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It’s Beginning to Taste a Lot Like Christmas! Our Favorite Christmas Food Memories
What are your family’s favorite Christmas food memories? Learn about some of ours, including why Chex mix and chocolate waffles make our Christmas special. We don’t know about you, but food is one of our favorite parts of the Christmas season! From sweet treats to big family meals, food is just as important as presents and decorations. In our house, it’s simply not Christmas until we’ve made at least one batch of Chex mix. There’s nothing fancy about it, but it sure is good! We eat it by the handful and everyone pretends they’re not trying to hoard all of the Cheez-Its for themselves (shhhh… don’t tell anyone). A note…
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Thanksgiving Traditions: Don’t Mess With The Cornbread!
Thanksgiving traditions often focus on food. We find comfort and security in familiar foods as our taste buds transport us to a place of gratitude. Does one food represent Thanksgiving to you? If that one food is not on the table, does your Thanksgiving dinner feel strange and incomplete? Many of you may say turkey or ham is that food for your family, but for our co-founder Lisa, it’s cornbread. Seriously- don’t mess with the cornbread! It cannot come from a box or a mix. This particular cornbread must be made from scratch with self-rising cornmeal and buttermilk. And….baked in a cast iron skillet! No shortcuts, here, people! Why is…
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Cooking Up Christmas Traditions: Tamales, Pozole & Ponche
Cooking up Christmas traditions is both a family bonding event and a celebration! Learn how tamales, polzole & ponche bring a family closer. Food is entwined in many of our most treasured holiday traditions. We gather with friends and family to enjoy special meals, and prepare recipes that bring back memories of holidays past. Veronica from Chattanooga, Tennessee, looks forward to sharing several favorite dishes with her Mexican family each Christmas: “Growing up in a Mexican household, Christmas Eve is celebrated with a feast of tamales, pozole, and ponche. Unwrapping tamales on Christmas is equally as (or more) exciting than unwrapping presents. The process of making tamales is a long…
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4 Shows That Celebrate Food Memories: Best of Netflix
Celebrate food memories and culture with an evening watching your favorite Netflix shows! Be insired to try new foods and tastes! There’s nothing better than settling in and watching a favorite show at the end of a long day! A bowl of popcorn… A fuzzy blanket… A comfortable couch… a perfect combination! Many of our favorite shows put food memories in the spotlight. If you have a Netflix account, here are four shows to put on your watchlist! The Great British Bake Off The Great British Baking Show has taken the world by storm, and it’s not hard to see why. Delicious baked goods, British accents, contestants who are genuinely…
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Traditional Halloween Food Favorites
Reminisce about those traditional Halloween food favorites! Candy corn? Candy apples? Or was it apple cider? Share your memories! Halloween is almost upon us! Whether you’re a fan of all things spooky or you just have a sweet tooth, this holiday is fun for all ages. Halloween Memories & A Candy Buy Back Our co-founder Sarah always looked forward to trick-or-treating and bringing home a bucket of candy. You know the ones – those orange jack -o-lantern candy buckets. One year, her plastic pumpkin was so full that the handle broke on someone’s doorstep! Things got a bit tricky when Sarah got braces and couldn’t enjoy any sticky or hard…
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Cucumbers and Cookbooks: Keeping Family Recipes Alive
Family recipes create special memories and can be wonderful keepsakes when documented for future generations. Some food memories stick with us from childhood. Even if we don’t have written recipes, we remember seeing foods prepared in certain ways by our friends and family members. If one step is skipped or an ingredient is changed, we can tell it’s not the “real deal” we remember. The little details can make all the difference. Patricia from Westford, Massachusetts, knows this to be true. She remembers the particular way her mother would prepare cucumbers to be transformed into delicious pickles: “My own food memory is simple fresh pickles. My mother always scored thecucumbers…
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Pass the Memories, Please!
Many of us learned to cook from our family members. Cooking is a great bonding opportunity, and a chance to pass recipes down to younger generations of budding chefs. Ashley from Ossining, New York, grew up cooking alongside her grandparents. Here, she shares two favorite recipes that remind her of them. Dutch Apple Pie “Many of my fondest childhood memories take place in my grandma’s kitchen in Leo, Indiana. When I was a kid I would spend a lot of time with her and my grandpa. They both enjoyed being in the kitchen and really helped to nurture my enthusiasm for cooking and baking. I remember making “soup” for them…
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A Taste of Home – Cincinnati Skyline Chili
Cincinnati Skyline chili evokes mid-western memories of soccer games, big appetites and family time – win or lose! Across the United States, you’ll find legendary dishes that are integral to the identities of the places they come from. New York has pizza, Boston has baked beans, St. Louis has frozen custard… and Cincinnati has chili. Founded by Greek immigrants, Skyline Chili has been serving up their signature recipe for over 70 years. [Learn more about the history of Skyline Chili!] Customers can add toppings all the way up to a “5-Way”: spaghetti topped with chili, cheese, diced onions, and beans. However you take your chili, it’s always accompanied by oyster…
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Memories on Every Page: Celebrating National Cookbook Month
Did you know that October is National Cookbook Month? Even in the digital age, there’s still so much to love about good old-fashioned cookbooks! When we flip through the pages of a cookbook, we remember the recipes we’ve made and who we shared them with. Our co-founders, Lisa and Sarah, have been cookbook lovers for their entire lives. Here are some of their favorite cookbooks and the memories behind them. Baking Up a Storm with Betty Crocker I’m Lisa, and I love cookies! I admit it. My sweet tooth loves to be satisfied with a cookie way too often. I once asked my grandfather which of my teeth was the…
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They Put WHAT on Pizza?! A Tasty Discovery in Madrid, Spain
One of the best parts of traveling is tasting foods from different regions and cultures. It’s the perfect excuse to venture outside your comfort zone and try things you couldn’t or wouldn’t order at home. Just ask Karsyn from Charlotte, North Carolina, who experienced this firsthand while traveling in Europe. “I have always had a deep love for food; however, I didn’t fully embrace that love until I traveled abroad. All the flavors and textures of food from around the world changed the way I look at food. One of the best dishes I have had was in Madrid, Spain. I truly think about this dish weekly. It was a…
