A friend and I were talking about our moms’ cooking. I told her I did a lot of the cooking as a kid but I can never make food today as good as what we had back then. She said she felt the same way. Was it just our tastes or something else? It is no fun being part of the older generation.
I’m not a young’un but I’m not ancient either.
Growing up and when I was first married I didn’t know there was anything to cook with except lard...and bacon grease.
I tried frying (something I never do anymore) something in bacon grease a couple of years ago. I’ll just say that some memories are best left in the past, lol. Out tastebuds must adjust to what we are doing today.
My parents raised 5 children, all to adulthood.
I was visiting them when they were in their early 80s. Mother asked me to drive her around where she grew up. Her Father had a thousand acre farm and all 12 of his children worked hard. Mother showed me the field where 75 years before she had to go get the cows and bring them home at night. She was only six.
Mother once told me that the happiest time of her life was when her children were young.