Childhood Food Memories Meme

Obachan (About 5 y.o. ???) ---- I was tagged by rae of bunnyfoot to present the top five childhood food memories that I miss. Now they are ready with another photo from the days when I was a cute little girl... 1. Egg yolk mixed rice My grandparents used to raise hens and it was my job to pick eggs every morning when I was a kid. As a reward, my mom would put a fresh, raw egg yolk on a bowl of warm rice for me and seasoned it with a little soy sauce (and a pinch of ajinomono --- the inevitable.) It was a sheer joy to break the bright orange-colored egg yolk to mix with the soy sauce first, and then with the whole rice in the bowl. I loved the dish so much that I had it almost 3 times a day every day for a few weeks, and I ended up having hives. Now I don’t really feel like trying it any more. 2. Fish meat hamburger steak This was my typical lunch on weekdays in my childhood (when not at school). My parents were both at work on weekdays, so I had lunch with my grandparents at home. Our lunch was usually something easy to prepare --- leftover miso soup from breakfast, tofu, pickles, leftover simmered food from the night before or stir-fried veggies, AND this “fish meat hamburger steak.” I guess it was not too different from fish meat sausage, but just shaped in a bigger, ham-like shape, and all I had to do was to slice it and fry in a frying pan. Maybe it contained bunch of chemical additives at that time, but I just loved it with a little ketchup. 3. Tamagoyaki-wrapped onigiri for lunch on the beach I'm eating something else, not onigiri in this photo. The lady next to me is mom's friend. My house was really close to the beach ( 1 min walk, maybe?) and my family often went on a picnic there. It was rather a rocky seashore, and in my childhood picnic photos, we are usually sitting on big rocks. My mom often made tamagoyaki-wrapped onigiri (rice balls wrapped by thin omelet) for me and my sister. She seemed to have believed that tamagoyaki-wrapped rice balls were more sophisticated than seaweed-wrapped version, and IIRC, she would add a little ajinomoto to the rice before making the special rice balls. 4. Miso soup porridge This was actually the baby food that my sister and I were most often given. Either my mom or my grandma (or sometimes dad or grandpa) cooked leftover rice in leftover miso soup, added some hot water if it was too salty for babies, and fed us with it. When we got older, we were fed with egg-mixed version of the miso soup porridge more often. I still love it and make it once in a while. 5. House Purin Mix (Instant pudding mix by HOUSE) This is a Japanese style instant pudding mix from House (a Japanese brand), which was a big hit about 30 years ago. All you had to do was to add hot water to dissolve the mix, then pour in small pudding cups and refrigerate. Unlike the real custard pudding, the texture of the "purin (pudding pronounced in Japanese way)" was so soft. Actually it was quite a culture shock when I tasted a steam-baked custard pudding for the first time.　 --- Gee, doesn’t it sound like my childhood was full of egg products, chemical additives and MSG!? For the defense of my mom --- No it wasn’t like that, honestly. She fed me with lots of nutritious foods, too, and I think she did a pretty good job considering how healthy I am now. But somehow, rather unhealthy foods/drinks seem to have left a stronger impression on me in my younger days...;P OK, here’s the four bloggers I’m going to pass this nostalgic task onto: 1. Ting-aling of World Class Cuisine 2. JMom of Our Kitchen 3. Kristi of Would You Like Chocolate or Vanilla 4. Amy of Blue Lotus And here, as the rule says, I made a list with my site at the #5 position. Those who are tagged by me will need to remove the #1 from the list and push up the 4 remaining blogs, then add your blog as #5. (Link to the meme post of each blog on the list.) That’s the rule…I think. 1. Once upon a feast 2. Belly-timber 3. I'm mad and i eat 4. Bunnyfoot 5. Obachan’s Kitchen & Balcony Garden Enjoy! :D