Musings on family recipes
Jul. 2nd, 2007 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980Ok, so my family isn't the only one that makes this: http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/canada/salmon-pie.htm
And everyone always gives me a strange look when I describe it. "Salmon...pie?"
I sometimes feel a little sad that the traditional regional or ethnic recipes that have been passed along in my family are fairly limited. Salmon pie, baked beans, and tourtiere on my father's side. Boerek on my mom's side. Oh, we've got other traditions--Grandma's wreath cookies and her pot roast, her bread stuffing, Aunt Madeleine's chocolate mint brownies and (naturally) madeleines, Aunt Doris's stuffed cabbage (legacy of a Polish ex-husband), my mom's clam dip, my father's stuffed mushrooms, his chicken enchiladas, his stuffed jalapenos, and a bunch of other things that everyone always asks him to bring to parties. But these are just family. They aren't local. They aren't ethnic. They identify my family, but not within any particular context.
But these will have to be remembered, and passed down, and eaten.
Edit: realized this salmon pie recipe is a bit different from mine. In mine, you mash the salmon, potatoes, and onions together and put the mixture into the crust. Also, we served it with stewed tomatoes (for my dad) or ketchup (for everyone else). Homemade chunky ketchup like what you'd use on a tourtiere would be primo.
And everyone always gives me a strange look when I describe it. "Salmon...pie?"
I sometimes feel a little sad that the traditional regional or ethnic recipes that have been passed along in my family are fairly limited. Salmon pie, baked beans, and tourtiere on my father's side. Boerek on my mom's side. Oh, we've got other traditions--Grandma's wreath cookies and her pot roast, her bread stuffing, Aunt Madeleine's chocolate mint brownies and (naturally) madeleines, Aunt Doris's stuffed cabbage (legacy of a Polish ex-husband), my mom's clam dip, my father's stuffed mushrooms, his chicken enchiladas, his stuffed jalapenos, and a bunch of other things that everyone always asks him to bring to parties. But these are just family. They aren't local. They aren't ethnic. They identify my family, but not within any particular context.
But these will have to be remembered, and passed down, and eaten.
Edit: realized this salmon pie recipe is a bit different from mine. In mine, you mash the salmon, potatoes, and onions together and put the mixture into the crust. Also, we served it with stewed tomatoes (for my dad) or ketchup (for everyone else). Homemade chunky ketchup like what you'd use on a tourtiere would be primo.
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Date: 2007-07-02 07:12 pm (UTC)stick food in bready stuff and cook it all up. savory or sweet, it's good eats.
damn. i want salmon pie. (people are so silly.)
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Date: 2007-07-02 09:20 pm (UTC)My pet recipes are a combination of very traditional English (chestnut stuffing for turkey) and self-invented excrescences, which vary from lentil stews that leave you producing enough methane to power a town and chocolate brownies so dense they attract small objects with their gravitational field.