This entry is one of our Mother’s Day contest winners. We asked readers for their favorite food memory about mom.
On Mother’s Day, we celebrate not only our own mothers and grandmothers, but all the Moms in our lives, including our own daughters, and daughter in law, the mothers of our grandchildren. Even all the other Moms in our extended family.
This entry is one of our Mother’s Day contest winners. We asked readers for their favorite food memory about mom.
My parents grew up poor and began their marriage in the Depression. Over time they became wealthy, but Momma remained frugal. She could not bring herself to buy an expensive cut of meat, and no leftover ever went unused. That is why it was so special when, for Momma’s 70th Christmas, her ex-daughter-in-law gave her a standing rib roast of prime beef. She even hired the city’s top chef to show Momma how to cook it.
Restaurant owner Jamile Shiekh is a refuge from Somalia who moved to Charlotte in the mid-1990s.
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Summer rolls, with dribbles of peanut sauce, from Ben Thanh.
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Many of us wrapped the chicken suqaar and greens into the canjeero (flat, spongy) bread like it was a fajita. For an extra kick, we laced it with the green jalapeno and garlic sauce.
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A slice of tres leches cake from El Purgarcito.
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Shelved spices at Cedar Land Mediterranean Market.
We’re still talking about the chicken suqaar from Jamile’s.
Yes, the shrimp rolls at Ben Thahn (Vietnamese) were fresh and delicious. And the tres leches and flan from El Purgarcito (Salvadoran) sweetly capped our afternoon.
But Jamile’s (Somali) chicken suqaar—a stewed chicken dish prepared with greens, salad lettuces, and spongy bread called canjeero—was flat out phenomenal.
