Do you have those moments, when you smell a certain scent or you eat something and it reminds you of another time past?
With food, this is how my family and my cricket family as well relate to out past. We can sit for hours and talk about what food we ate growing up in the Caribbean during Christmas time or on the weekends or what our mom’s used to make that was so good.
When I go back to Trinidad, I usually have a list of things that I must eat while I am home. I must eat everything my mom cooks, because she really is the best cook in the world. No matter how many times I try to replicate her cooking, I will never get it to be like hers. I also must eat out at all my favorite spots. This can be challenging as there simply are not enough hours in the day to eat my mom’s cooking and eat out as well.
Two of my most favorite snacks to eat when I am back home are Twinkies (made by Kiss) and Bourbon Biscuits. The Twinkies here are just not the same. At home it is made locally so it is different. That creamy white filling though…yum!
And my next favorite that I do stock up on and bring back with me is Bourbon Biscuit’s! I remember while I was in school, a pack of bourbon biscuits was 50 cents. It had 4 small cookies in each one. To explain what it is, its our Oreo cookie in Trinidad. But our biscuits derived from the English as we were ruled by them. During lunch time at school I always had a pack of bourbon biscuits and a cold Pepsi! That was lunch most days.
Like our kiss cakes (Twinkies) our biscuits are also made locally. To this day I still love my bourbon biscuits. The sad part is, there is no where I can find them where I am. When it can’t come to me, then I must make it. And this is exactly what I tried to do.
While it still does not taste like home, It certainly brought back some sweet memories.
Click here for Bourbon Biscuits recipe.
