Favorite food dishes from childhood

[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]

Originally Posted by Brock

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!

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

[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!

[nanners]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

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

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.

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

[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.

[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.

[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).



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).

[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/