What’s your best “food that your grandmother made perfectly and everyone else is doing wrong”?

by HopeBorn8574

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  1. Obviously everything grandmothers make is perfect but what are your favourites?

  5. My grandmother makes kebabpizza like the good ol’ days.

    Glorious Sweden, rulers of the north, will crush inferior PIGS food.

  7. Polpette, she used to make them by mixing potatoes, beef, persley and bread crumbs.

    It’s been more than a decade since the last time I’ve eaten polpette, my grandma has long been dead and in the few years before her death she lost all her mental faculties so she was unable to cook.

    If I were to make them myself it wouldn’t be the same, also, I don’t remember the exact recipe, I’d have to try again and again to find the right balance of ingredients.

  9. Soda bread. It’s so simple to make, I must have made it a hundred times with her, but I just can’t make it taste quite the same. What I’d give for a slice of her one with a load of butter, never get the chance again.

    We might laugh at Luigi for being a mummy’s boy, but I think we’re all Grannie’s boys.

  11. Absolutely everything and i can’t fathom how other people can cope with the inferior slop they have to call food.

  13. My grandma made the best tigercake I’ve ever had, even with her recipe somehow nobody comes close.

  14. My grandma had the cake technique down to perfection. She used to make Strawberry cake like the one below and a version with assorted fruits like Kiwis, apricots, tangerine etc. Now that in and of itself isn’t very hard to do, you just cut some strawberries, throw em on a cake base you smeared vanilla pudding on and then pour some “Tortenguss” on it (gelling agent, like agar agar or gelatine mixed with a bit of strawberry juice) to git it the shine.

    Only when my grandma made it it would look like like the pinnacle of perfection. Every Strawberry absolutely evenly cut and placed and that shiny surface would look like they are encased in expoxy resin. Absolutely perfect, not a single bubble, a surface as smooth as a mirror and as clear as it gets.

    I can’t even find pictures from cookbooks or food sites on the internet that look as good to show what I mean…

    https://preview.redd.it/qx5xdnhcfwwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec0bd6f225c0ff689c8ce2483b033738e553613

    The second one was some kind of chocolate buttercream cake. Unfortunately she never wrote a recipe down as she did this like once every week for friend who requested one, so she only ever did this from memory.

    We tried to write down what she does, but never really could get everything as she kept forgetting shit she was just doing automatically and unfortunately she died, so I haven’t seen or eaten a cake like this ever again.

  15. https://preview.redd.it/laxuhztmgwwc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=6675ac3602eeb0edb421f1431dc3f01ed0b180a7

    One food that my grandma did very well was lipeäkala/lutefisk before christmas, usually with a good white pepper sauce and potatoes. It’s a fish that has been soaked in lye, and that makes it’s structure quite jello-like, and not everyne likes it. Back in the days she used to make lipeäkala from the beginning, from local fish soaking it in lye, but the proces takes days.

  16. Gäddbullar; she’d mince pike and mix it with smoked roe, sour cream, dill, white pepper, and cream before breading and frying.

    Absolutely amazing, sadly I couldn’t find a picture because it’s a very local dish

  17. I don’t remember my grandma ever cooking something for us. Maybe pancakes once when I was really young

  19. Grandma’s desert pancakes. Cakes in general. Man I miss her <3 Rest her soul.

  21. Lángos i swear on my life that lángos everywhere else tastes a lot worse(more dry) than at my grandma

  22. My maternal grandmother made pretty much everything perfectly but she really excelled at making [tjälknöl](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjälknöl) which for non swedes basically is a roast (usually moose) that’s oven roasted on low heat from frozen for several hours, served with port wine reduction or chanterelle sauce and potatisgratäng (which I guess translates into gratin dauphinois?) Simple but she perfected it and no one has even come close.

    My paternal grandfather made the world’s best pancakes because he made them with so much love. Shut up I’m not sentimental

  24. https://gianni.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Caponata.jpg

    She was sicilian

    She was totally blind (couldn’t even see light)

    She lived alone for years after my grandad died

    And she still managed to perfectly fry TONS of eggplants by herself, and make the world’s best caponata. The only dish my mamma will never be able to perfectly replicate.

  28. Did we turn in to r/europe or r/wholesome?

    Why are we all patting this guy on the back for posting pictures of preprocessed garbage food warmed up in a frying pan?

  29. Unfortunately nothing. I really like my Mom‘s cooking, but I don’t where she got that because Grandma used to cook „eatable“ things at best..

  30. Anything my grandmother made was better than anything ever made in the history of the universe period.

  31. Shortbread… The second part isn’t really accurate, she just does it very well. She can’t cook anything else, well she can but it typically tastes like shit.

    Even her husband makes fun of her cooking in front of guests, it is that bad… She really tries though (I don’t know if that makes it more depressing or funnier).

    Other grandmother is okay at cooking… I mean, my parents are really good at cooking so usually take over the responsibilities whenever they are staying with her. She is good at stuff for the barbecue, but the fire risk always seems to coincide with me going over to stay there.

  32. My Grandmas blood sausages are to die for. I have gout and eating organs and blood is about the worst thing i can eat, but they’re worth the pain.

  35. Schlupperkohl or also called Strünkerchen

    a cooked salad where also the stem is eaten. She made that with a cream sauce and potatoes.

  36. I was never old enough to appreciate my grandma’s cooking, but I know my mom learned from her and my mom is a fucking great chef.

    She does most things the traditional way but she makes it with less effort, like it tastes the same as in a restaurant, but you bet your ass my mom is more efficient than an actual chef.

  39. Her Krokettki. Pancakes, filled with sauerkraut, mushrooms, or sometimes potatoes. Then panaded, and fried crisp.

    My mother is a great cook, too.

    Now I am a mom of two, and I’m decent in the kitchen. It’s good enough that my children prefer my food over the local restaurants.

    Except for pizza. Little shitheads.

  40. Neither of my grandmas could cook for shit. My *mom* was the cooking powerhouse.

    That being said, chicken fricassee. Hers was the fucking best.

  41. My grandma is an awful cook who subjected her children to culinary torture. This results in my mother being slightly better at cooking than her. 

    I moved out less than a year ago and instantly grew a taste palette. 

  42. One of my grandmothers cannot cook and the other is a vegetarian

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