A mother wants to preserve her parents' recipes before it's too late. She has her mom's shoyu chicken and her daughter learned fried rice, but the macaroni salad her mother makes every holiday is something she dislikes yet feels she should learn anyway.
You know, it's so funny because I started thinking about that, you know, especially with my parents just getting into their golden years, and I've been meaning to ask my mom for some recipes. I know when we started forming our family, we wanted to make just different traditions, you know, just our own traditions. And so I started traditions where I hope those will be passed down, but I, I want to make sure I didn't get any recipes yet from my mom. I have some, but you don't really like them too much, so I don't make them.
I haven't had anything that you—
her shoyu chicken. Her shoyu chicken. No, it's good. Yeah. Okay, that— yeah, that's the only one. The other ones— oh, maybe her fried rice. Skyler, we taught Skyler to make. Actually, my mom taught our daughter to make her fried rice, and her husband loves it, so they make that. So maybe those are— yeah, the traditional recipes.
I'm like, yeah, you just like— I'm not cooking, you're buying food now.
No, no, no, you know what made me think about it? Because you like my mother's, um, macaroni salad.
Ah, yes.
And I don't really like it, so I never really— like, I remember when I was— oh, so you're just projecting? Like, no, no, no. So then I have to— that's what I thought about. I should get the recipe because when I was younger, she would teach me like, oh, make it like this, and I do this, and she show me and I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I realized Thanksgiving and Christmas, you love that macaroni salad.
I do.
I have to learn.
But it doesn't line up with my 2025 personal health goals.
It'll just line up with Thanksgiving. That's right.
