baker by trade here, we're lying, we eyeball everything and fuck around with whatever we want. Once you have a basic understanding of the science all you need is informed estimates.
Thank you PJ for sharing this with us! This time of year is so hard since there are significant grandparent dates this time of year for my family after they have passed. Glad you could enjoy this baking time with your grandpa!
I love that your grandad either ignores or responds with hehe to your questions. Also I only have one grandparent left and i live so far away from her but i gained about 4 or 5 grandmas by joining my local stitching group where we do all sort of sewing, knitting, crochet etc. Listening to their stories about their younger days and seeing what they get up to today is so fascinating. I often forget that elderly people had lives before they turned 70. Also seeing them have fun in their older years is also amazing. Like one of them goes to latitude every year. Another one worked as a burlesque dancer when she was younger. One of them met her husband through a lonely hearts newspaper column. They all have such varied lives and its made me appreciate growing older. Im only 22 so im still miles away from being 70 or 80 but I feel a lot less scared of wrinkly skin and aching bones when I look at them and see there is joy in every age of your life.
as a 2nd gen italian immigrant to england this video means so much to me :') and i will be trying the recipe!! for any non-italian speakers who can't be bothered to use google translate, here's the handwritten recipe at 10:34 : 5 eggs 1 cup oil 1 cup sugar liquors, whichever you want to put beat eggs, sugar, oil, liquor put the flour with your fingers i implore you, make them well [there isn't a really good translation for "ti raccomando", it's much more colloquial in italian than it sounds in english lol] thank you, Lina
Italian here. "Tazza" in Italian can mean both cup and mug. In this case, seeing from video, it means mug. So it's 1 mug of oil, and 1 mug of sugar. As to the "ti raccomando falli bene", yeah, it can be colloquial and that's the case. I would translate more with "make sure you make them well". Also, it's a very wholesome piece of paper, as it ends "Grazie Lina", which means "Thanks. Lina". Probably Lina is the person who gave him that recipe, maybe his wife or sister.
My grandma (Abuela) used to make this soup that I loved so much. Unfortunately none of my family asked her how she made it and now that she has passed away, I can remember the way it tasted when I eat my sad attempts at recreating it. This was a great video. Much respect to your grandpa
This video was so sweet and heartwarming. I never really met my grandfathers because I'm the youngest in my generation so I was a baby when they passed, kind of the same with my grandmothers so I usually find it hard to watch these because I don't like to know what I missed out on, I also can't really relate, but all the same this video had me smiling all the way through. So this is who your liar trait comes from! But thank you PJ for sharing this moment with us of your family
it's so sweet because you can tell the grandpa doesn't really understand all the questions pj does and he just answers back a "hehehe" "no" same, if you find yourself in a position when you don't understand something, just smile and nod hahahaha really sweet video!!
3/4 of my grandparents already passed away - my grandma before she even turned 60, and both of my grandpas in their early 60s. sometimes i think about what our relationship would be like now when i’m 24 and about how they haven’t seen any of my important life events. when i see adults spending time with their grandparents it feels sort of bittersweet but i’m so glad people get to have that in their lives
Much love to you Peej, thank you for this heartfelt video. A majority of my grandparents passed quite young, and as a grandkid born in between generations to older parents I didn't really get to know any of them, so I'm learning to treasure the older people in my life more and more the older I get, too.
PJ, I understand those existential thoughts very well. my morfar immigrated to Chicago from Stockholm when he was 19 (also was a bricklayer) and before he passed he used to tell me that he wished he stayed in Sweden after he met my grandmother (when he was in the army and stationed in France). Though I'm glad that I have been able to reconnect and stay in touch with my family in Sweden, and now I have his families pannkakor, risgrynsgröt, and glögg recipes that I can make my own.
Oh your granddad is a doll. I miss my grandfather so much. I’m 42 and he passed away from cancer when I was about 24. He is the only positive male figure I’ve ever had in my life. I wish my boys could have had more time with him. My grandmother is 95 and a few years ago my cousin and I decided to go to her house and try to learn how to make her dressing before she wasn’t able to teach us anymore. We live in the south in America and dressing is the southern version of stuffing, but different. My grandmother’s was made from scratch and it turned out to be hard to record a recipe lol. She doesn’t exactly measure as she cooks and she just adds ingredients as she goes to make it taste how she wants it to. It was always delicious. I tried it this Christmas myself and yes it thankfully was good and similar to hers but idt anything will ever be as good as my grandmother’s ❤
Thank you for sharing this moment with your grandad. This video took me back to having small moments like this with my late grandfather. This was so heartwarming and lovely to see you with your family. ❤ I hope that you’re able carry on his recipe. Also, how’s the wine? :)
the biscuit recipe reminds me of that one french yogurt pot cake where just about every ingredient is measured using a yogurt pot, only instead of a yogurt pot it's a mug
My grandpa was an immigrant from Portugal and we used to make wine together. He passed at the age of 106 due to pneumonia in 2021. I miss him every day, he was my favorite person in the world. I'm so glad he shared his recipie with you! This video made my day, thank you.
this made me miss my grandma to pieces. everyone found her very serious but when we talked on the phone i could make her laugh for hours. i’ll see her again one day and we’ll laugh again
The sweetest thing 🥹🥹🥹 grandparents are so special and your grandad seems like such a character. And your exactly right we should cherish every moment we have with them ❤️
this is really sweet. my gran left us a BONKERS DENSE carrot cake recipie my dad has perfected. i wish id had more time to talk to her about her younger years before she died.
My grandad still bakes his own sweet bread for christmas and it is a tradition that got from my great grandad who came from Italy to Argentina looking for better opportunities. When I was little my grandad would also bake pizza every thursday for the whole family. Nowadays I bake them every once in a while. Those little traditions are good to keep alive. Lovely video PJ.
Thank you so much for sharing this, PJ. I'm 56 and there's always been a part of me that's sad about never knowing my grandads. One died shortly after I was born, and the other emigrated to Australia before I was born and I only ever got to meet him (and that grandma) once. Treasure your grandparents, people🥰
what a breathtaking video. the tender shots of the little magical spots around the house when taking about what you will pass on was amazing. i hope he knows how loved he is!!
pj, you put too close!! no good!! in all seriousness, this was such a lovely video. nothing better than connecting with your relatives in a way that you weren’t able to when you were younger
For real, this video reminds me of my late grandma, she passed during the pandemic. I'm not good with Mandarin and she's not good with English, but we still laugh and hang out all the time. This made me miss her extra.
This is a wonderful video. I lost my great grandma a little over a year ago, she was 89. She grew up dirt-floors poor in rural Oklahoma in the 30s & 40s. She was a home maker through and through. I wish I’d learned more from her in my childhood. I’ve become a stay at home mom now and try my best every day to replicate the love and comfort she breathed into the home. I baked for my family’s holiday celebrations this year and wish I could sit in her living room and tell her all about it. Ask her for tips. This was a really awesome video for you to make
thanks for making this video its so sweet :,) really reminded me of my own grandad and his jam in the garage! and got me very nostalgic. hope you guys had a good Christmas
This was such a comforting video, I lost my nan when I was 14 and I miss being able to share my adult life with her. This is such a beautiful way to create and keep memories with your grandad ❤
every time your grandad hehe'd, i cried 🥹 reminded me of my grandma who was italian too and she sadly passed away last year :( cherish all the moments you have with him, encourage and appreciate his italian heritage, and enjoy those wonderful looking biscuits ♡
I’ve recently been able to spend more time with my grandpa this holiday season, as he has moved into a care home closer to where I live. It is such a beautiful thing to share memories and learn from the older people in our families. They have lived so much life and have so much to share with us even if it may not necessarily seem so at surface level. Thank you for sharing this lovely moment with your granddad! I hope the oil-filled biscuit tradition lives on for a long long time :)
Your grandad is precious! Brandy at 9am is a good way to go when you're in your 90s. It's hard to connect with culture and traditions when you're younger and not growing up in that culture. It's more precious as you get older and realize how lucky you are to have a grandparent to cherish. I lost my larger then life Poppy at 21. I regret now all the stories that I didn't capture and all the knowledge that is now gone.
such a heart warming video,Grandpa ligouri is a treasure 💖 thank you for sharing such a lovely video of you’re family ❤ Growing up I wasn’t fortune enough to have grandparents they had all passed away before I was born. After my mother passed I grew up in a very unstable home. Until I was placed into foster care and I met the most wonderful woman ever she is like my mother and the most amazing grandma to my daughter. I’m forever grateful for what she has done for me. She has a heart of gold and my daughter is so lucky to have such a wonderful grandma she is already starting to build memories with her 💖
As my granddad isn't among us anymore as of recent, this really made me very happy. Thank you for the sweet video, PJ! Family recipes are always the best
my granddad died a few years ago unexpectedly because he had very good health and there's so many things I wish I had done with him :( thank you pj for sharing your grandad
This is so cute, your family seem cool with lots of fun stories and history I bet! I'll always remember my grandads 'Grandad Eggs', which was a very simple egg dish but something I'll always associate him with even though he passed when I was only 10. I'll make them for my kids and call them grandad eggs too and tell them where it came from as they'll never meet him.
I think your granddad thing would be stories, looking back when I was younger, I always held on for dear life of the stories that my grandparents or ants and uncles told me
i love this so much! i wish i was a little closer to my italian roots myself, but my grandmother was a late-in-life baby and stopped speaking italian when she went to school because she was getting made fun of (her parents never spoke english), and she didn't remember it anymore by the time i was around since her parents died when my dad was an infant. it's so great that you have these connections and i loved seeing you and your grandfather interact like this. such a special moment, and so great that you will have this video to look back on in the future.
if you're lucky enough to be able to, please ask your grandparents about themselves! my grandma had all this crazy family drama I never knew about until I asked her, like her 109 year old half sister who got disowned for marrying a mormon, moved to utah, and disappeared for 60 years and was thought to be dead until she called out of the blue one day!
my other grandma's sister casually revealed on her deathbed that she and her sisters had secret trust funds from their father that finally explained how my grandma seemed to be living outside her means for all these years. even if your grandparents aren't around, ask any older relatives, I guarantee they have some spicy family goss to spill
My grandad used to make a pineapple soda drink. I don’t like fuzzy drinks but that’s the only one I always had when I came over because he had his own soda machine and was so excited to make some for us
Loved this video, it reminded me of Sunday afternoons when my grandma would come to visit and we'd chat or just sit in comfortable silence. Feel really grateful I had those memories with her ❤️
This was so wholesome! I lost my last grandparent recently but this is making me appreciate the time I did spend with them all, and the memories and recipes I have from them
This is such a sweet video and makes me a bit emotional for a number of reasons. I'm so happy that I live close to my own grandfather so I can visit. I need to keeping remembering to do it as often as possible.
This is a really beautiful video, PJ. Thanks to you and granddad for sharing. I also love learning about greetings in different cultures. Its beautiful to see what a community of people say or do to say "hello". In my religion, Sikhi, we often say "Sat Sri Akaal" to each other in the Panjabi language, which in English means, essentially, "truth is the eternal wealth", or "truth is the timeless One".
