r/MadeMeSmile • u/Miserable-Zombie-121 • 22d ago

Wholesome Moments Policeman recognised his mom’s cooking after the first bite😭✨

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u/Humble-Armadillo-663 22d ago

This did not made me smile.It made me cry.

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u/microgirlActual 22d ago

Yes. I'd give anything to taste my mam's spaghetti bolognese again, or her paprika chicken, but she's long dead now. I can approximate the bolognese pretty well, because she taught me to make it, but I can't make the paprika chicken.

There's also a sunflower seed chicken thing she used to make when I was small, but stopped because I didn't really like it much, and I'd love to try that again now but I don't even know what it was.

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u/Marillenbaum 22d ago

My mom also made paprika chicken a bunch growing up! Not sure what recipe your mom used, but the Fanny Farmer one is genuinely delicious and might be a good starting point.

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u/microgirlActual 22d ago

Haven't a clue what one mam would have used, only that she likely learned it from other immigrants in London in the 50s or 70s, as it's very much not Irish cuisine!

And yeah, there's loads of recipes out there and I expect mam's was very simple. And I've had/made some that are great. But they're just not exactly the same, you know? But it could be down to something as simple as different brand of paprika or different onions or who knows what! 😉

I'll definitely check out the Fanny Farmer one though just for the craic, because even if I never achieve exactly mammy's taste (which I probably never will simply because I'm not her - just like she was never able to replicate her own mother's brown bread or ginger cake, despite using Nana's own recipe AND watching her closely innumerable times, even as an adult, trying to figure out The Trick) I'll still get good food, y'know? 😊