What is your favorite "memory food" ?

Oh, my! It's been a while since I've posted (or even lurked), but how on earth did this thread stop? I should think that by now it would be pages and pages long.

One of my favorites--there are many!--is the smell of the ribbon candies that we used to have at Christmastime. Even in the middle of July, that smell transports me back to my grandparents' house on Christmas Day.

And then there's good old-fashioned pot roast: Sunday dinner. My mother, poor thing, couldn't cook to save her life and the roast was usually as tough as shoe leather, but it still smelled good:)
 

mamaliga - had to google that. Is that like cornmeal mush?? We had johnnycake (or so they called cornbread), but it was like a cake texture. This can be fried or baked like french fries?? I might like that............:p
 
I had to Google it, too. A Romanian version of polenta. Or is polenta an Italian version of mamaliga? LOL I :love_heart: polenta! Unfortunately, nobody else in the household likes it:( Guess I could make a half recipe and freeze some for nights when DD cooks something that I don't like (like chili...blech).
 
Mamaliga is cornmeal.. My mother used to make it and serve it with cottage cheese and sour cream..
We also used it instead of rice for stews to absorb the sauce..

Yes it is Romanian as my ancestors do come from there..

I believe polenta is like mamaliga except polenta is then baked in the oven..
We call that a malay.. It then comes out almost like a bread loaf..
We add different herbs and onoins or mushrooms before baking.. Even corn niblets..

Yes I still make mamaliga every once in a while.. I do have that "secret" way my mother had.. Add butter before serving !!!!!
 
My mother cooked polenta on the stovetop. She'd make some of it plain, pour into a buttered bread pan and put it in the fridge overnight. Next morning it got sliced, fried in butter and served with syrup for breakfast in the morning. That was fried mush. The rest of it had a bit of garlic and chopped onion, poured onto a platter and served with marinara sauce, Italian sausage and peppers.

I make mine with onions, garlic, fresh Parmesan, mozzarella, a bit of parsley and bake it in the oven, serve it with marinara and, of course, the sausage and peppers.
 
Wow, I don't know if I can pick just one. My grandmother use to make potato pancakes that we could not get enough of. They were made of grounded raw potatoes and eggs; fried in a skillet. Fabulous! They were probably so good because they were fresh new potatoes from the garden and fresh eggs from the hen house. She also made wonderful homemade yeast coffee cake.
 
Fresh oysters with a squeeze of lemon. Once each year at the festival with grand dad. Rare moments together with him when he wasn't berating me or finding some excuse to hit me.
 
Buttered fresh Jersey corn with salt and pepper and a side of Jersey tomatoes with salt. I could eat that all day long with some steamed clams and I was one happy kid.
 
Anything my mother cooked was good, but she could make better chicken and dumplings than I've had anywhere. When I moved far away and called to say I wanted to come see her, she would ask me what I'd like to eat. I didn't really care. I was going for the visit, not the food. But, I'd usually say "chicken and dumplings." Once in awhile, she would make it, but more often than not, she had cooked something fancier. She told me chicken and dumplings wasn't special enough.
 

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