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My Mother's recipe book
My mother's recipe book
They say that one of the things that you miss the most when you are far away from home is your mother’s food. The unique taste it has, and how it instantly makes you feel the love with which it’s made. My mother is a great cook, but when I ask her how did she started to be so good at it, she always tell me that it hasn’t been this way all the time. She talks me about her recipe book, that it isn’t actually a book. It’s an old, worn-out and special notebook. She started it when she get married with my father. Their first lunch time’s and dinners weren’t through red-colored glasses as they are now. She started to write simple and own recipes, with her new experiences at the kitchen. This unique recipe notebook also has family recipes, my grandmother’s and my uncle’s famous recipes. There is even this special recipe from my grandmother that she named it as “perfect brownies”, and yes they are perfect! Since my mother got this recipe she’s been a perfectionist and she has improved it, and does some changes in it. This is one of the reasons why I consider this recipe book as so familiar, so perfect and made by pleasure for the food. It’s a big combination of her own recipes, family recipes, and friend’s recipes. I love to see my mother take a pencil and add recipes or changes to the old ones; it is like as if she added more value to this cook book. This cook book contains all kind of recipes, from brownies and cheesecake to biscuits and paella valenciana. All of these dishes have as an ingredient a taste that makes you feel at home. These recipes made dishes have been in different special occasions. Chocolate cakes for birthdays, brownies for valentines or as a gift, paella valenciana on Sundays, and big Christmas dinners. There is no place or time where she can’t find a new recipe, and write it on her cook book. On the gourmet channel, on a new plate she tries at a restaurant or at the back of a box of cookies. She knows all the secrets and directions to follow, to always prepare them delicious as the first time. She is like an open cook book, and so it is her personality. She is sweet as a brownies recipe, and always caring for her family and friends. The delicate and special way she prepares a dish is compared with the understanding person she is in life.
