I always remember how my grandma mixed a little bit of pumpkin seed oil and vinegar into our starter salad, so every time I'm making it again I get reminded of her ☺️
I'm Native American so my favorite childhood food is Navajo fry bread, or Navajo tacos. I would always show it off at school because I thought it was the single best food ever. We always have it at family reunions, so everytime I have it I'm either remembering sweet memories or making new ones!
👋Abenaki! Mine is definitely my Grandfather’s homemade Succotash. He would make it for me when ever we would come to visit. Even if it was late at night by the time we got there, it would be warm on the stove❤❤❤
I'm Korean and my childhood food is joomukbap too, but with seaweed, sesame oil, and scrambled egg. My mom used to wrap each of them with thin slice of ham like a ribbon, a lot more fancier in my eyes!😆 I loved them so much that I would always show off to my friends💖
I am Mexican-American, and my on every field trip my mami made me tacos con chorizo y papas. 😋 Its Mexican sausage with potatoes. My ma always made sure to literally put a dozen so i could share. ( 〃▽〃) i always felt proud when everyone would love them and eat it all. 🥲 I always took that for lunch from elementary through high school 😂 well she also made papas con carne. (Meat and potatoes) she always made sure to make me them papas con chorizo. Hope everyone has a good day 🥰
Ooh my mom would make papas con Carne with tostadas for dinner it was one of my favorites:) My favorite field trip/day trip lunch was always a torta with chorizo, papas, aguacate, jitomate, cebolla, cilantro, y queso fresco 😫👌
@@weliveinasociety4629omg yes them tortas be 🔥 one of my fav fillings for toratas, is melanesa de pollo or the beef one. Ugh with the avocado 😋with the veggies and crema. Damn you got me wanting some lol.
My mom used to work full time & never made me a lunch but it’s beautiful to read about everyone’s experiences and how you guys have this one food you connect with❤️ (my mum loved me a lot, other family members made food or we got lunch money, she just isn’t the most skilled cook & worked super hard at her job. We’re very proud of her!)
@@CafeMaddy For you to take your time out of your busy day & reply with such kindness speaks volumes to your beautiful heart! I learnt to cook and enjoy treating my mum to yummy food now 😊
I’m absolutely going to make this! Being Jamaican, the food that feeds my inner child has to be stew peas… it has rolled dumplings, meat and peas and the gravy is divine. I’m stuck between that and ackee & salt fish with fried dumpling.
On cancelled school days when the snow and ice gets to slick here in Alaska, my mom would boil a whole chicken to feed my siblings and I. I would always get the thigh and leg piece as it symbolizes her love. So boiled chicken with salt and black pepper is my childhood go-to food.
I come from an Indian family and my Amma would do something similar with curry chicken or beef and rice. You kind of just mix up the gravy and meat and rice together and form a ball in one hand and feed it to kids. It’s a very nostalgic and warm memory 🥰
Pho. My mom's pho always puts that warm feeling in my heart everytime I eat it. It's gotta be hers though. None of that cardboard in dirt water they sell at Trader Joe's.
my aunty would always put too much egg, and less meat, i kept on telling her to put more meat and less egg, bc thats hhow i like it. But mum makes it perfect
one of my favorite foods when i was a kid is this thing called bachka. i honestly have no idea how its actually pronounced, but its like a savoury and crispy pancake made of fermented dal (lentils) and rice turned in to batter and has whole green chickpeas inside. since the chickpeas are hard to find in canada, my mom always made them with green peas and now i prefer them like that haha. my mom would make it as like a special weekend breakfast and i would eat it with ketchup or achaar. as a kid i never really like the kind of fermented flavors in other indian foods like dosa or idli (it came to me later on haha) but i always loved bachka.
My childhood food is mac and cheese. I loved it as a kid, and I still do now. It gives me such good memories. But barbeque hotdogs also does the same, since we would have small parties where people would bring food and we'd make hotdogs and burgers.
Absolutely. I make mac & cheese at least once a week. It feeds my inner child and it's also my #1 safe food... but only Kraft. Everything else is gross to me, especially if they add like 5 different types of cheese. But I'll add grilled cheese & tomato soup as well as Spaghettios to the list. At first I was embarrassed to have such simple foods where everyone else in these comments is talking about very ethnic foods, only half of which I know how to pronounce. But this "trashy" food is my childhood. And thank you for sharing it with me
My mom would make breakfast with left over rice sometimes and cook eggs in it. Sometimes I would have cheese or salsa with it or both if I was feeling crazy bit idk it's really simple but it's a very comforting food for me. Sometimes we would use left over small pasta as well
The food that feeds my inner child is definitely Coditos con tuna, it's basically a pasta salad with tuna and sometimes vegetables. It's a food that's really common for families in Panama to make because of how easy and affordable it is, it's a food that I love and I could eat non-stop. Ever since I moved here to the US I found out how much I miss the food, since most ingredients for Panamanian dishes are quite rare or simply cannot be found here, it can be really hard to eat foods that remind me of my home but with Coditos con tuna however the ingredients are not something out of the ordinary, I can find them literally everywhere and it will instantly remind me of my childhood and my home. It's really good lol.
As a Filipino, I went to a lot of family parties ever since I was little and there would always be Filipino barbecue. To this day, it's still one of my favorite foods and when I eat it, it brings me joy everytime and reminds me of how I grew up loving it just as much as I do now :)
Mine is tostadas! It was one of the few meals my mom would cook for us every week so I always looked forward to it. Creamy beans, crisp lettuce, sharp cheese, tons of salsa and onions~
This was the first Korean food that I tried to make in 2017 after watching Maangchi everyday 😅 I still have the video download in my phone Btw love from India 🇮🇳❤❤❤
My mom's chicken soup. Growing up I didn't eat a lot of chicken coz it was pricey and my family's financials were bad at that time. But we had it on special days like my birthday and Christmas day. I remember it was 10 years ago, I was in my early 20s and came back home from work feeling cold. I texted my mom I'm not feeling well. When I got home my mom brought in a bowl of chicken soup and it was the best cure to my cold coz its so hearty and made with love and especially it always reminds me of my childhood, like I know I will always always love it no matter how old I am. Thank God now we can enjoy it without having to wait for my birthday or Christmas.
Definitely ropa vieja with arroz y frijoles colorados, it’s pretty labor intensive since my mom always shreds the beef by hand, but it was my favorite growing up, so my mom makes it every year on my birthday:)
My childhood food is tortas! My mom would make them two ways. One was a simple sandwich, with just lime mayo, ham, queso fresco, and lettuce. And the other was a chorizo con papa one which was drenched in sauce. Absolutely perfect on summer days, or on road trips :)
I'm Filipino and my favorite childhood meal is pinataro, made out of coconut milk, mix with sticky rice that formed into bite size, some jelly balls and cassava root but you can add more toppings such as sweetened banana pieces
Birria de Chivo (Mexican Goat Stew) is my favorite childhood dish. So nostalgic and comforting. Coctel de Camarón (cocktail Shrimp) is another classic childhood food staple. Ceviche, Cocido, Caldo de Albóndigas, Chuletas en Salsa de Tomatillo. Parents loved Chinatown (DTLA) so Sweet and Sour Pork evokes fond memories.
As an Australian, i always remember getting exited going on excursions because my mum would always pack me fairy bread and a cupcake. Seeing this reminded me of that and how wonderful my childhood was
Oh man, you suddenly made me reminisce my childhood. I remember my mom always packing me a tuna sandwich for school. She makes the tuna spread herself: canned tuna, mayo & chopped onions (seasoned with salt & pepper). It’s so good and I’ve never had a tuna sandwich tasted like hers anywhere else.
Fried rice, my grandma knew it was my favorite, so she would always (and sometimes still does) make it for me. Weather it be at a family gathering/holiday, my birthday, or just when she came over to visit. I love my grandma, and even if she doesn’t make it as often as she used to, it’s still on of my favorites, and a big comfort food for me.
For me it's matzo ball soup and latkes. Coming back home from elementary school after making all manner of Christmas themed things and having matzo ball soup with my brother while we wait for our father to get home to celebrate hanukkah is a core memory for me.
Jamaican dumplings, they’re my favorite form of carb no matter how simple or easy they are to make. I recently started eating them plain rather than w any gravy or meat like i usually do and something ab it j makes me feel kiddish and happy.
Italian/Dutch here, so I have 2 meals that I whenever I eat I'm instantly brought back to my childhood: the first is insalata di riso and the second is stamppot! I have fond memories of eating rice salad during the summer on family beach days and my Papa preparing stamppot for dinner in the winter!
Having Wolga-German parents that grew up in their German communities in Russia, my comfort food I was brought up with is buckwheat soup. It consists of buckwheat grains, potatoes, shredded carrots and herbs simmered with small meatballs. I never liked the meatballs, but they give an amazing flavor to the broth, so I used to put up a chair to reach in the pot with a ladle to fish out the meatballs before I ate it as a kid😂 Nowadays whenever I make the soup I finish everything (about 5l) in two days. I just can't get sick of the soup. But if you make it, make sure there's someone else who'll eat the meatballs lol😆
I am part Italian, and chicken parmigiana has been a classic comfort food for a long time. I remember getting the best chicken parmigiana at the local restaurants. And I still think about it today as I order chicken parmigiana.
Wow, I love learning about Korean food. This is going onto my " Foods I am going to eat when I have my own money list "! One of my fav food that brings me back to when i was 4-5 is French bread pizza! ( I love learning about these kinds of things is bc I am a quarter Korean myself)
sweet fried plantains is my ultimate comfort food. being from puerto rico, it was my fave go to food that went great with any meal. i want some rn with ketchup!
I’m Greek and a quick and easy snack my dad would make for me as a kid was sliced tomatoes, feta, and cucumber seasoned with either fresh or dry herbs and olive oil. Sometimes he would leave out the cucumbers and put it on white bread and bake it in the oven. Pure deliciousness, so simple yet so tasty
My childhood meal also has canned tuna! Tuna strained with Mayo, mustard, dried dill, and a splash of dill pickle brine. Served with triscuit wheat crackers. I make it for my two kids now and we all love it.
Chicken bog and low country boil are both my childhood foods. Used to eat chicken bog every other Friday when my aunt made it. Low country boil was a special occasion food we’d get when we went 1 and a half hours travel to the beach.
Regionally, sounds like where you went to “the beach” is where I live lol. Very familiar w low country boil, but what is chicken bog? I’ve never heard of it
omg the rice ball childhood feel good food! I’m Filipino born in the US and my mom used to sprinkle soy sauce on rice and de-bone fried fish and roll them into balls as a meal for little me 💕
Cheesy jacket potatoes ❤ my Abuela would take me to a stall in the city, 365 days of the year it was there in all weather baking enormous potatoes. I'd have mine drowning in cheese with a large amount of butter, and it's still my comfort food when I'm sad or my celebration food when I'm happy! On the other side of the family, my granny made amazing shepherds pie. There's nothing that reminds me more of family ❤
I remember always begging my mom for it for lunch. I don’t make it anymore, but seeing this video makes me crave my childhood foods I ate back in Korea 😭
Chicken Abodo. Everytime my mom or my grandma serves me this, I will surely eat a lot of rice. This is very nostalgia, in my elementary days, where they used to pack my lunch. Also, a can of coke!
Canned creamed corn, breakfast sausage, and mashed potatoes is mine. I spent a lot of time living with my nana and papa (grandma and grandpa) when I was little and we had this a fair bit. It was always my favourite, probably because it was also my Papa’s favourite. I haven’t had it in a while and a lot of people think it’s gross but it’s comforting, simple, and brings back simpler memories.
I have lots of fond memories of being very young and making creampuffs with my grandma. Whenever I have a creampuff now it feels like I’m in her kitchen again.
There is this dish that my grandmother used to cook for me (She's not gone, but she cooks it in a different way now because of her own health) It's called "Kinamatisan" from the word "Kamatis" meaning "Tomato" in tagalog. Since I was a very picky eater in my childhood, whenever she cooks it and there is fish in it, I always just go for the soup, and my dad has to take away the fish bone because I will not eat it😭. There's also this "pasta soup" called "Sopas" it has filipino hotdogs and condensed milk in the soup with elbow pasta. It was really good because my dad always cooks it for me whenever it's getting a little chilly or when I'm sick. A funny moment also happened with Sopas as a witness. Sinec the Condensed milk was optional in sopas, My mom cooked it without the Condensed milk and my picky eater self didnt recognize it because it didnt have the same color on it😭 (Mom was traumatized because of me on that one LOL) she still cooks it but not without the Condensed milk
My family is from the Midwest and one of my go to snacks is tuna salad with mayo and green bell pepper. It’s so neat that this recipe, which looks so different, actually has the same ingredients, just with rice as the carb instead of bread. I will probably try this, to see if they taste similar!
I always used have a dish called "tahchin" when my grandmother was alive tahchin is basically rice mixed with eggs and saffron and yogurt then half of it layered to an oiled pan then a mix of chicken and nuts and the other layer of rice which gets all crispy
Bulgarian here. Since most "Bulgarian" foods don't actually origiate from Bulgaria, I grew up eating food from mostly other cultures with my mom claiming they were Bulgarian. So, mine would be мусака (moussaka). My mom made it once every month or two and I loved it (still do). To my knowledge, Greek мусака is usually made with eggplant; meanwhile Bulgarian мусака isn't. It usually just has potatoes, ground beef, and some egg-yogurt mix thing that's poured on top. You eat it with yogurt and it's really delicious and takes me back to my childhood.
This may sound like a weird question but hear me out hahah! I looove rice but I have OCD and I have always been super concerned about food hygiene (which im fully aware i have learned only from western sources, which i believe may fearmonger around rice more than is necessary). Of course rice is a food that you have to be more careful with but my Caribbean family are so much more relaxed than I have ever been with refrigerating, reusing, reheating rice etc and it's not like they're regularly getting unwell. I'm curious about what other cultures that regularly eat rice teach about food hygeine. So often its reheated, eaten cold, taken for lunch (out of the fridge) etc. Any rice food hygeine tips appreciated!!
My wife, who is Vietnamese plays fast and loose with Food Safety. Defrosting chickens over night on the counter, making a soup in the morning, then leaves it on the stove off heat, fries fish, leaves it on the counter all day etc. I don't eat this stuff that she does this with, but she is fine. Guess some people have more tolerance to microbes. As far as food safety goes for the rest of us, as long as your food is fresh, and your work space clean, it can go for 2 to 4 hours without refrigeration. If your concerned, get a softsided cooler and one of those "gel like" ice packs and keep everything cool.
growing up with an italian father, he used to prepare me the most elaborate antipasto plates for late night snacks. he would pile the plate with cold cuts, cheese, olives, and raw veggies, with a dish of rice wine vinegar in the middle to dip everything into because I was a little freak child who loved (and still loves) plain rice wine vinegar. to this day it's one of my favorite ways to get a little snack late at night when i'm hungry but don't want to eat a full meal.
The first thing I thought of was pop tarts. I’m a huge foodie but my family isn’t, my mom didn’t really cook homemade food growing up so I ate a lot of fast food and snacks. I feel satisfied in my life that I know how to cook homemade foods now and I will be able to give nostalgic memories with my future husband and children🥰
I have a lot of childhood foods that I go back to! But a big one for me is something my papa would make for me. When he grew up in Switzerland they didn't have frozen waffles, so his mom would make him an Auffle! It's just a piece of toast with peanut butter, banana, and maple syrup but it always brought a smile to everyones face 😊
As a kid we where poor so we had something similar, it was tuna mayo and white rice (the rice was because it was more filling) and I still eat it, sometimes I’ll add cucumber
I'm British, my childhood favourite is corned beef hash. It's savoury and warning and perfect for a cold day. You have to mop up the last bits with bread and butter!
Tanyaki, Diafuku Mochi, Tempura, and having a Ramena Peach or Sakura flavored. It always makes me happy, and comfort. It reminds me of our family doing summer festivities on the beach or the festivals that goes on. 💖💖 I miss them so much right now....
I recently made roti, I couldn't explain the nostalgia I felt eating it. Making it took me the whole damn day but damn it was great. Also seeing my boyfriend fully love and enjoy the dish I grew up with made all that work worth it.
My great grandmother would always make me and my siblings different kinds of pancakes when we visited her, like chocolate chip strawberry etc. and when she would run out of syrup she would get honey straight from the bee hive and make us the best food ever. It made eating sweet food fun for me cause it actually tasted good and not just like sugar.
i’ve never met anyone who puts green pepper in tuna salad like my mom taught me, and this sounds like the same concept! i also love tuna mayo onigiri, but this looks even easier and flavorful throughout. i’ll definitely try it, thanks for sharing!
My inner child food is a simple but God it makes me feel so nostalgic. My dad didn't know how to cook. He can't make the amazing Mexican dishes My mom makes. But he did know a couple. The one that sticks to me the most was the dish he would make when my mom went on a trip. He would get maybe 5 or 6 tortillas. Cut them in chip sized triangles. Get a hot pan with oil. Fry them, until some were crunchy and some still soft. He would add beans, let that Fry a bit. Then add 4 eggs and scramble it all together. And we'd eat that right out of the pan hot, while it was on a cutting board. It just brings me so much comfort.
i am cambodian/khmer, and when i was staying at my grandma's house every weekend she would make me little hotdog octopus treats and i would eat them in rice. every time i see an octopus shaped hotdog it reminds me of my childhood.
I’m from northern Italy, specifically Lombardy, and to me the best childhood food is a “panino con la cotoletta”. It’s basically a sandwich with breaded and fried pork or chicken in the middle. My grandma used to make this for my brother and I when we went on school trips❤️
It’s that one smooshed burger that can be bought in any supermarket in the Philippines with either iced tea or warm milo in a plastic cup. My grandma always buys burgers and iced tea for my brother and I everytime she goes to the supermarket ever since I could remember. Even now that my grandma isn’t able to move as around as much as she used to, she never forgets to buy us that smooshed burger and a small bottle of iced tea everytime she goes to the supermarket.
