baker by trade here, we're lying, we eyeball everything and fuck around with whatever we want. Once you have a basic understanding of the science all you need is informed estimates.
Thank you PJ for sharing this with us! This time of year is so hard since there are significant grandparent dates this time of year for my family after they have passed. Glad you could enjoy this baking time with your grandpa!
I love that your grandad either ignores or responds with hehe to your questions. Also I only have one grandparent left and i live so far away from her but i gained about 4 or 5 grandmas by joining my local stitching group where we do all sort of sewing, knitting, crochet etc. Listening to their stories about their younger days and seeing what they get up to today is so fascinating. I often forget that elderly people had lives before they turned 70. Also seeing them have fun in their older years is also amazing. Like one of them goes to latitude every year. Another one worked as a burlesque dancer when she was younger. One of them met her husband through a lonely hearts newspaper column. They all have such varied lives and its made me appreciate growing older. Im only 22 so im still miles away from being 70 or 80 but I feel a lot less scared of wrinkly skin and aching bones when I look at them and see there is joy in every age of your life.
as a 2nd gen italian immigrant to england this video means so much to me :') and i will be trying the recipe!! for any non-italian speakers who can't be bothered to use google translate, here's the handwritten recipe at 10:34 : 5 eggs 1 cup oil 1 cup sugar liquors, whichever you want to put beat eggs, sugar, oil, liquor put the flour with your fingers i implore you, make them well [there isn't a really good translation for "ti raccomando", it's much more colloquial in italian than it sounds in english lol] thank you, Lina
Italian here. "Tazza" in Italian can mean both cup and mug. In this case, seeing from video, it means mug. So it's 1 mug of oil, and 1 mug of sugar. As to the "ti raccomando falli bene", yeah, it can be colloquial and that's the case. I would translate more with "make sure you make them well". Also, it's a very wholesome piece of paper, as it ends "Grazie Lina", which means "Thanks. Lina". Probably Lina is the person who gave him that recipe, maybe his wife or sister.
my grandma (who immigrated from Italy to Canada as a young girl), wanted all her amazing recipes to die with her, so she refused to teach them to anyone or write them down. Her pizza was my favourite food of hers though. I remember her teaching me to make her pizza when I was a child, and I said something like, “Why are you showing me if you don’t want people to know?” And she said, “You’re 6, you won’t remember.” She was right, I don’t remember the recipe lol, but I’m glad I remember cooking with her :) and that memory still makes me laugh
My grandma (Abuela) used to make this soup that I loved so much. Unfortunately none of my family asked her how she made it and now that she has passed away, I can remember the way it tasted when I eat my sad attempts at recreating it. This was a great video. Much respect to your grandpa
You put too close!!! lol All of my grandparents passed before I was old enough to appreciate things like traditions and recipes, so seeing your family have moments like this is cathartic, especially around the holidays. Thank you for sharing!!
This video was more like a short-film I'd see at a festival. I absolutely loved it, and would love to see more videos like this, if you like making them PJ. Thank you for this reminder to visit my grandparents, and listen to their stories more often.
Grandads Biscuit Recipe (to my best estimation): 6 eggs (whisked) 1 mug sugar 1 mug oil 1 shot of brandy Several heaping tablespoons of flour until you reach a thick batter consistency Drop a tablespoon mound of the mixture onto some icing sugar and coat it, place onto baking tray with parchment paper. "cook until ready" whatever that means, but I'll assume 365f for 15-20 minutes???
As much as baking seems like it should be an exact science, a lot of the time it's really more about the ratios of the ingredients to each other than it is about exact measurements. As long as you use the same cup to measure your ingredients and use whatever the right ratio is, it will usually work out, regardless of if it's a huge mug or a smaller cup. It's always so nice to see how much love and care older relatives put into making things with their family members, even if they've gone a bit hard of hearing and mostly make you watch as they make the biscuits, it's really lovely that you still have such a good relationship with your grandfather, and that he's still chugging along at 94!
Well, PJ, I liked a lot of the phrases. Thank you for sharing this with us. What a sweet lil video. "I threw a roast potato at my granddad" "you put too close!" "tall dark horse of an uncle"
thank you for sharing this precious family recipe with us! You don't really realise how big of a treasure it is until you find out how many recipes were lost over the years because people had no one to pass them to. My goal for next year is to learn all the recipes from my mum. I bring shame on my family's name and don't know how to make borsch yet for example haha For obvious reasons I started feeling more strongly about my culture's preservation. I wanna know stuff that will help me always have it with me, even if I lose some material things or my home eventually.
What a sweet video! Your grandad seems lovely. I'm taking a trip in a couple weeks to visit family, this video made me realize I should take time to talk to my grandpa more! He just turned 76 I believe, and the way your grandad was saying bye to you reminded me a lot of my Abuelito.
This was such a comforting video, I lost my nan when I was 14 and I miss being able to share my adult life with her. This is such a beautiful way to create and keep memories with your grandad ❤
it's so sweet because you can tell the grandpa doesn't really understand all the questions pj does and he just answers back a "hehehe" "no" same, if you find yourself in a position when you don't understand something, just smile and nod hahahaha really sweet video!!
i never met my great grandfather, but he, too, moved from a small Italian town to find work in bricklaying, in the United States. he moved here at 17 years old in 1923. he died thirty years before i was born, but his spaghetti and meatball recipe has been passed down by my grandmother. its like you said about the biscuits - ive never found a spaghetti sauce that matches the taste, and the ingredients/amounts werent measured exactly. in the past year ive been able to get in contact with much of his family, family we previously hadnt heard about, through my ancestry research. thank you for sharing with us, PJ :)
This video was so sweet and heartwarming. I never really met my grandfathers because I'm the youngest in my generation so I was a baby when they passed, kind of the same with my grandmothers so I usually find it hard to watch these because I don't like to know what I missed out on, I also can't really relate, but all the same this video had me smiling all the way through. So this is who your liar trait comes from! But thank you PJ for sharing this moment with us of your family
every time your grandad hehe'd, i cried 🥹 reminded me of my grandma who was italian too and she sadly passed away last year :( cherish all the moments you have with him, encourage and appreciate his italian heritage, and enjoy those wonderful looking biscuits ♡
I didn’t expect this video to make me tear up but here I am 😭 I never got to meet my grandad on my mom’s side and the other one on my dad’s side died when I was little, so maybe that’s why this video is so touching for me. the handwritten recipe at the end definitely gave me the knockout blow 😭 so sweet, and my grandma’s called Lina too!
I definitely agree how taste is an underutilized part of nostalgia. When I was a kid my grandpa used to make a stew that I used to love so much, but he never taught it to my mom or any of my relatives and he's losing his memory now and is too weak to stand on his own nowadays. So it's really a lovely idea to learn recipes as a way to preserve tangible memories
This video is so sweet, I lost all of my grandparents in these past few years and I realized too late how precious the time spent with them was. I wish I would've learned more from them. The one thing that I hold dear to my heart is that as I grew older I realized just how similar I am to my grandma. Totally unrelated, but I also discovered just now how very Italian PJ is, I honestly thought that just his grandad was Italian lol
I love that you put the original recipe at the end! I’ll try and make grandpa Liguori biscuits for my family :) my aunt has a chocolate pie (crostata) which uses mugs for measuring so I guess I’ll be fine haha
Humble and honest, god bless grandad pj ... and yes something about grandparents and measurements - its a pinch, a glug, a dollop or a smidge in our house!
I wasn't expecting wholesome Grandad content, but I'm here for it and a lot teary. Everyone is so lucky to still have grandparents around and a good relationship with their grandparents. As for the measurements, my grandma had some recipes like that and when it's not an exact measurement, you 'measure from the heart'. It's a Southern/Island Virginia thing.
I love your grandads laugh, he reminds me so much of my grandpa- he had such a sense of humour and seeing Grandad Pj laughing knowing he had all that wine in the garage just reminds me of him- for my grandpa the secret was all the chocolates he wasn't supposed to have tucked in a little jar nearby. That and swearing as much as he could and turning of his hearing aid so my gran could tell him off till the cows came home and he would just laugh, blissfully switched off from her squeals of annoyance 😂
I’m in tears! This reminds me so much of my grandma! She is still alive at 96 years old but, unfortunally, she can’t do much now-a-days. It’s such a shame how we take so long to appreciate and truly get to know our grandparents! I would love a video, next september, on grandad Ligouri’s wine!
I'm getting teary-eyed and I'm two minutes in. My grandfather is 92 and I hope I get to share some time like this with him. He's still very active, I have to bring his power sander that I borrowed back to him, so he can sand and repaint his benches before spring.
I had a similar experience when my grandmother finally taught me how to make her cornbread dressing. She's had a lot of surgeries, and she hasn't been able to cook in large batches anymore. So now, it's up to me to make the cornbread dressing that my dad and I love so much.
I absolutely adored the footage near the end of the household bits and bobs. There is a whole story in every corner of every home that we will never know, but means the world to a person. I love those little stories
I just lost my grandfather in September and we were fortunate enough to know a little ahead of time that he had dementia (even though it was organ failure that ultimately caused him to pass) but I was able to get a day of learning to make his famous chili and record videos of him preparing it so this video hit extra close to home ❤❤ thanks for the comfort video pj I needed it ❤❤
PJ, I understand those existential thoughts very well. my morfar immigrated to Chicago from Stockholm when he was 19 (also was a bricklayer) and before he passed he used to tell me that he wished he stayed in Sweden after he met my grandmother (when he was in the army and stationed in France). Though I'm glad that I have been able to reconnect and stay in touch with my family in Sweden, and now I have his families pannkakor, risgrynsgröt, and glögg recipes that I can make my own.
Thank you for making this. my nanna and I used to do all the Christmas baking together but she stopped cooking a few years ago and this brings back memories of us in the kitchen together 💗🥺
i loved seeing this and your reflections. reminded me of my grandpa who also moved to the uk from italy as a young man and we always did the same greeting
this video actually came out on the 8th anniversary of my own grandad's death and I can't describe the emotions I've gone through just remembering everything he's taught me
My mom’s side of the family is Italian. My mom grew up on a farm and her family speaks a near-dead language. My grandfather passed away when I was young but my grandmother and I have cooked tons together to the point that she gave me her old pasta maker when we got her a new one
My Grandma used to make the best beef casserole. We attempted to learn it from her, my mum watched exactly how she did it and copied it, but it never tasted quite the same. Sometimes there's some extra grandparent magic too to give it the flavour we remember
I always wanted videos of my grandparents, because after you lose them (I’m 2 down) you would do anything to hear their voices again❤ I’m so glad you were able to do that with your Grandad and that it can be a cherished moment for years to come!
3/4 of my grandparents already passed away - my grandma before she even turned 60, and both of my grandpas in their early 60s. sometimes i think about what our relationship would be like now when i’m 24 and about how they haven’t seen any of my important life events. when i see adults spending time with their grandparents it feels sort of bittersweet but i’m so glad people get to have that in their lives
This was a really cute video and it came at a great time for me. My granny passed away just a few weeks ago, and her ''Grandad biscuits'' were Chocolate Biscuit Cake. She made it for all the family gatherings and it tastes like my childhood - even though it's really simple I've never eaten something exactly the same. My aunt made the chocolate biscuit cake when we met up at Christmas this year, and it was perfect - I intend to keep the tradition in the family for as long as possible. Whenever I eat it now I'll not only feel that childhood nostalgia but think of her
this video is so sweet, what a lovely time capsule for the future man. the last part hit me, i also wonder what ill be known for within my family, that is such a sweet sentiment i never thought of it that way
My grandad used to make a pineapple soda drink. I don’t like fuzzy drinks but that’s the only one I always had when I came over because he had his own soda machine and was so excited to make some for us
My grandparents had a vineyard and we pressed grapes and made wine every year. Also a dish that is close to a grape juice pudding with cinnamon and crushed walnuts.
As someone who's left their life behind and moved to another country for better opportunities: I respect and admire your grandpa - I'm only 23, and I'm struggling immensely to survive without my usual support network. Currently sick for the third time in four months due to overexhaustion and harsh living conditions. The only thing I could think of when listening to your grandpas story is: he went through the same, but so, so many years ago when everything was this much more difficult. It's insane to think about.
I never really had a relationship with my grandparents. Between the generational trauma, the deaths, the accidents, the coming out… things got lost to time, or translation, or lack of understanding. I hope my children and grandchildren will one day look back on the memories we will make and feel that we have relationships of love like this.
My dad’s been a baker since he was 16. He’s taught me everything I know how to make. But nothing will ever taste as good as the way he makes it. It’s made with soul and love and nothing can recreate that
As someone whose grandad was also an italian immigrant (tho he migrated to austria, not the uk) this was really heartwarming and it was really interesting recognizing some similarities, like the focus on a respectful greeting. I'm so glad you get to make precious memories like this with your grandad
Much love to you Peej, thank you for this heartfelt video. A majority of my grandparents passed quite young, and as a grandkid born in between generations to older parents I didn't really get to know any of them, so I'm learning to treasure the older people in my life more and more the older I get, too.
this is such a beautiful video PJ :)) i really wish i'd done the same thing with my grandma's recipes a few years ago, but we lost her so unexpectedly when i was 16 that i never got the chance. thank you for showing such appreciation for grandparents ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing this moment with your grandad. This video took me back to having small moments like this with my late grandfather. This was so heartwarming and lovely to see you with your family. ❤ I hope that you’re able carry on his recipe. Also, how’s the wine? :)
Oh your granddad is a doll. I miss my grandfather so much. I’m 42 and he passed away from cancer when I was about 24. He is the only positive male figure I’ve ever had in my life. I wish my boys could have had more time with him. My grandmother is 95 and a few years ago my cousin and I decided to go to her house and try to learn how to make her dressing before she wasn’t able to teach us anymore. We live in the south in America and dressing is the southern version of stuffing, but different. My grandmother’s was made from scratch and it turned out to be hard to record a recipe lol. She doesn’t exactly measure as she cooks and she just adds ingredients as she goes to make it taste how she wants it to. It was always delicious. I tried it this Christmas myself and yes it thankfully was good and similar to hers but idt anything will ever be as good as my grandmother’s ❤
This is so wholesome, thank you so much for sharing a piece of your family with us!! The biscuits look so delicious and I laughed so hard when Grandad said “You make a mess!” 😂😂
My grandad still bakes his own sweet bread for christmas and it is a tradition that got from my great grandad who came from Italy to Argentina looking for better opportunities. When I was little my grandad would also bake pizza every thursday for the whole family. Nowadays I bake them every once in a while. Those little traditions are good to keep alive. Lovely video PJ.
I recently got to sit with my grandma and record her stories, she's 92 and this video gave me the same warm feeling that sitting with her gives me. sending much love to you and your grandad
The sweetest thing 🥹🥹🥹 grandparents are so special and your grandad seems like such a character. And your exactly right we should cherish every moment we have with them ❤️
Makes me wish I could have learned about my great grandmothers bread recipe. I remember one year my mom was given the bread and I had a piece, and it was absolutely delicious. Unfortunately within the last decade, she started to develop Alzheimer or dementia (i do not remember which one). Early this year she passed away, and the last time I had visited her was 2017. I'm very grateful I was able to see her again, but it was bitter sweet, really. My grandmother is getting me a few things from her house, and I'm a little curious if I'll ever see a recipe book with her handwriting. I didn't know her well enough, but I sure do miss her.
This is a wonderful video. I lost my great grandma a little over a year ago, she was 89. She grew up dirt-floors poor in rural Oklahoma in the 30s & 40s. She was a home maker through and through. I wish I’d learned more from her in my childhood. I’ve become a stay at home mom now and try my best every day to replicate the love and comfort she breathed into the home. I baked for my family’s holiday celebrations this year and wish I could sit in her living room and tell her all about it. Ask her for tips. This was a really awesome video for you to make
this made me miss my grandma to pieces. everyone found her very serious but when we talked on the phone i could make her laugh for hours. i’ll see her again one day and we’ll laugh again
I loved this video 🥲 I've been baking since I was a teen & have a lot of recipes like this, I always wonder what might be passed on when I have kids in the future. Also need to learn my granny's trifle recipe, she does it every Xmas & I look forward to it all year 🥰
pj, you put too close!! no good!! in all seriousness, this was such a lovely video. nothing better than connecting with your relatives in a way that you weren’t able to when you were younger
oh seeing you say goodbye to your granddad made my cry so much! I have lost all of my grandparents, and although I am italian and of course kiss people on both cheeks as a greeting often, I so dearly miss saying goodbye to my grandmothers whenever I visited them. Hold your nonno as close as you can pj!
what a breathtaking video. the tender shots of the little magical spots around the house when taking about what you will pass on was amazing. i hope he knows how loved he is!!
This is so wholesome! The older I get the more I realize how precious the knowledge of my elder family members is. I feel so grateful that only a few months before my grandma died I learned my grandma’s mince tart recipe. I was surprised to discover that all along she bought the tart shells and premade mincemeat and put them together to bake! She bamboozled us all our whole lives. I love it. It makes me laugh! Asking for your granddad’s recipe probably meant a lot to him. This was an act of love going both ways 💚
Thank you so much for sharing this, PJ. I'm 56 and there's always been a part of me that's sad about never knowing my grandads. One died shortly after I was born, and the other emigrated to Australia before I was born and I only ever got to meet him (and that grandma) once. Treasure your grandparents, people🥰
Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this with us PJ. This had me in tears happily remembering when my grandma taught my dad and I how to make her famous homemade family bread with a recipe straight from Slovakia. Such special memories and a wonderful recipe that I'm looking forward to passing down in the future
Grandad really laughed in the face of everyone that says that baking is a science and you must measure every ingredient
hehe
baker by trade here, we're lying, we eyeball everything and fuck around with whatever we want. Once you have a basic understanding of the science all you need is informed estimates.
Those who don't bake regularly should measure. So those that do lie and say we measure so other ppls baked goods come out okay lol
Love all the questions you posed that your grandad simply didn’t acknowledge 😂💕
a little hard of hearing or more responsive to italian, I think. but wholesome, nonetheless (ฅ´ω`ฅ)
Grandad drinking at 9AM is iconic, relatable, and girl boss power
The old man laugh that his granddad does is so adorable.
He he 😄
What a sweet and wholesome video! People over 90 are so funny, so many of them are kind of done with speaking in full sentences.
Thank you PJ for sharing this with us! This time of year is so hard since there are significant grandparent dates this time of year for my family after they have passed. Glad you could enjoy this baking time with your grandpa!
I love that your grandad either ignores or responds with hehe to your questions. Also I only have one grandparent left and i live so far away from her but i gained about 4 or 5 grandmas by joining my local stitching group where we do all sort of sewing, knitting, crochet etc. Listening to their stories about their younger days and seeing what they get up to today is so fascinating. I often forget that elderly people had lives before they turned 70. Also seeing them have fun in their older years is also amazing. Like one of them goes to latitude every year. Another one worked as a burlesque dancer when she was younger. One of them met her husband through a lonely hearts newspaper column. They all have such varied lives and its made me appreciate growing older. Im only 22 so im still miles away from being 70 or 80 but I feel a lot less scared of wrinkly skin and aching bones when I look at them and see there is joy in every age of your life.
that's lovely :,)
This is the sweetest comment 😭 I feel so happy for you and all your lovely grandmas!!!
this was very generous of you to share this family activity with us. thank you, PJ. happy christmas
I love this kinda recipes where it is basically a list of ingredients that you have to feel how much you need to put
as a 2nd gen italian immigrant to england this video means so much to me :') and i will be trying the recipe!! for any non-italian speakers who can't be bothered to use google translate, here's the handwritten recipe at 10:34 :
5 eggs
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar
liquors, whichever you want to put
beat eggs, sugar, oil, liquor
put the flour with your fingers
i implore you, make them well [there isn't a really good translation for "ti raccomando", it's much more colloquial in italian than it sounds in english lol]
thank you, Lina
"Farina condita" actually means seasoned flour, "con dita" would be with your fingers 😂
Italian here. "Tazza" in Italian can mean both cup and mug. In this case, seeing from video, it means mug. So it's 1 mug of oil, and 1 mug of sugar.
As to the "ti raccomando falli bene", yeah, it can be colloquial and that's the case. I would translate more with "make sure you make them well".
Also, it's a very wholesome piece of paper, as it ends "Grazie Lina", which means "Thanks. Lina". Probably Lina is the person who gave him that recipe, maybe his wife or sister.
That is the true grandparent type of cooking right there. No determined amounts, just vibes.
How wholesome, much love to grandpeej
"you put too close!" - granddad liguori, 2023
my grandma (who immigrated from Italy to Canada as a young girl), wanted all her amazing recipes to die with her, so she refused to teach them to anyone or write them down. Her pizza was my favourite food of hers though. I remember her teaching me to make her pizza when I was a child, and I said something like,
“Why are you showing me if you don’t want people to know?”
And she said, “You’re 6, you won’t remember.”
She was right, I don’t remember the recipe lol, but I’m glad I remember cooking with her :) and that memory still makes me laugh
dude your grandpa is doing amazing for 94!! congrats!!! 🎉
My grandma (Abuela) used to make this soup that I loved so much. Unfortunately none of my family asked her how she made it and now that she has passed away, I can remember the way it tasted when I eat my sad attempts at recreating it. This was a great video. Much respect to your grandpa
i really read that as soap and was so confused the more i read
*hugs* I have some similar questions of my grandparents who passed and now we're all like "well... that's not it"
Granddad passing the torch (biscuit)
You put too close!!! lol
All of my grandparents passed before I was old enough to appreciate things like traditions and recipes, so seeing your family have moments like this is cathartic, especially around the holidays. Thank you for sharing!!
“You put too close” puts Gordon Ramsay’s “it’s raw” to shame
This video was more like a short-film I'd see at a festival. I absolutely loved it, and would love to see more videos like this, if you like making them PJ. Thank you for this reminder to visit my grandparents, and listen to their stories more often.
Grandads Biscuit Recipe (to my best estimation):
6 eggs (whisked)
1 mug sugar
1 mug oil
1 shot of brandy
Several heaping tablespoons of flour until you reach a thick batter consistency
Drop a tablespoon mound of the mixture onto some icing sugar and coat it, place onto baking tray with parchment paper.
"cook until ready" whatever that means, but I'll assume 365f for 15-20 minutes???
The handwritten recipe at the end is the gem for me. Elders are archives. Lovely.
As much as baking seems like it should be an exact science, a lot of the time it's really more about the ratios of the ingredients to each other than it is about exact measurements. As long as you use the same cup to measure your ingredients and use whatever the right ratio is, it will usually work out, regardless of if it's a huge mug or a smaller cup. It's always so nice to see how much love and care older relatives put into making things with their family members, even if they've gone a bit hard of hearing and mostly make you watch as they make the biscuits, it's really lovely that you still have such a good relationship with your grandfather, and that he's still chugging along at 94!
"I wonder what my grandad biscuits will be" - I love this as a way to think about small legacies
PJ's heart-to-hearts are one of my favourite elements of his channel.
Well, PJ, I liked a lot of the phrases. Thank you for sharing this with us. What a sweet lil video.
"I threw a roast potato at my granddad"
"you put too close!"
"tall dark horse of an uncle"
I love his little laugh. It makes me think of my grandmother’s smoker’s cackle. I miss her alot.
thank you for sharing this precious family recipe with us! You don't really realise how big of a treasure it is until you find out how many recipes were lost over the years because people had no one to pass them to.
My goal for next year is to learn all the recipes from my mum. I bring shame on my family's name and don't know how to make borsch yet for example haha
For obvious reasons I started feeling more strongly about my culture's preservation. I wanna know stuff that will help me always have it with me, even if I lose some material things or my home eventually.
What a sweet video! Your grandad seems lovely. I'm taking a trip in a couple weeks to visit family, this video made me realize I should take time to talk to my grandpa more! He just turned 76 I believe, and the way your grandad was saying bye to you reminded me a lot of my Abuelito.
You can't make me cry like that when I'm eating mashed potato PJ, it's gone cold now!
This was such a comforting video, I lost my nan when I was 14 and I miss being able to share my adult life with her. This is such a beautiful way to create and keep memories with your grandad ❤
it's so sweet because you can tell the grandpa doesn't really understand all the questions pj does and he just answers back a "hehehe" "no" same, if you find yourself in a position when you don't understand something, just smile and nod hahahaha
really sweet video!!
i never met my great grandfather, but he, too, moved from a small Italian town to find work in bricklaying, in the United States. he moved here at 17 years old in 1923. he died thirty years before i was born, but his spaghetti and meatball recipe has been passed down by my grandmother. its like you said about the biscuits - ive never found a spaghetti sauce that matches the taste, and the ingredients/amounts werent measured exactly. in the past year ive been able to get in contact with much of his family, family we previously hadnt heard about, through my ancestry research. thank you for sharing with us, PJ :)
This video was so sweet and heartwarming. I never really met my grandfathers because I'm the youngest in my generation so I was a baby when they passed, kind of the same with my grandmothers so I usually find it hard to watch these because I don't like to know what I missed out on, I also can't really relate, but all the same this video had me smiling all the way through. So this is who your liar trait comes from! But thank you PJ for sharing this moment with us of your family
every time your grandad hehe'd, i cried 🥹 reminded me of my grandma who was italian too and she sadly passed away last year :( cherish all the moments you have with him, encourage and appreciate his italian heritage, and enjoy those wonderful looking biscuits ♡
I didn’t expect this video to make me tear up but here I am 😭 I never got to meet my grandad on my mom’s side and the other one on my dad’s side died when I was little, so maybe that’s why this video is so touching for me. the handwritten recipe at the end definitely gave me the knockout blow 😭 so sweet, and my grandma’s called Lina too!
also nintendad cameo!
As an Italian, I just realized that I do indeed kiss both cheeks of my grandparents when I greet them 😂
The recipe at the eeend, I love how every italian grandparent has the same handwriting. (Also the "ti raccomando falli bene" is the sweetest thing)
I definitely agree how taste is an underutilized part of nostalgia. When I was a kid my grandpa used to make a stew that I used to love so much, but he never taught it to my mom or any of my relatives and he's losing his memory now and is too weak to stand on his own nowadays. So it's really a lovely idea to learn recipes as a way to preserve tangible memories
This video is so sweet, I lost all of my grandparents in these past few years and I realized too late how precious the time spent with them was. I wish I would've learned more from them. The one thing that I hold dear to my heart is that as I grew older I realized just how similar I am to my grandma.
Totally unrelated, but I also discovered just now how very Italian PJ is, I honestly thought that just his grandad was Italian lol
I love that you put the original recipe at the end! I’ll try and make grandpa Liguori biscuits for my family :) my aunt has a chocolate pie (crostata) which uses mugs for measuring so I guess I’ll be fine haha
I'm going to give it a try as well, non alcoholic and gluten free.
This is so sweet. I don’t have any living grandparents, and haven’t for many years. I wish I could have had more moments like you have, cherish them!
Humble and honest, god bless grandad pj ... and yes something about grandparents and measurements - its a pinch, a glug, a dollop or a smidge in our house!
as an english w an italian family this was so comforting to see
I wasn't expecting wholesome Grandad content, but I'm here for it and a lot teary. Everyone is so lucky to still have grandparents around and a good relationship with their grandparents. As for the measurements, my grandma had some recipes like that and when it's not an exact measurement, you 'measure from the heart'. It's a Southern/Island Virginia thing.
i think its a grandparents thing because my nan from ireland is the exact same :')
I love your grandads laugh, he reminds me so much of my grandpa- he had such a sense of humour and seeing Grandad Pj laughing knowing he had all that wine in the garage just reminds me of him- for my grandpa the secret was all the chocolates he wasn't supposed to have tucked in a little jar nearby. That and swearing as much as he could and turning of his hearing aid so my gran could tell him off till the cows came home and he would just laugh, blissfully switched off from her squeals of annoyance 😂
I’m in tears! This reminds me so much of my grandma! She is still alive at 96 years old but, unfortunally, she can’t do much now-a-days. It’s such a shame how we take so long to appreciate and truly get to know our grandparents! I would love a video, next september, on grandad Ligouri’s wine!
I'm getting teary-eyed and I'm two minutes in. My grandfather is 92 and I hope I get to share some time like this with him. He's still very active, I have to bring his power sander that I borrowed back to him, so he can sand and repaint his benches before spring.
I had a similar experience when my grandmother finally taught me how to make her cornbread dressing. She's had a lot of surgeries, and she hasn't been able to cook in large batches anymore. So now, it's up to me to make the cornbread dressing that my dad and I love so much.
I absolutely adored the footage near the end of the household bits and bobs. There is a whole story in every corner of every home that we will never know, but means the world to a person. I love those little stories
I just lost my grandfather in September and we were fortunate enough to know a little ahead of time that he had dementia (even though it was organ failure that ultimately caused him to pass) but I was able to get a day of learning to make his famous chili and record videos of him preparing it so this video hit extra close to home ❤❤ thanks for the comfort video pj I needed it ❤❤
As an Italian fan of your channel, this felt so familiar and so different at the same time ❤ Love to see how culture shifts to adapt wherever it goes
this might as well be a third instalment of the Comforting Things series. Your grandad is so sweet
PJ, I understand those existential thoughts very well. my morfar immigrated to Chicago from Stockholm when he was 19 (also was a bricklayer) and before he passed he used to tell me that he wished he stayed in Sweden after he met my grandmother (when he was in the army and stationed in France). Though I'm glad that I have been able to reconnect and stay in touch with my family in Sweden, and now I have his families pannkakor, risgrynsgröt, and glögg recipes that I can make my own.
Thank you for making this. my nanna and I used to do all the Christmas baking together but she stopped cooking a few years ago and this brings back memories of us in the kitchen together 💗🥺
i loved seeing this and your reflections. reminded me of my grandpa who also moved to the uk from italy as a young man and we always did the same greeting
this video actually came out on the 8th anniversary of my own grandad's death and I can't describe the emotions I've gone through just remembering everything he's taught me
My mom’s side of the family is Italian. My mom grew up on a farm and her family speaks a near-dead language. My grandfather passed away when I was young but my grandmother and I have cooked tons together to the point that she gave me her old pasta maker when we got her a new one
grandparents just know how to feel the dough and the dough recipe my grandma gave me is also half guess work and feeling the vibes 🤝
love that grandad absolutely freewheeled them biscuits and yet they came out tasting exactly how u remembered them. just wonderful
My Grandma used to make the best beef casserole. We attempted to learn it from her, my mum watched exactly how she did it and copied it, but it never tasted quite the same. Sometimes there's some extra grandparent magic too to give it the flavour we remember
I always wanted videos of my grandparents, because after you lose them (I’m 2 down) you would do anything to hear their voices again❤ I’m so glad you were able to do that with your Grandad and that it can be a cherished moment for years to come!
3/4 of my grandparents already passed away - my grandma before she even turned 60, and both of my grandpas in their early 60s. sometimes i think about what our relationship would be like now when i’m 24 and about how they haven’t seen any of my important life events. when i see adults spending time with their grandparents it feels sort of bittersweet but i’m so glad people get to have that in their lives
oh boy i cried a lot watching this video and remembering my grandma, miss her :(
This was a really cute video and it came at a great time for me. My granny passed away just a few weeks ago, and her ''Grandad biscuits'' were Chocolate Biscuit Cake. She made it for all the family gatherings and it tastes like my childhood - even though it's really simple I've never eaten something exactly the same. My aunt made the chocolate biscuit cake when we met up at Christmas this year, and it was perfect - I intend to keep the tradition in the family for as long as possible. Whenever I eat it now I'll not only feel that childhood nostalgia but think of her
this video is so sweet, what a lovely time capsule for the future man. the last part hit me, i also wonder what ill be known for within my family, that is such a sweet sentiment i never thought of it that way
This video is so beautiful. It brought me to tears at the end there
My grandad used to make a pineapple soda drink. I don’t like fuzzy drinks but that’s the only one I always had when I came over because he had his own soda machine and was so excited to make some for us
My grandparents had a vineyard and we pressed grapes and made wine every year. Also a dish that is close to a grape juice pudding with cinnamon and crushed walnuts.
Had a similar experience with my grandma recently… sharing recipes is such a special act
As someone who's left their life behind and moved to another country for better opportunities: I respect and admire your grandpa - I'm only 23, and I'm struggling immensely to survive without my usual support network. Currently sick for the third time in four months due to overexhaustion and harsh living conditions. The only thing I could think of when listening to your grandpas story is: he went through the same, but so, so many years ago when everything was this much more difficult. It's insane to think about.
this was so comforting with just the right touch of painful melancholy :') i wonder why i feel like crying
What a beautiful video! Thank you PJ!
I never really had a relationship with my grandparents. Between the generational trauma, the deaths, the accidents, the coming out… things got lost to time, or translation, or lack of understanding. I hope my children and grandchildren will one day look back on the memories we will make and feel that we have relationships of love like this.
My dad’s been a baker since he was 16. He’s taught me everything I know how to make. But nothing will ever taste as good as the way he makes it. It’s made with soul and love and nothing can recreate that
As someone whose grandad was also an italian immigrant (tho he migrated to austria, not the uk) this was really heartwarming and it was really interesting recognizing some similarities, like the focus on a respectful greeting. I'm so glad you get to make precious memories like this with your grandad
This is such a comforting video to watch over the holidays. Thank you, PJ!
This is so cute ♥️ Love the little recipe card at the end. Is it on the back of a photo or postcard? Very nostalgic
Much love to you Peej, thank you for this heartfelt video. A majority of my grandparents passed quite young, and as a grandkid born in between generations to older parents I didn't really get to know any of them, so I'm learning to treasure the older people in my life more and more the older I get, too.
this is such a beautiful video PJ :)) i really wish i'd done the same thing with my grandma's recipes a few years ago, but we lost her so unexpectedly when i was 16 that i never got the chance. thank you for showing such appreciation for grandparents ❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing this moment with your grandad. This video took me back to having small moments like this with my late grandfather. This was so heartwarming and lovely to see you with your family. ❤ I hope that you’re able carry on his recipe. Also, how’s the wine? :)
Oh your granddad is a doll. I miss my grandfather so much. I’m 42 and he passed away from cancer when I was about 24. He is the only positive male figure I’ve ever had in my life. I wish my boys could have had more time with him.
My grandmother is 95 and a few years ago my cousin and I decided to go to her house and try to learn how to make her dressing before she wasn’t able to teach us anymore. We live in the south in America and dressing is the southern version of stuffing, but different. My grandmother’s was made from scratch and it turned out to be hard to record a recipe lol. She doesn’t exactly measure as she cooks and she just adds ingredients as she goes to make it taste how she wants it to. It was always delicious. I tried it this Christmas myself and yes it thankfully was good and similar to hers but idt anything will ever be as good as my grandmother’s ❤
This is so wholesome, thank you so much for sharing a piece of your family with us!! The biscuits look so delicious and I laughed so hard when Grandad said “You make a mess!” 😂😂
My grandad still bakes his own sweet bread for christmas and it is a tradition that got from my great grandad who came from Italy to Argentina looking for better opportunities. When I was little my grandad would also bake pizza every thursday for the whole family. Nowadays I bake them every once in a while. Those little traditions are good to keep alive. Lovely video PJ.
I recently got to sit with my grandma and record her stories, she's 92 and this video gave me the same warm feeling that sitting with her gives me. sending much love to you and your grandad
This is a really delightful video, thank you so much for sharing it
The sweetest thing 🥹🥹🥹 grandparents are so special and your grandad seems like such a character. And your exactly right we should cherish every moment we have with them ❤️
Amazing to still have your grandad at 33, let alone being able to do things like cook with him. So wholesome to watch.
Makes me wish I could have learned about my great grandmothers bread recipe. I remember one year my mom was given the bread and I had a piece, and it was absolutely delicious. Unfortunately within the last decade, she started to develop Alzheimer or dementia (i do not remember which one). Early this year she passed away, and the last time I had visited her was 2017. I'm very grateful I was able to see her again, but it was bitter sweet, really.
My grandmother is getting me a few things from her house, and I'm a little curious if I'll ever see a recipe book with her handwriting. I didn't know her well enough, but I sure do miss her.
Incredible beautiful video. Thank you for sharing with us.
This is a wonderful video. I lost my great grandma a little over a year ago, she was 89. She grew up dirt-floors poor in rural Oklahoma in the 30s & 40s. She was a home maker through and through. I wish I’d learned more from her in my childhood. I’ve become a stay at home mom now and try my best every day to replicate the love and comfort she breathed into the home. I baked for my family’s holiday celebrations this year and wish I could sit in her living room and tell her all about it. Ask her for tips.
This was a really awesome video for you to make
what a lovely video :-) we have my nan's recipe book and we make her mince pies every christmas, there is so much love in the food we share
this made me miss my grandma to pieces. everyone found her very serious but when we talked on the phone i could make her laugh for hours. i’ll see her again one day and we’ll laugh again
I loved this video 🥲
I've been baking since I was a teen & have a lot of recipes like this, I always wonder what might be passed on when I have kids in the future. Also need to learn my granny's trifle recipe, she does it every Xmas & I look forward to it all year 🥰
pj, you put too close!! no good!!
in all seriousness, this was such a lovely video. nothing better than connecting with your relatives in a way that you weren’t able to when you were younger
oh seeing you say goodbye to your granddad made my cry so much! I have lost all of my grandparents, and although I am italian and of course kiss people on both cheeks as a greeting often, I so dearly miss saying goodbye to my grandmothers whenever I visited them. Hold your nonno as close as you can pj!
I'm glad you got to do this💛 very wholesome
This was such a sweet video, and as an italian I deeply relate to the shady garage wine production
what a breathtaking video. the tender shots of the little magical spots around the house when taking about what you will pass on was amazing. i hope he knows how loved he is!!
This is so wholesome! The older I get the more I realize how precious the knowledge of my elder family members is. I feel so grateful that only a few months before my grandma died I learned my grandma’s mince tart recipe. I was surprised to discover that all along she bought the tart shells and premade mincemeat and put them together to bake! She bamboozled us all our whole lives. I love it. It makes me laugh!
Asking for your granddad’s recipe probably meant a lot to him. This was an act of love going both ways 💚
Thank you so much for sharing this, PJ. I'm 56 and there's always been a part of me that's sad about never knowing my grandads. One died shortly after I was born, and the other emigrated to Australia before I was born and I only ever got to meet him (and that grandma) once. Treasure your grandparents, people🥰
Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this with us PJ. This had me in tears happily remembering when my grandma taught my dad and I how to make her famous homemade family bread with a recipe straight from Slovakia. Such special memories and a wonderful recipe that I'm looking forward to passing down in the future