Recipe you wish you had asked for before they passed away

[Mayne]

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't kick myself in the ass for not learning my Mom's potato salad recipe.

How about you guys?

 

[master_shake_]

everything my grandmother ever made.

 

[Ns1]

I could never get that roofie colada just right.

 

[lxskllr]

I wish I had kept my father's sourdough culture alive.

 

[Chaotic42]

It's universally agreed amongst my family that my mother's date nut loaf recipe is the biggest recipe loss.

 

[Mai72]

Hello.

 

[Rudee]

Ugh... What?

 

[MongGrel]

...

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I'm currently trying to dial in a few recipes that my parents make and I just can't get them right. The problem is, they don't use recipes, they just know how to make it and they refuse to actually measure anything for me. I've actually sat there and watched them cook, and take notes etc, and it still never comes out the same when I try to cook it on my own. My siblings will admit that I come the closest out of us in this regard however.

 

[kranky]

We had an ornery old aunt who made superb banana cream pie. I asked my sister if she had the recipe, and my sister said she asked our aunt once for it, and our aunt said she didn't give it to anyone. (This was no real surprise, the woman was mean and grumpy.)

TEN YEARS later, my sister gets the recipe in the mail from our aunt, out of the blue. My sister had never brought it up again after she first asked. No letter, no explanation, just the recipe. Our aunt died a few months later, and we figure she was trying to make some amends before the end came. We were amazed our aunt even remembered my sister asking about it that one time.

 

[Mayne]

We had an ornery old aunt who made superb banana cream pie. I asked my sister if she had the recipe, and my sister said she asked our aunt once for it, and our aunt said she didn't give it to anyone. (This was no real surprise, the woman was mean and grumpy.)

TEN YEARS later, my sister gets the recipe in the mail from our aunt, out of the blue. My sister had never brought it up again after she first asked. No letter, no explanation, just the recipe. Our aunt died a few months later, and we figure she was trying to make some amends before the end came. We were amazed our aunt even remembered my sister asking about it that one time.

Awesome story. I think your Aunt was happy your sister asked her all those years ago.

 

[Chaotic42]

Ugh... What?

...

I'm curious, do you guys really not get what he's asking?

 

[KeithTalent]

My Grandma's cheesecake and her ham gravy. Two of my favourite things of all time I've never been able to re-create them to quite the same awesomeness she achieved.

KT

 

[bobeedee]

everything my grandmother ever made.

everything my Italian grandmother ever made

 

[Printer Bandit]

Install video cameras and microphones in the kitchen

 

[Squisher]

Naw, my wife, my sister, and my one niece basically got everything out of my mother long before she passed.