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:|

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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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.

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.

Butter and sugar on a sandwich.

:|

Goodness knows why but I loved it.

Here are mine:

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

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. :)

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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..

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

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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!!!

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

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

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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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.

Maryland Style Steamed Crabs!
 

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.

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.

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

My mom’s homemade Beef Barley Soup

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.

My favorites from childhood include:

Chicken & dumplings
Chicken fried steak
Meatloaf

Peach cobbler...mmmmm

My Grannies fried taters, yeast rolls and chocolate pie!

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

My mom's
 

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

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.....

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:

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:

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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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).

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

Chili Rice
 

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/

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.

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