Cinnamon toast. It was my favourite bedtime snack and although I don’t eat it anymore there is still something very comforting about the smell of cinnamon.

Cupcakes and Banana Bread! My mom would bake hundreds of cupcakes at once!

Rolaudin. It was a German dish my mother would make. It was a long strip of meat that had onions and mustard and pickle in it and it was roles up and cooked in a pot

Hands down, the dish that always brings back memories is pierogies. They are a polish dumpling that can be filled with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, or anything else your heart desires. Although not raw, it is part of my heritage. It is almost an entire day production from start to finish, but my mom, grandmother, sister, and I work it like an assembly line and make more pierogies than you can imagine. They bring back memories that I so greatly cherish! 

My favorite childhood dish that brings lots of good memories is Yorkshire puddings with lots of gravy on them. I was born in Yorkshire and so this really takes me back. My husband and I have been eating raw for almost four weeks and loving it. I don’t think there’s much chance of making raw Yorkshire puddings. Any ideas?

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i always loved bibimbap with brown rice mixed with assorted vegetables!

Definitely my Aunt Belle’s four layer dessert:

In a pan, layered: graham crust, homemade cheesecake filling, chocolate pudding, Cool Whip, and then topped with rows of halved pecans.  She is famous for this thing and it was my favorite, pre-vegan Christmas dish.  I miss it.

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For the holidays, it was Grandma’s mashed potatoes! 

My favorite dish was white wedding (or birthday) cake my mother made using almond extract with bavarian cream between the layers! I still go weak in the knees when confronted with one of these, although I am far enough along in my unprocessed food journey now to know I can make an even more delicious raw version that won’t make me feel sick!

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My favorite childhood dish was my mom’s lasagna.  These days she makes veggie lasagna whenever all the family is there, and just makes two pots of sauce to go with it – one veggie, one with meat.  That way everyone can eat it :)

My favorite dish was gnocci with my dad’s “doctored up” spaghetti sauce:)

My mother made the most incredible fried chicken.  

My mum’s vegetable soup – couldn’t get enough of it.  Luckily I have been able to replicate it in adulthood – it is now my children’s favourite!

My mom’s broccoli and cheese casserole. When I moved away after university, she always had the casserole ready for me to devour AND had one frozen for me to take back. She’s thoughtful and has respected my dietary changes. Love her!

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For sure was my mom’s rice and chicken with carrots and peas!! yum

Spritz cookies! My mom is not a good cook, but she had a great spritz recipe and we made green trees every Christmas – I still think almond extract is one of the best things ever! :)

My favorite childhood dish was boston cream pie! :)

US favourite from my time living in the States: re-stuffed baked potatoes – with lots of cheese… :o) mmmmmmmmm

I love baked sweet potatoes….

Dressing, as in cornbread with eggs and celery with chicken broth, yum!

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Believe it or not it was eating pomegranates around new years eve! My grandma had a tree in her backyard and she used them for New Years and I loved eating those little seeds!
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I stopped eating meat when I was 10 (29 yrs ago- scary!) & I suffered every year during the holidays as my family pulled apart huge bird carcasses and discussed all the organs that went in to the gravy. The only non-meat dish not drenched in butter at these holiday meals was boiled rutabaga & I grew to love this lumpy yellow vegetable out of necessity- and i love it still!

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Zacusca, (pronounced in Romanian) it’s a spread made with bell pepper, eggplant, tomatoes, onion, etc… My mom still makes jars and jars of them and sends plenty to me to have over the winter…yum!   

Hi Kristen, great giveaway! My favourite childhood dish that brings back a lot of warm, fuzzy memories would have to be my mum’s vegetable soup – she used to literally put our whole veggie garden in the pot (alot of vegetables), and then puree it into the most delicious bowl of comfort you could imagine! :)

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My favorite childhood dish has to be my moms shepherds pie except this was not your usual shepherds pie. Instead of mashed potatoes my mom would use fresh ground corn and bake it until the top was golden brown. It would turn out crispy and sweet which was a great contrast for the veggies below. Mmm!

Everything my mom made was my favorite….vegetable curries…. but I have to say the most memorable thing about holidays was everyone being home and having that extra day to spend with one another.

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Must be Chili Mac. When my Mom worked on weekends my Dad would make macaroni, open a can of chili (I know, dont say it, he was NOT a cook) then hed throw in anything else he could find (can of peas or olives) then and add cheddar cheese & sour cream on top . I have yet to think of a way to make a living, compassionate version lol. Can you help? Please? …..following you on FB now, and I’m tweeting too!!

My mom’s pumpkin pie – so delicious!

Eating at my grandmother’s house helped me fall in love with food.  She always had vegetables from her garden, made all her own breads and great desserts.  It’s hard to pick one thing.  Her rolls were so light they seems to float.  Her chicken and rice (chicken bog), her homemade mac and cheese, her mashed sweet potato casserole, her sugared peanuts, so many things — all amazing.  She is gone now and I don’t eat the same way any more.  But I still cook her recipes for family members and I still have my grandmother’s love for fresh food and her adventurous spirit in the kitchen.  She was always so forward looking, never stuck in the past with her food or life.  In another time and place, she may have embraced a different food lifestyle.  She lived to be 94 and had great health until 90.  I’m grateful to have known her!

Anything my grandmother made.  It was all terrific and completely homemade.  Her canned raspberries on vanilla ice cream were the best!

Dad’s lasagna – - cheese will always be my biggest weakness.

My moms sour cream cookies with that thick white frosting that makes a hard shell, but a creamy inside. My favorite shape was always the christmas tree :)

Any of our Christmas cookies! My Mom and I would bake cookies together leading up to Christmas, my favorite time of the year because of all the wonderful memories

My mom’s Thanksgiving stuffing! It was amazing! My brother and I have tried others, but both agree that nothing has compared. I still love Thanksgiving – delicious food shared with family during the Fall, my favorite season. 

My mom’s Macaroni and cheese!! The smells,me helping to grate the cheese and being the first to taste test!

As a kid, I loved my mom’s stew with drop dumplings on top.  It was cooked in a heavy black iron dutch oven.  I have the dutch oven now, but it’s only used for yummy vegan food!

One of my favorite childhood dishes is when we took home roast duck from the Chinese restaurant and made pancakes to roll the duck up moo shu style!

My mom always makes Mexican Lasagna after church on Christmas Eve. 

My favorite childhood dish would be pasta fagioli! My mom use to make it all the time, and it was always vegan! :) 

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My favorite childhood dish would definitely have to be the pumpkin bread my mom used to make.

Too many to choose from! Cheesecake or doubletree cookies made with my dad, I think.

My granmother’s moist poppyseed cake, crunchy almond biscotti and homemade pickles. I was so young, yet I will never forget these delights :-)

I remember slice-and-bake cookies that we would make for Santa. They were so fun because all of the work was already done, and as a kid I felt like I was really baking! Now, as a highly experienced vegan baker, I’m amused by the fun that I had.

my family always makes Pulla bread- it’s from our Finnish roots. We make it for St. Lucia Day (December 13th) and often again for Christmas. 

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Green bean casserole. YUM!

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Oh mine was cheesy macaroni and cheese with hot dogs on top and also having a big breakfast of eggs, bacon and sausages.

I think for me it wasn’t one dish but all of them together; turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce on each forkfull was the best.

My grandmother’s potatoes au gratin. To this day it’s love on a plate! This was the one thing that just had to be at any potluck or holiday dinner. Thankfully, her recipe was handed down to my mother, and on to me. Now, it’s the only request of my kids when we’re all going to be together for dinner… Yummy goodness that can’t be topped!

I’d have to say pirogies with sautéed onions & butter. I had a Ukrainian grama and she made the best holiday feast. Also buckwheat krauted cabbage rolls.. And oddly enough, mashed turnip is dear to my heart.

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My favorite childhood dish is pan fried pierogi with loads of caramelized onions, horseradish, and sour cream. I now make them veganized and don’t miss the dairy one bit.

My favorite childhood dish would have to be shepard’s pie.

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My favorite childhood dish was my mom’s Broccoli & Rice casserole! She made it with extra broccoli for me, because it was my very favorite veggie! :D

Homemade “baked” macaroni and cheese, cooked chocolate pudding in the frig when I came home from school, and cherry jello at my grandmother’s house.

My favorite childhood dish was my mother’s manicotti. I remember sitting on the counter and helping her stuff the pasta tubes.

My favorite dish from childhood is my Mom’s ambrosia salad.  It was present on the table at every Thanksgiving and i have continued the tradition at my own house!!

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My favorite food memories from my childhood are making two ethnic dishes in preperation for Christmas . My mom would get together with her friends and us kids and  the day was spent making cabbage rolls and perogies. The smell of sauted onions still takes me back to those days,  listening to the women sharing all the news  as they rolled and pinched dough and filled roasters with layers of stuffed cabbage smothered it with tomato sauce. We were taught the art of making these tasty little morsels and the tradition has continued with our own daughters. Hopefully I will have the oportuntiy to teach my grandchildren how to make these amazing dishes.

Italian sloppy joes.  There was garlic butter on the bun, and after putting the sloppy joe mix on there, my mom would add a slice of cheese, wrap them in foil, and toast them in the oven!  Yum!  We always liked unwrapping them and eating the crunchy bits of cheese stuck to the foil.

My childhood favorite was boston cream pie!

We used to get together and make tamales when I was a kid.  It was fun and lots of memories.  Usually we would use venison from my Dad’s hunting trips!

My favorite childhood dish was my grandmother’s cucumber and sour cream salad. So simple but it felt like the biggest treat every time she made it!

Macaroni & cheese.  Luckily I found a raw version using yellow zucchini & cashews!

My favorite childhood dish was my mom’s chicken pot pie. I actually just successfully “veganized” it last night and it was simply amazing! 

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The thought of my dads homemade biscuits and gravy brings back a warm feeling of home to me.

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Even though I don’t eat it anymore, my Grandmother’s chicken and dumplings. Everything was from scratch and made with love. She always made it for me when I visited her. : )

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Deviled Eggs, Mashed Potatoes and Pumpkin Pie – I remember gathering with my mom’s best friends family, and my parents other super close friends. I didn’t always like all the food but I would always eat those three things. Pumpkin Pie is still the only pie I ever seem to eat. I miss good times with close friends and now that we have a baby of our own it’s time to make new traditions, with healthy RAW Vegan dishes.

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Hmm, the one food I couldn’t get enough of as a kid was tomatoes. I could eat piles of them, and still can!

my favourite dish that brings back memories is apple crisp – my grandma always made the best crisp.  now that she’s gone my grandfather still makes it…so sweet…

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One of my favorite dishes was having a buffet taco styled dinner. Now, I don’t eat all of the same ingredients as before but it was a fun way to get the whole family involved and sit down at the dinner table to eat together and discuss each others day.

I would say for me would be mexican dishes we had on special occasions and holidays, such as tamales and posole.   

I’d have to say my favorite was my grandfather’s homemade mashed potatoes and gravy.. YUMmm

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Making sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies with my nana is definitely a favorite holiday memory!

Grilled cheese and tomato soup. I am vegan now, but the memory of my mom making me that meal and how the meal tasted is complete comfort.  

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simple spaghetti, my mom used to make it for me all the time since it was my favorite!

My favorite dish was potatoes, boiled, baked, fried, mashed ….. you name it. :)

My mom’s peanut butter fudge.  I used to steal piece after piece when no one was looking.

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Macaroni casserole. It was the first thing my grandmother taught me how to make. All I did was make boxed macaroni, add canned tuna and frozen peas, and bake! It was so simple, but I felt so proud to be able to cook with grandma. I love to cook still today (vegan, that is) and I always think about those times.

Apple crisp

My mom’s fresh-from-the-oven warm gooey chocolate chip cookies.

my mom’s pumpkin bread, fresh out of the oven!

My grandfather was Romanian, and my grandmother would always make stuffed cabbage rolls for him and the rest of our family.  Yum!  So delish!

Mom’s maple-pecan ring, fresh from the oven and drizzled with cinnamon icing.  I’ve figured out how to make it vegan… working on the gluten free version!  It’s a holiday staple and I can’t remember a Christmas morning without it :)

Exciting! The childhood foods with the most memories for me are the dishes my grandmother made. Peach cobbler was a favorite, as well as savory Lebanese dishes. I’d love this cookbook!! Thanks for the giveaway :)

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My grandmother’s black eyed peas with greens and her rolls. <3

My favorite childhood dish is porridge that my mom made for me for breakfast before school when I was younger. Then I’d be all warmed up for the walk to school. :-)

My favorite childhood dish is the apple pie my grandmother used to make, especially during the holidays. She used to let me help her prepare her delicious pies as well!

Favorite holiday dessert – Christmas rice pudding with the hidden almond and whoever gets the almond wins a box of chocolates.  I am 35 and it has been at every Christmas dinner, it does not matter that the additions over the years (husbands and kids) do not like it!  It has evolved with many different toppings, my favorite being the brandied cherries.  Unfortunately I stopped eating it a few years ago due to my dietary changes but I can still remember the taste  when I see it on the table! 

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Pistachio pudding, you know the kind with the little marshmallows in it? Oh so yummy, I need to find a way to veganize that dish. 

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Mmmm…. Danish Puff Pastry is a favorite food memory. It’s been years since my mom has made it, but I could taste it now. It’s too difficult to veganize…lots of eggs.

Hmm…childhood favorite? Pie! All types of pie. Cake. All types of cake. Sweets. All kinds of sweets. Are we sensing a theme here? LOL!

Every holiday I always looked forward to eating baked macaroni and cheese, stuffing and collard greens. And for dessert sweet potato pie.  yum yum!

Every new Years eve we were allowed to stay up late and have a slice of “grasshopper pie”.  Chocolate graham crust and mint filling.  it was very decadent and very special, by candlelight late at night…

Every year on christmas Eve my family made monkey bread! I enjoyed making it more than eating it the next morning.  Since going Vegan, my family made a Vegan monkey bread!  I wonder if it’s possible to make a RAW monkey bread…..

Every year on christmas Eve my family made monkey bread! I enjoyed making it more than eating it the next morning.  Since going Vegan, my family made a Vegan monkey bread!  I wonder if it’s possible to make a RAW monkey bread…..

Thanks so much for this awesome giveaway ~ Oh-my…this question is tough! Do I have to choose just one?  Probably Pizza – homemade… Mom made up several crusts & then set them out along with bowls & bowls of topping choices, so fun – lots of talking, laughing & some really fun combinations on those pizzas too!  A really close second… moms apple pie, especially this time of year, I can still remember the amazing aroma that filled the house as it baked! Amazingly… we’ve gotten more & more creative in our ‘raw world’ & have been able to recreate some similar ‘pies’ in the dehydrator!

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I know I missed the contest, but would have to say my favorite childhood dish was my Mom’s flank steak roll ups with bacon and a special dressing.  I would request them for my birthday every year. Weird to think about this now that I am vegan.

So fun!!  I love my mom’s leek and potato soup.  Of course that’s easy to make vegan, although I don’t eat potatoes and it wouldn’t be very good raw, anyway. ;)

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Kristen… My dad would make onions, garlic and green peppers (red and green) and slow cook them.  The whole house smelled amazing.  And no one could make them like Dad.. YUM!  My mom didn’t cook much, but once she made an amazing kuchen (raised  the dough near the fireplace) and for some one that never cooked it was so very good.

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