today to make for dessert.
My Mom’s fried chicken and my Grandma’s cinnamon rolls! Love Alice’s blog and recipes!
One of my favorite food memories is making ice cream with the family at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid. Nothing I’ve ever bought has ever tasted the same.
My favorite food memory has to be my Mom’s Sunday Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Chicken Gravy (with lots of crispy bits) and usually corn or corn-on-the-cob in the summer!! Which was usually followed by homemade ice cream in the summer too!! I could never make chicken like she made it and so I just love to remember how great it was!
Growing up there was many times a Sunday dinner which consisted of roast beef. My Mom had this special little glass that would be filled with some of the juices from the roast. My Brother, Sister and I would each get a turn to drink the juice from glass. Not all at the same time though. Each time there was a roast one of us would get a turn..We would all look forward to the AuJus…..
My favorite food memory is anything to do with our Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners. Look forward to them each year!
Gathered around the Thanksgiving table…mom makes The Best Stuffing Ever.
My favorite food memory is decorating sugar cookies with my cousins on Christmas right after opening presents. Nothing beats presents and cookies!
My favorite food memory is making biscuits with my grandmother. Hers are made in a cast-iron pan, so we were not allowed to touch that — but we did get to help stir her homemade chocolate sauce that went on top. Chocolate and biscuits isn’t the most popular combination, but it sure made for happy grandkids!
My favorite food memory involves chocolate chip cookies; this was the first thing I can remember baking as a child.
My favorite food memory is getting shanghai style big wontons in Taiwan with my grandmother.
one of my favorite food memories is of making eggrolls with my mom. she makes the filling and then we sit down and roll all of them. we do a lot so it takes awhile but i love the ritual of it and love just sitting with my mom. we still do it.
In 4th grade making peanut butter cookies with my new best friend.
One of my favorite food memories is making my mom’s “cowboy cookies” with my sister
My favorite food memory is making pancakes on Saturday mornings with my dad growing up!
I grew up in a house where the only sweets were fruit trees from our yard…so, it was a treat when my mom took a cake decorating class and came home with a “Black Forest Cake”. To this day it was the best cake I have ever eaten.
My grandmother breaking apart and hand grating a fresh coconut for a German Chocolate cake or coconut cake!
My best food memory is making spritzer cookies with my grandmother. We used a meat grinder with a star tip instead of a cookie gun. When she passed away she left me the meat grinder and I make cookies with my son.
My favorite food memory is of my mom pouring pancake batter into the shape of my choosing. Dogs, horses and hearts were my favorites.
My family took a trip to Macau in December. Our first order of business? Portuguese egg tarts! We ate a box while huddling under umbrellas in the rain…then promptly bought another box.
Favorite food memory! Hmm… I have tons of great food memories. The one that comes to mind is my birthday dinner, every July 9th when I was a kid: Steamed blue crabs with old bay seasoning (my all-time favorite food—yes, I grew up in Baltimore), artichokes with melted butter (a close runner-up), and my momma’s chocolate mousse (to die for). I’m a particularly slow, careful crab-picker, so I spent literally hours of every birthday at the table.
My favorite food memory–going to Zingerman’s Bakehouse each Saturday morning, without fail, to reserve their marvelous pecan raisin bread. Reason enough to always stay in Ann Arbor.
I remember this one dinner when I was maybe a teen? After a particularly difficult family disruption my mom, my brother and I made tacos for dinner. Even though the tension in the house was palpable, we laughed so hard and loud through the prep and the eating phase that it still sticks with me.
My family grandparents live 9 hours from us, and every time we would go visit she would make sure and make homemade long johns and leave them in the freezer for us! My dad would eat them frozen, but I preferred to thaw them out! Thanks Grandma for that great memory!
My favorite is stir fry. Love the crisp veggies.
My best food memory, well I’m Armenian, and remember my great Aunt, sitting me down to watch and learn how to make Baklava, which is a sweet dessert that has many layers of a filo dough, that she would make from scratch. I would watch her roll each layer across their kitchen table, and then help one layer at a time, cover with honey and nuts, till we had it built up maybe 10 layers,a then bake it. It was great!
My favorite food memories come from my grandmothers kitchen so much love goes into everything she cooks.
My favorite food memory is visiting the CIA for the first time with my family (that would be the one in Hyde Park, NY, the Culinary Institute of America). As a lover of great food and presentation, and as an educator, it was an amazing experience I will never forget.
These look amazing! I have some super fond memories of my mom teaching me how to bake.
that’s a hard one! The one springing to mind at the moment is dinner at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant in London on our honeymoon. It also happened to be my husband’s 30th birthday. the food was phenomenal!
One of my favorite memories is Baking cookies with my mom and brother when we were very young. Mom would always set us on the counter to help, and she’d always let us take a small lump of brown sugar to enjoy. Melting on our tongues, we knew mom’s choice of sugar would make delicious cookies!
I was about 5 years old . . . sitting at the kitchen table with my Grandpa eating the crust end of warm freshly baked bread smothered in butter and liking my fingers so I wouldn’t waste a drop . . . I’ll never forget the feeling of home and comfort!
I remember helping my grandmother cook every Sunday for our weekly gathering (for about 30 people). She taught me how to make sauces and pasta etc. Til this day whenever, I smell sauces simmering on the stove-top I think about her
My favorite food memory hands down is the Thanksgiving that my mother and grandmother got up early and got the turkey all ready and into the oven. They then left to visit my great-uncle but they left me instructions on basting the turkey. When the appropriate basting time came I opened the oven only to be faced with a cold turkey and no juices for basting. It seems that, in their hurry to go a visiting, they forgot to turn on the oven. I called Mom and relayed the news. She told me to blast the oven and she and Grandma came tearing back from my uncle’s house. We had recently acquired a microwave oven, so when they got home Mom got out the electric knife, hacked the bird in half, threw half in the microwave and half in the oven. When the microwave dinged she switched the halves out. When it came time to carve the bird we were faced with a turkey with it’s legs spread toward opposite walls which was being held together with skewers. As bad as the bird looked, it was the most moist and delicious turkey we’ve ever had.
Every summer when I was a little girl, I got to go and spend a month in West Virginia with my grandmother. She was elderly even then – not the grandma that people have now that do active crazy things with their grandchildren…she was over 60 when I was born…
We cooked things every day – things my non-cooking mother didn’t have a clue about. I made my first roast beef – my first homemade mac and cheese – all the comfort food I still cook today. But what REALLY stands out is that once or twice a week she had her “circles” – groups of other little old ladies who came to our house, and we made finger sandwiches, and jello salads, and all kinds of crazy “luncheon” stuff…
I learned about how to present food and how to consider a guest’s opinions and taste when planning a menu…it literally shaped my food life.
When my Dad and I used to go visit my grandmother, she would fill a plastic container FULL of her tea cakes. We used to eat them by the handful, they were always a huge hit with us.
My favorite food memory is helping my mom make Thanksgiving dinner. She always let me stuff the turkey!!! But equal to that is making lefse with my grandma and aunt. I still make it every year – brings tears to think of those wonderful times.
It’s a tough choice to decide on just one but I would have to say my favorite memory would be of my 2 sisters and I making chocolate chip cookies when our parents would go out on a Saturday night. We thre. Girls used to fight all of the time, so this was one of the very few times I remember us enjoying each other’s company (and eating raw cookie dough).
My favorite food memory would have to be waking up early in the morning to the smell of bacon fried rice that my mother would cook for us whenever she had left over rice.
My favorite food memory is when my little brother and I made our own buttered toast. It was just butter and toast and we thought it was the best thing in the world…and we made it all by ourselves! Hahaha! We had tons of toast and had no room for dinner. Sorry mom!
One of my favorite food memories is from my childhood. We would have an evening snack and my choice was most always vanilla ice cream with Hershey Syrup (back in the days when it came in a can!). Actually, it was more like a bowl of Hershey Syrup with a little vanilla ice cream thrown in!
My favorite food memory: There was a commercial for Jif peanut butter on when I was little in which the mom drew a happy face with a knife on the peanut butter in her daughter’s sandwich. I begged my grandmother to do this for me one day, and it became a habit. We always ate our peanut butter sandwiches together while watching the Price is Right on TV. And, I’m still a peanut butter addict.
My fondest food memory is when my sister, brother and I would be in the kitchen as teenagers cooking & baking, all while dancing and laughing!!
~Fresh Rhubarb pie made with homegrown rhubarb~ just rhubarb- no other fruits. Special dessert in my family growing up. My dad’s favorite and makes me think of him.
My favorite food memory is when my grandmother taught me to make my grandpa’s favorite banana cream pie – we worked so hard on the crust, filling and meringue. Of course I would never question what grandma said, but I thought we were missing something. When we finally cut into it we realized we had forgot the bananas!
Every Saturday morning my Grandfather used to take me out to buy donuts and horn rolls from a local bakery. I’d arrive home clutching my bag of donuts and climb, bag in hand onto a chair to eat my donuts. Meanwhile my Grandfather would set the table and lay out a delicious array of fruit, whitefish and bagels with cream cheese. My Mom, Aunt, Uncle and Grandmother would join us for good food and conversation. I still remember the way the sunlight filtered through the curtains and the way those donuts tasted as I listened to the happy buzz of grown-ups talking. Ah, memories!
My favorite food memory has to do with my hubby. On our 2nd date (the date in which I knew he was the one) we went to a resturant where you do your own stir-fry. You go pick all the stuff that fits in one bowl and they cook it for you. But first we order an appetizer, both loving Calamari decide to order it. When it arrived I refured to eat the ones that look like little octopus’, I would only eat the rings. My hubby put all the litttle octopus on the rim of the plate and made a octopus parade with the circus music, It was so funny, he is still making me laugh almost 10 yrs later:)
One of my favorite food memories was when I was in 4th grade and my mom made heart shaped pancakes and pink milk for Valentine’s Day. She even invited the neighbor kids over too.
Picking raspberries in my grandmother’s patch in the twilight– which was really almost an acre big — with old plastic containers tied with a string so they hung around our necks and both hands were free for picking. Then just being so stuffed from eating so many raspberries I thought there wouldn’t be any left for jam. I don’t know if there’s any better feeling than being outside after a hot summer day, watching the fireflies come out and start sparkling, and eating a raspberries right from the bush.
My favorite food memories probably have to do with my grandma – especially when she was teaching me the biscotti recipe that has been passed down for 7 generations all the way from Italy.
My grandmother was an amazing cook. Migrated to Australia from Europe and made the most memorable and tasty meals, including desserts, bread, jams, homemade noodles, etc. all by hand, all from scratch. Because of her I wanted to cook and bake for my own family (thinking ahead) and I’ve successfully done that. Now my own children are doing the same.
My favorite food memory is my grandma’s Sock it to Me Cake. When I was around 3, she made the cake for one of my uncle’s who was in the military. She put it on top of the fridge to cool and I climbed up on the counter and took a handful! My grandma never let me forget about that:-)
My favorite food memory is anything I cook with my kids!!!
I have great memories of making chocolate chip cookies since I was very little. My mom let me try on my own once and I set off the smoke alarm.
My favorite memory was my grandmother showing me how to knead dough and making Christmas cookies with her!
My favorite food memory is making blackberry jelly with my grandmother. We would go the field beside our house and pick the berries. She would hang the cooked berries in cheesecloth in the kitchen to get the seeds out. The whole house would smell like blackerries. I can’t eat blackberry jelly without thinking of her.
Thanks for telling is about her cookbook! I agree, this is a great recipe! I’ve been using it for two years now and it has never let me down. These are such crowd pleasers.
My favorite recent food memory is making homemade pizzas with my friends.
My favorite and oldest food memory has to do with my mom and how she would bake these amazing star shaped cookies. She would make the dough which was the consistency of doughnuts…she would drop them in the steeping hot oil and they would magically puff up. After a dousing of powdered sugar we would devour them while they were still warm…thanks for making me remember.
Favorite memory is baking my dads favorite sour cream cookies with my grandma.
One of my favorite memory’s is of my Mom and I making stuffed cabbage, I just loved her recipe but it was so much work, so one time we made it in layers instead of rolling them up. It worked out great, I only wish I had written the recipe down.
My co-workers and I sponser Cookie Madness, a bracket-style cookie competition (held in March, of course). Every day we wake up with the anticipation of some yummy treats and it’s a great way for everyone to bond over… COOKIES! Great times!
I have great memories of making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies with my mom when I was growing up..
Favorite memory—making doughnuts with my Grandma!
Eating peanut butter straight from the jar. Lol!
My favorite food memory is of my grandpa teaching me how to make his homemade pasta sauce.
My favorite food memory is sitting with my grandmother at her kitchen table, drinking cinnamon apple tea and eating those almond windmill cookies that all grandmas had in their cookie jar. Makes me smile just thinking about it!
My favorite food memory was when me and my daughter were making a giant cookie. We put it in the oven and checked on it a while later. it was surrounded in butter and the chocolate seemed to be oozing out of the pan. it was a disaster. I almonst threw it away until she tried it and loved it. It was amazing
When me and my daughter made a giant chocolate chip cookie
One of my favorite memories about food: when we were little kids, every Sunday my dad would make us scrambled eggs with and my mom would make cinnamon rolls for breakfast before church. It didnt matter how much they made, us kids always ate everything… except the middle cinnamon roll- that was mommy’s!
We were traveling from the Poconos to home. I was about 14. My dad stopped to eat at a small Italian restaurant called Luigi’s. We order typical lasagna, manicotti etc. he adders, what? Eggplant Parmesan. We looked at him like he was nuts. What dear dad was an eggplant? My mother just sat quietly. She never cooked eggplant. Try it when it comes. The dish transformed my world. My whole attitude about food changed. My dad, who was trained as a chef, said ” one of these days you’ll just try something without fear.”. From that point on I did just that.
I have been a chef, and/or working in a restaurant sice that summer over thirty years ago.
Guess it was good advice.
Eggplant parm is still one of my favorites to this day.
Grandma’s fresh baked bread, just out of the oven with honey and butter! The book looks awesome!
My favorite food memory would have to be my first experience at a “fancy restaurant” when I was in third grade
My favorite food memory is eating calamari on the beach in Thailand.
I think one of the best food memories I have is of all the amazing food my husband and I had on our honeymoon to Turks and Caicos. The restaurants had the best food ever but we would look forward to lunch everyday by the pool for THE best ceasar salad either of us had ever eaten. If I could make that same recipe everyday at home, I so would!!
My favorite memory was of my mother making chicken and dumplings..I can see her standing at the kitchen counter making them..She has been gone 10 years and I haven’t tasted them in15-20 years, but I will never forget how they tasted…and no, I never learned to make them the way she did…all I have are the memories…she was a fantastic cook and she shared her love of cooking with all who wanted it.
One of my favorite food memories is walking into my gran’s house during the Holidays and smelling homemade bread being baked in the oven! It is the one item on the Christmas menu that I will always request!
Probably my Grandma’s cooking. She made the best chocolate cake with a fudge frosting from scratch. Everything she made was wonderful.
christmas time baking with my mom <3
My favorite memory is probably my mom always making me feel welcome in the kitchen – she is a great cook and encouraged me to try lots of things. I remember the first thing I ever made by myself was Rice Krispie Treats – still one of my favorite simple pleasures to whip up. Now my favorite thing to do is to cook in the kitchen with my own children!
Finally nailing the perfect New York style cheesecake after several failed attempts.
I love this recipe! It is my go-to chocolate chip cookie! I would have to say that my favorite food memory is the first time I got to help with the classic Christmas cookie preparations at my house. I always thought it looked so fun and I wanted to try baking even from that very young age! It was what kick started my baking obsession (one that I don’t regret forming…) and it’s so meaningful to look back on!
Whoa,those cookies looks super chunky and yummy!!! I’ll have to try that recipe
My favorite food memory is the first time my dad made curry chicken for dinner and let’s just say it’s about the most delicious dish he’s ever made! My sister and I kept on eating bowl after bowl,it was soooo tender and good. <3
When I was little I loved to sit on the counter and watch my mom make homemade cookies. I’d always ask her if I could have some brown sugar (still one of my favorite things to eat) and she would give me a tiny bit in a ramekin to eat with a spoon. I’ve never forgotten it.
One of the first times I made chocolate chip cookies all by myself, as a little girl, I accidentally used a tablespoon instead of a teaspoon of baking soda. I was so sad that no one would eat my cookies and that I had to toss the whole batch. There are some things that you NEVER let go to waste or throw out and cookies especially chocolate chip cookies was one of those things.
Favorite food memory: eating my grandma’s chocolate chip cookies. Buttery, rich, and made wit love!
When I was in college, I’d crave my mom’s pork chop dinner!
Favorite food memory!? UGH! That is SO tough! I have so many!! This past summer, my aunt and uncle took me to NYC. And while there, we would go out each night to a different bakery or dessert location. My favorite? The Chocolate Lava Cakes that our hotel prepared! Mmmmm! (:
I used to help my mom make Christmas cookies when I was younger (:
So hard to choose! Decorating Easter eggs in the traditional Lithuanian way.
My favorite food memories are the ones I have been making most recently. My 2 year old daughter has begun helping me in the kitchen. Sbe loves to help…cooking, baking and even cleaning up.
My grandmother giving me the choice of biscuits or toast every morning I stayed with her as a kid. She also served me coffee with milk and sugar. She’s been gone almost 20 years, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.
My favorite food memories were spent with my grandmother watching her make jams and jellies and how I remember licking the tasty jam off the wax she used to seal the jars.
My favorite memory is of my mom preparing food for the holidays. The delicious smells coming from the kitchen are fond memories.
My favorite food memories couldn’t possibly be narrowed down to one! But I have always loved baking my health-nut Dad chocolate chip cookies; it’s the one thing he can’t resist.
Always watching my mom make chocolate chip cookies and fighting over who got to lick the mixer paddle between me and my 5 siblings!
My favorite is when my daughter brought home the Thundercake story from school, and we attempted to make it. The faces my kids made while we added tomatoes was priceless. (And I did take pics.
Wow..these cookies absolutely look delish!! Thanks for sharing the recipe:) My favorite food memory I would have to say is home made apple pie. My mom would make it and as we walked into the house we exactly knew what a treat it would be. To top it off my dad would make home made old fashioned vanilla ice cream…hmmm reminds me of sweet tea, fun water balloon fights and lazy days in a hammock. Life was care free and good then and is good now too:) Thanks for the jog down memory lane!!!
My favorite food memory from childhood is my mother always having a meal on the table for us at dinnertime. Even if my Dad was out of town, my Mom, brother, and I had dinner together as a family. I am making memories with my own family now…and, you guessed it! We sit down together as a family
I hope my boys always remember these times.
My favorite food memory is being in my grandmother’s kitchen with my great-grandmother. God Bless her! She lived to her 100th birthday and passed away 3 months before her 101st!
She made two things. Pound cake and tea cake cookies. My earliest memories are being with her in the kitchen as she mixed, rolled out and used a little cup with floured rim, to cut out the sweet cookies, lightly fragranced with sugar, butter and a kiss of nutmeg. Her thin, long-fingered hands working slowly and patiently, placing them on the baking sheet. Then placing them in the oven as I impatiently waited for them to bake. Then we had to wait longer for them to cool before I could eat them with a glass of milk! I can still smell them and taste them as I picture Mama smiling at my impatience and then happiness at the taste of her tea cakes.
My favorite food memory is when I was about 13 and started being allowed to bake on my own. I loved to make boxed cake mixes… and eat half the batter in the process! When the cake finally baked, it would fill about half the pan and my Mom was never quite sure what happened. I was only able to trick her for a while and then she caught on.
Sugar and lemon pancakes.
I still remember the first time I helped with baking- my friend’s nanny had us help her make chocolate chip cookies with the kitchenaid and I loved the whole process. Especially the warm, gooey cookies at the end
Making bread with my 2 year old niece!
I think the best memory is when I first had my daughter in the kitchen to make chocolate chip cookies. She talked non stop about each ingredient and wanted to know where it was from and what it did. She loved watching the mixer spin around and the mixture changing.
Who would have thought she would grow up to be a pastry chef!
We love chocolate chip cookies even more now.
Right out of the oven when they are warm and gooey are the very best!!
Bobbi
Baking goodies with my Grandma for Christmas. I miss her so much. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck everyone.
My favorite food memory is from when I was about 6-7, laying on the floor and watching Alice in Wonderland and the smell of my mom making coconut candy in the kitchen.
My favorite food memory has to be learning to make decorated cookies with my grandma at Christmas. We always loved going over to her house and making messy ugly cookies that tasted SO good!
I remember baking with my Mom. She would allow me to help measure ingredients and use the mixer. I loved being her helper.
My recent favorite food memory was actually getting a souffle to rise properly after many, many tries. I even took a cooking class on souffles since I was having so many problems. Turns out, an oven from the 1970′s may be my issue…
My favorite food memory….making homemade apple cake and cream cheese frosting with my grandmother when I was around 5 years old. She passed away when I was 7. To this day I make this cake for my Mom every time I visit her down in Dallas!
My favorite memories were of baking delicious cookies, cakes, and desserts with my mother and aunts at Christmas time! My Aunt always made nut rolls and I could not find a recipe that compared to hers!! miss her alot!
My two favorite memories of food was eating my dads secret recipe spaghetti & meatballs just him, my sister and me. My second one would be every year on my birthday my mom would make me Brownies and let me and my sister lick the bowl afterwards.
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I would love to win this cookbook so I can make memories with my son.
My favorite food memory is actually my first one…my grandma teaching me how to make scrambled eggs when I was about 3 or 4 since I was always hanging out with her in the kitchen.
My mom was not a baker, her peach pie was legend. She never baked after that;) being Japanese she was awesome at sukiyaki and tempura! Having grown up with store bought baked goods turned me into the baking queen I am today. Hahaha.
Being in the kitchen with my grandmother & watching her make anything. She never measured anything but everything was delicious.
These cookies look great! Do they taste better than your favorite CI chocolate chip cookies? I’m making cookies this weekend and was wondering which batch would be best. Thanks!
Kim-
These are a bit different, they are deeper in flavor due to the dark brown sugar – you can’t go wrong with either recipe!
-Jamie
my fave food memory is when my sister and I used to bake together in elementary school using whatever we could find in the cupboard.
Making food at Christmas time or holidays in general with my mom and sister when younger.
Mine turned out flat…..nothing like the picture????….threw the last half of the batch in the fridge to try tomorrow….