Ratatouille
Decades back in a different life and long before Mel Brooks and Disney found amusement in the word, I learned how to make this dish from the ex's great aunt, and added it to my culinary repertoire. ...
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I'm not comfortable passing on the complete ratatouille recipe she passed on to me
I wish you didn't feel that way. In only one or two generations, that specific and special recipe might be gone forever, never to be enjoyed again. One might as well hide a family heirloom in a closet out of sight.
Almost 70 years later, I still have pleasant thoughts of the mother of one of my third grade friends who unselfishly shared several of her mother's depression-era recipes. Likewise, I share them too, and cherish the smile on my friend's face when I tell her how much someone else has enjoyed something that her mother gave. It sort of makes it all worthwhile.