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Time Travel
Sometimes I just want to eat something familiar, something that reminds me of home. Even if that thing is pretty much universally reviled.
My thing today is tomato aspic. My mom used to make it as the first course salad for holiday dinners. I suspect this recipe came from a Campbell Soup cookbook. She really relied on that cookbook. I don't believe I ate a single meal growing up that didn't have canned soup in there somewhere: tomato, cream of mushroom, cream of celery, cream of chicken, etc.
So, although Kathie and her mom will show up with a lovely duck for roasting, and we will have steamed rice and squash baked with craisins and marmalade, and a homemade apple pie for dessert, I felt the urge to make my mom's aspic.
It's chilling in the fridge, right now. I tasted the mixture left in the pan after transferring to the Pyrex and had two reactions.
First, my tastebuds said, "OMG that's sweet - no wonder you liked it as a child!" And then somewhere from far back in the recesses of my memory, my brain said, "Yep, you got it right. That's the stuff. It tastes exactly right." And I was temporarily transported back 27 years, and 2,760 miles to the dining room of a house that has changed hands twice, and of the three occupants I'm the only one still living.
Posted by origamifreak at 9:40 am |
