Food makes me happy. Always has, always will.
Some flavours, smells or recipes bring back memories of past holidays, precious moments or ordinary ones that I would not want to forget. I have flash backs of happy moments whenever I have nectarines (holidays in the South of France), bilberries (picking them in the Alps), pain perdu (we would have French toast once a week when I was little), fondue Savoyarde & raclette (skiing holidays) or crêpes (my whole childhood!).
More recently, some square chocolaty bites have made it to my foodie memory bank. It was when I had reached a low point. Jumpy’s eczema was at its worst. The angry rashes on her face a constant feature and no matter how many ingredients I excluded from her diet, nothing worked. By that time, I had it in my head that she was allergic to water…
My friend Cé came over one evening and proudly offered a packet of cakes I had never heard about for Jumpy. The Lazy Day Foods treats looked way too nice and moreish to be allowed. I checked and rechecked the ingredients, and they were safe (ignoring the ‘Do not guarantee nut free’ warning since they were made in a nut-free factory.)
I am so grateful to Lazy Day Foods for creating those delicious treats for people on exclusion diets. I actually love the rocky road myself, and it is vegan too! I am normally a ‘free from nothing’ kind of person (full fat, full of sugar, full of nuts, full of free-range eggs is normally what I love best).
They did it. I am not sure how but Lazy Day Foods managed to make ‘free from’ taste good. I have written about them a few times already, and no doubt will I write about them again in the future!
When they asked me to do some product photography for them, I was honoured (here come the bright red cheeks, and the beaming smile, quickly followed by a phone call to my mum!). A lot of slices were consumed during the photo shoots. It would be rude to leave crumbs on the plate, wouldn’t it?
Lazy Day Foods were happy for me to share a few of the photos I took for them, so here goes…
Fruit Cake Slice
Chocolate Ginger Slice
Shortbread
Belgian Dark Chocolate Tiffin
Millionaire’s Shortbread
There you go, these are a few photos from my Lazy Day Foods shoot.
What’s your best memory to do with food?
It’s got to be my mum showing me how to make a date and walnut cake with treacle I still make it today and everyone in my family love it I’ve passed the recipe to my daughter and she makes it for her children
I love recipes that are passed down from generation to generation. I’ve recently been given my great grandad’s brioche recipe and it’s so special to me.
My best memory is eating freshly made paella on a beach in Menorca – the first holiday I had abroad! Delicious!
Nice!
i remember cooking quite a lot at school and practising my bread and cake dishes at home 🙂
Best food memory is having a curry in Indian restaurant on way home from sailing trips as s child. Best part was having lychees for pudding.
Eating Fish & Chips At The Local Seaside With My Family 🙂
We love a fish and chips on the beach. We’re quite good at avoiding the seagulls!
my best memory is the 1st Christmas cake I made as a newlywed, aah!!
Macaroni cheese every Friday night!
Eating cookies in the park with my mum when I was young
Best memory of food was our first seaside holiday as a family and fish and chips sat on the pier. Magic
Priceless!
my mothers homemade clootie dumpling it was yummy
What is it?
a fruit suet pudding ,,
my mums sunday roasts with her yorkshire puddings that you could fix a wall with they were rock hard
Brilliant!
wow delicious. my fav memory was my brother daring me to eat spaghetti hoops with ice cream, was disgusting!
Great giveaway, thank you for the opportunity.
My mum cooking delicious puddings at the weekends. We didn’t have them during week. One of our favourites was cooked apple with meringue on top
On Sundays as a child – my Spanish father would ban everyone from the kitchen and cook a huge paella. Occasionally, as his eldest daughter, I would be allowed in to watch him cook!
my grandmas cheese and onion pie
Schools dinners!! the butterscotch tart yum!
My Dads homemade rice pudding complete with sultanas yumm!
My late Grandmas roast dinners – with proper home made Yorkshire puddings x
Helping my daddy make carrot cake when I was very small. My favourite part was when he let me lick in the bowl (this was before everyone became terrified of raw eggs!) My dad died when I was 14 but I still think of him when I make cakes. It’s a happy thing for me to do. 🙂
Those memories are priceless, aren’t they? Life is too short not to lick the bowl!
Cooking and baking with my Mum and Gran when I was a kid stood me in good stead when I left home and went to college. I still enjoy licking out the bowls! lol
Being taken to a fish restaurant on my 13th birthday I felt so grown up we stayed out late and the food was delicious xx
I can recall being treated to a knickerbocker glory. My best friend was with me, and we were sitting outside in the sunshine at Nardini’s in Largs. We all really enjoyed the treat, and the weather.
The meals my mother used to make.
We went to a really good restaurant for my 30th so that is my best memory!
Has to be learning to bake with my mum & grandma
Going to my grandparents on the weekend and wondering which fruit pie should would make that weekend (Rhubarb was my Fav)
My late nan buying me honeycomb from the local corner shop
My Grandads Scottish Breakfast
Baking with my nan as a child.
Mums Christmas dinner
Eating fresh crab in a chalet in Cornwall
Sharing a meal with a local family when travelling in Egypt. The food was delicious and the setting and atmosphere were unique.
sunday roast dinners with all the family as a child
Sitting with family at christmas
My best memory has to be the day my Wife and I finally mastered the perfect Egg free Chocolate Sponge cake recipe. It tasted absolutely delicious
Like you food brings back many happy memories. My husband & I have been to many countries over the past 20 years and have eaten all sorts of strange meals. The latest being Poland last September. The food we had there was wonderful – so different to what I thought it would be. Soup with polish sausage, herbs & a boiled egg in it. I believe it is usually served up at Easter. It was delicious.
Good food is very important in our house – we both love to cook.
I remember making and flipping pancakes with my friend when I was 14. We were having so much fun and made a lot of mess.
Recovering from an eating disorder and discovering new foods!! Fab competition
my grandmother making suet pudding
Sunday roasts 🙂
The amazing meals I’ve had w my family
Mum and I tried to make a cheesecake when I was little but it went wrong, so we ended up calling it flapjack surprise as we ended up cooking it many times throughout my childhood with different fillings, happy memories!
Des très belles photos Mel ! Je te souhaite un bon weekend des Pâques ! Bisous
baking with my grandma, now i bake with my daughter x
Making sausage rolls and Jam tarts with my nanny!
Eating out for my 16th birthday and steak with stilton sauce!
Having Sunday dinner with my gran all cooked on an open fire don’t know how she did it
All my Mum’s cooking! She made some delicious meals out of practically nothing! We were always full and content 🙂
eating my grandmas homemade shortbread when i was little, i wish she had given me the recipe
In my beach hut called Lazy Dayz at Frinton on sea as a child and now grown up with my wife who had the beach hut next to mine as kids. special times
Being quite young and sat in our living room on a coffee table surrounded by Easter eggs and toys. It was awesome.
Ooh, well done you. That’s brilliant. I love lazy day foods as well. They don’t taste free from anything! My best food memory is probably my mum’s home made birthday cakes as a child.
Baking with my grandparents! Great memories!
An amazing my little pony birthday cake mum made me 25 years ago!!!
I’ve recently started making my own bread and its delicious I wish I started sooner. 🙂
making cakes with my grandma – I used to love watching and trying to help her!
My son eating chocolate cake at my brothers wedding when he was a toddler. It was all over his face!
I used to love Sundays when my mum was baking, the house would smell amazing and she always let me scrape the bowl after
My grandma’s apple pie!
My dad’s sausage stew on a Saturday
My first time cooking and trying traditional Indian food at my best friends house with her Indian mum when I was 15 🙂
Going to my Grans and putting a whole pack of Chewits into a bowl of ice cream, making them go very hard
Making homemade pizza with the kids!
Finding gluten free fish and chip shops is always a great time for me ?
Eating freshly made noodles in Thailand the other summer!
Making Mrs Beetons Bread pudding and squishing the bread with my fingers! Will never forget that
My grandma baking bakewell tart on a Sunday afternoon and me licking the bowl
My best memory to do with food was having a special wine pairing dinner at Michelin star restaurant with my mother
THE FIRST TIME I HAD SHOP BOUGHT FISH AND CHIPS…WONDERFUL
always love trying different local dishes when abroad, think my fav so far is turkish food
My dad cooking his special spaghetti when we used to stay in the holiday hut high up in the Swiss mountains. We loved them and because my dad never cooked otherwise they always seemed extra special
I used to be in hospital a lot when I was a kid, and my favourite meal when I came out was always mini kievs, smash and peas with tomato sauce and mayo mixed together 😮
Probably all the things I used to make often as part of food and nutrition lessons at school! Sautéing onions, chopping oranges…certain things make me think of school.
Eating ice cream at the seaside 🙂
Walking back from the pub with my future in-laws for our first Christmas dinner together, with me still trying to make that good impression. We started saying, “Can anyone smell burning?” It was, what was left of, my handbag. I’d flicked a bit of smouldering cigarette on or in my bag, and it had smouldered away half the bag. Not quite the good impression I was hoping for 😀
I can remember sitting in my high-chair and not wanting a banana pudding of some sort!
Eating sweaty cheese sandwiches in the car at the beach with my family, while the rained poured down around us!
My mum baking cakes, the whole house would smell yummy, and she would let me help even though I would have probably messed it all up.
Best memory would be watching my mum cooking yeast buns, the lovely smell straight out off the oven, and the butter oozing from them when warm. Yummy!
my cousin putting milk on ther potatoes
Suet crust on steak pies!! I wish I had been taught how to make it!
My best is the first time i tried steak over in america & omg it did thing to me that food has never done before. i wasnt a huge meat lover until i tried that & now im a massive fan of steak but it no where near as good as there steak
enjoying cornish cream teas as a child on holiday in Cornwall
My favourite memory to do with food was my parents letting us go to the local chip shop for fish and chips. It was a rare treat!
My favourite memory of food is getting a chinese after the saturday disco when i was lickle 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
My neapolitan ice cream cone that I used to get from the ice cream van as a kid & everytime I’d go back to my house to open the gate the ice cream would fall off the cone & land on the pavement haha, I don’t think i ever tasted it without the grit 🙁
Eating Pad Thai for the first time in Thailand
All the Maltese food my mum and grandmother would cook for me growing up. 🙂
fish and chips at the seaside as a child!
Family Sunday dinners
My best memory is having an enormous hotdog at DisneyLand when I was young!
My mums yorkshire puddings straight out the oven all light and fluffy
My mum’s cooking. I grow up in the South of France and everything there is so delicious. My mum is a fabulous cook.
I used to make Gingerbread Queens with my mum sometimes when I was a kid 🙂
Best Memory is definitely cooking with my Mum when I was a child and being allowed to lick the spoon and bowl after cake making !!
My Grandad used to make use cocoa and sugar mixed in an egg cup, we would lick our fingers and eat it!
My mum’s apple pie! Mine never taste as good!
I love roast dinners and proper puds, which my mum inlaw always makes
cream sodas in the summer holidays when little
Spending time together as a family each day
Making (and eating!!) gorgeous and tasty pumpkin tortelloni..such an achievement!
My nannas cooking when i was a kid! She cooked everything from scratch and her food was delicious as was her baking x
Sunday roasts with all the family together
Visiting my Grandma & Grandad is my best memory to do with food. Grandma always did loads of baking when we came to visit as children & she made the best chocolate cake ever.
Such great memories from a wonderful lady
Any time I get to eat fish and chips at the seaside, even better if they’re from newspapers and in the open air!
I remember a birthday when I was a child, where I had a cake in the shape of an owl (I absolutely loved them back then!)
Making cakes with my mum and her letting me lick the spoon!
I used to love it when my mum used to try out new recipes from books – so many delicious ones that we found.
My parents used to have a restaurant when I was a child, I loved every moment of it, mum used to fetch us from school and we would go to the restaurant, have lunch and do our homework. Then we would go home.
My best memory with food is cooking lessons at school and learning to make and decorate a Christmas cake and have made one every year since
My favourite food memory is watching my best friend nearly burn the school down in our first home economics lesson 😉
On one of my birthdays, my mum put a large tressel table outside, covered in a table cloth and a mountain of food, absolutely loads, I had a fab birthday that year, one I’ve never forgotten x
Ice cream dates with my then boyfriend, now husband!
Eating seafood from a van in Cornwall when I was young
A really hot day in the Algarve and eating chicken piri piri cooked on a barbecue.It was years ago but it’s still a very vivid memory.
Tomatoes from my Grandad’s greenhouse. Just the smell of tomatoes in a warm greenhouse makes me nostalgic and a bit teary.
A Sunday roast when I don’t have to cook
My mum’s roast dinners every Sunday
Eating ice cream on the beach with my grandad when i was a kid <3
Eating a cheese and onion sandwich in a pub on the way to South Wales for a holiday. It was a taste sensation, simple, and my first introduction to a humble pub being the perfect place to sustain a long journey and not for just getting drunk in. It felt like a wayside tavern from medieval times, but was probably just a boozer near Newport.
Baking day at home when I was a child lovely smells, licking the spoon and wonderful things to eat after tea.
Toasting crumpets on a open fire whilst watching The Clangers
My mum’s baked birthday cakes
The first time my parents took us for an Indian meal. Sizzling chicken tandoori! I’ve loved spicy food ever since
It has to be eggs and soldiers as a child
Eating meals on holidays and finding new foods
Sitting on the beach eating vinegar soaked chips
Roast dinners
Making apple crumble with my Nan, in her really old fashioned kitchen
Planting tomatoes with my mum in the summer!
The roast lamb dinner I just had for my dinner.
A massive bbq picnic my parents had for me when i graduated
The first time I tried sticky toffee pudding… *drools*
The first birthday cake I made that came out perfect
Helping my mum to bake cakes and being allowed to eat the left over batter from the bowl.
no matter what I made or how it turned out my dad always ate it with a smile. Now he’s gone I miss my best ‘taster’
I have lovely childhood memories of living in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. I remember looking forward so much to hearing the music from the fish & chip van visiting on a Friday night to let us know they had arrived. The smell was amazing.x
Having a fondue as a kid
Backing chocolate cake with my mum when I was little. She didn’t let me do it too often because I made such a mess. I use the same recipe with my children and they make just as much mess!
Picking ripe figs from the tree in my grandfather’s garden – felt like such a treat!
Eating popcorn on the sofa having movie night with the family when I was a boy.
When I was little we went to Italy and I tried pistachio nut ice cream for the first time and it was absolutely amazing.
My best food memory is being in my grandparents kitchen making rock cakes with my grandmother 🙂 I can’t have been very old but it’s a memory that’s always stuck with me so vividly!
My grandmas corned beef hash, I still make it but its not the same
You’re a clever lady! These photos are beautiful. I’m not entering the competition though because I don’t want the temptation in the house!!!
Thanks sweetie, it was lots of fun trying to take decent shots for Lazy Day Foods. I wish we could enter… Jumpy loves those treats so much!
Baking with my granddad in his bakery
I always remember cooking with my great nan, its the only person I did baking with. I remember once we made toffee, it was great fun walking round the kitchen stretching it. my great nan was a great cook, there was never any scales in sight.
My grandmas broth as a child, I didn’t like vegetables except the ones in it!
Childhood food memories always include sitting near the beach eating cones of chips while trying to avoid greedy seagulls.
Afternoon tea with my family 🙂
Thanksgivings with the family in Texas before moving to the UK
Sitting on the Parisian pavement, eating croissants and French bread…
eating in a field while camping the whole family was lovely
sunday roast as all the family would be there
my best memories are of sunday dinners at my Grans and her wonderful yorkshire puddings
The first meal i cooked my new husband he flushed it down the toilet! And the dumplings took ages to flush away! I have improved since then and 35 years later have still got the same husband!
Ha ha, you made me laugh with your anecdote. He could have blocked the toilet with the dumplings!
Baking cakes with my mother as a child which gave me a skill that has stayed with me.
Eating a snail for the first time. It tasted great but I couldn’t get over it was a snail!
Sitting in the garden aged about two, eating custard cream biscuits
A birthday cake my mum made in the shape of the house, It was so smothered in icing it was virtually inedible
Trying my Grandma’s gooseberry pie for the first time. I loved it and haven’t had it since she passed away.
my grandmas toffee apples
making my first dinner for the whole family i was about 11 and was very proud of myself
That is so hard! fab pics BTW!
Perhaps a BBQ on the beach involving lots of prawns 🙂
I love a barbecue on the beach… well, a barbecue anywhere to be honest!
I am now making my grandchildren the meals my gran made for me. The memories evoked are priceless
Baking apple and rhubarb crumble with my mum when I was little and she dropped it on the floor smashing the dish. It went everywhere but we did laugh about it. X
I remember making my first Victoria Sponge at school when I was about 12. I was very proud !
Eating my mums lasagne and getting to have garlic bread which was a massive treat and felt SO sophisticated back then!
I love cooking with my dad in the great outdoors!
Cooking with my Mom is a good memory but an even better one is that I am now teaching my Son and eldest Daughter to cook. I love watching them in the kitchen
My Grandfather was a baker and confectioner and used to make amazing, cakes, scones etc. As a child not only did he make my birthday cakes but he made smaller ones for my dolls and teddy bears. His sultana cake was legendary!
When I was 8 I sneakily opened the back of my advent calendar and ate all the chocolates in one go. My mum eventually found out, and I got told off, but it was worth it!
Ha ha, you’re a genius!
Baking my first ever simnel cake and being so proud of it.
Curled up with my mum eating chocolate ice cream straight out the tub!
I have 2:
Making banana bread with my mum and dad (they both cooked it with me when I was little)
Having my nan mash up all my veggies etc when I was really little for my roast dinner. She did amazing roasts!
Boiled dippy eggs with soliders
Coming home from school and as I was walking down the street towards my house smelling my mums cooking, my favourite was the sausage casserole she used to cook loved sitting down as a family and eating.
Watching my Polish Grandmother make Pierogi and then eating them with my family.
We have a secret family recipe for mince pies passed on by my great aunt. She never had much money and, when we were kids, would always make us the mince pies for Christmas and apologise that it wasn’t much. The thing is, even as present-greedy kids, the mince pies were our favourite gifts… they were delicious, and every year we looked forward to the chance of getting them. My brother and I would panic if there wasn’t a cake tin under the tree!
She’s passed now, but every year I make those same mince pies and smile thinking of her. It’s a Christmas tradition for the family to eat them and talk about her – they’re the best mince pies I’ve ever tasted and even now people always comment on them when trying them.
It’s such a lovely tradition, inspired by a truly heart-warming memory. I love things like that!
Yes! I think everybody has those dishes that remind them of other people, and cooking them and teaching the next generation to cook them is a nice way of keeping the family memories alive. 🙂
Birthday Cake When I Was 5 🙂
open air picnics with my mum and dad when I was little, eating egg and cress sandwiches
Taking the train from Rannoch to Mallaig and sharing prawns looking over the sea. I don’t remember how long ago it was. But a lovely day.
Every time we went to visit my great aunt she would have a big pan of Scotch broth on her stove and would bake her own bread. This year she will turn 100 and still makes her broth. No matter how I’ve tried I could never replicate her end result but say Scotch broth and Auntie Jean is in on my mind
Oh that’s such a nice one! Happy birthday to your Auntie Jean when she turns 100!
Banana fritters made by a Chinese friend
My best food memories are all connected with learning to bake with Grandma and my late Mum. I still use their recipes and have passed them on to my children and now my grandchildren 🙂
going to cookery classes as a teenager and loving it
Making custard slices with my mother when I was a child, they were quite messy but tasted delicious.
Trying my first ever Krispy Kreme doughnut at a service station on the way home from a trip away, heavenly!
my mum making jam tarts
Making pumpkin pies every Thanksgiving.
My mam teaching me how to bake cakes and scones when I was young.
My best memory of food is the delicious smell of cheese and potato pie that would fill the house whenever I was ill. My mum knows it’s my favourite and even at 32, and I’m ill, she’ll still make it for me and bring it over
Christmas dinner with some French friends. There must have been about 18 courses and I have never felt so stuffed in all my life
My grandmother’s chocolate mousse cake
Hot homemade soup on cold, wet night.
Eating a massive sharing platter with my husband on our first anniversary trip to Rome, it was amazing!
I remember having a family picnic with the best cheese and ham sandwiches ever. I think they taste so good because I was hungry
Lovely
My favourite memory is sitting eating some amazing homemade cakes and tea in a café on a beautiful day on St Mary’s on the Isle of Scilly.Would love to go back there as the cakes were the best I have ever tasted.
My wedding cake, it was very special to me and made with love.
Making my first cake
My nan Black forest gateau! Yummy!
My mum was a chef so her teaching me to cook and bake growing up! thats my favourite memories i now try to pass on my little boy! x
Roast dinners
Eating Sunday Roast as a kid it was a big family dinner and always so tasty and on Sundays we had dessert too 🙂
Staying at my grandparents’ house, Grandad was constantly baking something for us, we had to be rolled out the door when it was time to leave!
My Dad cooking on a calor stove when we were camping – he never went near the kitchen when we were at home!
my mum making roulade she got in a right mess
Eating a luxurious outdoor picnic in the middle of a glorious summer, whilst quaffing on fine alcohol, the sunlight glinting on the drinks glasses!
A lovely family picnic last year, me and my little girl made lots of cakes for it!
Roast dinners around my grandmas loved those dinners
Its got to be my Nan’s Sunday dinners. Pork belly, roasters veg, gravy. Followed by pie with ice cream, cream and custard!!
The sound of the ice cream van growing up, just a local family concern, they used to make their own and it tasted delicious to me back then!
I have a lasting memory of my Mum’s home made tablet just delicious
Mine is making the Christmas cake every year with my mum when I was a child. We still do it now and the smell and taste always takes me back to childhood Christmases.
I fremember making pizza at school and my dad saying it was the best pizza he had ever tasted, he still talks about it now 23 years later!
picking blackberries as a kid with my late gran then watching her make blackberry jelly jam
It would have to be eating freshly caught mackerel on a bbq in the South of France on my first holiday abroad when I was 10 I can remember it like it was yesterday.
When I was a kid, I hated, HATED spag bol, so I would hide it on the bookshelves behing my dads records when he wasn’t looking!!
My favourite memory of a meal was our wedding breakfast
Making scones with my grandma 🙂
I used to love my nan’s breakfasts – They were perfect.
I used to love making homemade toffee with my granny! I used to get to lick the spoon oh it was lovely, Her toffee was the best 🙂
Making Bruce Bogtrotters Chocolate Cake from.Matilda after having the Roald Dahl cookbook as a birthday present when I was 8! I still remember how good it tasted! 🙂
friends and I by the river with a scratch picnic from the corner shop dappled sunlight wasps and all
wonderful
Baking days with my mum and a kitchen full of cakes and pies by the afternoon!
Eating chocolate filled crepes in Paris at night taking in all the sights and the wonderful smells
I used to have curry parties at a different friend’s house every fortnight and we’d all take a turn to cook.
Well there’s a couple so hope it’s OK to post. One’s more normal. I remember when I was younger and we used to go down to Cornwall for the summer holidays and it used to take ages to get there so we used to set off in the middle of the night (about 12 ish) and get there about dinner time lol – we always used to take egg mayo sandwiches and the smell of them still reminds me of the stops we used to have on the way. 🙂
The second one is a funny one. When my sister and I were younger my sister wanted to decorate the trifle Mum had just made. Mum said “Ok, and the hundreds and thousands are in the cupboard”. Unfortunately so were the caraway seeds. Guess which ones ended up on the trifle lol.
Brilliant memories! Thanks for sharing them.
The banana prawns that I had when we were in Nelson, New Zealand
Trips to Lindesfarne visiting my grandparents and the first thing we’d have was bacon sandwiches made with stotty bread! Amazing memories 🙂
When I was 9 years old we got a dog. I could finally get rid of any dinner I didn’t like by sneakily feeding him under the table!
When I was little I remember going raspberry picking and my aunt made raspberry jam. I was so proud to have picked the raspberries used in the jam 🙂
Having dinner at my nans on a Monday after school – we used to have spaghetti shapes on toast and she used to challenge us to find the ‘ladder’ every time.
My Nanas Sunday Roasts were legendary. I don’t think I’ve ever had roast potatoes as good as the ones she made.
Baking some cakes with my dad for my mum when I was little x
Coming up the stairs at my Grandads block of flats and smelling one of his enormous Sunday roasts wafting down 🙂
I love trying new food especially when I am on holidays abroad
My best friends mom taught me how to make my first apple pie, from the apples in her garden
The day I finally tasted smoked salmon after my dad passed away and realising how yummy it is. I’d spent so many years saying…”Dad, that looks disgusting”…Sorry Dad 🙂 x
My best memories with food always involve picnics we used to have when I was younger in the sunshine!!
Mum’s Xmas pudding every xmas
When my uncle used to make jam tart from scratch
Every time my Nan came to visit us she would bring a homemade cheesecake without fail!
Chicken stew my mum made with giblets in the 50s when money was scarse
Eating fruit bon-bons in bed with my granny when I was six. She sadly died less than six months later and had been so I’ll but just for those few moments life was perfect
Eating fresh gumbo in Louisiana whilst traveling with my grandmother when I was a child.
My grandad making his homemade rice pudding for us all
the amazing teriyaki show cook in Cancun – great experience, great food.
A few years ago I won a personal chef who cooked a 3 course meal for 8 of us in my home. The food was fantastic and worthy of a Michelin star!
Oh that’s the best thing to win!
Being given ice cream and cherries with my grandma 🙂
my grandmother’s cakes she baked, she was the best baker in the family
When I was little I remember my mum bringing me out the best birthday cake I’ve ever had, I remember a picture of a unicorn, apparently I wouoldn’t let her cut it up for ages (which is surprising to hear as I’m a cake monster now)
making butterfly cakes with my mum
Fish and chips at the seaside
my grans home made soup 🙂
there are so many lovely memories but one is watching my granny make her homemade pork cheese so yummy ,smashing giveaway indeed
cooking with my grandma
My nan growing her own fruit and then making enormous amounts of jam with them
Smoked salmon and black pudding canapes – made me realise I do like black pudding.
I remember trying a seafood platter in france. I expected something similar to a paella but it was massive and some of it had shells still on, I had to ask our host how to start & eat it.
When I was a young boy I would make myself a Thick White Jam Sandwich from an uncut loaf and sit in the house porch eating the sandwich by going round and round from the outside to in watching the “Rain” come down.
The smell of my Nan’s kitchen on a Thursday, which was baking day. She baked for the week, including treacle and bakewell tarts to be used as puddings, jam tarts, little buns and Victoria sponges. Very fond memories.
As a child, my mums homemade meat and potato pie was the best thing ever, I’m 45 now and still cannot make it like my mum used too 🙂
lots of food with family!!!!! of course all the foods were greek and we lone them all.my mom cooks great
white bread propper butter letticue sugar sandwiges with my amazing great gran when i was five then makeing apple and crumble pie yum!
My nans apple pies, she always got them just right. Miss them
Playing with the leftover pastry from making a gypsey tart. Also licking the bowl and spoon after. Xx
Picnics on the beach as a kid
Most of my food memories are with my Nan. I remember visiting her for sunday lunch – a full roast (with cauliflower cheese grills for me) and then just a few hours later she’d do tea – cold meats, pickled beetroot, salad and ALWAYS dairylea triangles, and cucumber with the skin taken off.
standing on a stool next to my mum baking cakes………… getting to lick the spoon or the bowl
The best food memory I have is the first time I made a cake by myself and I got to lick the bowl by myself! Lol
My favourite meal was the first one my son cooked at Christmas.
Maltese peppered cheese and peppered sausage pizza in Malta, those memories will stay forever!
My grandmother’s cooking.She made the best chicken soup and I loved it 🙂
when i was about 10 making my first sunday lunch on my own,with me running back and forward to the sitting room asking my mam for instructions.
Always my mums Sunday roasts
My Mother’s Rhubarb crumble
Eating fish and chips at the seaside when I was little
Greenhouse tomatoes – nothing is better than the smell of a greenhouse with tomatoes x
We used to eat our meals at the table, such a shame not many families do that anymore. It’s important as you get to chat about things and it’s a good way to teach children good table manners which is very important.
my great nan used to make a pudding called apple snow it was almost like an apple sauce but frothy and she would crumble a Cadbury flake on the top of it! it was so good and I always used to look forward to it when we would go and visit, wish I knew how to make it now but I bet it would never be the same
licking the mixer bits when my mum baked cakes
Helping my nan in the kitchen
My mum was always experimenting with recipes and I was chief critic so I would always give her my honest opinion and she would navigate away from the instructions and make some wonderful culinary delights, one of which was a half chocolate half oaty cereal bar that was intended to be biscuits but it was sublime.
My best memory was my first picnic with my boyfriend – he provided it and the wine!
has to be sunday roasts when i lived at home <3
When I was little every week when we went to the supermarket. I’d run and get some belly pork then ask the butcher to put some Chinese dressing on it. It tasted amazing
Eating home made drop scones straight from the griddle
As a child helping my Mum pick all the fresh home grown veg out of our garden 🙂
My nans cheese sandwich with proper butter and thick sliced fresh bread and thick slices of cheese. Yum
home made Indian Tandoori chicken
Walking home from the pub eating fish and chips with my friends……. happy times…….
Standing on a stool in the kitchen baking scones with my Mum and Nana to take to Brownies 🙂
Baking with my Nan in her kitchen in Bakewell. Making everything except Bakewell Tarts or Puddings lol xx
My nans house on a Sunday when I was little. She always used to make her famous ham soup and dumplings and we’d have jelly and ice cream after ?
My mum making me (heating up!) tomato soup when I was ill.
Making cupcakes with my mum when I was little
Making dinner with my lovely late gran 🙂
Going on famiky picnics and my Aunties cheeese and inion pie , yummy
My favourite foods when I was a child were frikadeller (a German food) and chips! They remind me a lot of my childhood.
We had sandwiches and a cone of chips on the beach,i remember my brother digging a chip in the sand and then giving me it(all innocently lol) i didn’t know any better and ate it-i was about 5 or 6 haha
Cheese and onion pie at my Grans on a Friday x yummy
My mum’s homemade chocolate mousse – can’t wait until we visit her later this year 😀
My grandma’s baking day once a week! The smells.. …and the table covered in cakes and fresh bread!
Fussel Milk Sandwiches and Banana Sandwiches
My mums homemade fruit cake
When I was a child I lived in a former French colony in Africa. On my way to school we always stopped at the boulangerie for their take on “pain au chocolat” which was a small bar of Milka chocolate (the one with the lilac wrapper) baked in a mini baguette. I still salivate over the memory of biting into hot crusty baguette filled with melted chocolate. According to my parents, the recipe came about because a consignment of chocolate had melted in the heat and could no longer be sold as chocolate bars, so the baker decided to use it up. He could not make traditional pain au chocolat (or any type of puff pastry) as it was too hot & humid, so just wrapped the chocolate in ordinary bread mix. It was so popular it became a regular bake. Whatever the origin, I’ve never had it anywhere since.
Oh that sounds like my kind of treat!
Cooking with my nana when I was younger 🙂
My mum is Polish and I remember her making pierogi every Saturday.
I think my granny’s cooking is amazing. She does this thing with spinach, onion, tomato and potato which I have been enjoying at every opportunity since I was a baby.
My best memory of food is the first time I made homemade bread…..I was so impressed with myself and it smelt and tasted yummy xx
Diving off a boat in Thailand, catching a squid and grilling it on board… along with some of the tastiest seafood I’ve ever had x
Family sunday dinners are the best memory
Eating Ginger and Mascarpone Cheesecake in a restaurant when I was younger.
Toffee apples on bonfire night made by my mum for all the neighbourhood kids
My best memory with food, has to be my mum teaching me to bake lots of different cakes 🙂
As my Dad used to work away, we made cheesecakes, carrot cake and scones!… So now when my husband works away, I bake with my two young children 🙂 xx
Eating tapas on my first trip to Spain.