Keeping Family and Childhood Recipes Alive

I'm currently reading All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh, and one passage in particular has got me thinking. Where do my childhood recipes come from, and what are they actually? My daily cooking looks very different to that of my parents, and even more so to that of my grandparents. I like the food, it's just that in my own cooking, I often cook different cuisines and chase new tastes, so it moves into the background, and maybe I cook something from it every couple of weeks. This is a shame, as I don't want the taste of my childhood and the attached stories to be forgotten over time.

I have started collecting a list of common dishes from home and, if possible, their history. I am slowly recreating them and writing down the recipes. I might publish some of them over time, like the potato and onion bread, which I actually make quite frequently. Similar to fairy tales, writing recipes down makes them static in the sense that they don't evolve easily over time, but it also preserves them for the future. So my advice is to do it now while you can, and share them so they don't get lost.