Smells like home:

[kaberett]

Potatoes boiling in milk with black pepper, nutmeg, and bay from my mother's tree; the burnt-dust smell you get off Kenwood mixer motors; yeast beginning to do its thing in the bread; and Dundee cake finishing up in the oven.

Comments

[calissa]

Mmm... good smells.

Smells like home: soy sauce just beginning to boil; fresh cut rosemary hanging in the laundry to dry; lavender essential oil in the bathroom.

[kaberett]

:-)

I also got to experience the glorious continuity of blanching almonds (almonds, bowl, hot water, wait; pick, squeeze, slip), which ties me to my mother and my grandmother and so on back.

[calissa]

Such wonderful things! Thank you for sharing.

[jesse_the_k]

Many homes growing up, but two were big apartment buildings. Natural gas mixed with coal dust smell when I lever open the incinerator door. The unreachable dust on the back of the steam radiators when it begins to heat up in October.

Back to the kitchen: mother browning chicken and then sweet smell of red wine for chicken Marengo.