Favorite food dishes from childhood

[nycfem]

Here are some of mine:

Noodles Romanoff (It was like mac and cheese but with linguine-type noodles, and I liked the version that came right out of a box and was discontinued, so says the Internet. It had this amazing cheesy cheesiness!)

The Chefboyardee pizza kit (OMG, it was so cool, all in one box. Mom would have my brother and I make it with her. We'd make the pizza crust which was quite thin. Then we'd get to pour a small can of tomato sauce from the box on the pizza. Then we'd get to sprinkle this parmesan like cheese packet all over the pizza and put it in the oven. Pizza magic!)

Homemade potato chips (Our longtime babysitter would make us this after school. She'd slice a potato, fry it in butter, salt it, and put ketchup on the side. It is best eaten while watching Little House on the Prairie.)

Fried clams at Friendly's followed by the Happy Ending (!) Sundae (Perfection.)

[MsTinkerbelly]

My mom's chicken and dumplings.

Yumbolicious

[nycfem]

My grandma would make this home made baked bean dish that she had individual special baked bean dishes for with long handles. They'd be baked in the oven for hours, and the scent was too die for, as was the taste!

[Gráinne]

As an aside, I make my own potato thins (when industrious) by slicing potatoes really thin, tossing in just a little olive oil, then sprinkling with light salt and sometimes oregano. Something like 425 oven for 15 minutes. I got that from a book, though.

My mom was an OK cook but a fabulous baker. She made rhubarb pie with rhubarb from our garden. Every Christmas, she made a giant pile of cookies. I found the recipes at my brother's. She used to make cakes from scratch, but mixes always tasted homemade, somehow.

Anyway, some of her dinners were:

Stouffer's Creamed Chicken on rice. I haven't found creamed chicken in years, but could probably find the recipe or something close.

La Choy Chow Mein and sweet rolls. Sounds terrible, but I make this myself.

Meat loaf. Her recipe was, "Oh, I don't know, I never measure". I like mine, but it doesn't come close.

Her spaghetti sauce, which only I like. It was very tomato-ey and strong. I do have that recipe, and like to make a huge batch and freeze in bags. My kids won't eat anything but Prego.

My dad made first-class pancakes, and he was the undisputed cook for his service organization's pancake breakfasts. He made them for us every Sunday. Of course, mine can't come within light-years.

[Venus007]

My grandma made colcannon (cál ceannann), I make it from her recipe but it just doesn't taste the same

[Jesse]

My birth mother was not a good mother, but she was a fantastic cook. I loved her homemade banana pudding and would stand at the stove and stir the pudding (for what seemed like hours back then) while it cooked. Then she would layer banana slices and Nilla Wafers. It was a rare treat.

She also made the best homemade biscuits I've ever had.

[Medusa]

My Mom didn't cook so we ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches when I learned to make them. I think I was 7 or so.

So that has always been my go-to comfort food with a heavy childhood memory :)

[ahk]

My ma made some great mashed potatoes and turkey gravy. I remember eating that a lot when I was a kid. Also, she made french bread pizzas with sauce, pepperoni, and cheese. They were really really good. When I got older, I ate a lot of Velveeta sandwiches (mayo/cheese/pickles). Lastly, Kraft mac/cheese with green chili. YUM.

Now as an adult, I don't eat any of that-- go figure.

[RockOn]

Yes Yes about the boxed Chefboyardee boxed pizzas. I loved those when I was little. My mom would chip up hot dogs into tiny pieces and put on the top.

I had not seen this in decades until a few months ago at one of the dollar-type stores. Couldn't wait to make it. When I opened the sauce can, I tasted it ... %?*@&%# ... they changed the flavor of the red sauce ... Bye bye, the whole thing went into the trash can. Talk about a let down ... I felt slam-dunked. :(

[easygoingfemme]

Egg noodles with mushrooms, a little salt, and butter.

Even though I largely avoid wheat, it's still a comfort food here. My daughter administers it as needed, and I eat when I really need comfort food.

My grandmother made:

Grapefruit halves with a maraschino cherry in the middle, twice baked potatoes stuffed with spinach and cheddar cheese, spaghetti you dream about, peanut butter cookies with M&M's in them, and chocolate pudding.

What I craved when I was sick: Iceberg lettuce with Italian dressing, and canned pears. Not sure what that was about.

My poor mom was in the role of food provider and she hated cooking. As much as my grandmother LOVED to cook, my mom didn't pick up on it. Combination of lack of interest in learning, and I think it was my grandmothers alone time in the kitchen. My mom hated cooking, my father worked a night shift noon-midnight, my brother only wanted pasta and steak, and I wanted salad and vegetables. I didn't really discover food until college.

[Bard]

Noodles and butter my brother use to make it for me .
My grandmother made the best roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and matzo and eggs.

I also remember a girlfriend of my brother making chicken and dumplings that I loved

[kittygrrl]

Portuguese Pickled Onions-My mom made these and they went exquisitely with every meal, addictive..i miss them

[candy_coated_bitch]

I totally forgot about that Chefboyardee pizza box!!! Me and my mom and my sister used to make that all the time. What a walk down memory lane.

Neither of my parents were always the best cooks when I was a kid, but they tried and oddly have both become excellent cooks these days.

Some childhood faves:
-macaroni and cheese out of a box with chopped up hot dogs (my Dad made this on his nights to take care of us)

-fish sticks and French fries

-homemade mac and cheese with toasted Italian bread crumbs on top (still a major adult comfort food)

-my gram's homemade spaghetti sauce with meatballs or Italian sausage

-grilled cheese (also still a major comfort food)

-mashed potatoes with gravy

-Steak-ums (OMG the most horrifying fucking food EVER that I would never eat now, but loved as a kid. Does anyone else remember these?)

-Beef Stronganoff Hamburger Helper

-Cheeseburgers and French fries (I also loved the Friendly's kids meal with the happy ending sundae)

-fresh strawberries and peaches

-Lipton chicken noodle soup

-homemade Old El Paso beef tacos (my sister and I used to fight over who grated the cheese LOL)

[LoyalWolfsBlade]

Funny every time someone asks about my favorite childhood food memories the very first memory that pops into my mind is how much I hate liver and onions and dreaded that night every week when I was a kid. Still hate liver and onions worse smell I have ever encountered.

As for fav that is easy

Moms country fried chicken with real mashed potatoes and gravy

Grannies soup beans with home made corn bread that was made in her cast iron skillet corn bread only pan OMFG no better corn bread out there

The gardens tomatoes with sugar on them as a treat every summer once they were ripe

My homemade spaghetti that I have been cooking since around 10

My cousins Sunday breakfast for dinner night, eggs, biscuits, sausage gravy,real home fries, all of it except for the chocolate gravy

My aunts home made bread and butter pickles

[Gemme]

I absolutely loved my mom's version of goulash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash). She made hers with elbow macaroni, hamburger meat and usually onions, peppers and a random bright colored veggie, be it red peppers or carrots, etc.

It was a simple dish but even after all these years, I still can't get mine to taste like hers.

[fatallyblonde]

my mum would make this tuna mornay... god it was so good... I haven't eaten meat or fish in over ten years but I still remember that with love...
... also spinach pie... spinach and cheese in flaky pastry mmmmmmm

my nan would make amazing corned beef with homemade relish... loved it...

on saturday nights we often made homemade pizza with these great bases from the supermarket... tomato paste... olives and cabanosi and ham and mushrooms... delish!

there is this restaurant we would always go to, mixed Asian... loved the sechuan beef...

long drive to the grandparents place, bacon and egg mcmuffin and hashbrown from mcdonalds!

butter chicken made from a packet mix

so many good things!

[princessbelle]

My mom worked but always had a meat and two veggies at dinner.

I remember most....

Salmon patties
Fish sticks
Country fried steak
Fried chicken
Hamburgers and she put bread in them prior to cooking. I know now it was to hold it together better and make it go farther.
Salisbury steak

At dinner time we told each other about our day. It was a happy time...unless there were peas!!!

[Venus007]

-Steak-ums (OMG the most horrifying fucking food EVER that I would never eat now, but loved as a kid. Does anyone else remember these?)


My gran used to make a dish with those, she would take Steak-ums and roll it around Stove Top stuffing put a tooth pick in em and put them in a baking dish then pour cream of mushroom soup over the whole thing and bake, I loved that as a kid. I tried to make it again as an adult and it was SO SALTY, I thought I was gonna die

We would also make budget ruben sandwiches with Steak-ums, thousand island dressing, sauerkraut, swiss cheese and toasted white bread. Also loved as a kid, not nearly as good as I remembered them as an adult.

[PinkieLee]

Campbell's tomato soup & grilled cheese sandwich

elbow macaroni & diced tomatoes (with a daub of butter & salt mixed in)

[TruTexan]

I loved my grandma's home made beef stew/soup made with stew meat, tomatoes home canned, carrots and potatoes. YUMMMY and I still make it for myself today. I Love that stuff.

I also loved my grandma's home made chicken and dumplings, awesome stuff and was all hand made dough....not biscuits.

I love my mom's fajita soup over rice. It's really pretty delicious.

There's a lot more I like that I can't seem to think of at the moment.

[ahk]

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So my last post I talked about what my ma cooked me when I was a kiddo. I came from a family who divorced when I was younger. My nana (dad's mom) cooked a lot too when I would visit my dad (every other week).

Some of her dishes I loved was--

Shepards pie (still love, but make my own version)
Mac/Cheese with scrambled meat/mushrooms and canned corn.
This casserole she made with chicken, green beans, mushrooms, dill, and a bread topping. It was amazing good.
Hamburger soup.
Corn pancakes served with sausage, real butter, real maple, and peanut butter. YUM.

My mom-- she wasn't a huge fan of cooking but she did it.

The meals I remember of her--

Spaghetti with broccoli.
Pizza night every Friday with orange soda.
Hamburger night every Wednesday with grape soda.
Chicken stew with biscuits.

[Daktari]

Ma's mac and cheese with bacon

Braised steak and dumplings

Crumpets and chestnuts toasted and roasted on an open fire

Egg custard (custard tart). My Ma baked every weekend from as early as I remember and only stopped once the three kids had left home.

Heinz oxtail (my pref) or tomato (my bros pref) soup with a few chips in (chips>fat fries). Usually given upon return of appetite after being poorly-sick.

[MsTinkerbelly]

I started cooking at 7 (mostly as a girl scout project), but also because although a pretty good cook, my Mom really didn't want to cook.

By 10 i was a much better cook than she was, but i still can't make her chicken and dumplings or her shepards pie as well as she did. Perhaps i didn't really try hard so she would still cook sometimes. ;)

[JustLovelyJenn]

My grandmothers on both sides provided my favorite childhood food memories!!!

At Grandma and Grandpa's house...

... Instant oatmeal with Grandpa
... Eggcake and eblaskiva at every holiday
... Carrot pudding
... and Rainbow sherbert!

At Grandma and Pappys...

... cabbage and milk
... fresh corn on the cob (us kids spent hours in the back yard husking all of it)
... bread and butter (because thats how you get the butter on your corn)
... manti turkey
... fresh plums off the tree

[theoddz]

As a kid, a few of my favorite foods were:

1. My Aunt Nadine's ham casserole.

2. Underwood Deviled Ham Sandwiches (still a favorite of mine).

3. My Pop's special pan fried Chinese noodle chop suey.

4. Mother's swiss steak (still the BEST I've ever tasted!!!).

5. Mother's shrimp and lobster sauce over rice.

6. My sister's cheddar corn biscuits.

.....and so many, many more, as everyone in my family loves to cook and is damned good at it!!!!! :winky::thumbsup:

I really miss my dad's cooking, though. He was the best cook in our family, even besting my mom. :heartbeat:

~Theo~ :bouquet:.......loves to eat!!!! :eating:

[DapperButch]

Yes Yes about the boxed Chefboyardee boxed pizzas. I loved those when I was little. My mom would chip up hot dogs into tiny pieces and put on the top.

I had not seen this in decades until a few months ago at one of the dollar-type stores. Couldn't wait to make it. When I opened the sauce can, I tasted it ... %?*@&%# ... they changed the flavor of the red sauce ... Bye bye, the whole thing went into the trash can. Talk about a let down ... I felt slam-dunked. :(

Really? Damn it. I was seriously going to order it off the internet after seeing nyc's post.

[RockOn]

my grandmother's large white lima beans ... she was a short little Indian woman and I can see her at her stove right now in my memory ... she is the only one I miss from my family ... I could depend on her to tell me like it was and always the truth ... I remember when I was about three years old, I would wiggle in church (hyperactive) and if she told me she'd pinch me if I did not get still, *laughing* then I knew it was coming. I really loved that old woman! Everyone did! :)

[RockOn]

Man, I am really so sorry but it was not the same. When I tasted it, I was like wtf??? Why they had to go messing with a great product like that ... I don't know.

[RockOn]

oyster stew

I stayed with grandparents a lot growing up ... when I was with Charlie's (charlie is my father's name)parents, sometimes I would walk down to the bottom of the road and stay with my great grandparents. They would make what they called oyster stew. Here is their very simple recipe: Take 2 cans of oysters and pour into a pot, then add however much milk, a pat of butter, a pinch of sugar to cancel out bitter flavor of oysters, bring to a slow boil stirring frequently, serve with crackers broken up in your bowl. Sweet tea to drink.

Decades later, I nuke mine in my own bowl, only put the juice from the 2 cans in there and toss the oysters in the trash. Add about 24 ounces milk, lots of black pepper ... Sometimes chip up some onion in there when it is hot.

I call it my porridge - it always makes me think of goldi-locks and the three bears. ;)

[kittygrrl]

fish & chips

[DapperButch]

Man, I am really so sorry but it was not the same. When I tasted it, I was like wtf??? Why they had to go messing with a great product like that ... I don't know.

Maybe you just remembered it wrong? I don't know...not sure your tastebuds are trustworthy! :D

Maybe it tastes the same, your tastebuds have just grown up!

[Kenna]

Favorites my gramma made for me...

cream of mushroom soup with toast
grits with butter and brown sugar
plain yogurt mixed with brown sugar
her homemade sugar cookies and ginger bread
The church lady's "love feast" bread and tender roast beef
Amish made apple dumplings and cinnamon bread
Cinnamon sugar coated roasted pecans
and sharing my gramma's Arrowroot cookies with hot mint tea

[MysticOceansFL]

It will always be and I rarely eat it now , Chicken and dumplings with a side of greens and sweet corn bread , and a glass of sweet tea.

[Canela]

My abuelita's (grandmother's) Arroz con Pollo...
oh man, I miss that!
Mine is almost but not quite like hers...

[Bèsame*]

Cinnamon Toast

When I would spend the night at my Granny's house, she would pull out the tall stool and pull out the built in cutting board. I would get to sit there and eat cinnamon toast. Simple, but the memory is sweet!

[Blade]

Papaw, use to fix hamburger, with diced taters and onions all mixed together and cabbage. I guess I liked it cuz it was something Mom never fixed.

I had to laugh at Princess Belle's pea's statement. Mom wasn't an experienced cook when I was growing up and didn't try new recipes.

You could trust and believe that every night there was going to be either cream corn, or sweet peas on the table, rice and gravy and some kind of fried meat. It was hard in my adult life to get away from the fried meat and rice and gravy. It is still comfort food and sometimes I crave it. Let me get down in the dumps and I will fry me up some pork chops and make rice and gravy.

[RockOn]

I thought about that too ... that maybe it had something to do with my taste buds changing. I wish you would give it a go. I really would like to get your opinion. If you try it, please please let me know! Maybe it was just that one box that had the funk on ... I love it so much, if I get a good review from you, I will have to hazard the risk and buy another box.

Thanks!
Brock. :)

[RockOn]

Now I am wondering if nycfem has tried the Chefboyardee pizza in the box lately ... How about it, we want to know and if so, did the sauce taste like the original?
Thanks in advance. :)

Who else besides me notices nycfemme thinks up the best topics? I am serious!

[nanners]

Maybe you just remembered it wrong? I don't know...not sure your tastebuds are trustworthy! :D

Maybe it tastes the same, your tastebuds have just grown up!

I think there is some thing to be said regarding the "growing up" of taste buds....I think you're right. I believe our taste buds change as we get older. When I was a kid, I didn't like quite a few things, like sweet potatoes, spinach, coconut and coffee. Now I like them all. In fact, anyone that knows me knows that coffee is a must in morning, don't even talk to me until I have consumed a cup!

My childhood favorites....my Mom makes this dish in a big fry pan. It's fried pork chops on the bottom, a big mound of stuffing in the middle, and surrounding the stuffing is a ring of rice with tomato sauce mixed in, and covered with cheddar cheese (melted). Yum!

[willow]

I did not inherit my mothers cooking abilities and that is a good thing because she was a dreadful cook! My mother liked eggs so we ate a lot of eggs, eggs and bread. The 4 staples that were always available to my sister and I were bread, eggs, cheese and ketchup. You would be amazed what we could come up with using these 4 ingredients. We must have eaten our body weight in egg mayo every month while growing up. To this day I can not face egg mayo sandwiches.

Every other weekend we visited our bio father. He made kraft macaroni cheese and served it with pilchards in tomato sauce. My sis and I both still talk about kraft macaroni cheese with pilchards in tomato sauce. We loved it! It is very hard to come by these days though. In fact, now I think about it, I can't remember the last time I bought it. I still look for it from time to time.

[Daktari]

Butterscotch Angel Delight

Ma's walnut cake

Nana W's tea loaf and custard

Soft boiled egg and toast soldiers with (the other) Nana W and Peter the budgie (Peter always got the top of Nana's egg)

[*Anya*]

My mom's food not that great. Per my dad, no salt allowed in any of our cooking because he had high B/P (he took that suggestion from his doctor a little too far).

I did most of the cooking from age 10 on.

Visiting my Nannie? Another most wonderful story!

Everything she made was fantastic.

Roast duck with the most crackling skin!

Potato latkes.

Matzo eggs

Matzo ball soup and her matzo balls were light and delicate and melted in your mouth.

Even her liver and onions were delicious.

Still miss her. She died at age 98 or 99.

Now, I can't remember exactly when:|

[Queenie]

I grew up eating Finnish pancakes on Sunday mornings. Has to be on the my favourite things to eat as a kid.

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That most amazing little crepes!

You also need a special pan to make them. The pan my mother used and now my sister uses has been passed down on my father's side of the family for over a 100 years.

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And Finnish bread. My father was mostly Finnish so we ate a lot of Finnish foods.

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[MsTinkerbelly]

I'm a terrible baker, but my Mom could make a grown man cry with her fudge and cookies. She baked, and i cooked.

Every year for the Academy awards she would bake a seven layer chocolate cake from scratch, and the 4 of us would eat the whole thing while watching the show ( with a bottle of pepsi). OMG it was good...but all of my horrible eating habits were learned from her examples.

[Loren_Q]

My mom was an excellent cook and my dad was a professional chef so there's a lot but I'll narrow it down.

Mom's fried chicken, papas con chorizo and pozole rojo are the dishes I remember most.

Dad's fried squab, BBQ Pork wonton soup and sui-mai dumplings were my favorites. Oh and he would make burgers out of the leftover wonton filling. Damn, those were great.

My pozole is pretty close to as good as moms (she used pork, I use chicken/turkey) and while my won-ton soup is good, dads was better.

Although both of these are my family-of-choice favorites.

[Redsunflower]

Butter and sugar on a sandwich.

:|

Goodness knows why but I loved it.

[BBinNYC]

Here are mine:

Campbell's tomato soup
tuna fish sandwiches
Hostess cup cakes and Yodels
Noodle kugle
egg foo yong

[Mopsie]

My mom would make me butter, jelly, and cheese sandwiches.

Also I would snack on Cheez-its smothered in cream cheese.

Alas in my adulthood I have become dairy intolerant. :(

But I'm still pretty weird when it comes to food. :blink:

[Candelion]

In the summer, after coming home from a long day at the beach, Mom would let us have fruit and sherbet for dinner. I highly recommend it. :)

[kittygrrl]

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Caldo Verde-Portuguese Green Soup-It always felt like a special day when my mother made this soup. As the soup cooked my mother would tell us stories of our great grandparents who came from the Azores and farmed in the early days..Having 20 children in all, and as a little girl running over to her grandparents house to help make bread or to wash the kitchen floor. She would weave stories of her childhood as she stirred the pot. Beautiful moments spent with my mom that as a child I took for granted..

[Sweet Bliss]

I grew up eating Finnish pancakes on Sunday mornings. Has to be on the my favourite things to eat as a kid.

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That most amazing little crepes!

You also need a special pan to make them. The pan my mother used and now my sister uses has been passed down on my father's side of the family for over a 100 years.

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And Finnish bread. My father was mostly Finnish so we ate a lot of Finnish foods.

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Tell me more about Finnish bread and food! :rrose:

[weatherboi]

My Grandmother would make a smoked fish dip with either bream or mullet. She would put it out with captains wafers before the main meal, like an appetizer.

My grandparents grew green peanuts every year. It was a white skinned heirloom peanut and it was smaller and more tender than the kind sold on the side of the road. We would harvest and have a giant peanut boil to prepare them quickly for freezing. We would eat them day and night for 2 days and then no more till my Grandmother would decide to pull a couple of bags from the freezer for everybody to try and "share".

One year all my grandparents orange trees got killed by a freeze. They didn't get graphted(not sure if that is the proper term) properly so the fruit was never sweet again. They would use the juice from the fruit to make sour orange meringue pies. I can't explain the deliciousness that could never be replicated by my lips or hands because the trees no longer exist in this world for the land was swallowed up by the local establishments' need for a dollar store.

My dad was part owner in an apple orchard in North Carolina and so for a couple of years we would go up there and help bring in all the apples when they were ready, I remember my hands being sticky. We would bring back enough to make a bunch of applesauce for the year for everybody in the family. It was pink in color from the skins. My mom would only pull out the applesauce when we had cubed steak or pork chops and although they were the entree, everybody was looking forward to "the sauce".

I learned at an early age to enjoy the endeavor in acquiring these treats as opposed to focusing on replicating them later in life because somethings can NEVER be replicated and only celebrated.

I love my life!!!

[puddin']

me grandma heddie was a baker extraordinaire... neva measured a thang. when asked how to make a particular pie, cake, etc... it was "oh a pinch o' this, a dash o' that.".

her choc'late and lemon meringue pies, red velvet cake and blackberry cobbler were to die fo'.

the cobbler especially was a summer extravaganza. all the grandkids would go out on a blackberry pickin' expedition early mornin'. and while heddie was bakin' said cobbler, we kids were all takin' turns at the ice cream churn.

great memories...

[Daktari]

Auntie Marjory's Eccles cakes. She was a baker and confectioner by trade; I recall travelling on the steam train to Fleetwood so my Ma could help Auntie Marjory at her bakery in the market.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eccles_cakes_72475

[deathbypoem]

Anything that was considered "day care" food was acceptable. Including but not limited to...

Fish sticks
Mash Potatoes
Cooked Carrots
nuggets (of any kind) dipped in mashed potatoes
Pb&j
Hot dogs n mac & cheese
beef and noodles
anything that was bland or overly seasoned lol

[~baby~doll~]

my mother was not a great cook. She did make a delicious scrumptious chicken soup. The aroma was filling it was so good.

She made fantastic Kugela or Kugel

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a Lithuanian dish from potatoes on weekends and we would have slices with each meal. It was good with maple syrup as well for breakfast.

Dinners consisted of round steak, the kugela and some vegetable 80% of the time. It got old and i developed a need for salt. LOL

Tastee-Freez cones were a great treat, i did not have them often so they were extra special.

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[puddin']

Tastee-Freez cones were a great treat, i did not have them often so they were extra special.

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taste-freez, wow! where i grew up it was dairy queen. we only eva got dairy queen when we were stayin' at me aunt's in the summer. loved those dilly bars & buster bars. yum-o!

[Bèsame*]

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[JustLovelyJenn]

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taste-freez, wow! where i grew up it was dairy queen. we only eva got dairy queen when we were stayin' at me aunt's in the summer. loved those dilly bars & buster bars. yum-o!

My grandpa always took me to Dairy Queen for ice cream... that and bowling are what I will always remember about him.

[Smiling]

My grandmother's specialty! Done in heavy Old Bay Seasoning and beer and dumped in a heap in the middle of a newspaper-covered tabletop. Delicious!

She died when I was 8. No crab has come close to being as good as hers was since - although I still love it and will eat it whenever the opportunity arises.

I miss her.

[tiggs]

We grew up very poor so most times there was no money for anything extra or 'special' but every summer my mom would make strawberry shortcake piled high with whipped cream. We only got it the once each year so it made it extra special.

My maternal grandma would make the absolute best strawberry rhubarb pie I have ever tasted it was so yummy. You would walk into her house and the aroma would be wafting through the air so thick and sweet and you would know exactly what was to come.

[Mopsie]

I haven't eaten bologna in a while but today I keep thinking about fried bologna sandwiches and pork and beans the way my dad use to make for us.

[cinnamongrrl]

we had fairly sophisticated palates....lol

my dads baked haddock....

my memeres stuffed peppers...

my moms fried chicken...

my auntie Ritas chicken ala king....

my cousins lazy pierogi.....

my other aunts rice and beans

[homoe]

My mom’s homemade Beef Barley Soup

[grenade]

Every fall my mom would make a freezer full of bierocks.

Every summer we lived off of what we grew in our garden. Fried green tomatoes, fried okra, squash, zucchini....yum.

[Mel C.]

My favorites from childhood include:

Chicken & dumplings
Chicken fried steak
Meatloaf

Peach cobbler...mmmmm

[SnackTime]

Mom's...

Lasagna
Mac n cheese
Potato salad
Pineapple upside-down cake

[Okiebug61]

My Grannies fried taters, yeast rolls and chocolate pie!

[firegal]

My moms cask iron skillet corn bread!.... With her pinto beans!

[SoSousMe]

Southern Fried Chicken

Biscuits n Gravy

Salmon Patties (and I hate seafood, but these were the bomb)

Lemon Ice Box Pie

Breaded & Fried Venison (yummmmmm)

Her Peanut Butter Fudge... I still crave it and dream about it

home made donuts made from canned biscuits lol (the bomb)

beans and cornbread (yes, cast iron skillet cornbread)



the list goes on and on... mom cooked her ass off... for anyone and everyone who passed through our doors.. she worked 60 hrs a week, and still made sure we had dinner every night and hot breakfast on sat and sun. I wish I had her determination

[cinnamongrrl]

Thought of more...


My step dad's steak tips

His mac n cheese

His "hot dish" which I found out is a mid western "blanket term" for a pasta dish that has whatever you want in it lol I still make his variation :)

Also his sausage and rice...my sister still goes nuts for this and makes it a lot

My dad's chuck n beans (beans being yellow beans we grew ourselves)

His fresh trout cooked in aluminum foil over a campfire...holy hot damn...

My memere's French meat stuffing at Thanksgiving

Also her porkchops and rice

My mom's taco bake

and when she used to make these things (from a box) called fudge jumbles. They don't make them any more :( they were my brother's FAVORITE thing

also her Minestrone is the best.thing.ever.

Ohhh and something that sounds weird but isn't. My dad's best friend made glazed kielbasa for all our events. In a crock pot he put: about 2lbs kielbasa cut up, a can of chili and beans and a small jar of grape jelly. It's the best stuff EVER. Mmm now I wanna make some.....

[*Anya*]

My maternal grandmother was Jewish but my mom married a Pennsylvania Dutch and German Lutheran man (my dad) who added no salt to any cooking of food.

Our food at home = tasteless.

My Jewish Nannie's food: fantastic.

When cooking shows are browning duck breasts in the pan and the fat is snapping and crackling; my mouth almost waters to think of the whole ducks my Nannie would roast.

The skin was salty, browned to perfection and melted in my mouth. Same with the meat.

My cholesterol is down to 170. I think a roasted duck is in order. It will probably never taste like hers but I would like to try.

She would also make potato latkes that were delicious, served with apple sauce that she would make from scratch.

Her apple strudel was to die for. I would help her peel the apples and she would do the layers of pastry.

No bakery has ever replicated Nannie's strudel.

:vigil:

[Daniela]

My favorite childhood dishes (my parents are from Argentina):

milanesas w/ french fries

tomato with olive oil, garlic & bread

empanadas

dulce de batata (sweet potato jelly – sounds gross, I know) with cheese

:bow:

[A. Spectre]

my mom used recipes from a 1965 betty crocker kids cookbook.

my absolute favorite was called "mad hatter meatballs!"

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naturally, the very very first time she announced she was making this for dinner, my very wee self's mind went to "why are we eating that guy from lewis carroll's alice something story?" suffice it to say when i shared this thought with mom, she laughed and laughed.

he sure was tasty ;)

**a useless factoid. lewis carroll NEVER used the word "mad" to describe the hatter.

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[Kätzchen]

Growing up, both of my parent's mothers raised their kids during The Depression Era, so our family meals were prepared by using recipes from The Household Searchlight Recipe Book. My mom could not cook, but my dad did, so we had two copies of this cookbook: The 1938 edition, and The 1939 Revised Edition (which was much bigger the first edition in 1931 or in 1938).

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We used the 1939 edition the most, plus inside the cookbook is original handwriting by my mom's mother, my grandmother's sister, my dad's aunt and two other cousins -- who all added to the family cookbook. There are even news-paper clippings from articles featured in a weekly column in their local newspaper, which appeared usually in the Saturday evening edition of the local free press.

The Household Searchlight Recipe Book is indexed, with a category for nearly any entrée or dessert or canning preparation processes or pastries, breads, jams and jellies or any other type of confection dreamed up by people who learned how to make the most from what they had on hand.

My favorite meal growing up was Stuffed Bell Peppers and Potato Casserole. Fresh homemade bread and butter (churned earlier in the day) was at every meal we had growing up.

Most editions of this cookbook, recipe book, was compiled and edited by Ida Migliario, Harriet W. Allred, Zorada Z. Titus, and Irene Nunemaker -- editors and contributors, I think, to The Household Magazine, published out of Topeka, Kansas.

Both books I have at home are family heirlooms and priceless ( to me ).

But editions of this Depression Era recipe/cookbook range from $88 to nearly $500 (mint condition).

[homoe]

My mom’s homemade Beef Barley Soup



This still holds true,,,,,,,,,

[RebelDyke]

So this one goes way back.. it was originally off of the back of the minute rice box. When mom made it, she would have to make nearly two skillets of it because we enjoyed it so much we would go back for seconds.

The same holds true for us as adults, and when we made it for each other... same thing.. we would have to make a lot of it. Very simple recipe.


https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/chili-rice-dinner/

[cathexis]

Beech-Nut Baby Food Prunes (still fond), and guess what...prunes with tapioca.

My Daddy's fresh caught bass' tails...........yum! Oh, his huppies, too.

[Bèsame*]

My favorites were always at Christmas. My Mom would make homemade divinity, fudge, English toffee and Russian tea cakes.
Another...there was a time my grandmother lived in the house next door, I love love loved her molasses cookies.

My Dad practically grilled every night! He ran a gas line to his custom grill. Best meals ever where out back around the pool.

[homoe]

My favorites were always at Christmas. My Mom would make homemade divinity, fudge, English toffee and Russian tea cakes.
Another...there was a time my grandmother lived in the house next door, I love love loved her molasses cookies.

My Dad practically grilled every night! He ran a gas line to his custom grill. Best meals ever where out back around the pool.

OMG you had a pool? All I had in the UP of Michigan were snow banks....:|

[Stone-Butch]

We ate a lot of fresh fish and wild game but my favorite was moose stew with home baked bread. Sooo delicious.

[homoe]

~
Not really a dish, but my dad's homemade fudge!

Again, not really a dish but my grandmother's homemade bread fresh from the oven....

[Bèsame*]

Started with Granny. Then my Mom, made it on holiday dinners. And now, I've perfected it myself! This 24 hour fruit salad is always a hit!

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[Wrang1er]

Started with Granny. Then my Mom, made it on holiday dinners. And now, I've perfected it myself! This 24 hour fruit salad is always a hit!

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What's in it?

[Chad]

When I was young mom would use left over chicken or turkey, put it in a white gravy and serve it over toast. I love it! Learning how to make it.

Yummy!

:linecook:

[homoe]

When I was young mom would use left over chicken or turkey, put it in a white gravy and serve it over toast. I love it! Learning how to make it.

Yummy!

:linecook:

Chad, my mom made it from ground beef...

[cathexis]

A steeping hot bowl of grits with butter and Crystal hot sauce OR
Hot oatmeal with cream and warmed authentic Vermont Maple Syrup

Served with a white linen napkin, silverware, Lenox China on an over the bed short-legged appropriate size table.

This was my sick-service. I knew there would be no school that day; likely, a trip to the Pediatrician or if mother deemed necessary, The doctor would visit me at home. A Penicillin shot in the butt would always be the final disposition for the child, then the strict German Pediatrician with the parents would have a conference out of earshot of the child patient.

The doctor would put on her overcoat and bit goodbye. The child was on modified bedrest for 3 days at which time a re-evaluation would be made whether or not the child would be permitted to return to school and activities would be permitted at that time.