I
recently watched “The Hundred Foot Journey”, a movie about an Indian family who
set up an Indian restaurant directly across the road from a French Michelin
star restaurant in a small French village. It’s a good movie – funny, light
hearted and feel-good and Helen Mirren is in it, I love her!
One of
the quotes from the movie is “food is memories”. I couldn’t agree more with
this!! I learned to cook from my two grandmothers and my mother, though I’m
still nowhere near as good as them! One of my grandmothers died three years ago
and there is one dish especially that always reminds me of her. My grandmother
had rheumatoid arthritis; it’s a type of arthritis that seriously affects your
hands (as well as the rest of your body of course). Despite all this, she was tough and a true lady! When I was young, she taught
me how to make bread and butter pudding. It was the first time I tried it and I
loved it! Most people can take or leave this dessert but it’s one of my
favourite comfort foods! When I was in
school and in college studying for exams, she would prepare the bread and
butter pudding and drop it to our house so that I could put it in the oven and
have it fresh! She always put cinnamon and nutmeg on top so the smell in the
kitchen would literally make your mouth water. It always meant so much that she
would think to do this for me.
At the
moment, I’m writing my PhD thesis while also working as a research assistant,
so I am really feeling the “exam-time” pressure and getting cravings for
comfort food. I want my body and brain working at their best so I can get all
this work done, so I decided to substitute the ingredients from my grandmother’s recipe with healthy alternatives. Give it a try; it's really good and full of memories! <3
Ingredients
