#soyrizo

My mom was into hippie health food, and thought white bread was not nutritious so she wouldn’t let us eat it like all our friends would… She wanted us to eat multigrain bread with all these seeds and my sister and I were like “this is so nasty, no. I don’t want PB&J full of seeds.”

So my mom’s compromise was she’d buy us potato bread to make sandwiches.

And it didn’t seem weird to me because it was all I knew, but my friends were always so fascinated by it and begging me to let them try some.

When we had sleepovers they’d always insist on making french toast in the morning because of the freaking potato bread. It was so exciting to them.

Like… my childhood friends still send me memes about weird food they remember eating at my house because of my crunchy mother.

A friend recently sent me a tiktok about soyrizo for this very reason (to be fair to my mother, soyrizo + a can of tomatoes + a can of black beans + brown rice + mayyybe a bit of melted cheese on top was the most delicious and warm and comforting and easy and fast dinner she’d make us. It was soooo good).

Another friend just texted me pics of her and her fiance making spaghetti squash “like your mom used to.”

Soyrizo-Stuffed Mushrooms with Guacamole