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OT - Best cooking compliment I've gotten so far

20stone
20stone Posts: 1,961
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My mom was a very good cook, with an adventuresome range, but really focused on her Texas roots strike zone - fried chicken, cornbread, biscuits, cobbler, pies.......and also biscotti.

Since she passed a few years ago, we have gone up to her home town to visit her widower, Eduardo -- and when we visit, we cook.  Since he is from Argentina, we shared the Netflix Street Food Latin America - Buenos Aires episode with him (https://www.netflix.com/Title/81249660), after which we made choripan (Argentinian chorizo with bread), tortilla de pappas and empanadas (@20stonespice's game is strong on these, though the chorizo was from @The Cen-Tex Smoker and me (with @20stonespice 's recipe)

While all that made him remember home, it was yesterday morning that I got my best compliment from him.  All their married life, Eduardo loooved her fried chicken and loooooved her biscuits but didn't really have a sweet tooth.  She'd make a pie or a cobbler (or cookies or a cake) and they'd argue and he would eventually eat a spoonful.  This was just a matter of taste... my mom's desert game was strong.

Well, this last trip, there were a number of peaches in the window.  While I like a fresh peach, I prefer my peaches in cobbler form.  I made a cobbler two nights ago and gave him a bowl at 8:30, well past his normal last bite.  He snarfed the whole bowl.

Yesterday morning, he said that he just woke up from a dream where my mom was scolding him for eating my cobbler and not hers.  It turns out this has happened before --- the last time we made fried chicken (on her birthday last month)

When I can cause my mom to rise from the grave and haunt someone, I call that a success.

Recipe


(now only 16 stone)

Joule SV
GE induction stove
Gasser by the community pool (currently unavailable)
Scale (which one of my friends refuses to use)
Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devices (currently unavail IRL)
Occasional access to a KBQ and Webber Kettle
Charcuterie and sourdough enthusiast
Prosciuttos in an undisclosed location

Austin, TX
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  • frazzdaddy
    frazzdaddy Posts: 2,617
    Great story and precious memories.  
    Xl bge ,LG bge, two 4' crusher cone fire pits. Weber Genisis gasser and 
    Two rusty Weber kettles. 

    Two Rivers Farm
    Moncure N.C.
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  • the_crease
    the_crease Posts: 132
    Really enjoyed reading this and could feel the emotion and love from your words.  Cobbler looks killer too! 
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,549
    Very coolstory @20stone
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • SciAggie
    SciAggie Posts: 6,481
    @20stone That’s a great story. Making great memories for sure. 
    Coleman, Texas
    Large BGE & Mini Max for the wok. A few old camp Dutch ovens and a wood fired oven. LSG 24” cabinet offset smoker. There are a few paella pans and a Patagonia cross in the barn. A curing chamber for bacterial transformation of meats...
    "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"
                                                                                                                          YukonRon
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  • dbCooper
    dbCooper Posts: 2,678
    Wonderful read, thanks for sharing the experience.
    LBGE, LBGE-PTR, 22" Weber, Coleman 413G
    Great Plains, USA
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    Ha! Great story! Not surprised- I've had them both.
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,227
    Great story!  Did he say if she was dressed like a clown?

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,227
    The Cen-Tex Smoker said:
    Foghorn said:
    Great story!  Did he say if she was dressed like a clown?

    you share one small detail of your life with friends in confidence after 6 bourbons around a campfire and this is what you get.
    Yep.

    Sorry.  Not sorry.

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

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  • StillH2OEgger
    StillH2OEgger Posts: 3,896
    Great story. You should be proud. Very well done.
    Stillwater, MN
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    That transportation back to a time and place created by food has always fascinated me. It's probably why I love cooking as much as I do.
    That's such a great compliment. Cheers! 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • JNDATHP
    JNDATHP Posts: 461
    As we get (me) older, it is times like this that makes my heart warm. Thanks for sharing. 

    I’m actually watching the taco series on Netflix which is all in Spanish with English subtitles because I want to improve my game. So, with a FIL from Argentina (one country I have not visited and is on my bucket list) you must have great recipes/ideas. 
    Michael
    Large BGE
    Reno, NV
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  • NDG
    NDG Posts: 2,435
    Excellent Post - thanks for sharing.
    Columbus, OH

    “There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everything is” 
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,793
    That is a great story on every level.  Way to stay the course and props to him for caring enough to tell the story.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • 20stone
    20stone Posts: 1,961
    GATraveller said:
    That transportation back to a time and place created by food has always fascinated me. It's probably why I love cooking as much as I do.
    That's such a great compliment. Cheers! 
    caliking said:
    So much awesome.

    Every once in a while, I'll get it right, and Pops will mumble "Tastes just like your Ma's". Makes my day.
    It has been fun, because Eduardo has two histories, one as a child and young man in Argentina, and another married to my mom.

    With the Argentinian stuff we've been cooking, we've given him a few "Ratatouille" moments:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXPlzdTcA-I

    In fact, Lisa made milanesa for him, which happened to be the last meal he had with one of his sisters the last time he saw her years ago -- and fed him that the day he found out she passed.

    The Argentinian stuff just makes him happy cry, but the "Mom" stuff haunts him, at least when I do it right.
    (now only 16 stone)

    Joule SV
    GE induction stove
    Gasser by the community pool (currently unavailable)
    Scale (which one of my friends refuses to use)
    Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devices (currently unavail IRL)
    Occasional access to a KBQ and Webber Kettle
    Charcuterie and sourdough enthusiast
    Prosciuttos in an undisclosed location

    Austin, TX
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  • loco_engr
    loco_engr Posts: 5,818
    very interesting read!  Thanks for posting
    aka marysvilleksegghead
    Lrg 2008
    mini 2009

    Henny Youngman:
    I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'
    Bob Hope: When I wake up in the morning, I don’t feel anything until noon, and then it’s time for my nap
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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,227
    I mentioned this thread to my son. His first thought was that someone told you that something you cooked was “almost as good as Bill Miller”.

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

    San Antonio, TX

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  • Woadie
    Woadie Posts: 154
    Wonderful story and a great looking cook. 
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  • 20stone
    20stone Posts: 1,961
    Foghorn said:
    I mentioned this thread to my son. His first thought was that someone told you that something you cooked was “almost as good as Bill Miller”.
    Here I was, all relaxed, and one of my "friends" preys on my knee-jerk reactivity to well played trolling.  You've got a beat down coming
    (now only 16 stone)

    Joule SV
    GE induction stove
    Gasser by the community pool (currently unavailable)
    Scale (which one of my friends refuses to use)
    Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devices (currently unavail IRL)
    Occasional access to a KBQ and Webber Kettle
    Charcuterie and sourdough enthusiast
    Prosciuttos in an undisclosed location

    Austin, TX
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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    20stone said:
    Foghorn said:
    I mentioned this thread to my son. His first thought was that someone told you that something you cooked was “almost as good as Bill Miller”.
    Here I was, all relaxed, and one of my "friends" preys on my knee-jerk reactivity to well played trolling.  You've got a beat down coming
    He’s playing all the hits. Clowns, bill miller...he is savage. 
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • bradleya123
    bradleya123 Posts: 485
    That's pretty darn cool...great job!!!
    Retired Navy, LBGE
    Pinehurst, NC

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