Cooking Up Special Memories

I have to confess: I’m not really a good cook!

Cooking the daily meals is not something I like very much… But I’m the one that is home first, so I always cook.

Still, when I was reading this challenge, immediately some recipes that I would call “family recipes” came in mind. Those recipes were given from mother to daughter for some generations. I know for sure my grandmother cooked some of those recipes, and gave them to my mother.

Two of them are important to me.

The first one that popped in is a raisin bread, which is not really a bread, but more a cake. We ate them when I was little on holidays like Easter and Christmas. At breakfast, with butter.

I still like it a lot and bake it every year, as did my mom. Now I’m baking it for my mom and dad and last year my sis was jealous, so I baked her one too.  The funny thing about this raisin bread is that other people don’t like it! How could they not like it?? But hey, that leaves more for me, don’t you think?

The other recipe that I was thinking of  is the cheese fondue I made this layout about.  Also a very special recipe for me with a lot of good feelings thinking back.

It was difficult to choose between those two recipes for a layout. So I started thinking…. which one shall I take? From both I have a recipe.

The one for the raisin bread is written by my mom, which makes it special for me.

The recipe for the cheese fondue have been written by me, a few years after I was married. It is written on the back of a calendar, so it’s fun to see when I did write it down.

Both recipes will go down in my time capsule, cause they mean a lot for me!

But which of those dishes would I use for my layout?  It was hard to choose.

I decided to look through my pictures. Would there be a photo where you can see us eating or making the raisin bread or the cheese fondue? So I was going through a box with old pics from my youth. And guess what,  there was a pic from me celebrating my birthday and we are eating cheese fondue!

Wow, I was so excited! It brought back so many memories. And having all these memories caught in a photo made me so happy.

First are there the persons on the pic: my favorite grandmother is on the right front in the picture and I’m the little girl with the piggy tails at the right end of the table, next to my dad. My mom must have taken the picture.

Then it shows that my birthday (at the 4^th of July) was almost always celebrated outside. And that it was always such a event.  People came to celebrate and I could choose what we would eat. Cheese fondue!!

Finding that picture made it very easy to put my layout together! Just choose my papers (there had to be some yellow in it!) and go with the flow….

But what if I didn’t had found that photo? How would I have take this challenge then?

Not really a problem I think. Here are a few ideas…

You can:

• Take a picture of the recipe itself and use that on your layout.
• Buy all the ingredients for the dish and take pictures of that.
• Cook the recipe and take pics of the finished meal and of your family eating it.

Can’t wait to see what you’ll cook up!