Have you ever tried to recreate a recipe from your childhood that you mom or grandma used to make? and you can never make it as good as they did. Are there some smells that just take you back to an exact moment or make you feel something? Did you had a special Sunday breakfast while growing up? Did you family make a specific recipe for special occasions?
If you answered yes to all above, you are just like me, and most people. Food is a wonderful trigger for our most cherish and deep feelings and the people we share those feelings with.
Childhood food memories are the source of inspiration of many cooks. I don’t know about you but some of my recipes are born when I am trying to recreate recipes of my childhood or the flavors that remind me when I was younger. Childhood memories have a way of stirring our emotions and connecting us to our origins and history.
So I have lovely childhood memories and today’s recipe is one of the simplest ones, Ice Cream Soda.
Ingredients
- 3 -4 scoops Vanilla ice cream
- Cherry or raspberry soda
- Cherries optional
Instructions
- Scoop the ice cream and the pour the chilled soda on top, slowly, top with cherries, enjoy!
My grandparents, on my father’s side lived in a town called Bonao, we went there almost every weekend and we stayed over in summer for several weeks! There was a part of town, all the way across town, where the Falconbridge’s (US mining company) employees lived, and we used to hang out almost every afternoon at their club. I our way over there we often made a stop at a little merendero (Small snack place) and we used to have the ice cream soda there. So, today’s recipe takes me back to those bicycle rides in the summer.
So, what about you? What are your favorite childhood food memories or who is the person you think about when you cook that recipe?
Would love to hear your childhood memories!
¿Cómo mis memorias de infancia me hacen una mejor cocinera?
¿Alguna vez has tratado de recrear una receta de tu infancia que tu mamá o abuela solía hacer? Y nunca has logrado hacerla tan bien como ellas. ¿Hay algunos olores que te llevan de nuevo a un momento exacto o te hacen sentir algo? ¿Tenían los domingos un desayuno especial cuando eras niño? ¿Tu familia hace una receta específica para ocasiones especiales? ¡Hoy comparto uno de mis recuerdos de infancia! Ice cream soda.
Mis abuelos, por el lado de mi papá vivían en un pueblo llamado Bonao, íbamos allá casi todos los fines de semana y pasábamos parte de nuestros veranos también. Íbamos al “Barrio” al otro lado del pueblo, donde los empleados de Falconbridge (compañía minera estadounidense) vivían, y solíamos pasar casi todas las tardes en su club. Pero hacíamos una parada en el merendero, un pequeño lugar de meriendes y allí aprendimos a tomar los Ice cream soda. Por lo tanto, la receta de hoy me lleva de vuelta a los paseos en bicicleta en el verano.
Ingredients
- 3 o 4 bolas de Helado de vainilla
- 1 Refresco de frambuesa
- Cerezas para decorar
Instructions
- Poner el helado en un vaso largo, y agregando el refresco frio por encima despacio, decorar con cerezas! disfrutar
Entonces, ¿Cuáles son tus recuerdos favoritos de infancia o de qué persona te acuerdas cuando cocinas una receta de familia?
¡Me encantaría escuchar acerca de tus recuerdos de infancia!
16 thoughts on “How my wonderful childhood memories make me a better cook?”
My grandmother always made this chocolate cake with coffee in it that no one has been able to recreate. I’d give anything for a moment in time with her and that cake.
Rachelle!! I love trying recipes from my childhood! I have been trying to recreate one “Bunuelos” (these are like beignets but made with yucca flour) for years, my grandpa used to get a dish of those in syrup every christmas, and I haven’t been able to get them right!
Yes to all of the above! I love how food triggers memories – and, those food memories usually tend to be good ones! I need me a glass of this float to start the weekend of right! Happy Friday to ya!
I agree, those food memories aer always good ones! Thanks for stopping by Shashi!
Food definitely has a wonderful way of bringing back memories, no doubt about it!! I always look forward to the dinner my mother cooks on Christmas day with turkey and all the fixins’and look forward to it every single year. There is no meal that compares to it. When I visit on Christmas day and the smell of it is cooking, it’s like no other. So good!!
It’s funny how the anticipation to that dinner and all the smells when you get to your mother’s house, it’s so comforting..
I agree that food can evoke some powerful childhood memories! I’ve been blessed to remember so many good things from my childhood, and one of them is eating carbonara with my grandfather!
Hey Bianca!! Thank you for stopping by. I agree that food can be a trigger for chilhood memories! I bet you have never been able to recreate that carborana pasta you used to meat with your grandfather!
Oh my gosh…you totally hit the nail on the head here, Gaila. So many of my recipes are inspired by my childhood favorites. Well, that and my love for Italian food. (I’m not sure where I developed that one as we didn’t eat Italian very often growing up.) But that makes me think about Robbie now. As he continues to get older and eat what we eat, I wonder if that means his favorites will be the same as ours? Probably! Either way, this ice cream soda sounds like an easy but awesome throwback to the days when we were little careful kids running around our grandparent’s houses! 🙂
Yeah David!! running around like crazy kids! That’s the beauty of this recipes and the memories and people attached to them! Have a great Monday!
I love ice cream sodas but haven’t had one in a long time. We used to have movie night when I was little and we would make black cows (aka: root beer floats) and I loved drinking them so much! I’ll have to make them again or try your recipe soon 🙂
Hey Karrie,
Thank you for your kind words!
It looks tasty and the color is so lovely. I will choose it for my daughter’s birthday party. She and her friends will love it. Thank you so much!
Hello Kristi,
Thank you for stopping by! I am gal you liked my recipe!! hope your daughter likes it too!
Yep, so many of my recipes are inspired by my favorite childhood eats! But like you, I can never get exactly the same flavors that my gram did! Just have to keep trying! 😉 I love this ice cream soda!!
Ahhh yes Annie,
In my case also, most of my recipes come from memories.