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dancing_moonI made popcorn tonight. Because I wanted to (current soundtrack of my life: Die Ärzte - Der Infant)
But it really reminded me of dad. He spent a lot of time abroad when I was a kind, and when he was home I still hung mostly on my mom or grandma... but popcorn, that is super connected with dad ^_^;; It's strange, actually, because it's not as if he doesn't cook (and really well too!)
I guess it's because I was so young when I learned it, and he always made it seem like a... like real cooking? Idk. But we never were much for chips or candy in front of the television, it was either tea and cakes (sometimes homemade, sometimes bought) and very occasionally popcorn. And micro-popcorn wasn't around then, nor did we have a popcorn machine. Tangent: A-chan had a popcorn machine and we made popcorn on our own when I was pretty young once. It was like Living in an Sci-Fi World to me - dude! A machine! For making popcorn!!
Anyway... dad showed me how to make popcorn. He taught me to make paella and stir-fry too, but that was much later and it's not so associated with him, so to speak.
And he taught me to shine shoes... Mom totally never shines her shoes, she just walked in them til they fell apart. I do that too, actually, but I polish them a bit in-between XD
Huh. When I think of what I learned from my mother, it's more like "everything else", so there aren't such clear connections...
But I still know that if you want real cocoa, you have to do it grandpa's way. And my grandmother managed to instill both a snobbish disdain for margarine (sniff. fake butter? not in my cookies!) and the idea that artificial sweetener in coffee is the most natural thing ever.
But it really reminded me of dad. He spent a lot of time abroad when I was a kind, and when he was home I still hung mostly on my mom or grandma... but popcorn, that is super connected with dad ^_^;; It's strange, actually, because it's not as if he doesn't cook (and really well too!)
I guess it's because I was so young when I learned it, and he always made it seem like a... like real cooking? Idk. But we never were much for chips or candy in front of the television, it was either tea and cakes (sometimes homemade, sometimes bought) and very occasionally popcorn. And micro-popcorn wasn't around then, nor did we have a popcorn machine. Tangent: A-chan had a popcorn machine and we made popcorn on our own when I was pretty young once. It was like Living in an Sci-Fi World to me - dude! A machine! For making popcorn!!
Anyway... dad showed me how to make popcorn. He taught me to make paella and stir-fry too, but that was much later and it's not so associated with him, so to speak.
And he taught me to shine shoes... Mom totally never shines her shoes, she just walked in them til they fell apart. I do that too, actually, but I polish them a bit in-between XD
Huh. When I think of what I learned from my mother, it's more like "everything else", so there aren't such clear connections...
But I still know that if you want real cocoa, you have to do it grandpa's way. And my grandmother managed to instill both a snobbish disdain for margarine (sniff. fake butter? not in my cookies!) and the idea that artificial sweetener in coffee is the most natural thing ever.
