285743 Fri Jun 09 21:58:14 -0700 2006 1060 31 Home Cooking 0 1530905 Does anyone have family recipes for foods/meals you really enjoy but that you've never heard of in anyone else's family? Might seem like a weird question, but the reason I bring it up... Sloppy Joe's at my house growing up, and at my house now, are not tomato-based, aka Manwich-like. They're made w/ ground beef, a can of chicken gumbo soup, a diced green pepper and ketchup and yellow mustard. I've never heard of this in anyone else's family...*ever*. It sounds like a "back of the soup can" recipe, but I've never found it. And because it has yellow mustard, my husband refuses to eat it. The other one we've got is a play on chicken and dumplings, involving 2 cans of Chunky-brand Chicken Noodle soup and a can of refrigerator biscuits. Anyone else heard of this? Anyone wanna volunteer your, ahem, unique family recipes? TIA! Kivarita Fri Jun 09 21:58:14 -0700 2006 0 Kivarita 1 1530907 "Tuna Stuff" - great and quick comfort food. 2 cans tuna (drain only one) 1 can Cream of Celery soup 1 can green peas, drained (or, better, cooked frozen peas) Put 'em all together, warm through, serve atop 6 pieces white toast Fri Jun 09 22:48:09 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Wayne Keyser 2 1530916 Had plenty of that growing up myself. It's just "Easy Tuna a la King." My mother also sometimes made it with fettucine-like noodles. Anyway, it was better than creamed chipped beef on toast or salmon casserole made with cheap tinned salmon. Link: http://eatingchinese.org Fri Jun 09 23:33:00 -0700 2006 1530907 0 Gary Soup 3 1531209 Our version of shepherd's pie was layers of plain old ground beef "seasoned" with worcestershire sauce and mashed potatoes then topped with potato chips --have no idea where it came from but my adult son still remembers it fondly. My Dad made a charming dish which was simply ground beef with a can of cream of mushroom soup poured over - yuck!! My early cooking days were filled with "cream of" soups. Sun Jun 11 22:07:05 -0700 2006 1530916 0 Mad 3 3709276 We had something similar to that, but it was "Creamed Peas on Toast" - a basic white sauce with fozen or canned peas, on toast - YUM! Comfort food :) Wed May 21 13:42:35 -0700 2008 1530916 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 4 4902999 We had this too! I still make it once in a while and I'm 63! You said it... YUM!!! Thu Jul 30 08:01:33 -0700 2009 3709276 268959 Graceeh 2 1848257 Sounds a lot like the old Maine favorite, Tuna Pea Wiggle! Fri Sep 01 14:38:27 -0700 2006 1530907 10087 Pat Hammond 2 2527098 This was my dad's specialty. Only we used to eat it spooned over fried Chow Mein noodles. Mon Apr 30 07:35:59 -0700 2007 1530907 90849 The Jimbles 2 3574819 We had something similar though with a can of mushroom soup and made with rice or pasta mixed in. The recipe appeared a a children's cookbook we had. It was made as a casserole and coated with crushed potato chips. Tue Apr 08 15:57:16 -0700 2008 1530907 169792 lgss 2 4938451 Canned tuna seems to be the but of many of these recipes. Growing up my dad prepared a dish called Tuna Pie. The shell was crushed up saltines mixed together with butter pressed into of course a pie pan. This was then filled with tuna mixed with onions, celery, eggs, Cream of Potato Soup, bread crumbs and old bay seasoning I think was his secret, but to this day he will not tell me. My aunt also had this thing called bean dip, which incidentally contained no beans and was in fact cooked ground beef mixed with sour cream and chili starter. Suffice to say many vegetarians fell victim to unfortunate name. Tue Aug 11 19:25:31 -0700 2009 1530907 228737 Will S. 3 4938976 will, i'd eat that tuna pie! i find it funny that your dad still won't give you his recipe! ask him what is he waiting for, 'cause hounds wanna know! ;-). have you tried to replicate the tuna pie? Wed Aug 12 04:35:24 -0700 2009 4938451 105717 alkapal 4 5026255 I tried making it, but I was not as good as I remembered it, a little weird. Perhaps I was remembering my youth. It turns out that the secret ingredient was celery salt and a ton of garlic powder. Here is the recipe he gave me (its not very exact): Crushed saltines mixes with melted butter pressed into pie pan for the crust Mix for filling: 2 cans tuna onions. finely chopped celery, finely chopped 1 egg 1/2 can cream of potato soup garlic powder and celery salt to taste breadcrumbs to absorb any liquid put the filling in the crust sprinkle with bread crumbs bake at 350 until set. (you basically poke it and when it fell firmer its done) good luck! I hope you enjoy it as much as I used to. Sun Sep 13 09:14:43 -0700 2009 4938976 228737 Will S. 5 5027876 thanks! i'll bet it's cute in little ramekins! ;-). i could see some tiny diced blanched carrots in that, too. Mon Sep 14 05:02:59 -0700 2009 5026255 105717 alkapal 2 5023840 I just found this thread. We did something similar, but we'd make a few cups of thick cream sauce (butter, flour, milk) and add frozen mixed vegetables and drained canned tuna. Served it on toast. I still love it. Fri Sep 11 21:06:28 -0700 2009 1530907 127453 herbalista 2 5023848 Just found this thread. We had "clam howder trash" (clam chowder hash), which was just clams, bacon, onion and potatoes. Add clam broth or water for liquid and black pepper. We always put a spoonful of butter on top of our bowls. Fri Sep 11 21:09:54 -0700 2009 1530907 127453 herbalista 2 5130756 I'm newly CHOWbound but this is the best site I've seen yet! Would like to share some Super Simple Comfort Foods that must be tried at least once: Spaghetti made with chicken instead of hamburger or sausage - an Egg McMuffin with 1 and 1/2 packets of strawberry jam drizzled between the egg and the ham - a bowl of chili using mashed potatoes as the bowl - and saving the best for last - - - Kidney Bean Soup: 1 can dark red kidney beans, 1 can milk, and a fairly thick slice of butter heated on the stove until the butter melts into the milk - stir in salt and pepper to taste and all your cares melt away - an added treat is to serve it with toasted cheese sandwiches - perfect for dipping! Sun Oct 25 21:21:05 -0700 2009 1530907 1119234 melaffin 2 5154176 Hi Wayne!!!! Good one !!! How do you get an idea about this recipe.? I am food reviewer and i always remains curious about reseraching new recipes.Thanks for this recipe. I will be nice on your part if you continue to tell me the latest recipes.I will also do the same. Neha Sood Food Reviewer www.foood.in Tue Nov 03 23:29:27 -0800 2009 1530907 1121588 fooodin 1 1530914 Wierd and Healthful Bean Dip: 2 cups low-fat cottage cheese 1 can non-fat refried black beans 1 avocado, mashed 1/2 cup fresh salsa juice of 1/2 to 1 lime lots of chopped cilantro cracked pepper Mix. Fri Jun 09 23:10:18 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Aaron 2 1797404 I think I'm going to try that without the avocado one of these days...that sounds delicious! Wed Aug 09 17:58:35 -0700 2006 1530914 12918 Offbalance 1 1530917 My late mom used to cook elbow macaroni, then add butter, lots of cottage cheese and sour cream. Very rich, somewhat bland comfort food--and I loved it! I made it a few times when the kids were little to a tepid reception, and it's so unhealthy anyway, so I stopped and haven't had it for years. Don't know if my mom made this up or it has some provenance. Gee, I want some right now! Sat Jun 10 00:19:02 -0700 2006 1530905 0 MommaJ 2 1530947 My mother used to make something similar: noodles and cottage cheese, with plenty of butter and s&p (but no sour cream). To this day, I crave it when I am under the weather. The rest of my family finds it revolting. Sat Jun 10 09:48:19 -0700 2006 1530917 0 DS 3 1530988 My mom made the same dish always using large curd cottage cheese which would get soft and a bit oozy when chewed. Also, noodles and milk - one savory preparation with wide egg noodles, warm milk, butter, salt. A sweet version was made using pastina and milk which we sprinkled with large crystaled colored sugar. These were interchangeable as breakfast or dinner items. Sat Jun 10 14:06:34 -0700 2006 1530947 0 chittachef 4 1756402 This is similar to comfort food my Russian-born spouse makes: noodles with sour cream (and possibly a bit of garlic). Can be made more heart-healthy w/yogurt or cotttage cheese. Ditto the post above--sugar can be added to make it breakfast food. Thu Jul 20 16:28:26 -0700 2006 1530988 18379 Hot Dish 5 2528049 My mom makes "macaroni and milk", similar to the other postings minus the cottage cheese. Just elbow macaroni, milk, butter, salt, and pepper. I guess that makes this a recipe we THOUGHT was only made in our own families! My mom also makes "sinkers" which are similar to a dumpling. They're made with flour and egg only. They are really heavy, hence the name "sinkers". My mom adds them to all different kinds of soup. My family loves them but we've had many guests who have turned their nose up to them because they're so heavy and have such little taste. I guess it just tastes like my childhood to me. Mon Apr 30 11:53:13 -0700 2007 1756402 52306 upstate girl 6 2608665 Oh my gosh!! My family makes this and we call it "White Macaroni". My 21 year old son still loves it. My husband and daughter-in-law think it's disgusting. I can't believe someone else makes this!!! Mon May 28 17:28:39 -0700 2007 2528049 101700 Starr77x 6 4682080 WoW! We always just called these dumplings. I had no idea that any other family made them or that they were called "sinkers." Ha! that's funny. I love it. I'm so glad my husband likes them - I think he's the only one besides my brothers & sisters. I will call them that from now on. We add a little salt to our recipe though. Tried parsley once ... but just too much flavor HA! Wed May 13 19:56:13 -0700 2009 2528049 61553 vicsailgarden 7 4951203 My Dh's Grandmother made these and I liked them, so we still have them. I drop them in boiling chicken stock and serve them as a side dish, or maybe add back the chicken and have chicken and dumplings. They are chewy that is why we like them. Substantial, not fluffy little things. Sun Aug 16 15:29:19 -0700 2009 4682080 103878 eveh 6 4903034 I make this too and call it macaroni soup. I came up with the concoction on my own and everyone else here thinks it's gross; to me it's delicious comfort food! Thu Jul 30 08:11:29 -0700 2009 2528049 268959 Graceeh 6 5127922 Upstate girl, LOL, my baba called those flappers and made flapper soup with them. Haven't heard of this one outside of our family. Make chicken broth. Then drop in the flapper dough (flour, egg and little onion salt) using a teaspoon. When flappers float to the top, add chopped green onion and dill. Finish the soup with heavy cream. The chicken was used for a cream chicken recipe that was served with pyrohi and cabbage rolls. Love Ukrainian food! I swear every recipe ends with 'add dill and cream'. We also had flapper pie, but I think this was a Canadian prairie thing. Graham wafer crust filled with custard and topped with meringue. Yummy, made it this summer for dinner at prairie friend's place. We did have a dish called sinkers, but these were a dessert made with left over bread dough. Basically cinnamon rolls packed into a casserole dish and baked in cream. OMG, I might have to make those soon! Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Sat Oct 24 13:33:04 -0700 2009 2528049 142145 czyha 5 2608890 Sounds like variations of Noodle-Kugel to me. Mon May 28 18:58:56 -0700 2007 1756402 93465 PhoebeB 6 3709282 Ah, I had a bf whose mom would make something similar, with elbo macaroni mixed into scrambled eggs - great w/ketchup and hot sauce! Wed May 21 13:44:23 -0700 2008 2608890 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 7 5014907 When I was little, the scrambled eggs/macaroni/ketchup thing was the only protein I would eat. I still basically only eat eggs with the ketchup, maybe I should try the noodles again! Tue Sep 08 18:24:08 -0700 2009 3709282 169553 weezerific 3 1762367 Ha, that is still a favorite of my family. In fact it is the most often requested side dish, even amongst the finicky and the cottage cheese haters. Another favorite dish in my family has been "Cottage Cheese Pancakes" which are really crepes, filled with small curd cottage cheese seasoned with minced onion, garlic, salt and plenty of black pepper. I grew up on these and when I talk with family members who have since moved away, they complain about missing them. My cousin said she has attempted to make them but they just don't taste the same as mine, which apparently taste just like mom's and grandma's. Also "California Chicken Casserole" which is shredded chicken and corn tortillas layered with a mixture of salsa and cream of chicken or mushroom soup (or a mixture of the two) and tons of cheese, lasagne style. You bake it until it's all golden crusty outside and ooey gooey inside. I can just feel my arteries clogging! And "Chicken & Rice" another fave of the family still. Shredded chicken, tons of chopped scallions, soy sauce, and very buttery rice. This is so simple and they really seem to love it. I make it brown rice now, but when I was growing up it was made with minute rice. The other super easy chicken dish we grew up on was chicken thighs (I remove the skin), 1 c. soy sauce, 1 c. sugar, 1 c. water, and 1 can of pineapple (chunks or crushed) w/ juice. You just bring it to a boil, cover, simmer until tender and falling off the bone. Mom used to make balogna sandwiches with either butter and yellow mustard or sweet relish and mayonnaise. I've always hated balogna, so I had salame instead. We also had tons of "Toasted Tomato Sandwiches" which consists of toasted white bread, buttered, top with mayonnaise, thinly sliced tomatoes, and sprinkled with salt and pepper. My ex used to request a breakfast treat his father made when he was growing up. Smashed avocado on buttered toast that has also been slathered in mayo, then generously topped off with with black pepper and viola, you've got "Triple Fat Toast" Mom would also take left over mashed potatoes and throw them in a skillet with a generous amount of butter, brown em' up, push them over to the side and add a few beaten eggs, scramble those up and combine the whole mess. This was my favorite breakfast treat as a child. My grandpa always made scrambled eggs with salame for me when I spent the night. Just about all the members of my family will take left over spaghetti and throw it in a frying pan with a bunch of butter, garlic salt and paremsan, fry it up until it gets all orange an gooey and than eat it on garlic bread. Can you tell I came from a fat family or what? Mon Jul 24 00:26:49 -0700 2006 1530947 19063 soulshine 4 1851426 We used to have something we called (made up name) Enchiladas San Fermin. Corn tortillas softened in oil, rolled around cottage cheese mixed with sour cream and chopped green onions. We added pieces of canned green chiles and liberal amounts of garlic powder and s&p. Then a large piece of jack cheese went on top and it was rolled up. More cottage cheese mixture and cheese went on top and it was all baked in the oven. Actually, it was extremely good. About 1000000 calories per enchilada, but that was in the olden days before we knew about such things as heart attacks and cholesterol. Also, my mother used to make bean stroganoff - I've posted the recipe a couple of times here. Ground beef, sour cream, onions, kidney beans cooked as a casserole. Sun Sep 03 06:51:45 -0700 2006 1762367 10245 oakjoan 4 2950387 My husband grew up eating bologna with butter and mustard sandwiches and still eats them to this day. Mon Sep 17 17:30:03 -0700 2007 1762367 112702 griddlegirl 5 3709291 Mmmm bologna! My fave was the big wax coated tube, the kind you slice yourself. My parents used to slice it thick and fry it up to make my fave breakfast, fried bologna sandwich on toast, with lots of ketchup! Wed May 21 13:47:20 -0700 2008 2950387 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 6 4526349 fried bologna sandwiches were my fave growing up!! bologna sliced and fried, served on white toast with ketchup is the best..... ahh those days before we had to worry about fat and calories... Sat Mar 21 19:09:34 -0700 2009 3709291 264146 kubasd 7 4547916 Fried bologna on a runny egg sandwich (with cheese of course) is a favorite in my house. Not really fried though, just cooked on the griddle with the eggs until it puffs up. Sun Mar 29 04:14:56 -0700 2009 4526349 11097 coll 6 4762809 Ooh! I lived on Bologna and mustard sandwiches. It had to be on white bread of course. I also enjoyed toasting Bologna on bread. It was a great after school snack. Thu Jun 11 07:21:51 -0700 2009 3709291 281627 SusieQ32 5 4682087 My father likes baloney and peanut butter sandwiches. ouch! Wed May 13 19:58:00 -0700 2009 2950387 61553 vicsailgarden 5 4908524 When I was 11 or 12 years old, by best friend and I used to bicycle to his grandma's place, which took us a good 45 minutes, She always served us bologna and ketchup sandwiches, which she called "brownie" sandwiches. I never understood the name, but I still whip up a brownie sandwich occasionally. Sat Aug 01 06:38:26 -0700 2009 2950387 214452 lscanlon 4 3939953 Soulshine, your California Chicken Casserole sounds a lot like my Mom's "The Bomb" beef casserole, a kind of Mexican lasagne thing using corn tortillas--- her recipe was: The Bomb Casserole Ingredients: Hamburger Meat (Minced/Ground) Jalepeno Peppers (canned or a mix of fresh and canned, drained) Onion, finely diced Canned Corn (kernels), drained Cream of Mushroom Soup Corn Tortillas Fine Shredded Cheddar or Mix of Cheddar/Montery Jack Cheese Directions: Preheat oven to 350-375 degrees Fahrenheit. Make the Meat Mixture: Brown the Hamburger Meat and drain. Add one cup of the drained Uncooked corn. Add ½ of the onion depending on size and taste. Add ½ cup of the Jalepeno peppers chopped and drained. Assemble the Casserole: In a flat glass casserole dish or small lasagna pan, place some of the meat mixture into the pan. Add a layer of cheese. Layer on the corn tortillas on top, then add another layer of meat mixture. Place cream of Mushroom soup on top, then cover with cheese and bake until cheese is completely melted. *I usually put some of the cream of mushroom soup with the meat and layer it in as well as put it on the top... makes for a little more mess, but oh so tasty! And for folks who don't like spicy you can defuse the bomb by dropping the jalepenos... Thu Aug 07 21:55:58 -0700 2008 1762367 205148 ideabaker 4 4929868 Cottage cheese pancakes you describe are called Nalysnyki. They are Ukrainian crepes. Sat Aug 08 21:23:20 -0700 2009 1762367 1100240 p38 4 4952746 We had cucumber sandwiches...basically white bread with lots of butter, sliced cucumbers,, salt and pepper. I love them still! We also used to take Cheerios, dip them in butter and then back into the Cheerios, so you got a gob of Cheerio-fat goodness! My arteries never recovered! Mon Aug 17 08:49:56 -0700 2009 1762367 1102312 maydaycolorado 4 4965842 Do you cook the garlic and the onions before you add them to the cottage cheese for the "Cottage Cheese Pancakes"? Thanks Fri Aug 21 10:54:00 -0700 2009 1762367 1103438 JJKRCRJRL 4 5078387 Fried Bologna sandwiches are the bomb! Nothing better - you must use miricle whip though and mustard. My mom would mix them together before spreading on the bread. YUM! Sun Oct 04 12:51:26 -0700 2009 1762367 269225 pattiadleybryan 3 1762379 Yep, my Mom made it too....I make it now but I add fresh dill to it ! Mon Jul 24 00:36:43 -0700 2006 1530947 13791 Marilyn 4 1798767 The noodle/cottage cheese/sour cream dish sounds like a form of dairy kugel to me, not dissimilar from the "Exciting Noodle Kugel" recipe in Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cooking. Thu Aug 10 03:53:15 -0700 2006 1762379 24089 teamkitty 5 2950198 yep, sweet kugel for the holidays for sure, but i also think every jewish household had some variation of cottage cheese & maybe sour cream with noodles for a basic dinner. haven't thought about that in years. of course now i'm craving it... Mon Sep 17 16:35:09 -0700 2007 1798767 103920 goodhealthgourmet 3 4647915 My mom used to serve me spaghetti and marinara sauce (from a jar, I imagine) with cottage cheese. I don't know where she got the idea, but for years that used to be the only way I would eat spaghetti. Now it seems horrifying to me, and I've never heard anyone else who had it either. Sat May 02 07:54:53 -0700 2009 1530947 275592 SgtStens 4 4648343 Sounds like an ersatz lasagna? Substitute ricotta for cottae cheese and add mozzerella and you might have something there. Sat May 02 11:30:57 -0700 2009 4647915 86005 amethiste 5 4648400 My husband's family (very Italian) used to serve ziti and sauce with ricotta on the side. Only way he'll eat it now. Sat May 02 12:06:29 -0700 2009 4648343 11097 coll 5 5183964 I grew up eating lasagne made with cottage cheese Sun Nov 15 16:30:58 -0800 2009 4648343 76938 Bigley9 4 4901121 Growing up we always ate spaghetti or lasagna with cottage cheese. It's delicious! The cool creaminess off the cottage cheese just adds the perfect foil to the tomato sauce. We still do it, my two year old loves pizza and cottage cheese. It is similar to the ricotta theory below. Also similar to sour cream with Mexican food, now that I think about it. Wed Jul 29 13:19:00 -0700 2009 4647915 1097622 ajville 2 4762802 We used to make elbow macaroni with butter and ketchup. It was slippery, flavorful, fast and simple. A version of pasta with sauce. Admittedly, I tried it again last year for the first itme in many years and it wasn't as delicious as I remembered, but I still think it's a great kid dish! Thu Jun 11 07:19:17 -0700 2009 1530917 281627 SusieQ32 3 4874407 This is still, to this day, my first choice comfort food. Especially good with a glass of chocolate milk. Mon Jul 20 11:30:58 -0700 2009 4762802 18755 howboy 3 4914145 They eat macaroni with butter and ketchup to accompany meatballs or sausages in Sweden! Mon Aug 03 14:09:05 -0700 2009 4762802 1087551 hotmexi 2 4966277 Sounds like what my Polish grandma use to make . I could never go with the cottage cheese Fri Aug 21 13:04:33 -0700 2009 1530917 322880 jomi53 2 5094916 My grandmother mixed this up: it's basically an unbaked dairy kugel. Sun Oct 11 09:04:39 -0700 2009 1530917 180989 rccola 1 1530918 Wiener Pie Sliced hotdogs in an onion and tomato sauce, topped with a layer of cheese and corn bread batter, baked in a dutch oven. Toasted oatmeal Raw oats toasted in a generous quantity of butter and sugar. A simple, but rich version of granola made on the stove top (or electric skillet). paulj Sat Jun 10 01:12:47 -0700 2006 1530905 0 paulj 1 1530920 taco beef and taco beans both made with onions, ketchup, soy sauce, worchestire and tabasco. sometimes my mom would use the leftovers the next day with eggs. curried vegetable/chicken stir fries w/ a dash of orange juice. not a recipe, but alfafa sprouts and mayonnaise on white bread. Sat Jun 10 02:13:51 -0700 2006 1530905 0 fara 1 1530922 We had a few, and they came mostly from my dad. He mixes apple, orange or grape juice into plain yogurt; he makes this stew out of pork marrow bones, potatoes and carrots; and he makes spaghetti carbonara by deliberately scrambling the eggs instead of making a creamy sauce (it's pretty good, too, IIRC). My mom used to make us cream cheese and jam sandwiches, too. Sat Jun 10 02:28:02 -0700 2006 1530905 0 piccola 2 1531103 For some reason we only had cream cheese and jam as a sandwich filling during Passover, on matzah. I never have that combination at any other time of the year. Kathy Sun Jun 11 03:36:55 -0700 2006 1530922 0 KathySK 3 1775804 I had cream cheese and jam on matzoh packed in y lunch box during passover,made by my gentile mother(please make no comments). It always made me sad because the moisture from the cream cheese sucked the snap out of the matzoh. Sat Jul 29 23:59:41 -0700 2006 1531103 21354 realitykraft 4 2950214 i grew up on cream cheese & jelly sandwiches, and during passover it was the same thing - on matzoh. you're right, it used to make the matzoh so soggy! then again, so did anything with moisture. tuna salad, egg salad...sandwich fixins just aren't matzoh-friendly. i think the only one that didn't destroy it completely was plain peanut butter. Mon Sep 17 16:38:55 -0700 2007 1775804 103920 goodhealthgourmet 5 4898922 Cream cheese and jelly was the only sandwich my brother would eat through his whole childhood. Tue Jul 28 20:03:00 -0700 2009 2950214 150961 saltedherb 6 5092664 Cream cheese and Jelly was the best on bagels, we also ate egg noodles with cottage cheese and bananas with sour cream and a dash of sugar! Fri Oct 09 20:17:55 -0700 2009 4898922 1115195 ellyse 3 1786169 At passover, we made "matzah pizza" - matzah smothered with Manischevitz Tomato Mushroom Sauce and shredded mozzerella Thu Aug 03 21:00:31 -0700 2006 1531103 23415 pescatarian 4 2955620 I LIVE on matzah pizza during Passover and use the same exact sauce! I always feel so unhealthy on Passover because that's one of the only things I'll like for lunch. I don't like matzah sandwiches. Seeing you bring this up made me so happy! Wed Sep 19 09:23:08 -0700 2007 1786169 112406 Chew on That 5 5094922 Try sliced tomatoes which have had the liquidy seed part removed and grated cheese. If you like kimchee, kimchee on matzoh is killer. Sun Oct 11 09:06:43 -0700 2009 2955620 180989 rccola 3 5033552 cream cheese with dill pickle relish on a toasted bagel!! Yum!! Wed Sep 16 06:17:56 -0700 2009 1531103 1094664 evasgramma 4 5034587 That sounds absolutely delicious, evasgramma! I love toasted bagels slathered with reduced-fat cream cheese and topped with large amounts of fresh dill or chives. They are wonderful enough that I occasionally dream of having them during the winter, when it is tough (or expensive!) to lay hands on fresh herbs. Wed Sep 16 11:46:35 -0700 2009 5033552 1107449 tonina_mdc 2 2955981 i had a friend who was from Venezuela in grade school, and she used to bring cream cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches to school. loved them. my grandmother used to make me sour cream and sliced bananas with sugar. mmmmm . .. Wed Sep 19 10:49:34 -0700 2007 1530922 44619 mariacarmen 2 4798632 My sister likes to put cream cheese grape jelly, and a sausage patty on a bagel. I kind of liked it. Tue Jun 23 11:33:41 -0700 2009 1530922 1086258 jchamberlain 3 4799708 j -- oh yeah, grape jelly on a sausage biscuit is very good, too! now that cream cheese is just decadent. ;-). Tue Jun 23 16:48:29 -0700 2009 4798632 105717 alkapal 1 1530923 My mom used to make a "vegetable" soup that started with ground beef and a big can of stewed tomatoes. Anything else was fair game. Yum! Sat Jun 10 03:06:49 -0700 2006 1530905 0 srr 2 2586758 My mom used to do that too. We called it hamburger soup. I still make it at least once every winter. It's about the only time I ever use canned veggies. Sun May 20 17:03:15 -0700 2007 1530923 10642 bryan 1 1530924 Peanut butter & bacon sandwiches Peanut butter chicken (slather p-butter over chicken pieces and bake in the oven) My mother always made the following after Thanksgiving and she insists that you HAVE to use Miracle Whip. We never used the stuff any other time. I cringe every year when I pick up the jar and bring it home...but I wouldn't dare try using anything else in this recipe!! HOT TURKEY SALAD - serves 8-10 3 cups cooked turkey, diced in bite size pieces 1 -1/2 cups chopped celery 2T grated onion 4 hard boiled eggs (sliced) 1 small jar pimento (or chopped red pepper) 1 small package slivered almonds 1 cup Miracle Whip 1 cup grated Jack cheese 2 T lemon juice salt and pepper to taste potato chips Mix together all ingredients and pour in medium size casserole which is very lightly greased. Sprinkle crushed potato chips over top. Bake in preheated 350 oven for 30 minutes. This is best if it stands in refrigerator for a few hours before re-heating. Sat Jun 10 03:34:54 -0700 2006 1530905 0 wyf4lyf 2 1530928 I've been eating peanut butter and bacon sandwiches since I was about 8 years old! It's something we used to make at Girl Scout camp. I like it best on toasted bread. Sat Jun 10 06:07:55 -0700 2006 1530924 0 boogiebaby 3 1530929 We grew up with peanut butter and bacon, and also peanut butter and butter. Sat Jun 10 06:08:41 -0700 2006 1530928 0 coll 4 1530938 PB and bacon were a Saturday staple in my house growing up too. Also PB and banana (an Elvis favorite) And my grandmother always butter the bread before PBJ or PB and bacon. Her reasoning was that it kept the PB from sticking to the roof of your mouth. Sat Jun 10 09:25:05 -0700 2006 1530929 0 foodiex2 5 1530943 ...and you forgot fluffernutters! Sat Jun 10 09:33:49 -0700 2006 1530938 0 pamd 6 1530946 The kids in my family still like fluffernutters. I think it may be a boston area thing. We go to the Outer banks in NC every couple of years with my family, my siblings and there families. We meet my cousins and their families from Ohio there ( this year there will be 25 of us). Their kids had never heard of fluffernutters. Not they love them. We bring a big jar of Fluff. Last time we were there, we ran out of fluff. It was really hard to find at the local Food Lion. Was not with the pb and jelly as it should be- but was tucked away on the bottom shelf with the baking items. Sat Jun 10 09:43:04 -0700 2006 1530943 0 macca 7 4952759 I was at the Food & Wine Festival in Aspen a couple of years ago and they made Fluffernutter sandwiches with CHOCOLATE peanut butter! OMG...I have never had anything so decadent! We were stealing all the leftovers! Chocolate peanut butter is hard to find, but oh so worth it! Mon Aug 17 08:53:19 -0700 2009 1530946 1102312 maydaycolorado 7 5033545 Ate Fluffernutters as a child in the '60's in NW Penna., near Ohio. Still love them, sent my kids to school with them in their lunches, here in Canada. Also had Peanutbutter and Mayonnaise, NOT Miracle Whip, and Amish Peanut Butter, made with Peanutbutter, whipped with molasses. That was like having a Hallowe'en Toffee kiss! Wed Sep 16 06:12:57 -0700 2009 1530946 1094664 evasgramma 6 1530953 My visiting Yankee cousin will never quite recover from our Red Sox fluffernutters....he was and still is horrified by the memory....and we thought it was the coolest thing between white bread!!! Sat Jun 10 11:16:32 -0700 2006 1530943 0 slyfox 6 1531040 Fluffernutters rock. Sat Jun 10 18:26:46 -0700 2006 1530943 0 Mr. F. 7 5183974 I was so in love with fluffernutters that we named our cat after them! Sun Nov 15 16:34:05 -0800 2009 1531040 76938 Bigley9 5 1531139 My father did the same but his reasoning was that it kept the Jelly from soaking through the bread. He also put butter on his tuna sandwich that he took to work for the same reason Sun Jun 11 11:43:59 -0700 2006 1530938 0 krissywats 4 1531043 Yeah! Peanut butter and butter--but cold, hard butter. That's the best. Sat Jun 10 19:03:20 -0700 2006 1530929 0 Yongeman 5 1755205 Other favorite pb combos in my house: -pb with cream cheese -pb with cheez whiz or processed american slice cheese -pb with nutella -and the classic: pb with butter YUMMO! Other stuff I loved when I was little: -Raw egg yolk whipped with sugar, cinnamon, cocoa and maybe a splash of OJ (this was supposed to be a fortifier since I was a scrawny kid) -Smashed up chocolate chip cookies with pureed banana and peanut butter Ahh! the memories!! Thu Jul 20 00:29:56 -0700 2006 1531043 12421 hungryann 6 5010884 Isn't it funny how many odd thing PB seems to end up with when you're a kid? My mother used to mix PB and bananas - not such an odd combo, but she would mush the banana into a lumpy paste, mix in a ton of peanut butter, and eat the whole mess out of a bowl with a spoon! To this day, I shiver a bit over the memory.... Mon Sep 07 09:12:07 -0700 2009 1755205 1107449 tonina_mdc 7 5011223 Oh that sounds wonderful! I have some ripe banana's sitting around. Thanks for lunch! Mon Sep 07 11:55:20 -0700 2009 5010884 190434 raidar 8 5112871 PB, dill pickles and Miracle Whip sandwich! Still have to have one on occasion. Sun Oct 18 15:34:04 -0700 2009 5011223 282119 MartiniGenie 7 5012593 I'm glad somebody likes that idea (other than my mother!) because it always gave me the willies when I was a kid. Now something I DID devour was something my mom always called "green junk" - gross name, but delectable. It was pistachio pudding mixed with pineapple, chopped walnuts, mandarin orange segments and things like that. I still request it for holiday dinners - and I carry off all the leftovers! Tue Sep 08 00:09:17 -0700 2009 5010884 1107449 tonina_mdc 8 5035946 oh, I love "green junk" too! At my house we called it watergate salad. We'd mix a package of dry pistachio pudding with a tub of cool whip then add in pineapple, mandarin orange bits, tiny marshmallows, nuts, etc. Makes me think fondly of my grandmother, who made the best version. Wed Sep 16 21:36:10 -0700 2009 5012593 245973 egging 9 5036154 Isn't that funny! I've heard of watergate salad of course, but the version I know is made with apples and never had pistachio pudding. The first time my (then future) husband came to a holiday dinner, he saw me beg for and carry off the green junk and thought it was the grossest mess ever. I eventually got him to try it and he tolerates it now, although he still doesn't get the major appeal of it. I guess it's just something you have to grow up with in order to truly love.... Thu Sep 17 02:02:56 -0700 2009 5035946 1107449 tonina_mdc 10 5077919 The one with apples is called WALDORF salad...apples, raisins, nuts, mayo, etc. My aunt and uncle always made watergate salad for all the holiday meals.To me, it was just...meh. I actually prefer the Waldorf salad. (which was invented at the hotel of the same name( Sun Oct 04 07:53:16 -0700 2009 5036154 191827 FibroLady 11 5079354 My bad, you are quite correct. I'm slipping in my frazzled middle age. :-) Sun Oct 04 23:56:59 -0700 2009 5077919 1107449 tonina_mdc 11 5105179 oh yes! a freshly made waldorf, with top-notch ingredients, is a revelation. just beautiful and so delicious! Thu Oct 15 08:56:21 -0700 2009 5077919 105717 alkapal 4 2069093 How about crunched-up potato chips on open-faced peanut butter sandwiches? Mon Dec 04 19:49:39 -0800 2006 1530929 52113 Seldomsated 5 4764381 My favorite was ham, cheese, peanut putter, jelly and chips of any kind all in one sandwich... I kind of want one now! Thu Jun 11 14:15:03 -0700 2009 2069093 257090 thegirlwholovestoeat 4 4723875 I grew up eating peanut butter and iceberg lettuce sandwiches on white bread. The crispy iceberg keep the peanut butter from sticking to the roof of your mouth and provides a little more texture. I still love it (and everyone thinks I'm weird). Thu May 28 20:23:00 -0700 2009 1530929 28323 MrsCheese 5 4745440 I don't! We had these too (my mother's idea), and I still love them. Also good with leaf lettuce. Another thing that's wonderful with PB in sandwiches: sliced tomatoes. The two flavors are great together. On the sweeter side: sliced apples, preferably hard first-of-the season ones, salted lightly. Fri Jun 05 10:13:25 -0700 2009 4723875 13709 buttertart 3 1748514 MMMMM on toast so the peanut butter gets warm and a bit runny .. and with the bacon .. NIRVANA Mon Jul 17 04:09:48 -0700 2006 1530928 11004 SLO 4 1748806 PB and bacon is one of my most favorite things to eat! Also PB and crushed potato chips on bread is yummy! I also posted at the end of the thread about PB and green olives Mon Jul 17 13:34:02 -0700 2006 1748514 14083 cooknKate 5 2608690 My Mom made us "fish-a-ma- jig sandwichs mashed up flounder with mayo on hamburger buns. Mon May 28 17:36:59 -0700 2007 1748806 101697 Amanda please 5 5005771 Mm-m-m, cooknKate, I thought I had posted that for a second, PB and bacon is also my fave, on toast is best, and I don't know anyone else in the world that's ever tried PB and potato chips. It's like having chunky peanut butter, only better! Glad to have read your post and know there's another like me out there. Fri Sep 04 14:21:51 -0700 2009 1748806 1106722 patmatw 3 2527361 Growing up my mom used to make peanut butter and banana sandwiches and also peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. My husband thinks the pickle sandwiches are gross but I still crave them when I'm missing home. Also - I made up a recipe when I was first living on my own and money was scarce - box of mac\cheese (the $0.25 a box version), can of "cream of" soup, can of tuna - Mix all three and serve. Mon Apr 30 09:04:54 -0700 2007 1530928 12763 schoenick 4 2530135 I was also raised on peanut butter and pickle sandwhiches. For mystery readers it is a favorite in the "Alphabet" series by Sue Grafton Tue May 01 03:38:10 -0700 2007 2527361 57890 KaimukiMan 4 3321821 Sounds like your tastes are similar to mine. In 6th grade I ate a peanut butter & mustard sandwhich on a dare (hey, he was cute!). I have indulged in this sweet & sour combination ever since. Hmmm, maybe I will try dill pickles sometime. Tue Jan 22 14:50:42 -0800 2008 2527361 101291 TalN 4 3709307 Ahh - that reminds me of my "Macarena Macaroni" - KD with canned diced tomatoes, kidney beans, mushrooms and chilli powder mixed in :) Wed May 21 13:49:59 -0700 2008 2527361 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 4 4860355 One of the first "recipes" I learned to make was boxed mac & cheese, sauteed onion, canned mushroom stems & peices and tomato sauce. I made it for years, my kids named it mac-a-tooney. I remember once I began to learn more about food, trying to "gourmet it up" a bit. It was awful. Stick to the basics though and I'd still eat a couple of bowls full! Wed Jul 15 07:22:01 -0700 2009 2527361 208878 mrschef1 2 1530966 Glad to know I wasn't the only kid eating PB-bacon sandwiches! I also ate PB and mayo and got laughed at a lot by other kids. Haven't eated that in years. Sat Jun 10 11:46:10 -0700 2006 1530924 0 wyf4lyf 3 1530970 fried bologna with Hellmans on Arnold white toast!!!! Sat Jun 10 12:01:43 -0700 2006 1530966 0 slyfox 4 3229891 Fried balogna with mustard on white bread! Fri Dec 21 19:49:51 -0800 2007 1530970 146618 rumple 5 4966294 As a kid it was fried bologna with fried onions on bakery rye fried in lots of butter Fri Aug 21 13:10:29 -0700 2009 3229891 322880 jomi53 3 1531038 Loved peanut butter and mayonnaise! Sat Jun 10 18:22:42 -0700 2006 1530966 0 ratbin 4 1750731 Grandpa likes peanut butter and bologna, or pickles, or the three together. Sometimes with mayo, so it doesn't stick to the roof of your mouth. He must know something, he's over 90 and still does the crossword every day. If that's what it takes, I don't think I'll make it. Tue Jul 18 04:09:23 -0700 2006 1531038 13445 Louise 5 2588100 I thought we were the only ones! Peanubt butter, bologna and cheese, as well as mayo. Haven't had a sandwich like that in many, many years. I loved it as a kid, but I'm kind of afraid to try it again. Mon May 21 08:54:46 -0700 2007 1750731 50494 pattisue 5 4682105 My dad likes peanut butter and balogna too. Is your grandpa Norwegian from the midwest like mine? Been trying to figure out where he got it! Wed May 13 20:05:46 -0700 2009 1750731 61553 vicsailgarden 4 1851202 Oh man, my Aunt Lorna used to eat PB and mayo! Never heard of it anywhere else! And if my mother ever asked my dad to make dinner, it was either waffles with tiny bits of ham in the batter, or fried bologna sandwiches. Sun Sep 03 02:41:35 -0700 2006 1531038 32271 Bobierto 4 4948909 Andrew Zimmern from travel channel's Bizarre Foods was in Minnesota and had a burger with PB and Mayo. He said it was amazing. My mom's goulash was ground beef sauteed with onions, elbow macaroni and can of Campbell's tomato. served with bread and butter...mmm. i made sandwiches out of it! Breakfast when I was a little girl was sliced bananas in a bowl with orange juice and sprinkled with sugar. Great (but ugly) appetizer: brown ground beef and ground sausage, mix in velveeta and spoon onto cocktail rye, and toast on baking sheet. you can make a whole bunch, and freeze before toasting, and throw them in the oven whenever you need to! Sat Aug 15 10:56:25 -0700 2009 1531038 1101901 soyummmy 5 5011299 Soyummy, the appetizer you described is a favorite in my family. My grandma used to make it whenever she had people to her house and we called them "the cheeseburger things". My cousins and I used to fight over who got the ones that were browned the most. Come to think of it, we still do :) Mon Sep 07 12:34:09 -0700 2009 4948909 1097782 mse924 5 5054422 I grew up around Sedalia, MO and the Drive In there served a Goober Burger with everything including peanut butter and I still put peanut butter on my burgers. All my friends are used to it but I love the look on someone's face that isn't used to it! My partner's family always eats strawberry jam on the fish they fry up at the family cabin. They make it into a sandwich with white bread. It's really not bad. . . Thu Sep 24 04:49:32 -0700 2009 4948909 247278 mray 6 5059703 Both sound good to me, probably takes away some of the greasy taste. I may have to try them myself. Sat Sep 26 07:16:48 -0700 2009 5054422 11097 coll 3 1531138 My father used to eat peanut butter on his hotdogs. Still makes me want to gag but he loved it - never in my life heard of peanut butter and bacon....that's hysterical! Sun Jun 11 11:41:21 -0700 2006 1530966 0 krissywats 3 1749562 I learned of the joy of PB, Mayo and Lettuce sandwiches from my spouse's dad. I've read that they serve PB & Bacon at one of the ivy league clubs in NYC.... Mon Jul 17 19:28:15 -0700 2006 1530966 12752 MsDiPesto 4 1850229 PB & MAYO With Lettuce! My grandmother loved that combo! It makes be cringe with good and weird memories when ever i hear it. She's physically still with us, but mentally not in this world anymore. Its good to know that she wasn't alone in her love for these weird sandwiches! Sat Sep 02 10:03:54 -0700 2006 1749562 16849 cheesehead in recovery 5 3229808 Strange. We used to eat those as kids. That's 50 years ago and I hadn't thought of it til now. Fri Dec 21 19:04:44 -0800 2007 1850229 13794 SilverlakeGirl 2 1530995 My mother's exotic PB sandwich was made with mint jelly, I prefered peanut butter and bread and butter pickles. Sat Jun 10 14:17:36 -0700 2006 1530924 0 Candy 3 1531521 liverwurst and pickle sandwiches! can also be spread on a cracker with a slice of pickle on top if you wanna get fancy :) Tue Jun 13 16:56:54 -0700 2006 1530995 0 stuckinschool 4 1848203 YES! liverwurst and pickles are a divine combination! The sour brininess of the pickles totally sets off the rich creaminess of the liverwurst. Yum! We always had them openface on slices of very dark rye. Fri Sep 01 14:15:15 -0700 2006 1531521 29114 WineWidow 5 2527091 Actually my thing was (still is) liverwurst and jam. Preferable strawberry jam. Mon Apr 30 07:32:24 -0700 2007 1848203 34604 sweetie 6 4682110 you've gotta be kidding!!! I love liverwurst and I love jam ... but for 2 different meals Wed May 13 20:07:50 -0700 2009 2527091 61553 vicsailgarden 7 5071202 Jam with perogies! I love to mix both sour cream and jam, preferably raspberry, and so does most of my family. Does anyone else do this , or are we just weird? Whenever I told anyone this they were freaked out. Wed Sep 30 21:02:23 -0700 2009 4682110 1108962 beekeroc 6 4942374 thanks for sharing that, sparkina. TMI. Thu Aug 13 04:08:45 -0700 2009 4942242 105717 alkapal 5 2586061 I use to take liverwurst (fron the tube), sweet pickle relish and yellow mustard an mash it all together as a spreadd for crackers or toast. YUM! Sun May 20 10:48:01 -0700 2007 1848203 86221 lulubelle 5 4951334 We ate Souse meat sandwiches. I can taste that wonderful jellied texture and the pickled taste. I can't find that type of Souse meat anymore. We also ate hoghead cheese sandwiches too but they had nothing to do with cheese. Sun Aug 16 16:28:48 -0700 2009 1848203 103878 eveh 5 4952769 My mom used to make something called Salamangrundi...basically ground up bologna, pickle relish and a little mayo...spread on bread for a sandwich...it was a real favorite Mon Aug 17 08:56:57 -0700 2009 1848203 1102312 maydaycolorado 6 5033573 SALMAGUNDI or SALAMAGUNDY (pirate food: Caribbean, Atlantic, Indian Ocean 17th-18th centuries) a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad. Wed Sep 16 06:28:05 -0700 2009 4952769 1094664 evasgramma 4 2955992 my mom used to make me liverwurst on toast sandwiches with a bowl of campbell's tomato soup on rainy days. LOVED IT! Wed Sep 19 10:52:02 -0700 2007 1531521 44619 mariacarmen 3 1749804 My mother's family all devour peanut butter and onion, PB tomato and onion, PB cuke tom and onion etc I think they use mayo but Mom has never been able to entice me into the cult. Mon Jul 17 20:40:33 -0700 2006 1530995 11130 jen kalb 4 1750926 Oh, yeah! PB and onion with a sprinkling of salt... it's the BEST! Tue Jul 18 11:10:22 -0700 2006 1749804 13519 Cynsa 4 5128279 One Sunday night ritual was peanut butter and onion sandwiches. Our PB & onion was with chopped scallions and Miracle Whip-type salad dressing. It doesn't work with mayonnaise. The other Sunday night ritual was chocolate pudding cake. Dad had been a bachelor a few years before meeting Mom, and he had some recipes of his own he liked to stir up. We ate it warm in bowls after we came home from church, often with vanilla ice cream. Chocolate Pudding Cake 2 cups flour 4 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup sugar 4 T. cocoa 1 cup milk 4 T. melted shortening or oil Sift first five ingredients; stir in milk and melted shortening. Spread the stiff batter in a large rectangular pan (I do mean large). Sprinkle over the top: 2 cups brown/white sugar 1/2 cup cocoa Then pour over it 3-1/2 cups hot water. Bake 35-45 minutes in a 350 degree oven. The "cake" rises to the top leaving chocolate pudding underneath. Cream or whipped cream is good on it, too. Sat Oct 24 16:57:12 -0700 2009 1749804 1116118 skamama 5 5161638 My mom made that dessert all the time but we called it Brownie Pudding. I still get excited when she makes it! We're in SW Ontario, Canada, btw. Fri Nov 06 12:43:39 -0800 2009 5128279 139180 Blush 2 1531068 Another fan of peanut butter and bacon, and also peanut butter and sharp cheddar sandwiches. The hot turkey/chicken salad is a popular Southern recipe. It's even in the "Paula Deen & Friends" cookbook. Sat Jun 10 21:37:41 -0700 2006 1530924 0 Rubee 3 1865921 my brother and I would put PB between two slices of american cheese. It really disturbs me these days. Sun Sep 10 01:28:37 -0700 2006 1531068 30158 amkirkland 3 2585229 At last, a PB and cheese sandwich fan. When we kids were old enough to fend for ourselves on Sunday nights after our big Sunday "dinner" (lunch), I invented the PB/Longhorn Cheddar/sliced tomato sandwich. I'd butter two slices of bread, spread PB over one and lay sliced cheese on the other, put them under the broiler until they bubbled, lay slices of a straight-out-of-the-Victory Garden tomato on one piece, salt and lots of pepper, slap them together. To this day it's my favorite fast comfort food, and my grandchildren have become positively addicted to it. And bacon would be great on it, too. Bacon goes with anything and PB is the staff of life. Sat May 19 19:50:54 -0700 2007 1531068 93465 PhoebeB 4 3277572 How about PB with pancake syrup mixed in! Yum! My mom would sometimes also also mix in molassas. With bananas was a good one! Bacon is really yummy too! My cousins did the PB and mayo...never cared for it! Just good eating! Wed Jan 09 10:44:46 -0800 2008 2585229 156002 btrswttx00 5 3280162 Love PB and syrup sandwiches. A must have with chili. Thu Jan 10 04:48:08 -0800 2008 3277572 82243 ArikaDawn 5 4942246 That PB and pancake syrup reminds me of something I make called a Tri-State Sandwich PB -- (Georgia) Maple syrup -- the REAL stuff (Vermont) Applesauce between two slices of toast Thu Aug 13 00:13:29 -0700 2009 3277572 24199 Sparkina 5 4942332 Not sandwiches, but peanut butter and syrup on top of pancakes was my fav. as a kid. When I was done with the pancakes I would glop a spoonful of peanut butter on my plate and top with syrup. Yum!! Thu Aug 13 03:05:18 -0700 2009 3277572 1081227 DishDelish 5 5078412 In the Louisiana hot summer Sunday evenings, we would mix peanut butter and honey with a dash of vanilla, spread it on fresh bread. YUM, YUM! Sun Oct 04 13:01:44 -0700 2009 3277572 269225 pattiadleybryan 6 5079356 Oh wow, that sounds awesome! Ratio of peanut butter to honey please? I'd love to give that a run! Sun Oct 04 23:58:15 -0700 2009 5078412 1107449 tonina_mdc 7 5086932 Really you just play around with it until it is the sweetness that you like. Approximate: 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/2 cup peanut butter, 2 tablespoons honey. Top that with sliced ripe bananas and you have a masterpiece. Wed Oct 07 17:13:43 -0700 2009 5079356 269225 pattiadleybryan 2 1531334 Yum, PB & Bacon. Love it. My mom served it with an ice cold glass of chocolate milk. Delish! She still makes it for me sometimes when I go to visit. Mon Jun 12 15:35:43 -0700 2006 1530924 0 Gayle 3 2528061 I used to eat mayo and grape jelly sandwiches when I was little. Have not had one since then and don't plan on going back anytime soon! Mon Apr 30 11:54:53 -0700 2007 1531334 52306 upstate girl 2 4724177 Bologna on Saltines with Miracle Whip. NO mayo! Thu May 28 23:57:16 -0700 2009 1530924 323068 cookiekelly 2 4838144 My mom always eats peanut butter, bacon and mustard on white toast. Tue Jul 07 19:25:52 -0700 2009 1530924 1091147 almond3xtract 2 4888244 PB and Bacon is an absolute family favorite. PB with most things. PB and Honey, PB and Banana, PB and jelly or jam, PB with butter..Heck sometimes we just add layers. Slice of bread, PB/bacon, slice of bread, PB and banana, slice of bread. Best triple decker sandwich. Fri Jul 24 14:54:56 -0700 2009 1530924 190434 raidar 1 1530926 My irish nana's "goulash." 1 lb ground beef, browned in BUTTER w/1 large or 2 med. chopped onions, seasoned with salt and black pepper. 1 lb cooked wide egg noodles. 2 28 oz. cans tomato chunks w juice. 1 mondo block velveeta. Combine meat/onion mixture with tomatoes in stockpot. Bring to simmer. Add velveeta, in chunks, until sauce turns close to cheeto-orange. Adjust seasoning for salt and black pepper. Stir in noodles over low heat, let continue to cook 5 minutes until noodles suck up a lot of the sauce and are nice and mushy. Serve with pepsi. And chocolate cake from a box mix, topped with powdered sugar. Or a thawed Pepperidge Farm freezer cake. You get the picture. My husband wouldn't eat this at first, but now he admits that every six months, it's a got to have dish at the end of a bad day. Sat Jun 10 05:42:14 -0700 2006 1530905 0 emdb 2 1530931 Creamed shrimp on Toast Canned shrimp and a can of peas & carrots. Make a bechamel sauce ( mom used American cheese).Add the shrimp and vegatables to the sauce and heat through. Serve over toast. We had this for dinner sometimes during Lent. I used to love it. Still serve it at least once during Lent, even now!! Sat Jun 10 07:19:32 -0700 2006 1530926 0 macca 3 1530932 My mother made something similar, but served over rice. Frozen shrimp with condensed cream of shrimp soup (Cross and Blackwell is the brand she used) thinned with some sherry. Also made cut up chicken in condensed cream of mushroom soup, thinned with sherry, served over Jiffy cornbread. I never make these myself, but loved them when I was a kid. Sat Jun 10 07:41:38 -0700 2006 1530931 0 coll 4 1530934 Got a recipe from relatives in the midwest that uses cream of chicken soup. Sounds weird, but it is good, and feeds a crowd: Package frozen Ore Ida home fries can cream of chicken soup container of sour cream stick of butter 16 oz shredded cheddar shredded onion mix all together in a casserole. Top with crushed corn flakes and bake @ 350 for about an hour, until chesse melts. This can also be "doctored" up easily. Can add ham, brocolli, use mushroom soup instead of chicken, etc. I brought this recipe home from a visit to relatives in the Mid West, and it never fails- whenever I brin it to a gathering, am always asked for the recipe. Sat Jun 10 07:55:44 -0700 2006 1530932 0 macca 5 1530939 Sounds good, I also keep seeing recipes with tater tots too, so many recipes made with Campbells soup! I just remembered another recipe, but I'm sure we're not the only ones that made it; it's probably from when Pillsbury invented crescent rolls because I remember my mother making this alot in the 60s-70s. "Chicken Things" (no idea what the real name is) 6 oz cream cheese 2 Tbs mayo 2 cups cooked chicken or turkey salt and pepper poultry seasoning 2 Tbs milk chopped onion and celery is optional Mix all together and put in crescent rolls, fold to make packet. Close edges with tines of fork. Dip in melted butter and then bread crumbs mixed with parsley. Bake 350 for 40 minutes. This is more delicious than it sounds, and great for using up Thanksgiving leftovers. Sat Jun 10 09:25:36 -0700 2006 1530934 0 coll 6 3318324 i used to make these in college - i got the idea from a my roommate's girlfriend. we experimented with putting in sauteed mushrooms, tomatoes, and basil and garlic and they were delicious. i need to make these for the superbowl for sure. i have also been known to add a can of tuna and a generous amount of ketchup to boxed macaroni and cheese. or mix tuna with hot spaghetti noodles, mayo and fake powdered parmesan cheese and lots of black pepper. we also used to eat leftover steamed rice heated in a pan and then scrambled with eggs, and served with sour cream. let's not forget refried beans spread on toast and broiled with a slice of american cheese - government cheese that doesn't really melt, and the giant cardboard tub of government chocolate chip ice cream, served in a glass with 7-up. Mon Jan 21 16:41:10 -0800 2008 1530939 63941 tastycakes 5 5035960 we had a similar recipe we called branding potatoes--they were a must at the the post-branding feast on my family's cattle ranch. It consisted of shredded potatoes (fresh or frozen), sour cream, cream cheese, and onion. Heavenly. Wed Sep 16 21:45:09 -0700 2009 1530934 245973 egging 4 1530961 My mom made that shrimp soup dish, too! It was a real fancy 'company' dish in those days. Pepperidge farms had come out with those puff pastry shells and she would serve the shrimp 'stuff' in those with rice. You know, I must have been really influenced by that meal, because even today I have a can of cream of shrimp soup in my cabinet. It is probably at least 5 years old. :-) Sat Jun 10 11:36:10 -0700 2006 1530932 0 kim shook 2 1530958 We had something similar to this - also called "goulash" but it was like homemade hamburger helper. 1 lb. ground beef 1 onion, diced 1 28 oz. can ready cut tomatoes 1 8 oz(?) can tomato sauce 1 6 oz.(?) can tomato paste 1 lb. large elbow macaroni Brown the ground beef, add onion - saute until softened. Add tomatoes, sauce & paste. Simmer 15-20 minutes. Add sugar if needed to cut the acidity of the tomatoes. Meanwhile, boil the macaroni. Then toss it into the beef/tomato mixture. Voila! Served, of course, with white bread. ;-) Sat Jun 10 11:31:53 -0700 2006 1530926 0 Kivarita 3 1530963 That's exactly the recipe my mother used for her "goulash." It was amazingly flavorless, too - not a bit of zip to it, in accordance with the mid-century Midwestern cooking tradition. She still loves it and makes it occasionally. Sat Jun 10 11:39:25 -0700 2006 1530958 0 jillp 4 4732523 Yes, we had the same goulash too--absolutely NO flavor. Mom also made "Spanish rice"--the same thing with rice instead of elbows. Those were the dishes that sent me over the edge and made me take over the cooking at age 10. No offense to those who like it, though, I just like spicy! Mon Jun 01 10:04:34 -0700 2009 1530963 271346 mamma_spice 3 1530975 my aunt makes something similar and it's called "american chop suey" Sat Jun 10 12:24:33 -0700 2006 1530958 0 fara 4 1531001 Yeah, my mother used to make it too. I knew it as American chop suey, but we always called it "macaroni mess". That was what caused me to learn to cook... I hated it, I hated the very smell of it. Sat Jun 10 14:35:37 -0700 2006 1530975 0 Das Ubergeek 5 1760950 my midwestern dad has always made the same stuff - called slumgullion. Yuck. It was diff from the Johnny Marzetti they served in my Ohio public school (I think it must be called "marzetti" in Cols. there because of the famous Marzetti's restaurant (now gone, of course) and the sauces carrying that name. Sat Jul 22 19:31:51 -0700 2006 1531001 11130 jen kalb 4 3577798 American Chop Suey is officially a tradition in my family. I had it when I was a kid and it's now my son's favorite dinner. Wed Apr 09 12:34:49 -0700 2008 1530975 164739 hondo77 3 1531000 I had a friend long ago who made a dish like this and called it "Scottish Lasagna". Sat Jun 10 14:35:24 -0700 2006 1530958 0 Zoe 3 1531213 GThat recipe is what my mother and my aunt called Johnny Mazzetti. I wasn't raised in the Canal Zone. My mothwer made German potato salad(potatoes, bacon and onion in a sweet sour sauce made with bacon fat, vinegar and white sugar. I've never seen anyone make a similar concoction. Sun Jun 11 22:37:19 -0700 2006 1530958 0 phil 4 1748350 My Grandma makes that and it is very tasty. She's in Ohio. Mon Jul 17 02:02:32 -0700 2006 1531213 13445 Louise 5 1750929 I grew up in Columbus, Ohio...my dad made his Johnny Mazzetti with flat egg noodles...there's a pinch of sugar in his recipe. Tue Jul 18 11:17:49 -0700 2006 1748350 13519 Cynsa 5 1751233 My oops. It's the potato salad that Grandma makes. I was suprised the first time when it did not go into the fridge, but dang, it's tasty. Though she's been around a while, she may well have heard of Johnny Mazzetti. Tue Jul 18 15:17:01 -0700 2006 1748350 13445 Louise 5 1753129 My dad's side, where the recipe comes from, is from Michigan. Either way, it's in the middle! Wed Jul 19 04:38:32 -0700 2006 1748350 11729 kivarita 4 1866642 That style of potato salad(German) is the only kind that I will eat. I can make the more common potato salad with mayo and mustard, but it is not something that I will ever do for my family. I grew up in Amish country of N-E Ohio and we were also served Johnny Marzetti in schools. My daughter never had to eat it at school and will occasionally ask for it. My mother used to make hamburgers out of a mixture that was usually reserved for making a meatloaf. They are delicious when grilled over charcoal and served with onion and tomato. It is amazing the foods and recipes that we thought were a family idea, only to find out later that it was a local specialty. Sun Sep 10 18:01:04 -0700 2006 1531213 22220 Kelli2006 5 5006781 We were also served Johnny Marzetti in the school cafeteria in Gahanna, Ohio (right outside Columbus). My mom's was better, though! Sat Sep 05 03:00:44 -0700 2009 1866642 126195 Boston_Otter 4 2068441 We grew up on german potato salad, and now my kids love it. We have it with fried chicken or ham and on holidays mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good stuff :) Mon Dec 04 17:17:39 -0800 2006 1531213 57544 loveysangel 4 2607966 Yup, we had that. German--also had the bacon and onions in rutabaga and also in green beans. My father called it "eingebrengcht" (sp?). Very typical of Austrian/German preps (my grandparents were Austrian.) So, basically what ISN"T good with bacon and onions? Mon May 28 11:05:56 -0700 2007 1531213 10844 berkleybabe 4 3319179 Still making that here in Vermont (remember it growing up in Upstate , NY) Mon Jan 21 21:22:05 -0800 2008 1531213 50082 TonyO 4 3573921 my dad makes the same thing, with celery seed, the recipe comes from a very old, very falling apart copy of Betty Crocker from the 60s Tue Apr 08 12:06:51 -0700 2008 1531213 181000 zitronenmadchen 4 4781181 Phil, I used to live near a German deli that make potato salad that way - it was my very favorite. I dream about it till this day. Do you know the recipe? Wed Jun 17 09:27:19 -0700 2009 1531213 174753 NellyNel 3 1748808 We had something like this too, although it was with rice, not macaroni. Mon Jul 17 13:35:08 -0700 2006 1530958 14083 cooknKate 3 1761365 My mom made that goulash too except after the elbow noodles were added she put layer of shredded mozzarella on it, put the pot top on and let it melt. I still like it but rarely make it because it serves so many. I did make it recently with some leftover sauce for the nostalgia value and my 8-year old niece loved it so it might be popping up in my life again. She also did a version of it called Lazyman’s Lasagna – basically the same recipe except egg noodles instead of elbows and a small carton of cottage cheese added near the end of cooking. They were the first dinner dished I ever learned to make. Every family in our town seemed to make a similar goulash - my best friend's mom put some ketchup (along with tomato sauce) in hers. Sun Jul 23 01:17:03 -0700 2006 1530958 10779 bookgirl234 3 2089857 My mom made this too, in the winter especially, except we called it meal-in-one. We always had cornmuffins with it. My kids werent thrilled with it, they called it barf-a-roni. LOLOL Mon Dec 11 20:17:58 -0800 2006 1530958 57544 loveysangel 3 2094788 My grandmother, who lived in southern Ohio, made this every single time we came to visit. Her's was topped with american cheese, and, most importantly *bacon*!! I have tried to recreate her exact recipe many times, to no avail. Wed Dec 13 02:29:36 -0800 2006 1530958 13290 Cassandra 3 3709317 My mom used to make that too! Wed May 21 13:52:29 -0700 2008 1530958 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 3 4744915 Add chili powder and beans and Partner - you got's Texas Goulash! Yeeeeee Haw. My mom made it all the time growing up. I take exception to the poster who declared your version tasteless. It is basically sketti. Fri Jun 05 07:53:21 -0700 2009 1530958 137755 Sal Vanilla 3 4838158 Sounds a lot like what my mom calls California Goulash. We add canned corn, mushrooms, black olives, and a little bit of Velveeta. Pretty yummy! Tue Jul 07 19:30:13 -0700 2009 1530958 1091147 almond3xtract 4 5103888 You're all WAY too fancy. My German mother would brown ground beef in butter and add cooked elbow macaroni to it, with MORE butter. She'd let it sit in the frying pan until the noodles on the bottom would get golden brown and stir it. She'd do it a few times so you'd get some crunchy noodles mixed in with the soft. She'd add more butter & salt at the dinner table to hers; I'd add ketchup to mine. I still eat it occasionally but have courageously added some chopped onions & mushrooms to the ground beef. Much more modern:>)! Wed Oct 14 18:14:24 -0700 2009 4838158 1116374 Cathy N 2 1531019 Wow does that bring back memories. Mom used to make something she called, oh man, "Plenty More in Kitchen" Casserole. Same ingredients but canned mushrooms and corn were added for vitamins - surely not taste - and the noodles were mixed in. It was then topped w/ cheese and baked in the oven for an hour or so. One time she got creative and added rasins to it. Poor Mother wasn't much of a cook. We used to call the casserole "Belly Bomb" for reasons I shall spare the reader. The first time my bf "cooked" for me he made cheeseburger macaroni hamburger helper w/ corn added. I took a hesitant taste and said "OMG, Belly Bomb"! Needles to say, I do the cooking. Sat Jun 10 16:03:18 -0700 2006 1530926 0 bryan 3 3574773 My grandmother was raised by an aunt and many double cousins. They had a family code when they had company. PMK meant plenty more in kitchen and FHB meant family hold back. Tue Apr 08 15:44:21 -0700 2008 1531019 169792 lgss 4 4526591 >>>>PMK meant plenty more in kitchen and FHB meant family hold back.<<<< that is too funny! i'm just imagining how this would go down! did the family get a look of alertness all of a sudden? did the company find it odd? "oh, pardon me, i didn't quite understand what you said." LOL!!! Sat Mar 21 21:07:47 -0700 2009 3574773 105717 alkapal 4 4949953 My grandmother was even less subtle. She would say "have all you want, as long as we have enough for tomorrow night." That usually curbed appetites. Sat Aug 15 21:27:14 -0700 2009 3574773 1102029 Jackzig 2 1531634 My mom's "goulash" was ground beef, kidney beans and egg noodles with bacon in a sauce made from Campbell's tomato soup. I hadn't had it in maybe fifteen years when I stopped over at an uncle's house in San Bernadino (where my grandfather was also staying), and my aunt made it because it was such a favorite with both uncle and grandpa she figured I loved it too. She was right. Wed Jun 14 01:16:45 -0700 2006 1530926 0 Will Owen 2 1749723 My mom made something similar..called "Romanian goulash"..as my grandma was from there. We didn't use velveeta. I have it in my "trailor trash" recipe holder. I love it. Mon Jul 17 20:14:30 -0700 2006 1530926 11408 melly 2 1751045 The Pepsi is a nice touch. Tue Jul 18 13:41:15 -0700 2006 1530926 13788 antjones9 3 4724180 Coca-Cola Chicken: Equal parts cola and ketchup, maybe a dash of hot sauce, salt & pepper. Add chicken pieces. Simmer on stove top til done. My mom didn't but I remove chicken and reduce sauce. Eat with a baked potato and green beans. Yum!! Fri May 29 00:01:37 -0700 2009 1751045 323068 cookiekelly 2 2537451 So glad to find another goulash recipe! My mom's was similar: browned ground beef, can of "veg-all" mixed veggies, a can of tomato sauce(plain), and a block of velveeta. Oh, and she used cooked shells, medium sized. Ooof...I think I feel a shopping trip coming on for the velveeta and vegall. Thu May 03 07:28:09 -0700 2007 1530926 48292 powella 1 1530930 Strawberries or cut cantaloupe in milk. This was a breakfast dish that my dad made up. Sat Jun 10 07:17:43 -0700 2006 1530905 0 brooklynmasala 2 1748809 I eat strawberries in my cereal, love them with milk Mon Jul 17 13:36:00 -0700 2006 1530930 14083 cooknKate 1 1530935 ok- this thread should come with a warning- do not read if pregnant! I had some strange thoughts & cravings as I read it. (I mean this in a funny way, not offensive) Unfortunately, I can't think of any strange thing I ate growing up---other than, when I went camping I used mix WITH MY HANDS: ground beef lettuce tomatoes carrots potatoes ketchup mustard all up together in foil & put it on the fire- ate it with a fork when done, yum! (but not too strange) also, did anyone else ever put potato chips on tuna sandwiches? Sat Jun 10 09:09:46 -0700 2006 1530905 0 pamd 2 1530937 My mother used to make what she called tuna casserole (canned tuna with cream of mushroom soup) served over potato chips, I hated it! I make it now with tuna salad baked in with mac and cheese, and peas, extra cheese and maybe some breadcrumb topping, so I guess I shouldn't talk! Sat Jun 10 09:15:11 -0700 2006 1530935 0 coll 3 1530964 Yes! My Mom's tuna casserole was a glop of tuna, mayo and cream of whatever soup with peas, then toped with potato chips. I got married and my husband introduced me to his mom's tuna-noodle casserole which was MUCH better. Sat Jun 10 11:43:38 -0700 2006 1530937 0 wyf4lyf 2 1530940 I think chips on tuns is quite common- not my cup of tea- and I can't abide ANY kind of tuna casserole. Don't like hot tuna- keep the cans in the fridge, so my tuna salad is cold as soon as I make it. Just a quirk, I guess. Sat Jun 10 09:26:48 -0700 2006 1530935 0 macca 2 1530957 yes, and iceberg (the outer green leaves) and potato chip roll-ups. So good! Sat Jun 10 11:31:18 -0700 2006 1530935 0 toodie jane 2 1530971 yes.. potato chips on tuna sandwiches and salami sandwiches.....way back when....ahhhh... Sat Jun 10 12:08:27 -0700 2006 1530935 0 jazzpjr 3 1749734 Bologna sandwiches with potatoe chips (the thin ones) and a glass of pepsi with ice. Mon Jul 17 20:16:38 -0700 2006 1530971 11408 melly 2 1531092 In grade school I used to put Nestle's Crunch bars in my tuna sandwiches. (Don't tell my mom.) Sun Jun 11 00:21:11 -0700 2006 1530935 0 heidipie 2 1531140 What do you mean 'used to'? If there's a tuna sandwich and sour cream and onion chips are around - all bets are off. Sun Jun 11 11:47:16 -0700 2006 1530935 0 krissywats 2 1531469 BBQ Chips on Tuna Sandwich. Craving food from 20 years ago now. Tue Jun 13 13:25:17 -0700 2006 1530935 0 Mila 2 1531633 Waddaya mean, DID? I do - doesn't everybody? French fries on a grilled cheese sandwich is probably weird, but I had a passion for that for a while...had to be greasy fries and greasy, squoodjy snack-bar grilled cheese. I was skinny then... Wed Jun 14 01:10:12 -0700 2006 1530935 0 Will Owen 3 1748812 I love eating tuna salad with Krunchers potato chips, it gets the salt craving really well! Mon Jul 17 13:37:36 -0700 2006 1531633 14083 cooknKate 2 1750515 Who wouldn't put potato chips on a tuna sandwich? Very yummy, perhaps surpassed by bread and butter pickles. Tue Jul 18 01:47:51 -0700 2006 1530935 11995 pikawicca 2 1775298 sure did! nice flavor combo. and one of my favorite taste discoveries a a chowpup was lettuce and potato chip wraps-- a great combo. Use the gark green outer leaves of iceberg (Mom always asked the produce man for untrimmed iceberg) Sat Jul 29 15:49:08 -0700 2006 1530935 11234 toodie jane 2 5005810 Try dill pickle flavor potato chips on tuna sandwich. Delish! Fri Sep 04 14:33:03 -0700 2009 1530935 1106722 patmatw 2 5098539 I STILL put potato chips (or fritos, even better!) on my tuna sandwiches! Mon Oct 12 19:37:36 -0700 2009 1530935 1115886 nami54 3 5128755 Likewise. So good!! Sat Oct 24 21:38:35 -0700 2009 5098539 190434 raidar 4 5129192 Is there any other way? Sun Oct 25 08:08:06 -0700 2009 5128755 166707 JEN10 1 1530942 This should be changed to wierd and disgusting sounding family reciqe secrets! Although some are intriguing! My inlaws do RoyalMilkCrackerStuffing and dont even think of serving anything else on thanksgiving or you will be excommunicated from the family. Rinse Milk crackers in water to soften, add 1 finely diced onion, 1 egg and 1 stick of melted butter. Now heres where it gets intense.....there are also 3 necessary versions to this. First batch, stuff turkey, second goes into buttered dish and into oven, last batch is fried into little latkes for snacking and then heated in the toaster oven for late family arrivals.....anyone!!!!!!!!! Bueller!!!! Very funny thread! Sat Jun 10 09:27:10 -0700 2006 1530905 0 slyfox 2 1530952 I was considering the qeanut butter and bacon.......but graqe jelly on garlic bread....or was it strawberry!!!! Sat Jun 10 11:11:36 -0700 2006 1530942 0 slyfox 1 1530944 We frequently had two sandwiches that I've never seen outside of our home, yet I still can't really believe they're particularly unusual. The first is egg and olive, just a typical egg salad with a large quantity of halved pimiento stuffed green olives mixed in. This was always served on multi grain bread. The second is cream cheese and jelly on nutbread. My sister loved this and requested it often. I actually never particularly liked it, but it's not bad. I suppose you could substitute any sweet quick bread for the nutbread. Sat Jun 10 09:35:11 -0700 2006 1530905 0 BeeBee 2 1530948 Cream cheese on date nut bread was one of my favorite sandwiches,we always used Thomas brand: but I got some recently and it didn't taste as good as I remember. Sat Jun 10 09:51:32 -0700 2006 1530944 0 coll 3 1531062 Try the grown-up version now: whipped goat cheese on crusty date/walnut (or and fruit and nut) artisanal bread. The tang of the cheese is perfect with the sweetness of the fruit. Sat Jun 10 20:28:25 -0700 2006 1530948 0 piccola 2 1530959 Cream cheese and strawberry jelly on toasted oatmeal bread. Or sunflower seed bread. And we'd have that egg and olive salad on sourdough, open faced, with cheddar melted on top. Tuna salad with olives, too. Sat Jun 10 11:32:26 -0700 2006 1530944 0 emdb 2 1530965 I loved cream cheese and jelly as a kid (still do), on whatever bread is available. Great on bagels, too! Sat Jun 10 11:44:36 -0700 2006 1530944 0 wyf4lyf 2 1530976 We used to eat cream cheese mixed with chopped pimento stuffed green olives on bread. :-) Sat Jun 10 12:31:39 -0700 2006 1530944 0 wendy8869 3 1530998 Yeah, I love that stuff. I can't help stopping at a Bruegger's Bagels for their olive pimento cream cheese on a pumpernickel or rosemary olive oil bagel. Mmmmm. Sat Jun 10 14:31:34 -0700 2006 1530976 0 emdb 3 1786331 yes!! cream cheese and green olive sandwiches are great! Thu Aug 03 22:11:07 -0700 2006 1530976 21611 tdg 2 1530978 Since we're on the subject of cream cheese, try this. Lightly toast a plain or sesame bagel that's been halved, and then smear it with plain cream cheese. Make a circular moat in your cream cheese, as if to draw a big 'O'. Drizzle HONEY in that moat. Take the bagel half as it presently is, take a bite, and enjoy the deliciousness. (The reason for the moat is so that you don't have honey dripping all over yourself). Enjoy! It's a Greek thing. Image: http://www.codeforfood.com/CafeAhRoma/menu/2bagelsX.gif Sat Jun 10 12:38:13 -0700 2006 1530944 0 Cheese Boy 3 1531073 instead of the honey, spread the toasted bagel half with cream cheese or ricotta, then dip it face down into a plate of freshly toasted pine nuts. My favorite winter breakfast. What a flavor combo! Sat Jun 10 21:56:57 -0700 2006 1530978 0 toodie jane 4 1531538 Or, take the cream-cheesed bagel, slap slices of Swiss on top, and put it under the broiler until melted. Tue Jun 13 17:58:44 -0700 2006 1531073 0 Frosty Melon 3 5035991 yum!! Wed Sep 16 22:02:34 -0700 2009 1530978 245973 egging 2 2594758 Egg and olive! I have that in my fridge right now. Dad's visiting and his mom recently passed away and she made the best egg and olive. He prefers it on seeded rye. But I'm curious -- Grandma was from Elmira, NY, and then migrated southward to super-rural southern New York State. She was also married to a French Canadian. Any connections? Where did egg and olive come from? Besides being SO DELICIOUS. (Oh and not only potato chips on tuna, but Fritos, too. Yum.) Wed May 23 08:48:59 -0700 2007 1530944 46777 ctscorp 2 3288969 Hey BeeBee, Grew up eating Egg & Olive sandwiches on white bread. LOL have a jar of olives in fridge right now to make a batch. Another thing was Lebanon Bologna Gravy, made like chipped beef gravy, except using Lebanon Bologna (NOT Sweet). And the last one was Porcupines, a type of meatballs made with ground beef and a box of rice-a-roni...YUM Tim Sat Jan 12 14:35:31 -0800 2008 1530944 28933 twh1475 3 3290433 Tim, I wish I knew you when I was growing up. I would have sent you all of the Porcupines my grandma ever made. To this day I won't even eat the Beef Flavor Rice-a-Roni. :-) Sun Jan 13 08:17:29 -0800 2008 3288969 11729 kivarita 2 3338998 My stepmom introduced me to one of her favorite sandwiches when I was a kid... cream cheese & maraschino cherry, usually on oatmeal bread. I was used to regular ol' pb&j, so cream cheese & cherry seemed fancy to me at the time! Sun Jan 27 18:09:30 -0800 2008 1530944 161191 MlleYeuxBleus 3 4669251 A friend used to make a loaf cake with maraschino cherries and nuts. Wish I could find a recipe for it. Sat May 09 14:40:30 -0700 2009 3338998 213547 cathodetube 4 4909698 cathode, this one doesn't have nuts, but they'd be easy enough to add: Little Cherry Pound Cakes 1 (10-ounce) jar maraschino cherries 3/4 cup butter 3/4 cup shortening 3 cups sugar 6 large eggs 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Cherry Glaze Garnish: maraschino cherry halves Drain jar of cherries, discarding juice. Chop cherries, and set aside. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating 1 minute. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended. Stir in flavorings and 1/2 cup chopped cherries. Spoon batter into 7 greased and floured 5 3/4'' x 3" mini loaf pans. ( Recommend greasing your pans with shortening for best results.) Bake at 300 degrees for 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out almost clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove cakes from pans, and place on wire racks set over wax paper. Drizzle Cherry Glaze over slightly warm cakes. Garnish, if desired. Refrigerate cakes to let glaze harden. Yields: 7 mini pound cakes. Cherry Glaze 1/4 cup butter, softened 1 ( 3-ounce ) package cream cheese, softened 2 cups powdered sugar 3 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 cup cherries Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar and milk; beat until smooth. Stir in vanilla and cherries. Yield: About 2 cups. Sat Aug 01 17:44:52 -0700 2009 4669251 1098451 judyjudyjudyd 5 5116476 Thanks for the recipe! Tue Oct 20 02:59:07 -0700 2009 4909698 213547 cathodetube 1 1530949 My family had a thing for sweet with salty. That's not so unusual, except for some of our regular combinations: Pot pie made with leftover roast beef and potatoes, with a piecrust top, eaten with sorghum syrup over the top. Waffles for supper with ground pork sausage and honey (I still love this one). Another use for leftover roast beef: Hash, made with the beef and potatoes and cooked in a light broth (not fried) and served over white bread --Wonder bread, of course -- with sugar sprinkled over the top! I can taste this in my mind and it still tastes fine, but I wouldn't dream of making it. Other typical supper entrees (we didn't eat "dinner" at night in Arkansas) might include pineapple or apricot fried pies served with cold lunch meat, or strawberry shortcake -- the biscuit kind -- with cold cuts alongside. One of my favorite afternoon snacks was cold fried chicken with chocolate cake. Or ice cream with potato chips. Sat Jun 10 10:42:34 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Sarah C 2 1530950 Forgot perhaps my mother's strangest concoction: Wild garlic grew in our yard, so when my father grilled steaks she would make "garlic bread" to go with it. To do this, she would smash up the green garlic cloves, spread them along with margarine on slices of the aforementioned Wonder bread, wrap this in foil and heat in the oven. To eat, we spread jelly over the top. Sat Jun 10 10:45:50 -0700 2006 1530949 0 Sarah C 2 1755668 Sarah, are we related? We had the roast beef and potato pot pie with sorghum, too! My mom always snuck peas in it, though. Also did pancakes with pork sausage patties and sorghum for dinner, sometimes with ice cream on it. (Dad called it the "supper express train," since dessert came with dinner.) Thu Jul 20 04:34:21 -0700 2006 1530949 16301 Non Cognomina 1 1530962 for all my early years, our family traveled to the coast for every Sunday to the beach, where we all spent the day playing in the sand & surf while my dad fished. We were all deliciously tired at the end of the day after the drive home, so Mom would do her quick, go-to meal: tuna mixed with cream of mushroom soup, heated and served over white Langendof toast, topped with heated frozen peas. Sweet and salty, creamy and crunchy! The fish went onto the freezer or we had it for dinner on Monday. The cat got the leftover bait! (He loved Sunday!) Sat Jun 10 11:39:01 -0700 2006 1530905 0 toodie jane 1 1530980 Maybe not too weird at the time. My favorite dish as a kid was sloppy joes made with ground beef and tomato soup from the can served on hamburger buns. Sat Jun 10 13:04:04 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Marie 1 1530981 "Cracker Mush" (pronounced moosh) :A snack or meal, but doesn't require a recipe. Take as many Nabisco regular, not honey, graham crackers as you'd like. Break into pieces in cereal bowl. Pour milk over. Eat as breakfast, lunch, supper, snack, when you're sick or sad...comfort and love in a bowl. Only known in our family... Sat Jun 10 13:07:39 -0700 2006 1530905 0 berkleybabe 2 1530990 I used to do that for breakfast when I was in high school instead of cereal. I did not have a name for it but it was what I ate most mornings. Sat Jun 10 14:08:43 -0700 2006 1530981 0 Candy 2 1531015 Actually known in our family as "sideboards" because the grahams were arranged on the bottom and up the sides of a bowl before the milk was poured in. This was a breakfast food in our house. Sat Jun 10 15:52:24 -0700 2006 1530981 0 Fennelhead 2 1531016 my family did this all the time. I still have a bowl once in a while....takes me back. Great combo of crunchy and mushy. Sat Jun 10 15:56:08 -0700 2006 1530981 0 janedoe67 2 1531055 We still eat "graham cracker cereal" in our house...my kids love it. When they were little (they are now teens), they loved to break up the crackers in the milk with a spoon and make a huge mess. :) Sat Jun 10 19:43:20 -0700 2006 1530981 0 wyf4lyf 2 1531060 My dad does that with arrowroot crackers, though he actually mixes them with Corn Flakes. It's what I crave when I'm sick. Sat Jun 10 20:12:43 -0700 2006 1530981 0 piccola 2 1531070 Haha! this was my comfort food when I had my wisdom teeth extracted and couldn't chew! I've been a graham cracker milk-dunker all my life. Still my snack of choice when I come home from work exhausted. Sat Jun 10 21:47:03 -0700 2006 1530981 0 toodie jane 2 1531141 My grandfather did this dating back to when he was a kid (he'd be well over 100 now). He also liked it with regular crackers - blech! Sun Jun 11 11:53:38 -0700 2006 1530981 0 krissywats 3 1748510 This was my grandfather's evening snack-- saltines broken up in a bowl, with milk over it. Eaten with a spoon. I used to love it, when we were visiting grandparents. He'd be about 106 now-- sounds like they were about the same generation. Mon Jul 17 04:05:10 -0700 2006 1531141 14063 Anne H 4 3285576 My grandfather does this with saltines and buttermilk. Fri Jan 11 11:37:19 -0800 2008 1748510 147969 kmills9408 5 4997715 As a kid I remember white bread torn into cold buttermilk on a hot summer day. Tue Sep 01 19:36:05 -0700 2009 3285576 1105703 Grillmeister 2 1868940 I thought we were the only family who had what we called "graham crackers and milk". I still crave it and have it at least monthly. Anybody else notice that graham crackers have changed in look and taste though? In like the last year? Mon Sep 11 19:03:09 -0700 2006 1530981 25921 uman 2 4952801 We had that a lot when I was little...loved it! Also had just plain soft white bread broken up and served with milk and sugar. Mon Aug 17 09:06:06 -0700 2009 1530981 1102312 maydaycolorado 1 1530984 OMG! That is my family's sloppy joe recipe. LOL I'm sure it was on a can at some point, but you're the only other person I've ever know to make it with the gumbo. Dh loves it and sometimes instead of serving it on rolls I mix white rice in it for, you guessed it, sloppy rice. Enjoy! Chris Sat Jun 10 13:31:14 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Chris 2 2534769 ok - I know this is a late reply, but I've just seen this thread. This is exactly how my mom (and I) make Sloppy Joes, but without the mustard. And I thought we were the only ones who knew the secret of Chicken Gumbo Soup in sloppy joes. I like to eat it like a dip on potato chips. Wed May 02 11:07:58 -0700 2007 1530984 71240 jvozoff 1 1530992 Grape jelly omelets. A simple egg omelet was filled and folded with Smucker's grape jelly. Wherever the egg made contact with the jelly would turn an unatural blue-green hue. There is NO way my kids would touch this dish and I'm not sure I would even enjoy this concoction any longer. My mom,in her way, must have been thinking "crepe". Sat Jun 10 14:12:22 -0700 2006 1530905 0 chittachef 2 1530996 My dad used to make that for me when I was a kid. I loved it and thought he was the best cook ever. (This was not a big compilement considering my poor mother's culinary ineptitude.) I remember asking if we were part gourmet, like part russian, part polish, part gourmet. Hah! Sat Jun 10 14:17:53 -0700 2006 1530992 0 shameless 2 1531004 My mom used to make me a puffy omelette which had beaten egg whites folded into the yolk. I'd spread jelly on that... it was good!!! Sat Jun 10 14:48:29 -0700 2006 1530992 0 wendy8869 2 1531012 Oh my gosh, I'd totally forgotten about this! My mom used to make me jelly omelets with grape jelly, too! Sat Jun 10 15:24:14 -0700 2006 1530992 0 wyf4lyf 2 1531059 I can see how that would work - after all, people (by which I mean everyone who's ever gone to the sugar shack) pour maple syrup on eggs... Sat Jun 10 20:09:05 -0700 2006 1530992 0 piccola 2 1750528 I've eaten many a wonderful jam omelet in France over the years; it's not considered strange there. Tue Jul 18 01:53:06 -0700 2006 1530992 11995 pikawicca 1 1531002 From the "I won't eat that anymore" files: "Macaroni mess", a.k.a American chop suey: brown raw macaroni in oil, add ground beef, S&P, and a can of tomato sauce. Simmer until the macaroni isn't crunchy anymore. Hot dog soup: leftover boiled hot dogs cut into chunks and simmered in store-brand vegetarian vegetable soup. I would eat the soup, my sister would eat the hot dogs. From the "I still crave this" files: Butter-sugar bread. Take white bread. Spread butter on it. Top with white sugar. Watch your glucose count skyrocket. Pickle "roll-ups": Take deli ham and spread whipped cream cheese on it. Insert dill pickle spears (patted dry). Roll. Slice. Peas and eggs fried with garlic, olive oil and onions. "Pizza Jen" -- country ham and dried beef layered with various kinds of cheese and baked Sat Jun 10 14:46:30 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Das Ubergeek 2 1531010 We used to mix cinnamon and sugar and put it on toasted buttered bread, that was so delicious! Sat Jun 10 15:12:35 -0700 2006 1531002 0 coll 3 1531013 Yes...we always called it "cinnamon toast" and I still crave it when I'm not feeling well. Sat Jun 10 15:25:39 -0700 2006 1531010 0 wyf4lyf 4 1531341 My mother would soften the butter just slightly and mash in the sugar and cinnamon until it made a paste. Spread paste on bread and put under the broiler until it bubbles and makes a delicious, crunchy, bubbly crust. I had no idea other people just buttered their toast and added cin/sugar until a high school friend was over one day and I made cin toast. Mamma's version is so superior it's almost a different dish (IMHO). Mon Jun 12 16:37:21 -0700 2006 1531013 0 danna 5 4526421 this was a special weekend treat for us, cinnamon toast is the best, and it has to be broiled with lots of butter.... Sat Mar 21 19:47:16 -0700 2009 1531341 264146 kubasd 4 2950543 We did that too! My grown up version is butter, cinnamon, and sugar on an egg bagel, for a french toast flavor. I don't use the cinnamon-sugar that comes mixed together. I put a big dose of plain cinnamon first, then top with sugar so it crusts over in the toaster oven. Mon Sep 17 18:15:54 -0700 2007 1531013 81820 starbucksbrew 4 5078441 We still love cinnamon toast! Have you ever had egg in a basket? My husband's dad used to make Eggs in A Basket for the kids when they were young. This is an easy way for your grandchildren to eat eggs and a good thing for beginner cooks to make. 1 slice of bread – you can experiment with different kinds of bread: white, whole wheat, sour dough, texas toast, etc. 1 egg Butter for the bread and pan Salt, pepper, nutmeg (optional) Butter your bread on both sides. Using a small juice glass or biscuit cutter, cut a circle out of the center of your bread. Heat your pan with a small amount of butter and place your buttered and cut bread in the pan. Break an egg into the center. Season with salt, fresh ground black pepper, and a touch of grated nutmeg (optional). You could even add a little grated cheddar cheese. You decide if you want the yellow to be cooked or not. Once the white part begins to cook, flip and cook the other side. Sun Oct 04 13:19:27 -0700 2009 1531013 269225 pattiadleybryan 3 1531030 Still do! There used to be a brand of mixed cinnamon/sugar, sold in the spices area of supermarkets; it was in a container shaped like a bear (no, I don't know why). It disappeared a few years ago, so now I mix my own and keep it in an old spice jar for easy sprinklin'! Sat Jun 10 17:06:56 -0700 2006 1531010 0 MommaJ 4 1531031 Yeah, but this had no cinnamon :) Sat Jun 10 17:07:37 -0700 2006 1531030 0 Das Ubergeek 4 1531045 No they are still sold on the Boston area. I have one in my cupboard. My 26 year old neice is a frequent visitor, and she loves the stuff- on toast and in applesauce. We keep this, along with Nutella, in the cupboard for her visits!! Sat Jun 10 19:11:37 -0700 2006 1531030 0 macca 3 1531039 This can't possibly be unusual can it? My kids regularly ask for cinnamon toast for breakfast. I even learned how to make it in home ec some 30 years ago. Sat Jun 10 18:22:52 -0700 2006 1531010 0 D.Gresh 4 1531066 Yes, except it contains no cinnamon. I didn't like cinnamon as a kid (but now I love it). Sat Jun 10 21:16:16 -0700 2006 1531039 0 Das Ubergeek 3 1531121 My mother made that for me when I was small. But there was a disaster once. We were visiting my grandparents on the farm in Iowa, and my mother found what she thought was brown sugar in the cupboard, and made this for me. I took a bite and burst into tears. Turns out it was brown salt. I've never heard of brown salt otherwise, but assume it was used for pickling or canning. Sun Jun 11 09:54:59 -0700 2006 1531010 0 Sarah C 2 1748813 Try cinnamon sugar on buttered graham crackers- now THAT is yummy!!! Mon Jul 17 13:40:47 -0700 2006 1531002 14083 cooknKate 2 4838193 We did the toast too, but with cinnamon in addition to the sugar. (Still yummy!) And I also still roll pickles up in lunch meat, but not with the cream cheese. Tue Jul 07 19:43:39 -0700 2009 1531002 1091147 almond3xtract 3 4896463 We had a "fancy" family appetizer recipe that called for the "Buddig" type chopped lunch meat, specifically pastrami, spread with a stripe of cream cheese, put a slice of bell pepper and a green onion on the cream cheese, salt lightly then roll up and slice on the (gasp ooh fancy) diagonal and arrange on platter, and suddenly you're a genius chef. I know, pretty lame, but actually fairly tasty if memory serves. Tue Jul 28 06:39:10 -0700 2009 4838193 1092553 aggiecat 4 4896674 i've had that done with roast beef, wrapped around a green onion with cream cheese. it was pretty good. Tue Jul 28 07:53:15 -0700 2009 4896463 105717 alkapal 5 5036006 yes, we did this too! It was our special New Year's Eve appetizer when my sisters and I would throw a party for the family. Fun memories! Wed Sep 16 22:12:08 -0700 2009 4896674 245973 egging 1 1531006 My mother was not known for her cooking (unlike HER mother, alas..) but she did make one dish I liked (and I'm sure she made it up for the combination of inexpensive and healthy....). She took broccoli and steamed it, then put sliced hardboiled eggs on top, covered it with cheese (Like the American sliced type) and put it in the oven until the cheese melted. I love broccoli so I liked it. The other thing she used to do is cook rice and serve it with honey for breakfast. The only other person I know who ever ate that was my husband, who ate it when he was growing up in India. He shares my love of it. Sat Jun 10 14:54:55 -0700 2006 1530905 0 janet of reno 2 1531014 This is such a fun topic. My best friend's Mom used to have popcorn with milk for breakfast or a snack. I remember she said she grew up eating that as they couldn't afford packaged cereal. I've never seen or heard of anyone else doing this. Sat Jun 10 15:27:16 -0700 2006 1531006 0 wyf4lyf 3 1531125 My grand father always had popcorn with milk saying it was his fav with his older brothers' post civil war Southern upbringing Sun Jun 11 10:30:06 -0700 2006 1531014 0 SarahT 4 1754740 Wait a minute, you mean pour the popcorn in a bowl and pour milk over it and eat it with a spoon? Hmm, I've done cereal with water when I'm out of milk . . . Wed Jul 19 21:20:05 -0700 2006 1531125 17102 missykins 5 2068416 other people have done this. i remember reading about it in the little house on the prairie books. i think it was in farmer boy. Mon Dec 04 17:07:52 -0800 2006 1754740 10246 choctastic 6 3709332 Ha ha! As soon as I started reading the popcorn and milk bit, I thought of Farmer Boy too :) Wed May 21 13:57:24 -0700 2008 2068416 123660 eastcoastgirl_westcoastlife 4 2090195 My great-grandfather and grandfather did this but with buttermilk. They also liked cornbread or saltines and buttermilk. (Poured in a glass and eaten with a spoon.) Mon Dec 11 21:44:05 -0800 2006 1531125 20991 shanagain 5 3283584 I remembered reading that this was an early american breakfast when I was a kid and tried it a few times when I was little. One tip: make sure your popcorn isn't salted before you pour the milk on! Thu Jan 10 19:47:51 -0800 2008 2090195 87292 polyhymnia 3 2950613 Alton Brown mentioned that popcorn and milk recipe on a Popcorn episode of Good Eats. Mon Sep 17 18:36:33 -0700 2007 1531014 119816 MysticYoYo 2 1531037 We used to get leftover rice, cold, the next morning with milk and sugar. I loved it. I still eat it occaisionally. It makes my husband gag. Sat Jun 10 18:11:31 -0700 2006 1531006 0 ratbin 3 1531630 We had it the same way, though with a sprinkling of cinnamon as well. At that time (as now) I was not particularly fond of either cold rice or cinnamon, and so I never regarded it as quite the treat my mom thought it was, though I ate it dutifully. Wed Jun 14 00:59:36 -0700 2006 1531037 0 Will Owen 4 2587585 In our farmhouse, hot rice with milk and cinnamon was one of the wintertime "Hot mush" rotations. Others were oatmeal (of course!), corn meal mush, cream of wheat, and probably several others which don't leap to mind right now. Sometimes raisins or chopped dates or figs were added. We had a choice of sugar, brown sugar or honey to top it off. The hired hands seemed to like anything that was put in front of them. Mon May 21 03:50:16 -0700 2007 1531630 13619 Sharuf 3 3285594 I LOVE this! My mom used to make it for me when I was little. I think I like ordering chinese more for the left over rice in the morning than the actual dinner... Fri Jan 11 11:41:48 -0800 2008 1531037 147969 kmills9408 2 1531086 I still eat the rice with honey (warmed with bit of milk) when I have left over rice....and while I am not sure the brocolli thing was really that good for you (lots of cheese!), it was quite tasty! Sat Jun 10 23:03:27 -0700 2006 1531006 0 susancinsf 1 1531017 On Christmas morning, we always eat pancakes with turkey giblet gravy. Family tradition. I've yet to meet a non Bouche family member who has tried this. It's delicious. I also grew up on what's referred to in my house as "Daddy's special hamburger" -- a relic from my dad's bachelor days. Crumbled ground beef browned and mixed with quantities of cheddar cheese and worcestershire sauce. We also used to eat peanut butter sandwiches on romaine leaves instead of bread, but that's become more popular with the low carb craze. Sat Jun 10 15:56:12 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Amuse Bouche 2 4744852 I am late to this topic...but couldn't resist replying. Our family, Pennsylvania Dutch from Central PA...always made turkey gravy and waffles in the days following Thanksgiving, to use up the leftover turkey. I still make it today. Of course, having lived in a lot of different states in the last 30 years. I have had explaining to do. Fri Jun 05 07:40:59 -0700 2009 1531017 35992 vacationmomma 1 1531026 My father used to make jelly omlettes as previously mentioned. My mother-in-law used to make spaghetti and mix it with butter and ketchup. I called it "poor man's spaghetti". but the gradchildren always asked for it along with my husband. My aunt used to make tuna fish with hard boiled eggs chopped in it and mixed with mayo. Sat Jun 10 16:33:14 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Eileen 2 2950801 some people don't eat their tuna with diced eggs and mayo??? Mon Sep 17 19:36:25 -0700 2007 1531026 75006 amy_rc 3 2950816 i make tuna salad without eggs but i do use mayo. Mon Sep 17 19:41:49 -0700 2007 2950801 92286 vttp926 2 4764409 We had "poor man's lobster" which was whatever white fish was available (we lived in AK) boiled and dipped in butter it ketchup. Thu Jun 11 14:26:49 -0700 2009 1531026 257090 thegirlwholovestoeat 3 4797945 Still eat that today tho tendency is to skip the ketchup and boiling is frequently done in wine. And then theres the trimmings from whatever salmon you're filleting, poach in water/wine, drain,flake and mix in butter and salt and pepper. Serve with crackers or just a fork. Tue Jun 23 08:45:05 -0700 2009 4764409 59853 AlaskaChick 1 1531035 My mother apparently had a thing for dill pickles because she would make us cream cheese and sliced dill pickle sandwiches for our lunch box all the time. She also made a rather tasty flank steak (back when it was cheap) rolled around dill pickle spears, doused with Heinz chili sauce flavored with lots of Worcestershire sauce and baked. Also made a drink I have never seen anywhere -- mixed Welch's grape juice and pink lemonade. That one is worth knowing (don't use yellow lemonade or it will be a horrible color!). Sat Jun 10 17:31:05 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Terrie H. 2 1851220 My mom made "purple gurple" — equal parts Welch's grape juice and frozen limeade. It was pretty good. Sun Sep 03 03:00:08 -0700 2006 1531035 23942 SundanceKC 1 1531041 Molasses and milk. Sat Jun 10 18:33:56 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Mr. F. 1 1531042 My husband's family relishes a dish called "Ham Barbeque" which is chip-chop ham sliced into long strips and heated with bottled barbeque sauce. Then it gets spooned onto hamburger buns (white). Ick! They also have something called Macaronioa (I don't really know how it's spelled and neither does anyone else.) which is canned tuna made into a sauce with oil, garlic and water served over pasta. It's actually pretty good especially when you add steamed broccoli and black olives. It's the only thing my husband can really cook. We used to get olive loaf and Miracle Whip sandwiches on Wonder Bread at my grandmother's. The thought of those causes my husband to react the way I do to the Ham Barbeque. Sat Jun 10 18:47:42 -0700 2006 1530905 0 ratbin 1 1531046 This is the best bedtime snack. My mom made, and then I started making these. They're kind of in the smores family. Spread Ritz crackers with Cheez Whiz. Put a marshmallow on top. Broil on about the middle rack until the marshmallow is toasty. Pop the whole thing in your mouth. My kids love them today (50 years later). Sat Jun 10 19:11:56 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Yongeman 1 1531048 French toast. Made the usual way. But with homemade chili sauce instead of sweet syrupy or fruit topping. Now I have it with bottled salsa. Makes my kids want to hurl, but that's how I like it. We'd have it with ketchup if we'd run out of Mom's chili sauce. Sat Jun 10 19:17:40 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Yongeman 1 1531069 Rice crackers slathered with marmite. This was before sodium was invented ;) p.s. Best topic ever!!! Sat Jun 10 21:40:28 -0700 2006 1530905 0 tuqueboy 1 1531071 For a snack, we would have bread and butter with sour garlic pickles. My father doesn't like dairy, so he would just wrap the pickle, or sometimes a banana but never the pickle and banana at the same time, in the bread and salt it. Sat Jun 10 21:54:07 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Missyme 1 1531077 I have just thought of one that I haven't had for years. I am not sure if I could eat it now. White bread, covered with brown sugar and milk. A second one which I do make when feeling stressed. Brown hamburger meat and season with salt and pepper and maybe worchestshire sauce and ketchup. Add chopped onions and brown. Add water to make it into kind of a sauce and then thicken with some flour. Serve over mashed potatoes. We call this Gruel and it always makes one feel better. Sat Jun 10 22:11:44 -0700 2006 1530905 0 BJ 2 1755342 The gruel you mention is similar to my family's "spaghetti and meat" (my husband loves that name). You just add a can of spaghetti to your description and serve over mashed potatoes. It sounds terrible, and my husband doesn't get it at all, but I still sometimes crave that when I'm under the weather. Thu Jul 20 01:24:46 -0700 2006 1531077 10781 mayjay 2 2607998 In our house it's Hamburger Gravy, a relic of my husband's parochial school days. Used to be made with the grease from the burger, and flour, we use canned (lower sodium) cream of mushroom. It's actually comforting and delicious, esp. in winter. I gave a co-worker the recipe and she almost wept--she went to the same grade school and had been searching for years for the recipe. Mon May 28 11:23:17 -0700 2007 1531077 10844 berkleybabe 3 2621207 Just made this a couple nights ago, and used homemade chicken stock instead of canned soup, using a flour-stock mixture to thicken, then gradually adding milk to thin out and add some milk-fat to it. Added a couple dashes of poultry seasoning, lo-salt beef bouillion and black pepper to tart it up. Comfort food! Hamburger and gravy is a dish that lots of military men have learned and passed on. Our dish I don't remember any other family making was a chop suey recipe, served with the canned crunchy noodles and Minute rice. Ixnay on the last two items these days, but the chop suey itself holds up quite well - quite soy saucy, caramelly flavored, with hearty complexity with the beef and pork cubes' flavors mingling. Fri Jun 01 12:36:32 -0700 2007 2607998 52113 Seldomsated 3 2951014 My Mom would make, at different times, hamburger gravy, bacon gravy and last but not least, tuna gravy. These were all served over crumbled toast. Mon Sep 17 21:03:13 -0700 2007 2607998 126101 Antilope 4 3230917 We had hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes, and I loved it! Sat Dec 22 11:07:10 -0800 2007 2951014 50431 chef chicklet 5 3277759 This brought to mind a lunch my mother made for me when I was in grade school. Penny Gravy. She sliced up a hot dog into thin slices and browned it a bit of butter.Then added flour and mild to it to make the gravy. She served it over toast. Some times she made the creamed tuna over toast too. I'm still not much on hot tuna! Wed Jan 09 11:25:59 -0800 2008 3230917 156002 btrswttx00 1 1531078 Grilled jelly sandwiches! Yummers! Just buttered white bread and Welch's grape jelly and grilled like grilled cheese sandwich. I haven't thought about those in a long time. Sat Jun 10 22:12:52 -0700 2006 1530905 0 meagan 2 1531123 add some softened cream cheese on the other slice of bread before grillling ---- that's really yummers ! Sun Jun 11 10:05:10 -0700 2006 1531078 0 yenni 2 1531132 I used to take English muffins and grape jelly and toast them until the jelly bubbled and melted into the muffins. It was tooth achingly sweet... until one day when I was in 7th grade the muffins caught on fire and burned up the kitchen and part of the house. We then ate at restaurants for the next few months while the kitchen and house was rebuilt. I never ate them again. Sun Jun 11 10:44:26 -0700 2006 1531078 0 biltong 1 1531080 I have another one for ya -- and this is from the other side of my family -- fried bologna sandwiches. Not as scary as it sounds. Take 2-3 slices of bologna (Oscar Meyer, of course) -- score it in three places so it'll stay flat while cooking. "Fry" it in a non-stick skillet and serve on white hamburger buns. Why hamburger buns? I dunno - but it was always way tastier than just white bread. Sat Jun 10 22:20:21 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Kivarita 2 1531084 You can get fried bologna sandwiches (or bologna burgers) at lots of restaurants in the South. I have eaten them all my life. Sat Jun 10 22:57:07 -0700 2006 1531080 0 kim shook 2 1531105 My dad used to make fried bologna sandwiches all the time. And in parts of Ohio they actually have them on the menu in some restaurants!! Sun Jun 11 06:20:38 -0700 2006 1531080 0 macca 2 1531135 The only way I would eat bologna as a kid. Sun Jun 11 11:19:44 -0700 2006 1531080 0 krissywats 3 4730689 the only way I will eat it NOW! Sun May 31 15:46:15 -0700 2009 1531135 157661 hollyd 2 1531156 Fried bologna and fried salami sandwiches were staples of my childhood. Converted my husband to same 35 years ago. Sun Jun 11 15:12:44 -0700 2006 1531080 0 Deenso 3 1748814 I loved fried salami sandwiched as a kid, my mother would get mad because she said it stunk up the house Mon Jul 17 13:43:04 -0700 2006 1531156 14083 cooknKate 2 1531629 In some diners in the South, fried bologna is offered as a breakfast meat. The fried bologna and eggs at the Hermitage Café in Nashville is, well, breakfast all right... Wed Jun 14 00:54:37 -0700 2006 1531080 0 Will Owen 3 3277825 We had fried bologna sandwiches too! The other way mom would make it was to flour and fry the bologna. Place the slices on a cookie sheet. Top this with mashed potatoes. Make a hole in the mound of potatoes and fill with lots of shredded cheese! Bake this for a few minutes till the cheese is all melted! This is soooo good! She did the same thing with split and fried hot dogs! So delish! I have since then made a easier prettier version where I just mound the mashed potatoes in a butter sprayed cassarole. Top with french sliced hot dogs and top all this with chedder cheese. Baked till hot and bubbly. Tastes great! Looks great! My uncle made another really good thing with bologna. He bought a big unsliced chunk from the deli. This was usually when he was grilling something else outside. He would chunk it up in to about 1 1/2 in size pieces and lay it on the grill. He let the pieces get pretty dark. I call it charred! It was so good! He used it like an appetizer before the main grilled dish! Wed Jan 09 11:41:14 -0800 2008 1531629 156002 btrswttx00 4 4737851 My co-worker at school here in West Texas invited all the teachers and staff to a barbecue he was having out at the lake. He's hispanic, and the invitation said he'd supply hotdogs and Mexican Steak. I had to ask him, and he told me Mexican Steak was thick sliced boloney. He laughed and laughed when I said, "You put it right on the grill? That sounds good!" I love fried boloney, but grilled boloney is even better. Tue Jun 02 21:47:28 -0700 2009 3277825 203880 pplachno 5 4738063 this reminds me: sometimes my dad would call hot dogs "tube steaks". lol. Wed Jun 03 03:18:12 -0700 2009 4737851 105717 alkapal 6 4745455 Mine too. I always thought it was WWII soldier lingo. Also called doughnuts "sinkers". (Today is National Donut Day, after all...) Fri Jun 05 10:16:54 -0700 2009 4738063 13709 buttertart 7 4746788 ok, that would explain it, as my dad was a wwII vet, as well. Fri Jun 05 16:21:27 -0700 2009 4745455 105717 alkapal 8 4747921 SOS (you know what that is) is definitely soldier lingo, my husband ate it in the Vietnam era. Funny he never requests it now, just mentions it .... ;+} Sat Jun 06 07:53:38 -0700 2009 4746788 11097 coll 9 4747931 i never heard that term until i got here on chowhound. my aunt billie used to make creamed chip beef on toast, and i thought it was grand! i still will make it every now and then. she also made me "special" scrambled egg sandwiches, on soft, crustless white bread, with mayo and then cut into 9 squares. Sat Jun 06 07:56:36 -0700 2009 4747921 105717 alkapal 10 4747987 I think his mother used to make it too, but not one of his favorites. He probably should request it though, he's getting more into softer foods as time goes on. I have to cut his lunch sandwiches into 8 pieces now so he can chew them! Sat Jun 06 08:23:28 -0700 2009 4747931 11097 coll 11 4860561 Soft scrambled eggs with cream cheese mixed in, so good. I also love Fritos (or pretzels) dipped in cream cheese. Wed Jul 15 08:19:33 -0700 2009 4747987 208878 mrschef1 12 4863251 the eggs with cream cheese is also good with smoked salmon slices folded in. Thu Jul 16 04:43:04 -0700 2009 4860561 105717 alkapal 3 4771211 We grew up eating fried pepperoni slices with lettuce, tomato, mayo on white bread, kind of a PLT instead of a BLT. A little bit spicier and those pepperoni slices leach a lot of fat and get crispy real quick. My dad used to make a big bowl of hot toasted bread, topped with scalded hot milk with a chunk of butter and lots of salt and pepper. This was his hangover cure and I remember sitting on his lap as a toddler and eating a bowl along with him. It is one of my most cherished memories. I love "milk toast" Sun Jun 14 06:09:22 -0700 2009 1531629 1083157 notyourmomma 1 1531095 The first recipe I invented and gave a name to was Chocolate Squink: Vigorously stir a (large) bowl of Breyer's Chocolate ice cream until it is the consistency of soft-serve. Top with three sheets (four rectangles each) of crumbled Honey Maid graham crackers. Stir. Spray Redi-Wip on top. Top with a cherry. Eat while watching "The Partridge Family" on a Friday night when your parents are out. Sun Jun 11 00:27:07 -0700 2006 1530905 0 heidipie 2 5142848 I used to beat the chocolate Breyer's ice cream to get the air out before eating.Made it taste so much better.Kinda like a pre chocolate Haagen- Dazs flavor. Fri Oct 30 08:50:12 -0700 2009 1531095 151032 casalbore spirit 1 1531097 My mom got a recipe from my dad's mom for bean soup. I was actually planning on making it next week (my comfort food). It's just great northern beans, cooked in just enough water (sometimes with a ham bone or ham hocks) until done and then add milk until its nice and creamy. At the table, serve with a big bowl of chopped dill pickles and pickle juice to add to taste (as well as a few slices of cornbread). The pickles really make the meal. Yum! Sun Jun 11 01:13:39 -0700 2006 1530905 0 wendy8869 1 1531106 I grew up on 'johnny mazzetti' and have never heard of it made outside the Canal Zone. Sun Jun 11 06:22:07 -0700 2006 1530905 0 gatun 2 1531227 My mom used to make a casserole called Johnny Marzetti which had ground beef, macaroni shells, onions, grated cheddar cheese, tomato sauce, canned mushrooms and some red wine. Is yours the same? This was in Los Angeles in the 1970's. Mon Jun 12 01:22:10 -0700 2006 1531106 0 Debbie W. 3 1531231 Yep, thats the one, The canal zone one was altered to have green olives in it, a tomato sauce called Arturo sauce and butter noodles Mon Jun 12 01:45:52 -0700 2006 1531227 0 gatun 4 2096404 It's from the I Hate To Cook Book. At least, there's a recipe with that name in it. I'm not sure which chapter. Wed Dec 13 17:49:52 -0800 2006 1531231 11308 lissar 5 4952840 I have that same cookbook! It's so old and worn, but I love it! Mon Aug 17 09:18:46 -0700 2009 2096404 1102312 maydaycolorado 1 1531107 My grandmother used to make coffee jello. She would serve it to us with milk and sugar. We loved it. Sun Jun 11 06:24:14 -0700 2006 1530905 0 macca 1 1531112 Quite a few similarities...I guess we all come from some form of quirky families. Here's mine... cottage roll( a form of sweet pickled pork shoulder) hash made with cubes of the leftover meat, carrots, onion and cabbage.White bread spread with butter and bittersweet chocolate sprinkles.Mashed potatoes mixed together with mashed rutabaga(turnip). Liver with fried onions and a can of stewed tomatoes(oddly delicious)and served with the above mash.At Holiday turkey time, a toasted hamburger bun(white of course...how often is this popping up on this thread...so much for nutrition)topped with shreds of turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing and gravy and popped under the broiler to heat through.Rice krispie squares made with marshmallow and peanut butter and topped with melted chocolate chips.Stuffed beef heart and one time(only one time thank God) a cow's tongue with a mustard sauce...EEEWWWW( I was 8 at the time, it doesn't seem quite as disgusting now...) Sun Jun 11 08:25:25 -0700 2006 1530905 0 mailgirl 1 1531116 In my Korean-American family, my sister loved these -- sticky sushi rice, wedge of Vlassic cucumber pickle with extra garlic wrapped up in a slice of Boar's Head bologna. Sun Jun 11 09:17:12 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Miss Needle 2 1531118 japanese-american here.. on a similar note...rice and lettuce and mayo wrapped in nori(seaweed wrap dor sushi) yum try it! Sun Jun 11 09:30:12 -0700 2006 1531116 0 yum 1 1531122 An easy dessert that I had many times while growing up. Not sure if it was my Mothers idea or mine. Sliced bananas, brown sugar and a covering of milk. Sun Jun 11 10:04:54 -0700 2006 1530905 0 BJ 1 1531131 My English mother couldn't and still can't cook a tasty dish if her life depended on it. Her idea of cooking is Heinz Vegetarian beans on buttered toast. (Which I still eat every few months when I get a craving.) I started cooking when I was around 8-9 and took over the family cooking at around age 12 as a self defense measure. When I was around 10 I came up with a recipe that turned into a family dish. I would fry up chop meat and onions with soy sauce. Then add sour cream and Tobasco sauce and cook until it was thick and creamy. I then would take iceberg lettuce leaves and wrap a tablespoon of the meat sauce in a leaf and eat. I have varied the recipe a bit over the years adding ginger, toasted sesame oil and using chili garlic paste instead of Tobasco, but otherwise it is very much the same and I make it several times a year. I was in my late teens when I first had meat wrapped in lettuce leaves at a Korean restaurant (Kalbi and Bulgogi) and realized that I had created a fusion version of it. Sun Jun 11 10:40:44 -0700 2006 1530905 0 JMF 2 3277857 I love cold Pork and Beans on not buttered toast with a good sprinkle of salt and pepper! Wed Jan 09 11:49:27 -0800 2008 1531131 156002 btrswttx00 1 1531137 Five I've never seen anyone else make. All with names: Chinese Hamburger, Chinese meatballs, Sunday Roast, Chili Size, Peach cobbler Chinese Hamburger consisted of cooked hamburger, soy sauce, cream of mushroom soup, onion, instant rice placed in our corning wear bowl with the light blue pattern and baked with La Choy Chow Mein noodles on top. Chinese Meatballs were hamburger rolled into balls, soaked in soy sauce, rolled in flour and fried (SO GOOD!!!), served with cooked carrots and ramen noodles. Every Sunday of my life I'd come home to a roast that was cooking: it was always the 3 inch thick flat variety with a bone in it that my mom had covered with Lipton's onion soup and a can of cream of mushroom and one of cream of chicken. Cover with foil and cook for several hours while at church. It makes it's own amazingly good gravy. Serve with instant mashed potatoes and canned green beans (my mother had a special way of cooking those, too: put the green beans and liquid in a pan and boil until all the liquid is gone - add butter....I made this for friends in college and they all couldn't believe how good canned greenbeans could be...hahahaha) Chili Size: Open-faced hamburger (white toasted/seared bun!) covered with chili, cheese and onion, eaten with knife and fork. My mother SWEARS that this was a common food in the Lompoc area of CA when we lived there and that the Mexican population called it 'Chili Size'. I've tried to find out where she got this and what it's actually called, but to no avail. My husband laughed the first time I recommended we have 'Chili Size' for dinner - I really thought everyone knew! Peach cobbler: white cake mix, prepared as recommended on the package, largest can of peaches in heavy syrup. pour cake mix into pan, cover with peaches and syrup. I've made this as an adult. Super yummy. I can't think of one chicken recipe - we always ate beef...amazing my cholesterol is so good. Sun Jun 11 11:36:14 -0700 2006 1530905 0 krissywats 2 1531206 "Chili Size" was (maybe still is?) an item on many coffee shop/diner menus. I think Bob's Big Boy still has them. Sun Jun 11 21:46:26 -0700 2006 1531137 0 wyf4lyf 3 1531298 Yes, when I was an IHOP waitress in the late 70's we had "Chili Size" on the menu and it was exactly as you describe it. In New England anyway it was not a popular menu item.... Mon Jun 12 12:19:55 -0700 2006 1531206 0 GretchenS 3 2587589 I have had to train my company cafeteria folks to make a chili size for me. Then grab a bottle of tabasco to make up for the chili character shortcomings. Mon May 21 04:02:40 -0700 2007 1531206 13619 Sharuf 2 1775311 you can get chili size at Frank's Famous Hot Dogs in SLO. I think it's a standard deli/diner menu item. Frank's does a really good one! Sat Jul 29 16:00:13 -0700 2006 1531137 11234 toodie jane 2 2530143 it was a sad day when Denny's took the Chili Size off their menu in the early 80's Tue May 01 03:51:52 -0700 2007 1531137 57890 KaimukiMan 2 3321835 That Chili Size was on the menu at the IHOP next to my college campus in Texas. It was my regular dinner after dar hopping! But its long gone and forgotten my them now. Tue Jan 22 14:53:55 -0800 2008 1531137 101291 TalN 3 4526473 johnny rockets serves a chili size.... not sure how good it is though Sat Mar 21 20:11:46 -0700 2009 3321835 264146 kubasd 3 4526597 >>>>It was my regular dinner after dar hopping!<<< TalN, i thought those "DAR" ladies we're a little more uptight. {;^D. Sat Mar 21 21:11:35 -0700 2009 3321835 105717 alkapal 1 1531171 Orange cookies - they are somewhat cake like, but light - have buttermilk in them, and then iced with a confectioner's sugar icing with orange juice & butter. Delicious - they were the "signature" cookie of my grandmother from South Western Pennsylvania and I still make them occasionally. Once my husband took them to his office and the French employees *insisted* that they had to have been made from a French recipe! Sun Jun 11 18:59:37 -0700 2006 1530905 0 MMRuth 2 1531223 If you're willing to give away a family recipe, I would love to have this one. Sun Jun 11 23:35:53 -0700 2006 1531171 0 bryan 3 1531262 I'll dig it up - it's on a scrap of paper somewhere! Mon Jun 12 09:39:07 -0700 2006 1531223 0 MMRuth 4 1531484 yes, please dig! Sounds wonderful! Tue Jun 13 14:32:44 -0700 2006 1531262 0 danna 1 1531178 My daughter-in-law's "morning after" salvation (she doesn't drink, but her intuition is right on target): Cut miniature bagels in half, spread with butter and garlic salt, toast under the broiler, spread with cream cheese and toast again lightly. And my mom's hamburger heaven: One pound ground beef, 3/4 cup chopped onion, 1 cup sliced celery with tops, 1 cut American or cheddar (yellow) cheese, diced, salt and pepper, 2 cups canned tomatoes with juice, 1 small can ripe olives, 2 cups uncooked egg noodles. Fry the meat, add onion and celery and cook 5 minutes, add cheese, salt and pepper, and tomatoes with juice. Bring to a boil. Add olives and put noodles over the top. Cover and bring to a boil again. Stir once, recover, and cook 15-20 minutes. Ridiculously good, I always felt, but that's a lot of cheese--I'd hate to know the calorie count. Sun Jun 11 20:00:38 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Marsha 1 1531228 English muffins, one package hamburger about 1/2 pound (Maybe a bit more) salt and pepper ketchup, about 1/4 cup French's mustard, about 2 tbls Mix the burger, salt, pepper, ketchup, and mustard into a spread. Spread onto 1/2 of each English Muffin. Broil until the burger is what you like. The burger grease soaks into the muffin....wonderfully bad for you. peace, jill Mon Jun 12 01:32:25 -0700 2006 1530905 0 jill kibler 2 1531261 My mother used to make these when I was very young; she called them 'owls'. Mon Jun 12 09:36:07 -0700 2006 1531228 0 Fydeaux 1 1531272 My grandmother used to make me "dessert" out of iceberg lettuce leaves sprinkled with granulated sugar and then rolled up. Sweet & cool - I can still remember the taste. Others: Fried bologna or lebanon bologna sandwiches. Cranberry Relish: Fresh cranberries hand ground in a meat grinder with a couple of whole oragnes then sprinkled with sugar for Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving Turkey Spread: Leftover turkey ground with medium onion then add salt, pepper and mayo. Serve on white bread. Potato chip sandwiches: Wise potato chips on white bread. Nothing else. White bread spread with soften butter then sprinkled with sugar. Also - going to the corner deli and ordering 1/2 lb of "square cheese" -(American cheese). Everyone in my neighbor called it square cheese! Mon Jun 12 10:28:15 -0700 2006 1530905 0 gozz'37 2 1531281 Spaghetti sandwich (Hot or Cold) Mon Jun 12 10:58:15 -0700 2006 1531272 0 HwyStar 3 1531300 Just had a spaghetti sandwich last week...wheat bread spread with Brummel & Brown, topped with spaghetti. Fold and eat ! Mon Jun 12 12:26:58 -0700 2006 1531281 0 jilli42 2 1531282 Spaghetti sandwich (Hot or Cold) Mon Jun 12 10:58:15 -0700 2006 1531272 0 HwyStar 2 1531299 Ahhh the sugar sandwich, used to love those. Mon Jun 12 12:25:47 -0700 2006 1531272 0 jilli42 3 2950221 that was a lunch and dinner table staple at summer camp! we'd pour a sugar packet [or two] onto a soft slice of white bread, fold or roll it up really tight to make sure the sugar was smushed into the bread. Mon Sep 17 16:42:13 -0700 2007 1531299 103920 goodhealthgourmet 3 4860595 Peanut butter on white bread, sprinkled with as much sugar as it will hold, fold & eat. Wed Jul 15 08:27:16 -0700 2009 1531299 208878 mrschef1 2 1531330 At sleepover camp, in addition to the sugar sandwich we also used to use KoolAid powder for a flavored sandwich. Mon Jun 12 15:07:40 -0700 2006 1531272 0 pamd 3 2950224 or pixy sticks! Mon Sep 17 16:43:33 -0700 2007 1531330 103920 goodhealthgourmet 4 4896535 I have fond memories of swim meets and dipping our fingers into the powdered jello packages. The smell of full sugar jello and chlorine. Ahhhhh. Tue Jul 28 07:04:56 -0700 2009 2950224 1092553 aggiecat 3 4905546 "Raw Jello." I'd forgotten all about it. Never used it in a sandwich, but it was a treat all by itself. Thu Jul 30 23:45:05 -0700 2009 1531330 24468 chicgail 2 1531381 Ah yes...the sugar sandwich. My MIL, who is now quite a health nut, used to let my husband and his brother (when they were little) make sandwiches with Wonder bread, *margarine* and sugar. It's now the family joke. :) Mon Jun 12 21:37:31 -0700 2006 1531272 0 wyf4lyf 1 1531276 rosy meatballs over rice- meatballs cooked in whole berry cranberry sauce and can not remember if anything else- loved it! Mon Jun 12 10:47:26 -0700 2006 1530905 0 cocoagirl 1 1531333 Nice to hear my family was not the only one making fried bologna sandwiches! My dad would sometimes make what he dubbed "Chinese Eggs" for breakfast. He would take a green pepper, dice it up and saute the peppers in a pan with oil and soy sauce. When that was done, he'd take the peppers out of the pan and then use the same pan to fry up some eggs (not scrambled). He'd serve it up with one egg over a piece of toast with the cooked green peppers on top. Every so often we'd also have "hot dogs, eggs and potatoes." Self-explanatory ... a mishmosh of cut up pieces of hot dogs, scrambled eggs and homemade home fries. Mon Jun 12 15:33:01 -0700 2006 1530905 0 spicygirl 1 1531336 Don't know what to call these. Toss equal amounts of cubed cheddar cheese and ham with mayo, mustard and relish. Smear on top of english muffin and broil till cheese is melty and browning. Yum! Mon Jun 12 15:46:36 -0700 2006 1530905 0 MellyCooks 2 1531348 Along the same lines, I make a tuna salad out of tuna, white onion, sweet pickle relish and mayonnaise. Place the tuna salad on top of toasted English muffins, top with a slice of cheese (American works well) and place under the broiler until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Yummmmmmy!! Mon Jun 12 17:45:01 -0700 2006 1531336 0 pilotgirl210 3 1531349 The old tuna melt. One of my DH's favorites Mon Jun 12 17:48:24 -0700 2006 1531348 0 MZG 4 1531352 In the Great Pacific Northwest, where I live and grew up, a tuna melt is like a grilled cheese sandwich made in a fry pan on a stove top. But you're right.....it is melted cheese with tuna. Mon Jun 12 17:54:15 -0700 2006 1531349 0 pilotgirl210 5 3573453 I'm from Calfornia, born and raised. In 1985, I walked into the Hereford Inn in Superior, Nebraska and asked for a tuna melt. They had no idea what I was talking about. When I described it to them, they still refused to make it, thinking it would "not work" because the tuna salad had relish and eggs in it. I had the chicken fried steak- it was wonderful. Tue Apr 08 10:16:57 -0700 2008 1531352 159972 paso_gurl_100 1 1531340 Ritz crackers spread with creamy peanut butter (Skippy, preferably). Make a dent in the PB and add a drop of A-1 Steak Sauce. My granddad also added pickle relish between the PB and A-1. Mon Jun 12 16:34:15 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Susan 1 1531357 Here's a few gems: - Pinkelwurst and boiled kale. Looked and tasted awful. - Grilled cheese sandwiches with Welch's Grape Jelly spread on top. - Leftover uncooked egg wash from veal cutlets prep, fried, and then served with tomato sauce over them. Mon Jun 12 18:35:16 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Scagnetti 2 1531411 Hey! Pinkelwurst and kale isn't that bad at all ... in central and northern Germany, it's the standard preparation for kale -- a celebration of the arrival of the first frost, which sweetens the beloved "Gruenkohl." I think the wurst's fatty saltiness is a perfect complement to the greens ... a Teutonic version of collards, if you will. Tue Jun 13 08:17:48 -0700 2006 1531357 0 gus 3 1531428 Pinkelwurst and kale was the favorite meal of my 1st generation German father (Hamburg) and his 5 brothers. My Italian mother was the only wife willing to cook it ONCE a year. She would literally fill up the kitchen sink with kale and it still wasn't enough to feed all of the boys. Tue Jun 13 10:20:07 -0700 2006 1531411 0 Scagnetti 1 1531359 My dad is from Scotland, and we grew up eating "mince". Basically, boiled ground meat with onion, carrots and turnips. At the end, it was thickened with Bisto (boxed gravy). Served next to, not on top of, boiled potatoes and sometimes boiled green cabbage. He grew up eating it, my gramma talk my mom and my mom taught me. One of the most delightful comfort foods. I still make it on ocassion, and the DBF loves it! Link: http://www.geggieblog.blogspot.com Mon Jun 12 19:02:59 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Gayle 2 1780001 Sounds like a rough American translation of Haggis! Esp. since it's served with neeps and tatties! (potatoes & turnips) Tue Aug 01 14:48:07 -0700 2006 1531359 12752 MsDiPesto 2 4949974 How about raw ground sirloin on buttered rye bread with sweet raw onion, salt and pepper. Great with an ice cold brew. Or this one my grandmother used to do. Fresh calf brain lightly dusted with flour, salt and pepper then sautéed in butter. Scramble a couple of eggs in the same pan. Mix the two together. I never tried it but she swore it was delicious. Sat Aug 15 21:52:32 -0700 2009 1531359 1102029 Jackzig 3 4950022 My Mother also used to eat fresh raw ground hamburger as a child and apparently loved it. Her Mother also used to make blood pie, which according to my Mom was one of the worst things she ever ate. Her Mom didn't believe in wasting anything, even the blood. Perhaps this is why my Grandma taught me to eat grapefruit rinds, and the gristle on chicken. =) Sat Aug 15 23:03:42 -0700 2009 4949974 1081227 DishDelish 3 4977865 My mom always are raw ground round on caraway rye with raw onion and a tiny bit of ketchup. Or instead of ground round, liverwurst. Yummmm. Tue Aug 25 18:24:35 -0700 2009 4949974 1091147 almond3xtract 4 5039696 I'm from Wisconsin, we called the raw ground beef on rye with onions "cannibal sandwiches" and it's frequently a party type appetizer on cocktail rye. Fri Sep 18 09:26:59 -0700 2009 4977865 122833 katrinkala 2 5079103 Aye, that's mince and tatties. It is (or was up to the 70's) the staple of the Scottish diet. Sometimes Granny would put oatmeal in it too or serve it with some skirlie. In Australia they do the mince with a dash of curry powder and sultanas and call it 'savoury mince' - you really have to be in the mood. Sun Oct 04 19:39:41 -0700 2009 1531359 1106100 jobeth_b 1 1531472 LOL. This is a great thread. Here's our family recipe, but first get the 4 kids into the station wagon with all the luggage. Can of corned beef, I believe it used to be Argentinean, looks like Spam in a can Chopped sweet pickles Chopped onions Mayonnaise and ketchup Stir together and put on a white hamburger bun and top with white cheese. Wrap in tin foil and put in oven for about 20 minutes. Remove and put in cooler by themselves to keep warm. Pull over to a roadside picnic area about 2 hours into the drive and enjoy. Tue Jun 13 13:42:01 -0700 2006 1530905 0 Mila 1 1531498 My mom's version of macaroni salad - elbow noodles, sliced cucumbers, diced tomatoes and a can of tuna fish all mixed with mayo. Pork chop suey - made from leftover pork roast and gravy. Dice leftover pork, add to gravy, add diced onion, celery, a can of beansprouts and some soy sauce. Serve over rice with chow mein noodles. Tue Jun 13 15:34:43 -0700 2006 1530905 0 LisaN 1 1748369 A cookie that only we seem to make, and only at Christmas. We call them vanilla sticks though the original name is, I believe, streifen, German for strips or stripes. The bottom half is meringue mixed with very finely chopped almonds, the top is frosted with meringue. They are baked til crisp then set to ripen in a closed tin with a slice of apple. Supposedly some bakeries in the Columbus Ohio area make them at Christmas time, though I have yet to see one store bought. Similar to Zimmtsterne (cinnamon stars). I have seen this in exactly one cookbook, a small paperback handout brochure from about 1939. Mon Jul 17 02:18:15 -0700 2006 1530905 13445 Louise 1 1748489 This isn't really a "recipe" but in our Chinese-American household my dad (the family cook) would take all the leftovers - mapo doufu, stir-fried broccoli, bittermelon in black bean sauce, winter melon soup, whatever was on hand, really - combine it with rice in a huge bowl, heat it in the microwave and we'd eat it for breakfast. He called it "dog food," because he used to feed a similar combo of leftovers to his dog. I don't cook a lot of Chinese food - and when I do, it's usually one dish for dinner as opposed to, say, five - but when I visit my parents I still make and enjoy dog food. Also, I think lots of Chinese-American households do this, but we always make turkey "jook" (a sort of rice gruel/soup/turkey broth porridge) the day after Thanksgiving. And we eat it with shreds of leftover turkey and red pickled ginger. Yum! By the way, this is the best thread ever. I really enjoyed reading about Sarah C's family's inventions! Mon Jul 17 03:48:45 -0700 2006 1530905 13473 Petitpois 2 2535143 Turkey jook is my FAVOURITE part of Thanksgiving (or any holiday where whole turkeys go on sale). It's so much tastier than using chicken! Wed May 02 12:30:55 -0700 2007 1748489 14229 anonymoose 3 3709639 My family made turkey jook as well...and in between holidays we'd make supermarket rotisserie chicken jook. YUM. Wed May 21 15:27:09 -0700 2008 2535143 156153 akq 1 1748535 One of my mother's favorites, which she got from her father--her family spaghetti recipe-- Fry some chopped bacon, I would put in onions also if I were making it now, but I can't recall if my mom did-- dump a pound of cooked spaghetti over it (this was always in a large electric frying pan) and add a large can of tomoatoes. Mix. Lots of salt and pepper. Cook until the tomato juice is absorbed, be sure there is lots of pepper in it. Yummy. Another one my mom made, I have no idea where she got this, but I don't know anyone else who made it. Fry some pork chops (in the electric frying pan, of course). Add ginger, salt and pepper. (Was it fresh ginger or powdered? Probably powdered.) Pour milk over it, and simmer until it was thickened/curdled. (I don't think there was flour in this, pretty sure not, it was just the thickened milk not a gravy like texture.) Again, rely on lots of salt and pepper. I used to love this. My Jewish roommate in college was quite shocked by the idea-- so I know I used to cook it myself after I left home (as is my Jewish husband-- not a dish I make now). Mon Jul 17 04:24:14 -0700 2006 1530905 14063 Anne H 2 1748941 This sounds like Marcella Hazan's pork loin braised in milk. It is absolutely delectable, but there is no way short of total starvation that my (non-observant, Jewish) BF is going to put it in his mouth. Mon Jul 17 15:16:38 -0700 2006 1748535 13445 Louise 2 1750044 My mother (Jewish) also made the pork chops. It didn't taste anything like the Italian version. She didn't brown them first. She put them in a glass baking pan with sliced potatoes, salt and pepper, and milk poured over the whole thing. She baked it in the overn covered with foil for about an hour or so. The pork chops were always overdone and tough, but the potatoes were okay. Mon Jul 17 22:00:04 -0700 2006 1748535 19694 shortribsfordinner 3 1750472 I have to admit I have never looked at Marcella Hazen books. Is the food Italian? I feel pretty sure my mother didn't get this recipe anywhere Italian... plus it had the ginger in it. Which makes it not sound like one of my grandfather's specialities, he didn't go beyond salt and pepper. She was cooking it in the 60s, and she must have gotten it from somewhere, but I have no idea. Tue Jul 18 01:21:19 -0700 2006 1750044 14063 Anne H 4 1750728 She cooks Italian food. That recipe is from one of her Classic Italian Cookbooks, I forget whether the first or the second. In any case, they have been reissued as one volume. I enjoy reading them and fixing some of the recipes, but she has a habit of bemoaning Every Single Time that you can't get the right kind of fennel, or sausage, or cheese, or the eggs are the wrong size, or the protein level of the flour is too high.....enough already! Tue Jul 18 04:04:56 -0700 2006 1750472 13445 Louise 1 1748802 My mother loved peanut butter and green olive sandwiches, and so do I but of course, they are too weird for anyone else nor have I encountered anyone else who either likes them or is willing to try them! Mon Jul 17 13:31:23 -0700 2006 1530905 14083 cooknKate 1 1749620 My grandmother used to make this dish whenever a favorite relative would show from out of town. It's a lot of work and time consuming, but worth it. We called it Cabbage Noodles ...anyone heard of it? You take two heads of raw cabbage and chop em up, then take four large white onions and chop those finely, saute the onions first in two sticks of sweet butter, add salt to taste, then cook the cabbage into the onions until brown. This can take up to two hours. Browning cabbage is not easy. Then cook one package of wide egg noodles...I like the Maneschewitz brand and then stir into the cabbage onion mixture. The cabbage sticks to the noodles and is absolutely incredible. I think it's a Hungarian or Polish recipe. Mon Jul 17 19:45:09 -0700 2006 1530905 12701 davinagr 2 1750790 I can't believe someone else made this besides my mother. She called it Cabbage and Bowties, since she always used bowtie pasta. I haven't had it in years. I should make it, it's great comfort food. She also made fried salami sandwiches, always using Hebrew National Salami--the best. One thing my maternal grandmother made was called quite simply, "Roe." She'd buy a female carp fish (a whole one), and check to see if it was pregnant. Slit it open, scoop out the roe (really, the poor person's caviar), cook it, and then chop up an onion and mix it with mayonnaise. Serve it like a dip with Ritz or Triscuit crackers. I was the only family member who really liked it, and of course, no one makes it now. Maybe it was an acquired taste. I'm not sure I'd like it now, but any time I'd go home to visit, she'd always make it for me. Tue Jul 18 05:09:30 -0700 2006 1749620 14447 rednails 3 2950519 substitute feta cheese for the mayo and you have Greek taramosalata! which is definitely not bland. Mon Sep 17 18:09:43 -0700 2007 1750790 102095 vvvindaloo 2 2594689 I think this is a common Eastern Euro Jewish (?) dish - I ordered it at this random lunch counter in the Diamond District because it sounded so strange and bland - and it was. Wed May 23 08:27:38 -0700 2007 1749620 18288 janethepain 2 2617880 My grandma makes cabbage noodles all the time! I still don't like them though... Yours sound much better. Hers are just noodles and cabbage (cooked enough to be mushy, but not browned). That side of my family is Hungarian. Lots of other things here that I grew up with - fried bologna, grilled cheese with potato chips in the middle. Thu May 31 12:44:16 -0700 2007 1749620 101881 adriennec 2 4838218 Cabbage with egg noodles is true Polish, especially if you add butter and caraway seed! Tue Jul 07 19:53:55 -0700 2009 1749620 1091147 almond3xtract 2 4868204 My family dish is the browned cabbage onion mixture, with caraway seed and a little celery seed (called kapusta), never heard of adding the egg noodles. I'll have to try that, when the weather cools off. Serve with kielbasa, horseradish, and buttered black bread! Fri Jul 17 14:16:32 -0700 2009 1749620 250209 blindowl 1 1749903 This is such a fun thread to read! Mon Jul 17 21:08:33 -0700 2006 1530905 14083 cooknKate 1 1750075 I grew up in the midwest and my family had a love affair with Campbell's soups. These are some of the tomato soup based recipes I haven't seen outside my family. I still love them - but rarely make them: 1) Orange Spaghetti - Top hot, drained spaghetti noodles with a can of tomato soup. Tastes sweet like spaghettios, but the noodles can be al dente! Best served with some hot hard-boiled eggs with plenty of salt and pepper. Mmm... I might have to make this tonight! Note: This is usually not a meal, but a late-nite snack. 2) Pizza Burgers - To cooked ground beef, add a can of spam cubed, cubed cheddar cheese, a can of tomato soup and some oregano and salt. Spread on half a hamburger bun and bake in the oven till cheese melts. 3) "Shepherd's Pie" - Brown ground beef and onion, drain, add a drained can of green beans and a can of tomato soup. Put in baking dish cover with mashed potatoes. Bake till bubbly. Serve, covered with a slice of american cheese if desired. etc. etc.... I could write a book! Mon Jul 17 22:09:49 -0700 2006 1530905 14871 maviris 2 4838215 My great-grandma made the exact same shepherd's pie!! YUM!!! Tue Jul 07 19:53:14 -0700 2009 1750075 1091147 almond3xtract 2 4934841 In my house my kids love tomato soup and noodles, my moms concoction. I don't like it but they do. Just add a can of condensed Campbells tomato soup, (no diluting) to cooked noodles. They don't like eggs so we've never done that. My husband grew up on cereal with cold coffee in it. He's Italian and says everyone he knew ate that for breakfast. My mom eats mashed potatoes on bread and we all like bread and butter pickle sandwiches. Mon Aug 10 17:56:28 -0700 2009 1750075 1100710 heathermm 3 5025343 I make a version of that too. I use small shell pasta and add a can of tomato soup and top with parmesan cheese..Yummy Sat Sep 12 16:59:43 -0700 2009 4934841 180068 Smileelisa 1 1750111 My father, who was quite a good cook when he set his mind to it, had an hors d'oeuvre he loved serving to guests. He'd mash together sardines and peanut butter and spread it on a Ritz cracker. People would go into raptures over it--until they found out what it was. But they liked it. They really liked it. And so did I. But then, Dad's and my favorite lunch was limburger cheese and onions on pumpernickel. How come there's no limburger cheese any more? Mon Jul 17 22:22:39 -0700 2006 1530905 11407 JoanN 2 1750480 I'm confusing Limburger and Liederkrantz-- maybe it's Liederkrantz that I've been eating-- they are both very smelly, right? The one I can get comes in bricks, about 4 x 2 x 2... wrapped in silver foil... smells like very dirty socks... yum. Tue Jul 18 01:26:14 -0700 2006 1750111 14063 Anne H 2 1851236 My dad would mash sardines and mustard into a paste and slather it on Saltines. I loved it — made the sardine bones "dissappear." He also made a paste of equal parts butter, peanut butter and honey and spread it on Saltines as a Saturday afternoon or after-dinner snack. Sun Sep 03 03:13:06 -0700 2006 1750111 23942 SundanceKC 2 4669271 My parents used to make the limburger cheese sandwiches too! Served with a glass of beer. We had to go and use the dental pik afterwards in order to try to get rid of the stinky breath. It's essential to put salt and pepper on the sandwich. I also like Vidalia onions on crusty bread spread with butter and then sprinkled with salt and pepper. Used to take those to school. Sat May 09 14:51:23 -0700 2009 1750111 213547 cathodetube 1 1750123 From my family, my husband's, and some others: *Sherbet cocktail - a scoop of lime or orange sherbet in a glass tumbler, with pineapple juice poured over it. Eat/drink with spoon. It's delicious! Served as a first course, or a non-alcoholic cocktail. *Cream cheese-chopped olive sandwich spread or filling, best on Pepperidge Farm bread, because spreading it ripped Wonder bread into shreds - this was also served at luncheonette counters like Woolworth's. Chopped walnuts were often added, too. *Brownie Stew - 1 lb ground beef, browned, stir in 1 can Campbell's alphabet soup. We learned to make it in Brownies and my mother added it to her repertoire. It was intended to be a camping dish. *Bologna rolled up around a sweet pickle stick - no cream cheese - stuck closed with a toothpick. My lunch most days growing up *Fried Spam served with "gravy" of heated canned cream corn poured on top *Chocolate eggnog - Milk, chocolate syrup and a raw egg whipped in a blender. Precursor to Carnation Instant Breakfast. *White bread, crusts removed, flattened with a rolling pin, spread with cream cheese, rolled up around pickled okra, sliced and served with toothpicks - addictive hors d'oeuvres! *Welch's Grape jelly omelet *Graham crackers spread with canned frosting *Bananas in a bowl with milk and sugar, like cereal *Chocolate sodas - Vanilla ice cream, choclate syrup, and club soda, eaten kind of like a root beer float (Brown Cow). I think I need to make one now. Only the fried spam seems unique. The other dishes were '50s and '60s standards. I hope no one else ever had to eat the fried spam/creamed corn dinner! Mon Jul 17 22:29:12 -0700 2006 1530905 19694 shortribsfordinner 2 1750823 I never knew another family that served sherbet. We always had it at Thanksgiving until we could not find it anymore, always orange and no pieapple juice. That was 20 years ago at least. Not sure where the tradition originated, but my Mother was English and I am sure it came through her. Tue Jul 18 05:54:47 -0700 2006 1750123 19636 Tonto 2 1753112 Our variation on the cream cheese chopped olive spread was with black olives and put it on 3 inch slices of celery. Now that I live away from most of my family and holidays are mostly w/ my husband's family, the celery w/ cream cheese and olives is just for me. :-) Kivarita Wed Jul 19 04:26:45 -0700 2006 1750123 11729 kivarita 2 2950527 cream cheese on crackers with sliced olives is great! Mon Sep 17 18:11:18 -0700 2007 1750123 102095 vvvindaloo 1 1750150 This is so gringo, but Mom used to make enchiladas filled with jack cheese and mild green chiles and topped with Mornay sauce made usually with swiss cheese but sometimes jack cheese. Haven't had those in years but I think about them quite a bit. Mon Jul 17 22:42:41 -0700 2006 1530905 16831 Ruby Louise 2 3573553 Your mom actually might have been onto something. Enchiladas suizas are "Swiss" enchiladas. And are an authentic Mexican dish. Nowadays they are made with chicken, but they are always filled with white cheese and they always have a white sauce made with Swiss cheese! You can have them in Tijuana at Sanborn's. Tue Apr 08 10:37:43 -0700 2008 1750150 159972 paso_gurl_100 3 4838224 I agree, those are definitely enchiladas suizas. Although suizas are usually topped with salsa verde. Tue Jul 07 19:55:53 -0700 2009 3573553 1091147 almond3xtract 1 1750164 Fried bologna sandwiches on white toast, but the secret was "deglazing" the pan with ketchup (Heinz, of course because we lived in Pittsburgh!). Mon Jul 17 22:52:44 -0700 2006 1530905 11534 The Librarian 2 1750933 - we fried our bologna in sato-shoyu (sugar and soy sauce)...on white bread, of course. Tue Jul 18 11:35:10 -0700 2006 1750164 13519 Cynsa 1 1750177 My parents were pretty health conscious, and I laugh when I think about these two adaptations of "unhealthy" dishes: "Cottage Cheese Danish"- Top a piece of whole wheat toast with a mixture of cottage cheese, vanilla extract, and a bit of cinnamon and sugar. Broil in the toaster oven until the cottage cheese gets a bit melty. It's delicious, but imagine my surprise when I first encountered a *real* cheese danish! Rice Pudding- Scramble a few eggs and add milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon and sugar. Fry in a pan with leftover white rice and add some raisins. It's more like sweet scrambled eggs with rice and not at all creamy like real rice pudding. Never could figure out why my mom's rice pudding was nothing like the kind I got in a restaurant. Mon Jul 17 22:58:51 -0700 2006 1530905 14884 JA90 1 1750211 I forgot to mention popcorn in tomato soup, and our tomato soup always was garnished with sour cream. Mon Jul 17 23:15:43 -0700 2006 1530905 19694 shortribsfordinner 1 1750225 How about brains and eggs? I loved them till I got old enough to figure out that they really were brains and eggs. I'm still alive. When I was growing up, my fav was cheesburger casserole. Very rich, very expensive because of the cheese and sour cream. Made from hamburger, probably tomato sauce (I do have the recipe somewhere but its not worth pulling out), sour cream, cheddar cheese grated, and bicuits out of the can. It was delicious, but somehow not so much so when I was old enough to try making it for my kids. Must have been my mother's talents that made it so good! Or more likely, was relative to the other choices for meals, such as dried out roast with a packet of onion soup dumped on top, or my most hated meal, frozen fish sticks, packaged french fries, and frozen mixed vegetables. Ugh! I hated Friday night meals. I'm sure that my kids will have similiar thoughts about my meals, though. Now, of course, everything I make is wonderful! Mon Jul 17 23:24:07 -0700 2006 1530905 19727 kayandallie 2 2608021 Hey, I had brains and eggs, too. My grandfather lived with us, moved to PA from Austria. A couple times a year my mother we trudge to the store, poach the brains, clean them, then dad or Pop would scramble it up. A huge treat. I guess health concerns make it a real risk these days. Also a treat were kidneys and eggs. Mon May 28 11:38:11 -0700 2007 1750225 10844 berkleybabe 1 1750238 The cottage cheese danish was an old Weight Watcher's recipe, often made with some sort of liquid saccharin. Bleh. My mom was addicted to sesame butter. She served browned butter with a touch of garlic and lemon juice and sauteed sesame seeds with egg noodles, asparagus, artichokes, and probably chopped newspaper, as my dad used to say. I still eat my artichokes with sesame butter. When there was nothing for dessert, she would broil brown sugar, butter and chopped walnuts on an English muffin for a sublime, rich pastry. I introduced it to my son who thought it was pretty amazing. She made pesto with walnuts and American parsley and sometimes I still like to make it this way instead of the authentic recipe. Luckily I was spared most of the Campbell's soup horrors recounted on this thread, but my mom thought she was very cosmopolitan making avgolemono soup with Campbell's cream of chicken, lemon juice and cooked white rice. If I were sick I would probably want some now. A childhood friend and I invented something called "Super Matzo" which involved spreading Lawry's Garlic Bread spread on Egg 'n Onion mmatzos and broiling in the toaster oven...heaven. All this was in L.A. in the 60s and 70s, by the way. Mon Jul 17 23:29:30 -0700 2006 1530905 12460 Chowpatty 1 1750553 i wish we could somehow organize this list into a wacky recipe database...now that would be cool Tue Jul 18 02:09:06 -0700 2006 1530905 14086 kare_raisu 1 1750816 Wimpie recipe from Northeastern Pennsylvania I haven't made this in a while, but it always seemed to be what we in Northeastern Pennsylvania declared to be a Wimpie: Brown a half a cup of onions in heavy skillet Add one pound of ground beef One half cup ketchup one tablespoon each prepared mustard, worcestershire, vinegar and sugar Simmer and serve on buns or rice although I have never put it over rice Tue Jul 18 05:46:14 -0700 2006 1530905 19636 Tonto 2 1755168 my aunt used to make wimpie burgers which were hamburgers w/spinach and cheese served on a bun. Thu Jul 20 00:16:56 -0700 2006 1750816 11190 fara 1 1750837 Wow, does this bring back memories. Here are a few I've remembered while reading this thread: * Cottage cheese and dark Karo syrup (my father's fave) * Buttered toast covered with a thick layer of brown sugar (but only at my maternal grandparent's house -- my grandpa and uncles used to make it) * Broiled sandwiches: Akin to the fried salami sandwiches. Spread a piece of bread with ketchup. Top with salami (be sure to snip the edges all around or it'll curl up into a bowl). Top with cheese (American for the kids, Colby for the adults), and broil until melted and bubbly. * Corn fritters and syrup for dinner -- negligible nutritional value, but tasty * Torn Cake -- one of my favorite desserts as a child. I now realizer it's essentially a poor man's trifle. Tear up an angel food cake. Add drained fruit cocktail. Top with vanilla pudding. Tue Jul 18 06:24:55 -0700 2006 1530905 19542 Karen_Schaffer 1 1750857 Hope I'm not duplicating, but I last checked this thread quite a while ago and it's grown to such unmanageable proportions that I couldn't catch up on everything! I couldn't guess what the actual recipe was for this (not that my mother ever followed a recipe), but she often made "Milk Chicken"--chicken parts roasted with milk poured over. The milk evaporated to a kind of semi-carmelized goo that encrusted the chicken, and I thought it was delicious--wonder if it would even be edible to me now. Tue Jul 18 07:09:15 -0700 2006 1530905 19411 MommaJ 1 1750931 Macaroni and cottage cheese. I remember having dinner at a friends house and was served mac and cheddar cheese - at the time I had NEVER seen that before! Tue Jul 18 11:32:33 -0700 2006 1530905 12088 Jcooks 1 1750936 My favorite is still my dad's skillet fried Krispy Kreme donuts on a Saturday morning when I was ten yrs. old... split day-old glazed donuts in half...pan fry in butter and serve hot with vanilla ice cream. Tue Jul 18 11:40:43 -0700 2006 1530905 13519 Cynsa 2 1751772 My Mom used to pan fry day old glazed donuts too, or sometimes broil them. She'd also split day old "cake" donuts, toast & butter them. We never got ice cream with these though. Mom would serve them for breakfast alongside soft scrambled eggs. Tue Jul 18 18:09:30 -0700 2006 1750936 16831 Ruby Louise 3 2617890 My boyfriend was horrified when I told him how good fried doughnuts are. I just love cake doughnuts fried up. Mmm. The worst part is that my parents will actually fry up other stuff too, like danishes, cinnamon buns, etc if they're getting a bit stale. Thu May 31 12:47:38 -0700 2007 1751772 101881 adriennec 4 2618773 Aren't donuts already fried? Thu May 31 16:42:57 -0700 2007 2617890 10681 piccola 5 2627775 Well yes they are, but both Cynsa and Ruby Louise mentioned having pan-fried day-old doughnuts growing up. My family didn't necessarily wait until they were stale to re-fry them, but we always enjoyed them. Mon Jun 04 10:14:33 -0700 2007 2618773 101881 adriennec 6 3278426 My hubby and his friends loved glazed doughnuts placed in the oven with a slice of American cheese on top till all melty. With at big glass of milk! Wed Jan 09 13:59:53 -0800 2008 2627775 156002 btrswttx00 1 1750981 My late mother became "famous" in the neighborhood and among family and friends for her own version of "chopped ham salad". It wasn't made with ham though. She would buy the end piece chunks of bologna from the deli and put it through a meat grinder. It was then mixed with dill relish, a little lemon juice, pepper and mayo (not a lot). We would have it on hard bulkies. Sometimes we would add some crushed potato chips to the sandwich. yum, I'm craving this now! Tue Jul 18 12:52:58 -0700 2006 1530905 16196 AnneM 2 1750989 My mom used to make something similar- except she used a can of spam!! I used to love it, too. Tue Jul 18 13:01:58 -0700 2006 1750981 11057 macca 2 1752168 That sort of sounds like the "ham" salad at Isaly's in western Pennsylvania in the '50's. I loved it! Tue Jul 18 20:21:07 -0700 2006 1750981 11534 The Librarian 2 3289020 Hi AnneM, Mom usred to make Spam Salad the same way, hadn't thought of that in years, tasted a lot like Underwood Deviled Ham Spred. Tim Sat Jan 12 14:53:58 -0800 2008 1750981 28933 twh1475 2 5025934 That is how I make ham salad! Have been for many years. I just don't use lemon juice and I sometimes add onion. Sun Sep 13 04:32:53 -0700 2009 1750981 180068 Smileelisa 1 1751070 as a kid we use to get noodles, mayo and mashed up broccoli, which was interchangebale with cut up deli depending on the night, dont know where the idea came from but we loved it as kids Tue Jul 18 13:52:58 -0700 2006 1530905 19822 chai18 1 1751343 My mom used to make us toasted banana sandwiches - take two pieces of toast and slather with margarine (not butter), sprinkle sugar on top until all the melted margarine is absorbed. Top one slice with a sliced up banana, and top that with the other sugared toast piece. Breakfast of champions. My mom got this from grandfather, who says it's pretty common in Canada. I still make these every once in a while. My girlfriend's grandmother makes a porkchop dish that I thought was disgusting until I tried it. Take a large bottle of ketchup and squirt it into a crockpot. Add an equal amount of water. Finely dice a small onion and toss that in with a handful of brown sugar and one glug of white vinegar. Throw in raw bone-in pork chops and let them cook for 4-5 hours. Served over mashed potatoes. Tue Jul 18 15:57:17 -0700 2006 1530905 16399 Biggie 1 1751571 - Corn pancakes, made with leftover corn cut from the cob. - Cream cheese and jelly, so glad to see this is a favorite. - Frame Soup, made with the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving. This last was not actually that great, always kind of watery, but it was made regularly until...it was determined that nobody really liked it that much! Tue Jul 18 17:14:09 -0700 2006 1530905 17434 Splendid Spatula 2 2951040 My Dad would make corn pancakes by adding drained canned whole corn kernels to pancake batter. How about "Mickey Mouse" pancakes. Pour pancake batter in three places on the griddle so it fuses into one pancake with "Mickey Mouse" ears. Mon Sep 17 21:17:07 -0700 2007 1751571 126101 Antilope 1 1751594 Leftover white rice or noodles with chocolate (either cocoa and sugar, or Neslte's Quick, whichever was available). Secretly delicious. This feels like confession! Tue Jul 18 17:20:48 -0700 2006 1530905 13565 Sam Ottawa 1 1751719 I finally thought of some after watching this thread go round and round! My grandma always makes "Dirty Rice," but it's not dirty rice in the Louisianna sense. It's white rice with canned mushrooms and boullion... it's not normally something I would go for, but I love it! Must be grandma's touch! My other grandma makes Huntington Chicken, which is essentially macaroni and cheese with chicken and cracker crumbs on top... always my favorite growing up! I cannot duplicate either of these recipes despite actually getting the recipes from the grandmas! Also, when I was little, my dad used to make me "breakfast burritos," except these were tortillas spread with peanut butter, a scoop of applesauce, cinnamon and sugar, and then whatever fruit we had on hand... usually raisins and bananas. He doesn't remember making these for me! My dad also makes "Yo Apples!" These are diced apples with vanilla yogurt and some cinnamon mixed in. Dad loves to make something out of nothing! Tue Jul 18 17:55:50 -0700 2006 1530905 12813 Katie Nell 2 4671159 "My other grandma makes Huntington Chicken, which is essentially macaroni and cheese with chicken and cracker crumbs on top... always my favorite growing up! " You trigger a memory I haven't thought of in years: my mother sometimes made a dish with canned spinach covered with coarsely crumbled cracker crumbs and cheese, then baked in the oven until crunchy on top. OUTSTANDING! (I can't imagine ever loving canned spinach!) Sun May 10 13:17:49 -0700 2009 1751719 61763 hoosfoos 1 1751727 Going back to the original post, my family's recipe for Sloppy Joes sounds VERY close to yours, Kivarita; it's missing only the green pepper. Here's the recipe: Midwestern Sloppy Joes, circa 1965 This is what your babysitter reheated for you once upon a time. Now, make it yourself! Please don’t recoil in horror when you encounter the can of condensed Chicken Gumbo soup among the ingredients listed here. Thousands of . . . regional . . . cookbooks have been published with condensed soup as a leading ingredient. I’ve tried making Sloppy Joes other ways, and nothing comes close to the body and straight-ahead flavor of this concoction. Besides, the condensed soup provides precisely the right sloppiness to the matters at hand. This is an authentic recipe from Ohio, where Sloppy Joes have flourished for decades. The recipe evolved from one that is now literally 100 years old, emanating from the kitchen of one Leila Harsch, who, among other things, graduated from Wellesley College in 1898. (Obviously, Leila didn’t have access to condensed Chicken Gumbo soup.) It is a most forgiving recipe—a ten-year-old could make these. And did. In fact, this is a pretty good “teaching’’ recipe. 2/3 cup chopped yellow onion 2 tablespoons unsalted butter a pinch of salt—no more if you’re simmering for over an hour 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 1/4 pounds ground chuck 1 can condensed Chicken Gumbo soup (Campbell’s is fine) 1/4 cup water (used to rinse out the soup can) 3 tablespoons ketchup 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard Over medium heat, cook the onion in the butter until just tan around the edges. Stir in salt, pepper, and cinnamon. Add beef and brown, stirring and breaking up the chunks with a suitable wooden implement. Add remaining ingredients and simmer slowly, partially covered, for an hour or more. The longer it cooks, the more tender the beef will get, as in a good Bolognese sauce. Cook at least until the fat separates from the meat. Serve spooned into very soft hamburger buns. This makes enough for three or four hungry people. Tue Jul 18 17:57:55 -0700 2006 1530905 13568 Tom Steele 1 1752138 OK, after reading and enjoying this very long thread I have 2 things to add: 1. Not really a recipe, but a Lenten staple in our house. Can of Franco-American spaghetti served with Mrs. Paul's fish sticks. 2. Not a family recipe, per se, but the woman who watched me when I was a young child used to make this for me, and I'll make it for myself to this day when in need of serious comfort food: Cook elbow macaroni & drain Melt butter in large frying pan. Be generous. Fry cooked macaroni until it gets a little leathery with some crisp spots. Texture is VERY important in this dish! Serve in a bowl. Add ketchup until it's all greasy and orangey. Not too much, not too little. This is serious comfort food indeed! Tue Jul 18 20:14:04 -0700 2006 1530905 19653 mimilulu 2 1752661 Oh, that reminds me of another: cooked elbow macaroni mixed with scrambled eggs. Add the maraconi before the eggs are set. Must be eaten with ketchup. Now I'm hungry for it. We liked fried macaroni too (yes, that leathery texture), but curiously, although we liked ketchup on plain boiled macaroni, we didn't use ketchup on it after it was fried. Tue Jul 18 23:34:50 -0700 2006 1752138 19542 Karen_Schaffer 2 1753621 When I was a child, my friend Barbara's Mom would make fish sticks and Spaghettios for us for dinner. I loved it and complained to my Mom who refused to make it. Wed Jul 19 14:55:40 -0700 2006 1752138 11990 Janet from Richmond 2 1756370 The woman who watched me made the same thing! She used spaghetti and ketchup, butter, and ground pepper. Served with a glass of chocolate milk. I still make it when I'm blue. Thu Jul 20 16:19:06 -0700 2006 1752138 18755 howboy 1 1752187 My grandfather used to serve a soup he called Puree of Mongol (one can of Campbell's Split Pea Soup mixed with one can of Tomato Soup and two cans of milk.) He told me he had invented it, which I have since discovered, he didn't. (He also told me that he was a long-lost son of the last Tsar of Russia which, considering we are Jewish, seems unlikely!) I remember loving the soup, but haven't made it in years. Tue Jul 18 20:26:00 -0700 2006 1530905 11534 The Librarian 1 1752228 Celery sauce with linguine from my grandmother - it's tomato based and fairly oily. No one I know has ever heard of it, but my aunt looked it up and found it in an old Italian cookbook - it's peasant food. Damn, I thought we were Italian nobility . . . Tue Jul 18 20:35:06 -0700 2006 1530905 17102 missykins 1 1753138 It's funny. I inherited my grandmother's well-worn version of the Betty Crocker Cookbook. Here I discovered may recipes I thought were just for my family. Here are a few I have not had elsewhere: Chili Cream - a delicious dish she was famous for amongst friends, colleagues, and family. Think chili, cream, Texas-sized portions of cheese. Made in a crockpot and served over Fritos. Toasted Brunschweiger and cheese on toast. She loved that I loved it. I've heard people make the garlic cheese grits with the kraft tube of processed cheese, but I have not ever been served this dish elsewhere. From my uncle-- beer biscuits served with sour cream and fresh jam. My mother adds two cups of grated sharp cheddar to the layers of the famous green bean casserole. I was shocked when I first had this elsewhere and it was missing the cheese. Wed Jul 19 04:50:55 -0700 2006 1530905 20057 dcfb 1 1754208 My own "invention" ... open face peanut butter sandwich with a few strategically placed globs of jelly, toasted in the toaster oven till slightly browned. Made with old-fashioned peanut butter ... the toasting would make it dry on the edges. The jelly globs must not be too close to the edge to avoid overflow when they melt! Also in the toaster oven, cinnamon toast ... very important to use cold butter in pats so that when it melts you get these very decadent sections in the bread. The toaster oven gave very good cinnamon-sugar "crust." I made the cinnamon sugar myself with extra cinnamon. We frequently had tuna in white sauce over toast, which was a favorite of my father's that his mother had made. I suspect she made it with cream of mushroom soup, which I think we occasionally did, but usually the white sauce was from scratch. It seems like sometimes there were peas added. Something I loved to make for myself, eat with soup, etc. was Ritz crackers with peanut butter and a little square of cheddar on top. I've encountered many people who think this odd, whereas it seems perfectly natural to me. For a long time I could hardly eat soup without these. Wed Jul 19 18:32:13 -0700 2006 1530905 19108 foiegras 1 1754271 Would you believe the sloppy joe recipe using chicken gumbo soup is in an old Betty Crocker Cookbook? I was introduced to it by military wives in the 60's, good for end of the month before the new pay period began. Wed Jul 19 18:52:00 -0700 2006 1530905 20197 Starcrossed 1 1754314 bologna hats you take slices of bologna, and spread them of a mix of equal parts yellow mustard and brown sugar - put them on cookie sheet and bake until they puff up like litte hats - serve with mashed potatoes. This was one of our favourites as kids - never hard of them anywhere else. Does anyone recognize them? Wed Jul 19 19:01:23 -0700 2006 1530905 16210 shana 1 1754551 my dad taught us to eat rice krispies with chocolate pudding and milk for breakfast. and my mom still talks about the peanut butter and onion sandwiches they used to take to school for lunch. Wed Jul 19 20:21:42 -0700 2006 1530905 14855 djh 1 1755223 For any hot day of the year, my mom would cut up chunks of fresh tomatoes from the farmer's market, put it in a tall glass with ice cubes, cold water, and just enough sugar to put a smile on our faces. She told us that her drink would be sure to cool us down! Thu Jul 20 00:35:38 -0700 2006 1530905 20066 dcembrtulip 1 1755666 For me it's mayo on crackers. I still eat it now while trying not to think about what I'm eating. My stepmom ate the worst thing ever. She would make fried potatoes, chocolate pudding and lima beans, mix them all together and eat. YUCK!!!! My grandmother's favorite thing was cornbread crumbled up in a glass with buttermilk poured over it. Again YUCK! Thu Jul 20 04:32:31 -0700 2006 1530905 16737 Merry113 2 2094566 My father-in-law does that too! The cornbread and buttermilk. Sometimes he adds garlic pepper. It's disgusting :) Wed Dec 13 01:27:46 -0800 2006 1755666 14995 macrogal 2 3278478 For us in times of not much food around was. Saltine cracker with Miracle Whip and little thin shreds of raw onion! This is really amazingly good! Wed Jan 09 14:12:50 -0800 2008 1755666 156002 btrswttx00 3 3283291 this was a regular part of my diet the year I lived in London (in college) Thu Jan 10 18:07:03 -0800 2008 3278478 121685 doc_k55 1 1755673 My mother always made meatloaf with whole boiled eggs and raisins. I never wanted to admit liking it, since I was teased horribly when I brought leftovers to school for lunch. I found out from my grandma that she was the one to teach my mother to make it that way because that's how my dad liked it! Thu Jul 20 04:38:06 -0700 2006 1530905 16301 Non Cognomina 2 1757709 my grandmother made it that way too, an italian adaptation I guess? braciol' style sort of. Thu Jul 20 23:56:32 -0700 2006 1755673 11190 fara 1 1755749 My parents used to brown pork chops in a cast iron skillet, then put a couple cans of creamed corn on top of the chops. Then they would bake them in the oven with a lid for maybe 1/2 hour, then without a lid so the corn would brown and lose some of it's moisture. The chops came out "fall off the bone" tender, so good. Thu Jul 20 05:48:36 -0700 2006 1530905 20387 tobycat 1 1755754 Also mom used to make what she called "Lobscouch". I've since found the word used for sort of a mix of ingredients, so it fits. It's almost like Johnnie Marzetti. You brown a pound of hamburger with an onion, add a small can plus another 1/2 can of tomato sauce and some water, let that simmer until it is like a thick spaghetti sauce, then add a can of creamed corn. Mix this with a pound of cooked shell shaped pasta and put in a casserole dish. Top with remaining 1/2 can of tomato sauce and then tons of parmesan. Bake until bubbly and parmesan browns. Thu Jul 20 05:55:59 -0700 2006 1530905 20387 tobycat 1 1757850 Okay, I have 3 for you guys... Crazy Rice (because it is crazy good!) (I'm sure this was on the back of can at some time) 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 can french onion soup (canned, not powder) 1 cup of uncooked white rice 1 stick of butter stir together, cover, bake at 350 for 1.5 hours, stir every 30 mins. Spaghetti Chicken Cooked chicken Green bell pepper, chopped Velveeta cheese Milk Cooked spaghetti Beef Gravy (My hubby's fav rec from my mom) Ground beef Ground pork Salt pork Onion Flour Milk Serve over mashed potato Fri Jul 21 01:14:37 -0700 2006 1530905 12444 calpurnia 2 1758543 Crazy Rice! That's what we call dirty rice... see my post above! How funny! Fri Jul 21 14:08:01 -0700 2006 1757850 12813 Katie Nell 2 1851705 We had the same rice dish but my mom added bone-in chicken pieces (i now make it with boneless/skinless thighs), we called it "chicken and rice" <<<how very inventive. We used powdered onion soup mix though. We use a couple of cans of water as well and you don't have to stir. Sun Sep 03 16:13:05 -0700 2006 1757850 29866 traceym 1 1758447 toast and good cheddar cheese with strawberry jam with tea beanwhiches: bake beans and hot dogs on a bun in our lunch boxes Fri Jul 21 13:03:47 -0700 2006 1530905 12675 cocoagirl 1 1759347 My mom used to make something that we knew as "Crock Pot Chicken" that consisted of just three ingredients: a chicken that was cut up into however many pieces she felt like cutting it into, a jar of apricot jam, and a bottle of thousand island dressing. These items were dumped into a crock pot for several hours and then usually served with mashed potatoes. I don't like apricots and thousand island pretty much makes me nauseous, so it took a heck of a lot of willpower for me to take the first bite. Surprisingly though, it turned out pretty good - at least I thought so then. I was probably only 13 or so the last time she fixed it though, so I don't know if it would taste quite so good nowadays. Fri Jul 21 19:28:18 -0700 2006 1530905 12299 Mbuzi 2 1759812 Just wow. Is that even enough liquid to stew the chickin in? Fri Jul 21 22:30:20 -0700 2006 1759347 16451 mhoffman 3 1763521 It doesn't sound like there would be enough, but somehow it worked. Mon Jul 24 17:26:22 -0700 2006 1759812 12299 Mbuzi 2 5062058 I had a friend whose mother used to make your "Crock Pot Chicken" for all of our parties at work. It was always a hit! I've made it myself and it's pretty good! Sun Sep 27 12:34:23 -0700 2009 1759347 1107990 ginflego 1 1759894 For school lunches, mom made us sandwiches stuffed with her version of "potato salad" - chunks of boiled potatoes, spam and hard boiled eggs mixed with mayonnaise. A hot sandwich favorite was fried spam slices with a pan fried beaten egg(not brokenup or scrambled). Then there would be the sliced beef tongue (boiled in master sauce) sandwiches and the master sauce eggs that I would surreptitiously eat because friends got grossed out by "brown" eggs. For breakfast, my brother loved a poached egg in warm milk. Fri Jul 21 23:11:22 -0700 2006 1530905 12163 anli 2 1760198 these are freaking great! esp the egg milk...whats it like... Sat Jul 22 02:23:55 -0700 2006 1759894 14086 kare_raisu 3 1761092 Back then we drank whole milk, so she would heat up a saucepan with milk, drop the egg into a ladle and cook it in the hot milk. I never really liked it, but it may have been mom's variation of the Chinese breakfast of salty soy milk with egg. Sat Jul 22 21:29:13 -0700 2006 1760198 12163 anli 1 1759948 My grandfather used to make us kids an open-faced sandwich for a snack that he called "cock mothey and molasses". It was white bread spread with butter, then drizzled with molasses and then sprinkled with sugar. We loved it! I have always wondered about the origin of it (if any beyond his imagination) and if the name was some kind of americanized Irish term. Anybody ever heard of it? Fri Jul 21 23:41:11 -0700 2006 1530905 12789 pcdarnell 1 1760152 Well, it's not my family but two words should suffice to get the word out: "bacon toast!" A while back I was out in a high desert cabin of an old college professor of mine and was introduced to this specialty of his family, what I think of as the most elegantly simple camping food of all time. Good bread works best of course, but anything will do. After you've made your bacon, drop in thick slices of sourdough or crusty french and toast like you would a grilled cheese... You now have a delicious addition to your meal, extra energy for wood chopping, you haven't wasted any of the precious drippings, and clean up is easier. Sat Jul 22 01:42:09 -0700 2006 1530905 10781 mayjay 2 1760409 A variation on Bacon Toast with Egg: fry 1-inch bacon pieces in skillet. Add torn bits of bread and fry until golden crisp on both sides; add beaten egg and stir to scramble egg. It's not pretty but it tastes good. The fried bread soaks up all that bacon grease in the skillet. Sometimes I add one egg, unbeaten, to the skillet and just stir it all together until the egg is cooked and coats the bacon bits and fried bread. You'll have bits of egg white and yolk coating the bacon toast. Sat Jul 22 06:18:36 -0700 2006 1760152 13519 Cynsa 2 1775339 My English dad made these for breakfast for himself--he got up hours before we did--and sometimes for us if we begged him. Fry the bacon and remove from pan. Remove all but 2-3 T of bacon grease, place hefty white bread (Mom made her own) face down in bacon grease. Leave, not turning, till bread gets lightly crisped, then remove. Place bacon strips on fried side, fold in half and you have bacon heaven! Oh, yeah! Sat Jul 29 16:21:33 -0700 2006 1760152 11234 toodie jane 3 4544995 My English parents made this too! We called it fried bread. Once in a great while I'll make it - so delicious. Fri Mar 27 16:33:32 -0700 2009 1775339 19634 mels 2 5119656 This is a Milwaukee staple--fatbrot. Dip your bread in bacon grease, salt lightly, and you are good to go! Wed Oct 21 08:39:09 -0700 2009 1760152 89756 tkalex9052 3 5119734 ...and fatbrot leads to fatbutt. Wed Oct 21 09:10:23 -0700 2009 5119656 105717 alkapal 4 5160666 True, especially given our sedentary lifestyle these days. I don't think so much in olden times, when people actually used their bodies to get around. Fri Nov 06 07:41:15 -0800 2009 5119734 89756 tkalex9052 1 1760321 My grandma (Noni) made Noni's Rice, which was butter and garlic sauteed, add white rice and lightly toast. Then add 1 can tomato sauce and water to cook rice. When it's almost done, add a hunk of velveeta and tons of fresh cracked black pepper. Serve piping hot on dinner plates and let the kids smash it down to a thin layer and eat it as the edges cool, from the outside in. You really can't beat this, though I haven't had it in about 15 years! Sat Jul 22 04:09:11 -0700 2006 1530905 19900 jenhen2 1 1762181 my mom invented (as far as I know) a coleslaw that I still like better than any other--green olives, chopped parsley, celery, and, of course, green cabbage (not shredded, but in big enough pieces that it doesn't get soggy right away). for dressing thin a bit of mayo with some of the olive juice or maybe some italian salad dressing. I also grew up eating lentils with cottage cheese and ketchup. In fact we put cottage cheese in almost every kind of soup/beans and the occasional casserole (including the tuna and what we called "chili mac" that many others have written about.) soup isn't quite the same without it! Sun Jul 23 22:07:29 -0700 2006 1530905 21053 mizinformation 1 1762388 Stuffed Pepper Casserole: Made with rice, tomato sauce, sliced peppers, beef, and slices of american cheese on top--I used to request it for my birthday. "Gravy Train": Beef, carrot, and onion stew ladled over mash potatoes. Wonderful. Mon Jul 24 00:41:07 -0700 2006 1530905 15153 Dave Westerberg 2 4648335 My family made Stuffed Peppers when I was growing up - half a pepper, with rice, cooked ground beef and tomato sauce, topped with cheddar and sunflower seed, baked until the cheese melted. Absolutely delish. Sat May 02 11:27:19 -0700 2009 1762388 288063 elance 1 1762686 My mother has long loved Cheez Whiz and Miracle Whip (must've been her time in Oklahoma as a kid). She liked to spread them both at once on wheat berry bread. We used to regularly eat a wheat cereal, hot (Wheatena), and my mom would stir in some peanut butter. My mom also likes to halve an avocado, remove the pit, and fill the cavity with Miracle Whip. And then she eats it all with a spoon. My grandmother served us white bread sandwiches spread with margarine and sugar. She also made "Arnold Palmers" (iced tea with lemonade) long before anyone else I knew, but hers had instant iced tea, lemonade concentrate, water, AND saccharine. I love leftover rice with sugar and milk and a sprinkling of cinnamon stirred in for breakfast. Especially brown basmati rice. And my own best invention recently was topping servings of strawberry shortcake (the real kind with freshly made sweet biscuits and sliced strawberries with sugar) with a toasted marshmallow instead of the traditional whipped cream. Mon Jul 24 04:24:04 -0700 2006 1530905 12341 vanillagrrl 2 2530986 my nana filled her avocado-halves with french dressing Tue May 01 09:53:12 -0700 2007 1762686 57801 lollya 1 1763166 i loved this post!!!! we used to make banana boats when i was in girl scouts. banana sliced lengthwise, still in the peel put chocolate chips and mini marshmellows where sliced wrap in foil, place near fire and wait a few minutes until warm and gooey enjoy... oh, how i loved those things Mon Jul 24 15:24:23 -0700 2006 1530905 11257 Mel 1 1763653 This is a great post. One of my dad's favorites was "ham spaghetti." Cubes of ham cooked with green peppers and tomato sauce (not my mom's regular sauce, which is good, but a thin and slightly creamy sauce, which took on a bizarre flavor from the ham), served over cooked spaghetti. It wasn't my favorite. Mon Jul 24 18:11:37 -0700 2006 1530905 20259 kdf 2 2526623 This sort of makes me think of another staple in my house growing up, which was Spam Spaghetti. It was created when I developed an allergy to tomatoes, and it involved spaghetti with chopped, fried Spam; green peas; and bottled Italian salad dressing. I remember the time that we had an Italian friend from my dad's office over for dinner and my mom spent the day slaving over a homemade tomato sauce. She was so disappointed when the dish that got rave reviews from our friend was the Spam Spaghetti she'd made as my alternative! Sun Apr 29 22:16:41 -0700 2007 1763653 12515 iheartveggies 3 5062082 I always liked Spam sandwiches. Spam fried in butter and placed on white bread with butter. Absolutley delicious! Sun Sep 27 12:46:20 -0700 2009 2526623 1107990 ginflego 4 5078222 I like my Spam sliced thin, fried till browned. While still in the pan sprinkle with brown sugar, add a spoonful of spicy grained or whatever mustard and a bit of water to make a glaze. Serve on white toast with Best Foods mayo. Disgustingly good. Sun Oct 04 11:10:19 -0700 2009 5062082 279577 just_M 1 1775039 My mom always made Burnt Cheese Toast...sooooo good...put Velveeta in a frying pan and let it fry up till it melts and a burnt layer appears on the bottom but the top half is still liquidy. Scrape it onto toast and eat. ChiliMac...which was canned spaghetti with chili. Macaroni and Cheese with hamburger Sliced bananas in milk with sugar for breakfast. Viva La Chicken...kinda like a layered chicken casserole with cream soup, cheese, green chilies, and tortillas... Sat Jul 29 06:39:37 -0700 2006 1530905 15675 KellBell 1 1775128 I just thought of another one...my mom called this "crab toast". It was canned crab meat mixed with Wispride cheddar cheese spread, and some other ingredients. This was spread on a cut English muffin and baked in the oven for a few minutes. Served as an appetizer at parties. Sat Jul 29 12:09:44 -0700 2006 1530905 16399 Biggie 1 1775348 My mom made a quasi-Italian dish she called 'bombaladi' which may have been bombalatti. (the type of pasta shell?) She got the noodles at the old San Jose Paste Co. in old downtown SJ during the 40's-60's. They were in an old building that was razed for the much delayed 'urban renewal' that left parts of downtown in piles of rubble for decades. I have searched everywhere since trying to find these pasta tubes to no avail--they were 3/4" wide by 3 1/2" long. Just right for stuffing! If these sound familiar to anyone, please let me know! Brown ground beef with grated onion and parsley and bell pepper, S&P. Cook a pkg of frozen chopped spinach and add to meat with enough condensed tomato soup to hold it together. Cook bombaladi noodles till 1/2 done , drain carefully and cool. Stuff tubes with meat mixture, place in shallow casserole and nap with rest of canned tomato soup. Tuck most of 1 can of black olives between tubes (guess who ate the rest) cover with 2 c shredded sharp cheddar. Bake at 350 till bubbly. Good stuff. This was one of our favorite dishes Mom made--I think she got an Americanized version of an Italian dish from one of the wives of Dad's fellow soccer team-mates. Mom and Gram used to love cold, boiled tongue at the holidays. Of course to us kids, this was an e-w-w-w-w! Today, I love lengua. Aunt Joan made batter pudding for my Gram at holiday family dinners. Flour and milk baked in a metal container like a pail. Served with turkey gravy over it in place of mashed potaotes. We always had Horse Beans-favas-on the Thanksgiving table as well. Unfortunatley they were not available in the market, so Mom picked them from the orchards where they were used as a green manure crop. (farmers would till them into the ground as a rich source of nitrogen--this was used before the use of chemical ferts became widespread) These horse beans were ususally past their prime and had a sulfur-y, pasty texture. Gagged me then! Sat Jul 29 16:42:42 -0700 2006 1530905 11234 toodie jane 2 2587025 You don't mean manicotti shells, by any chance? Sun May 20 18:53:14 -0700 2007 1775348 93465 PhoebeB 3 2587463 Doesn't sound like shells. Like larger tubetti to me. Sun May 20 23:06:34 -0700 2007 2587025 10642 bryan 1 1784985 I've been eyeing this post for the past couple of weeks but have only just had the time to read through it in all of its enormous glory. What a treat!! So after 276 posts, I'm glad to see that these 3 family favourites from my childhood have yet to be mentioned: * bbq'd hot dogs on a toasted bun with Kraft crunchy peanut butter - I now like to think of these as a Westernized beef satay with peanut sauce * canned peach halves filled with mini marshmallows and topped with shredded coconut and a bit of orange juice drizzed on top - bake in the oven until the marshmallows melt - a favourite Friday night dinner side with chicken * knobbel borscht (aka garlic soup) - chicken broth with lots of sliced garlic and lemon juice, add in a beaten egg at the end so the colour turns a bit milky YUM!! Thu Aug 03 13:53:25 -0700 2006 1530905 10196 peppermint pate 1 1786115 And I can't believe my favorite is not listed: Farmer's Chop Suey. Make a salad, with all the ingredients you would normally put in a salad (at least the ingredients you would put in a salad circa 1976), iceberg lettuce, chopped cukes, chopped carrots, tomatoes, green peppers, mushrooms, whatever else you like. Add a container of sour cream, and a container of cottage cheese (small curd please). Mix this all up and top with potato chips! YUM! Perfect for the summer. Thu Aug 03 20:42:30 -0700 2006 1530905 19985 magerber 1 1786175 scrambled eggs with canned plum tomatoes and worchestire sauce Thu Aug 03 21:01:44 -0700 2006 1530905 23415 pescatarian 2 3278560 This reminds me that I ALWAYS have ketchup on my scrambled eggs! This thread is making me so hungry!! Wed Jan 09 14:29:42 -0800 2008 1786175 156002 btrswttx00 1 1797127 Grandma B's Apple Banana Salad My 87-year-old father remembers his mother "always" making this Apple Banana Salad. I've never known anyone other than a relative to have ever even heard of it; nor have I ever seen a written recipe. My grandmother taught her daughter-in law. Mom taught her daughters; I've taught my son. We all love it. My 13-year-old nephew even eats any leftovers for breakfast. Grandma B's Apple Banana Salad Ingredients: As with many recipes, how much you use depends on how much you want to make. Mayonnaise Peanut Butter, creamy Apples Bananas Orange segments In a large bowl, make the dressing by mixing with a spatula approximately equal parts mayonnaise and peanut butter...though most of the family likes a bit more peanut butter. The dressing should be creamy but not runny. Don't worry, it tastes much better than it looks. Core, quarter then cut apples into smaller than bite size pieces. Fold the apples into the dressing as you cut to avoid browning. Peel and slice the bananas lengthwise. Cut each long slice into smaller than bite size pieces. Fold in gently. The best bite includes both apple and banana with enough dressing to hold it together. The salad can be served immediately or chilled, covered, for a few hours. If made too far in advance the dressing will separate. My son likes mandarin orange in his salad. Dad likes chopped nuts. You could use crunchy peanut butter. While our family favorite may not be the prettiest salad you'll ever serve, it can't be beat when served with roast or fried chicken or a baked ham. Wed Aug 09 16:20:20 -0700 2006 1530905 24663 merg01 2 1798567 So, I'm way late responding to this thread...but it just hit me: "Go far" If anybody knows any Scottish folks or New Foundland folks, please ask them about "go far" - My father's family hail from there and made this weird item from ground beef mixed with water, flour, sliced onions and s & p. The mess was cooked and poured over mashed potatoes. I always hated it, but I'm posting this because I'm really curious if anyone else has ever heard about "go far". Thu Aug 10 01:42:24 -0700 2006 1797127 23824 niki rothman 3 1851701 We have Scottish background but are from Ontario. We had a similar dish but we called it mucky hamburger. Mom sometimes added diced green pepper if she was feeling healthy. It's a horrible grey colour until you add some worchestire sauce. We always had it with creamed corn as well. Everyone in the family had different ways of eating it, in three separate piles on the plate (hamburger/gravy, mashed potatoes, cream corn), I liked it with the hamburger on top of the potatoes and cream corn to the side. Someone else mixed the whole lot together which just looked disgusting. My mom would sometimes fry up the leftover like this the next day. I could understand why it would be called "go far", this stuff sticks to you ribs like nothing else. I've made it a few times as an adult for comfort food but am certain I hear my arteries closing up as I eat it. Interestingly, a few trailers have popped up in my home town selling "Newfie fries" which is a variation of this hamburger stuff with peas on fries with melted cheese on the top. Sun Sep 03 16:09:11 -0700 2006 1798567 29866 traceym 3 3283203 I am from Newfoundland, and have never heard this referred to "go far"...nor have i ever heard of the fries version mentioned below. Neither of these to my knowledge is a traditional Newfoundland food, or to my knowledge, specific to the area. Thu Jan 10 17:41:50 -0800 2008 1798567 153184 im_nomad 1 1798773 Binga Johns! My mamere would take half-risen bread dough, form it into an open circle - like a bagel, but with a bigger hole. This would be fried (preferably in lard) and served warm with Karo syrup. I'm guessing that the name comes from a version of "Pain d'Indian", and is a kind of frybread. Does anybody else eat this? Ever heard of it? Thu Aug 10 03:56:11 -0700 2006 1530905 24089 teamkitty 1 1798812 Cheerio Ice Cream Sundae layers of cheerios, icecream and U Bets Chocolate syrup...... so good. The cheerios would always stay crunchy and were a great texture in the icecream mush.... Thu Aug 10 04:18:11 -0700 2006 1530905 23465 Susanbnyc 2 1798883 Boiled potatoes heated with brown sugar until the sugar caramelizes, then stir in chopped up hot dogs. Condensed mushroom soup spread on white bread then toasted under the broiler. White bread spread with velveeta or cheese whiz then topped with diced bacon and broiled. Think these were called "Cheese Dreams". Thu Aug 10 05:37:36 -0700 2006 1798812 10947 middydd 2 1849734 it's even better if you toast the cheerios first Sat Sep 02 00:49:22 -0700 2006 1798812 10681 piccola 1 1799081 How about a plain old horseradish sandwich. Two slices of white bread, and as much horseradish as you can handle. My late father in law made these on a regular basis. My 15 year old daughter still makes them from time to time now - sort of a "in memory of Poppy" thing. Thu Aug 10 12:20:39 -0700 2006 1530905 15124 FlyerFanX 1 1799114 From my uncle, 76, from Ventura, CA: Lard sandwiches. Sounds nasty, but they apparently loved them. Thu Aug 10 12:50:54 -0700 2006 1530905 24089 teamkitty 1 1847937 OK My turn. The very first weird thing I remember eating was when I was 5 years old. I have no idea why I liked it or why my Grandma let me eat it but I now call them sweet and sour sandwiches. Frenches yellow mustard and jelly sandwiches. No, I don't eat them any more. I stopped eating them by the time I was 6. Rice and sugar and milk for breakfast. White bread with mild and sugar, for breakfast. Chili and rice was a staple. Something I've never stopped drinking was mashed banana and milk. I can thank the blue birds for that one. Fried Bologna sandwiches with mustard. Fried spam sandwiches with mustard. I just realized how much mustard I eat! Ha, Ha! Fried hot dog sandwiches with mustard. Hated Mom's Goulash, I used to smother it with chili powder. How about Hobo soup? Soup made from whatever left overs were in the fridge. I'm a fan of tuna and potato chips too. Bar-b-Que were my favorite. I'll have to ask my kids what they consider family domain recipes. Cheep pastries, take a tube of biscuits. Dip each in a beaten egg, then sugar. Take a glass and make a depression in the center, fill the depression with jam. Bake till brown at edges. Salmon and peas over mashed potatoes. Take a can of salmon, remove the bones and put it in the pot. Add water and spices (garlic, salt, pepper, marjoram, and parsley) boil. Add peas and cornstarch to thicken. Serve over mashed potatoes. I leave you with the weirdest concoction. I tasted it because my youngest son dared me to. I think the Simpson are responsible for it but I'm not sure. Start with a Twinkie and split it down the middle like a hot dog bun. Put a cold hot dog in it. Add cheese from one of those cans on top, I think it's called cheese Wiz? My youngest eats this, ug! Well it didn't stunt his growth. He's now 25. I found this post very enjoyable. Thank you. Fri Sep 01 09:29:44 -0700 2006 1530905 31085 vkmcgee2 2 4648005 vkmcgee, that last Twinkie-hot dog-Easy Cheez oddity was actually from the movie 'UHF' from the '80's starring Weird Al Yankovic. It's been at least a decade since I last saw that movie, and that concoction has always been haunting me, curious yet horrifying. Maybe one day I'll actually try it. Good to know your son is still alive. Cheers! Sat May 02 08:41:01 -0700 2009 1847937 275592 SgtStens 1 1848272 Having two Berliners (whose formative years were spent surviving WWII and the Blockade) as parents made for some interesting food items in our home that were never seen anywhere else. A childhood favorite was bratenbrot -- dark rye fried in sweet butter and sprinkled with sugar. My mother still lunches on unheated slices of dark rye spread thickly with butter (always sweet butter in our house) and liberally sprinkled with sugar. My father's most notable culinary invention however was his weird fried spaghetti. Would cook the pasta, drain it and fry it up with onions and then, as a finishing touch, serve it with a fried egg on top. Loved it as a kid! Fri Sep 01 14:44:48 -0700 2006 1530905 29114 WineWidow 1 1849951 We used to eat Crispy Dogs, my Dad's invention, that was a combination hot dog/flauta. Take regular weiners and split them in half, pair with a strip of american cheese about the same size as the weiner, and roll them in a corn tortilla and secure with toothpicks. Fry in hot oil until crispy. Yum! He'd also make us sliced weiners and scrambled eggs and call it Weenie con huevos. My mom used to make creamed eggs on toast, which was bechamel sauce, with chopped hard boiled egg whites stirred in and topped with grated egg yolk. Some recipes I am seeking are for two foods I sampled at a wedding reception: a chipped beef/cream cheese dip and a cream cheese/cherry (like maraschino) spread for bread (this was made into little tea sandwiches). Anyone got a recipe to share? Sat Sep 02 03:03:57 -0700 2006 1530905 27855 bksaenz 1 1851184 Mary Kitchen corned beef hash cooked in a skillet with steamed white rice and chopped kimchi, either the normal version or the radish version. As an adult I've made it and improved on it by adding a little minced garlic. Sun Sep 03 02:20:16 -0700 2006 1530905 26209 mrsry 1 1851262 OK, this was an afterschool treat that we ate at least 3 times a week - Home-made "Pizza": Take a slice of white bread and toast lightly. Spread with ketchup and top with a slice of american cheese. Broil until cheese is melted. Devour and make another. If we felt like "pepperoni pizza," we'd cut up a slice of bologna and put a few pieces on top of the cheese, then broil. My mom always made her "Chicken Polera," which was skinless, boneless breasts (or a cut-up chicken) mixed with canned cranberries and a full bottle of Kraft French Dressing, baked in the oven until tender, served over egg noodles. yumm. Sun Sep 03 03:36:38 -0700 2006 1530905 18495 Lono37 1 1851401 Toast white bread, tear up in peices in a bowl, sprinkle with table sugar and pour carnation evaporated milk. Canned biscuits cut into quarters, deep fried until puffy and golden, then roll in sugar. Now can be found at any chintzy Chinese Buffet. Breakfast fried rice: render some bacon till crisp, add minced garlic, day old rice, and soy sauce. Mom served it topped with a sunny side up egg. Sun Sep 03 06:00:15 -0700 2006 1530905 25247 Veggietales 2 5144628 Canned biscuits cut into quarters, deep fried until puffy and golden, then roll in sugar. Now can be found at any chintzy Chinese Buffet. These were my mother's version of donuts-made every time I had a slumber party. Sat Oct 31 00:50:00 -0700 2009 1851401 86221 lulubelle 1 1852175 We used to have lasagna casserole: ground beef and onions, browned then simmered in a can of tomato sauce with a little salt, sugar and pepper (my mom made this a while back for the first time in years and was shocked that there are no herbs or garlic in it). Then you mix a 3-oz. package of cream cheese with an 8-oz. package of sour cream and a bunch of green onions, sliced. That layers over a half-pound of "fluffy dumplets" or mini lasgne pasta, cooked, then the meat sauce, then mozzarella and other cheeses over the top. My aunt Edna makes escalloped asparagus, which is about the only way I can stomach canned asparagus. The first time I remember eating it was about 3; i wouldn't have eaten asparagus on a dare then, except this. You take four cans of asparagus and drain, then put the asparagus in a casserole dish and salt lightly. Slice half a dozen hard-boiled eggs and put them on top of the asparagus. Make a medium white sauce and add plenty of cheese (Edna uses Old English cheese, but I generally use a mixture of Velveeta, which melts smooth, and sharp cheddar for flavor). Pour that over the asparagus and eggs, top with buttered bread crumbs, and bake until bubbly. She told me recently that she has been known to make the same thing with sliced tomatoes instead of asparagus. When we would go to Oklahoma to stay with Gram and Papa in the summer, Gram would make these open-faced sandwiches: spread mustard on a piece of toast, then top with a hot dog, sliced lengthwise and opened out, and a slice of cheese. Put in the toaster oven on top brown until the cheese melts. One of my least favorite dishes growing up was what my mom called "bean stuff." It was leftover beans with hamburger and a can of tomatoes mixed in. Her tuna casserole: Kraft Mac & Cheese dinner, cook the macaroni and then stir in the cheese sauce mix, a can of mushroom soup, and a can of tuna, drained. When I make it I add a cup or so of frozen peas and top with those canned french-fried onions. Then you bake it for 25 minutes or so, until it's heated through. Sun Sep 03 22:12:47 -0700 2006 1530905 32586 revsharkie 1 1852277 Lamb fries (aka. prairie oysters) When I was a kid (quite some time ago) one of our greatest treats was when the the lambs were gelded. The lamb testicles were frozen slightly to make them easy to slice. They are sliced in about one eigth to one quarter inch slices then dipped in eggs, then bread crumbs and fried in butter. Absolutely delicious. I've never met anyone else who enjoyed these delicacies (indeed..everyone I tell is SHOCKED that we ate such things). With my father being an avid outdoorsman, we also enjoyed these wonderful treats: frogs legs (from the local swamp), squirrel stew, groundhog (cooked in a cast iron dutch oven buried in the ground), rattlesnake (didn't taste quite like chicken...but close!), stuffed deer heart and many more things that you might not want to imagine. Sun Sep 03 23:52:22 -0700 2006 1530905 35554 Yodeler 2 1865078 YOU WIN! Sat Sep 09 16:48:28 -0700 2006 1852277 23465 Susanbnyc 2 2534676 my Missouri-born grandmother served me "Rocky Mountain Oysters" thinly sliced and breaded and fried and told me it was weinerschnitzel (which I loved) - it was good but then my parents told me the truth...same way with beef heart - I hated fat and gristle and she braised a beef heart (pure muscle) and I loved it, too - until I found out what it was... organ meats turn me off but actually we shouldn't be so so critical of them, there are only 2 kidneys, 1 heart, etc... maybe the Chinese are right about all the weird stuff! The Romans liked stuffed pig uteruses!!! Wed May 02 10:46:41 -0700 2007 1852277 95798 twinks 2 4896699 Deer, elk or other wild game heart, well trimmed, cubed, sautee'd with onions then slowly simmered in equal parts milk and broth,add thyme, salt and pepper until tender, add flour to more cold milk stir in and make a thick gravy, serve over egg noodles or rice. Oh my goodness, so rich and yummy. Tue Jul 28 07:57:25 -0700 2009 1852277 1092553 aggiecat 1 1852509 Beat this: Pork Roll sandwich. First, you slice off a couple rounds of pork roll. Fry it up. When it's done, but still hot, slap on two pieces of white bread slathered with mayonnaise. Hoo-wee. Mon Sep 04 03:13:02 -0700 2006 1530905 35783 foodISlove 2 2526743 Taylor's Pork roll, white bread toast and apple butter. We used to eat that out on my father's boat when growing up. I recall it was cooked on a small propane type burner. I can only imagine that taking five kids on a boat my parents might have once just grabbed whatever food they had handy at home at the time. It became "boat food" and I always think of it fondly as such. Mon Apr 30 01:25:29 -0700 2007 1852509 64807 Goomba 1 1852620 When I was growing up, we loved sandwiches made with peanut butter and sweet pickles on untoasted white bread. It has to be sweet pickles though, not dill pickles. Mon Sep 04 05:07:08 -0700 2006 1530905 35818 jaylatgar 2 1853113 I used to eat that same sandwich--except I added a slice of cheese. The pickles I used were those little gherkin pickles, and I would slice them to put on the sandwich. And it had to be creamy peanut butter. Mon Sep 04 17:30:33 -0700 2006 1852620 32586 revsharkie 1 1866894 Cranberry pie. It's an old Acadian family recipe handed down for generations. We make it every Christmas and it is otherworldly. If I told you the recipe, I'd have to kill you. :) Sun Sep 10 20:13:16 -0700 2006 1530905 38218 ognir 2 2526725 Can you give us a hint? Just cranberries and sugar in the filling is it? Mon Apr 30 00:34:38 -0700 2007 1866894 16451 mhoffman 2 2526957 I too have a secret cranberry pie recipe...could it be the same one? Mon Apr 30 06:50:18 -0700 2007 1866894 27101 bolivianita 1 1867701 I read all the way through this, thinking of several things to add, but most of mine have been covered! My mom, who was a pretty good home cook, would make us breakfast every morning. Usually it was oatmeal, cream of wheat or eggs, but sometimes it was cinnamon toast -- made as a previous poster mentioned, with the cinnamon and sugar stirred into softened butter, so the result was all bubbly and crusty. I was horrified the first time I had it with the cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on at the end. Another one I adored was banana toast: ripened bananas were mashed with a fork, mixed with cinnamon and sugar, spread over buttered bread, then broiled until bubbly. Both were just divine. My father (born in KY in 1914) also loved crumbled up cornbread in buttermilk. And southern biscuits 'n gravy. My mom would cook green beans for ages with salt, bacon with plenty of fat and onions. I hated them as a child, but how I love them now. I would never cook them this way myself. I cook my vegetables slightly crunchy, doncha know, but when I go home to southern Ohio and someone else makes these beans I can't get enough of them. Mom made wonderful pies -- to this day, I have never had a better pie crust. Our next door neighbor was rhapsodizing about her coconut cream pie at her funeral. When she made pies, she would take leftover strips of pie dough and sprinkle them with cinnamon and sugar and bake them for us kids. We'd eat them hot out of the oven as fast as she could produce them. Oh, and the hard cooked eggs in Bechamel sauce my mom called "Eggs a la Goldenrod". Mon Sep 11 03:20:55 -0700 2006 1530905 39487 woodleyparkhound 2 5144629 We had "Egg a Lagga" which was my father's way of saying "Eggs a la Goldenrod" the whites of the eggs were chopped and mixed in the white sauce, then served over toast with the yolks grated over the top. Sat Oct 31 00:52:43 -0700 2009 1867701 86221 lulubelle 1 1867859 If we were hungry before dinnner, my mom would fill celery stalks with cream cheese and liberally sprinkle on Lawrey's seasoned salt. I still love it. Every birthday cake was marachino flavored (cake and frosting! VERY bright pinck on all fronts) which I hated but I was the youngest of 4 kids and happy, really to eat ANY cake. If I went to my friend Julie's house for dinner, there were always exotic and new things. Mandarin oranges in the salad! Incredible. Icky, but cool, too. We had a large dog and we fed her dried dog food with canned gravy (meant for people but I was too young to realize it). At Julie's one night, I watched in interest and then horror as her mom opened and heated this same gravy and poured it over our pork chops. I burst out crying. "We feed this to our DOG!" I said, halfway out the door and hightailing it home. Mon Sep 11 05:10:50 -0700 2006 1530905 38077 JenMarie66 2 2532948 We used to feed our cats canned Mackerel. I thought it was cat food only! Imagine my horror when I went into the kitchen one day and found my mother eating "cat food" from the can!! Tue May 01 18:50:40 -0700 2007 1867859 41042 jacquelyncoffey 1 1867884 Chicken baked with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup. Use cut up chicken, dilute Campbell's cream of mushroom soup with half the normal amount of water and bake in a 375 oven until chicken is cooked. serve with rice, noodles or potatoes. Easy. Mon Sep 11 05:40:23 -0700 2006 1530905 27939 Parrot Fish 1 1868364 My mom always makes a baked ham with heinz chili sauce poured over it with 2 bottles of water added to the pan. Make sure you make mashed potatoes along with it and "pour the gravy" from the pan over the potatoes before you eat them. It's so good!!!!! I always grew up thinking everyone else made this until I mentioned it to my coworkers and they said they have never heard of it before. Then again I also grew up with my dad making home made chicken soup and then as he was about to serve it he would take out a jar of peanut butter and the saltine crackers and we would proceed to eat chicken soup with peanut butter and crackers. Another odd look from my friends when I told them this one too! Richie Mon Sep 11 15:36:51 -0700 2006 1530905 10646 javaandjazz 1 1868997 City chicken. It's marinated pork and veal, breaded and fried on a stick. Mon Sep 11 19:17:01 -0700 2006 1530905 16953 MuppetGrrl 2 4952949 I LOVED city chicken! Back then, veal was cheap. It was cubes of veal and pork on a skewer. I have described this to several people and nobody believed me. Thank you! Mon Aug 17 09:53:48 -0700 2009 1868997 1102312 maydaycolorado 3 4953304 We had that at overnight camp when I was a kid. They called it "meat on a stick." Mon Aug 17 11:30:56 -0700 2009 4952949 24468 chicgail 1 2068287 My Aunt also made her sloppy joe's that way :) I still like them to this day. I still love city chicken. I think its a regional dish from the midwest (i grew up in MI). Nobody that I know in Maryland had ever heard of it either. Also my mom had a friend from Tennessee who used to make us kids cream of chicken soup over toast for lunch. That was and still is one of my favorites whenver I dont feel good or am really bummed out...it always makes me smile :) Mon Dec 04 16:34:17 -0800 2006 1530905 57544 loveysangel 1 2068397 Take some Sauerkraut. Put it in a colander and rinse well with water. Then, stir in a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup. Don't add water. Heat in a saucepan until it comes to a simmer. My Italian grandmother from Venice who makes homemade ravioli and tons of traditional soups from scratch used to make this for my mother and her 4 siblings... and this was probably the only thing she ever made that only took about 2 minutes to prepare. Mon Dec 04 17:03:12 -0800 2006 1530905 57465 zen_grace 1 2090008 Chili Mac - Kraft Mac and Cheese with a can of Dennison's chili stirred in. I could seriously eat myself into a coma on this. The only unhealthy thing my mother ever made. Mon Dec 11 20:55:00 -0800 2006 1530905 14995 macrogal 1 2094919 My aunt Olga made what she called "mock oysters"--enough saltines mashed with canned tomatoes until you could form patties. Then fried until crispy on both sides. Not bad, but not good either! Wed Dec 13 03:14:41 -0800 2006 1530905 42470 blue room 2 2527064 My grandma made Mock Liver (ie chopped liver) and it was really good. Wish I had her recipe. Meryl http://theoccasionalcook.blogspot.com/ Mon Apr 30 07:23:17 -0700 2007 2094919 63311 puppymomma 1 2096665 OK, if anyone else had this, let me know. Beef kidneys (which smell god awful when cooked) boiled, and then sauted with some type of sauce made with hard boiled eggs. This mixture was served on toast for Sunday breakfast. I didn't like it when they were being cooked the day before, but I sure liked it when they were ready the next morning. My dad would always put tabasco sauce on it as well, something I tried and liked also. Wed Dec 13 18:51:21 -0800 2006 1530905 18183 cheapskate 2 2533159 OMG...I soo had this growing up; although not with any sauce...just the kidneys! So true, they STINK when cooking, but not altogether bad when done. Tue May 01 20:21:48 -0700 2007 2096665 63743 fooddiva 3 4763522 I came in once when my stepmother was making steak and kidney pie. I thought she was boiling the babies diapers and in my best snotty 12 year way told her I thought she shouldn't boil diapers just before supper. She was not endowed with a sense of humor and promptly informed me of the error of my ways. Yikes. Thu Jun 11 10:19:48 -0700 2009 2533159 292650 Sharon Campbell 1 2526607 A staple for special occasions in my house was "Protein Salad." Orange Jell-O powder Cool Whip cottage cheese drained, crushed pineapple canned mandarin oranges This was the only way I would eat cottage cheese (and still is) and is a food I still think of fondly. Sun Apr 29 22:07:13 -0700 2007 1530905 12515 iheartveggies 2 2879695 My church ladies make this. I like cottage cheese, but this is about the only way I'll eat jello. I tried a variation on this, using raspberry jello instead of orange and substituting frozen raspberries for the pineapple and orange. It wasn't bad, but turns out I like the orange better--interestingly enough since I'd eat plain raspberry jello before I'd touch plain orange. Fri Aug 24 19:31:06 -0700 2007 2526607 32586 revsharkie 1 2526751 My maternal grandfater's "recipe" for Hot Cabbage in Mustard Sauce: Clean and cut a cabbage into small wedges, cook in boiling water with salt until just tender. Drain but not completely, leaving a little cooking liquid. Mix Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard (or just plain, old yellow mustard), mayonnaise, and white vinegar to taste, Mix with the hot cabbage. Serve as a side dish. Also good cold. Mon Apr 30 02:39:23 -0700 2007 1530905 49726 Anonimo 1 2527057 My mother (not a good cook) used to put chicken pieces in a large baking pan with rice around it that was mixed with water, cream of mushroom soup, and orange juice. While mom wasn't too swift in the kitchen, it was comfort food. I tried, though, as an adult, to make it once and it totally grossed me out. Meryl http://theoccasionalcook.blogspot.com/ Mon Apr 30 07:22:03 -0700 2007 1530905 63311 puppymomma 1 2527103 Oh, well, the thread that won't die: Hot dog + sauerkraut in a hot wheat tortilla! Mon Apr 30 07:39:29 -0700 2007 1530905 36661 Sam Fujisaka 2 2586933 It's too much nostalgic fun. Sun May 20 18:16:56 -0700 2007 2527103 93465 PhoebeB 3 2587940 That's for sure...this thread really is good fun--it allows us to get to know one another better. Mon May 21 08:00:58 -0700 2007 2586933 36661 Sam Fujisaka 4 2588347 And it tells us that we're not the only ones who don't always dine on pheasant under glass and Grand Marnier souffles :o)))) Mon May 21 10:04:54 -0700 2007 2587940 93465 PhoebeB 2 4674866 Sam, yours is about the closest I've seen to my contribution -- my son had a friend from Mexico, who worked hard at becoming Americanized. He used to make Top Ramen burritos. Yum! Mon May 11 17:04:46 -0700 2009 2527103 61763 hoosfoos 1 2527149 Two things come to mind...One was what my Mother called "Hash"...This was leftover pot roast cubed, the already cooked potatoes, cubed, a sliced onion, the cooked carrots, cubed, and then some of the leftover gravy...All of this was put in an iron skillet and sauteed, with a little water added for consistency, and some Worcestershire sauce added...Know it sounds funky, but it was delish...Another one was hot dogs sliced lengthwise, and sauteed in "margarine", then a sauce was added that was catsup, a little onion, mustard, and brown sugar...similiar to what one might use for baked beans...This was heated through, and served over hamburger buns....Ah...Memories.... Mon Apr 30 07:57:03 -0700 2007 1530905 71851 jinet12 2 2527365 So many good things: cottage cheese with grape jelly mixed in(my grandmother made her own cottage cheese and her own homemade jelly saltine crackers & milk or buttermilk. I like to put the milk in the freezer so it is icy cold hot dog sandwiches- broil hot dogs,split almost down the middle,spread apart on white bread with mayo and catsup,fried balony sandwiches made the same way. "sweet rice", cooked rice with butter, sugar,milk or cream,nutmeg milk toast- make toast,while toast is still warm sprinkle with sugar,nutmeg,eat in bowl with milk fried Mon Apr 30 09:06:11 -0700 2007 2527149 13538 corabeth 3 2532254 my nana made milk toast when she was feeling ill. just plain though. Tue May 01 15:08:17 -0700 2007 2527365 57801 lollya 3 2533536 We ate hot dog sandwiches, too! Cut in half and split open lengthwise on white bread. Not an easy sandwich for our little hands to hold--half of the hot dog would always flop out. No mayo on ours though, ketchup on mine and mustard on my brother's. My dad also made us peanut butter and bacon sandwiches which he still eats often. His favorite (and my most hated) meal was simply called Hamburger and Beans and I think consisted of browned hamburger meat cooked with a can of pork and beans served over plain white bread. I hated beans (still do, sadly) and the sweetish taste it had grossed me out. My dad also used to drink Coca-cola with peanuts floating on the top! Wed May 02 00:45:53 -0700 2007 2527365 82634 sarahvagaca 4 2586584 "My dad also used to drink Coca-cola with peanuts floating on the top!" There is a touching reference to this unique preference in "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. Worth the read either way. Sun May 20 15:29:53 -0700 2007 2533536 15774 MSK 2 2532251 we were a hash family too! Only shredded roast, potatoes, onions and lots of pepper. sometimes we put it on buttered bread and poured gravy over it. Tue May 01 15:07:31 -0700 2007 2527149 57801 lollya 1 2527622 My grandmother's chicken soup with mini meatballs in it. I guess its almost her take on an Italian Wedding soup, but it doesn't have escarole in it and the everything else is exactly like traditional chicken soup. She also puts orzo pasta in it! SO good! Also, there is a recipe in my family for an Italian bread that we call "chamellone (i really don't know how to spell it)" Its i guess considered to be an Italian easter bread. It has a texture more like a cake and it is made in a large round shape with hole in the center. I know that the recipe has anise seeds in it as well as flour, egg, and maybe sour cream? It is then topped with those little round sprinkles. It is one of those recipes that has been in my family for decades, but i've never seen or heard of it anywhere else! Mon Apr 30 10:10:19 -0700 2007 1530905 50537 NiKoLe1625 2 2529481 Wow! I did a double take reading this. My mom claims that the name for our family's Italian easter bread is "cham-BA-llone." (But she is also infamous for mispronouncing Italian words because she says them the way she remembers old Italian relatives pronouncing it.) Anyway, it is also a round, cakey-slightly-sweet-a-little-dry-bready pastry. No anise though. This past easter several recipes were posted for Italian easter bread cooked in a ring, but those all had the whole eggs baked in and no one indicated it was called anything that even remotely sounded like "chamballone" so I figured it wasn't the same thing. I'm so excited to hear someone else's family makes this bread too! Mon Apr 30 19:02:36 -0700 2007 2527622 23389 charmedgirl 1 2530263 Sour cream noodles - broad egg noodles mixed with sour cream, butter, parmesan cheese and black pepper. I've introduced these to a number of my friends and they've all fallen in love. Chicken nuggets made with pancake batter. Tue May 01 06:02:10 -0700 2007 1530905 17481 QueenB 2 2533149 Same concept: a babysitter used to deep-fry pancakes. Not pancake batter, actual cooked pancakes. So wrong, but so good. Tue May 01 20:18:43 -0700 2007 2530263 10681 piccola 1 2530550 Some spaghetti dish that my mother always made as a side to breaded, fried veal chops. It was spaghetti noodles with a can of stewed tomatoes and bits of americn cheese. Sounds disgusting. Probably was. I've never had the urge to re-create it. Tue May 01 08:05:44 -0700 2007 1530905 24468 chicgail 1 2530561 I forgot cream cheese and chopped (green pimento-stuffed) olive sandwiches on rye bread. The kids at school all said "euuuw,: but I loved it. Also "eggs-in-a-mess." I think it came from a Dorothy Parker children's book I read. It combined soft-boiled eggs out of the shell with chopped up cooked bacon and cut up toast. Tue May 01 08:08:12 -0700 2007 1530905 24468 chicgail 2 2533084 I totally ate cream cheese and green olive sandwiches when I was growing up. I also got the same ewww at the lunch table, but that didnt stop me from eating those sandwiches. Tue May 01 19:43:09 -0700 2007 2530561 81200 Put a Sake in it 3 2533768 love your screen name PASII! Wed May 02 06:13:09 -0700 2007 2533084 36312 HillJ 4 2534758 Thanks! Wed May 02 11:05:20 -0700 2007 2533768 81200 Put a Sake in it 3 4896733 Go look in my in-laws fridge right now, today, and you will find both the black AND green olive versions of this as a sandwich and cracker spread. I like it if you use the really flavorful greek or itallian garlic olives, otherwise it's a little too bland for me. Tue Jul 28 08:08:23 -0700 2009 2533084 1092553 aggiecat 2 2533118 I never had a name for the egg dish, but that was going to be my contribution. It was my father's favorite breakfast, and has been mine as long as I can remember. I had it this morning. You have to get the eggs just right to moisten the toast, and the bacon needs to be crisp. Toss to evenly coat the toast, and season with salt and fresh ground pepper. Do you know what the book was? Tue May 01 20:04:22 -0700 2007 2530561 43747 Leucadian 3 2586172 My daddy always made us the same breakfast and it sounds a lot like yours: a soft-boiled egg cracked over a piece of hot toast and smooshed with a fork to the edges so it covered the toast, then cut up in little bitty squares, S&P, crisp bacon crumbled on top. We loved it. Sun May 20 11:46:04 -0700 2007 2533118 93465 PhoebeB 4 2587214 I always wondered if this was a regional thing. My father grew up in Georgia, but lived in NYC and Boston before he got married. I can't find any references to eggs-in-a-mess anywhere. Sun May 20 20:23:49 -0700 2007 2586172 43747 Leucadian 5 2587276 My daddy grew up in Georgia, too: N. Georgia; Calhoun, Hill City. This was the only meal he ever fixed that I can recall, and not often. Probably the only thing he knew how to make. I'm sure it was a childhood favorite of his. Sun May 20 20:51:59 -0700 2007 2587214 93465 PhoebeB 6 2594032 Hi PhoebeB. Next time I have eggs and bacon and toast, I'll think of Pop, at breakfast in Hamilton as a young boy, with his mother making it for him in the kitchen. It's not so odd that food has such emotional strings to pull, because I just found another one. It would be fun to trace this little treat back to Georgia roots. Thanks. Tue May 22 22:14:36 -0700 2007 2587276 43747 Leucadian 4 2821732 I love this thread... This brings back fond memories of breakfast with my father (recently deceased...) - rye bread, fried or poached eggs (no bacon in this version). Tear up the bread into bite-size bits, put into bowl with eggs, add salt/pepper to taste, mush and eat. Wonderful. Another father/breakfast memory: when he left the table, he usually left a little bit of coffee in the bottom of his cup. I would take some sugar and pour it slowly into the cup until the sugar just soaked up all the coffee (the sugar turned moist and brown)...and then slowly eat the coffee-sugar. My introduction to coffee, and a wonderful morning treat. Since I'm here... more stuff I remember fondly: --spaghetti with butter and ketchup (my boyfriend thinks this sounds gross, but it was/is a wonderful comfort food) --frozen spinach (creamed or plain) with melted cheeze whiz or velveeta. This was the only way we would eat veggies - with melted cheese on top. Of course, my mother had never heard of fresh vegetables (except corn on the cob), so I didn't get into the good stuff like fresh, steamed broccoli until I left home. She still doesn't like vegetables much. --best comfort food ever - plain yogurt, mushed banana, cinnamon. As a kid my mother made it with cottage cheese and sour cream instead of yogurt, but I like my way better now. --grilled cheese (almost any kind, but gouda, Jarlsberg or cheddar work really well), open face on good dense bread, heated until the cheese bubbles and turns a little brown and crispy (necessary for the right flavor). Now I add a bit of onion jam under the cheese, fresh tomato, and/or some ham/prosciutto. Great easy meal. Tue Aug 07 10:30:35 -0700 2007 2586172 117402 djhnyc 5 4669294 Re the comfort yoghurt, I love adding mashed raspberries to the banana and yoghurt and drizzle in some honey. Never tried it with cinnamon. Very comforting. Sat May 09 15:01:10 -0700 2009 2821732 213547 cathodetube 2 2864133 Cream cheese and green olives on an english muffin are a favorite of mine to this day! Mon Aug 20 18:19:50 -0700 2007 2530561 32271 Bobierto 1 2530572 Ok, just one more. Saurkraut and sliced onions cooked with the drippings of roast duck, turned many times until it was thoroughly caramelized and chewy. Tue May 01 08:11:05 -0700 2007 1530905 24468 chicgail 2 4674651 I am reading this post whilst attempting to dream up a dinner idea. Strangely enough, all I have in my fridge is sauerkraut (homemade, a gift from my Hungarian Grandmother (nagymama)), artisanal duck fat, and some onions on the shelf that are sprouting quite strangely. Sounds nostalgic enough to actually cook tonight for dinner, maybe with a side of frozen pierogies! Mon May 11 15:57:44 -0700 2009 2530572 216395 unturtlesoup 1 2532671 Not my family recipe, but a friend of the family... elbow macaroni mixed with ketchup (Heinz) & then layered with the super block of Velveeta & then baked. Tue May 01 17:09:30 -0700 2007 1530905 23132 dbug31 2 2532967 Here's one I haven't seen in this thread, it's called "Butter Noodles." My nursery school teached used to make this for us probably when lunch funds were low. We loved it. Just add margerine to hot egg noodles and sprinkle with white sugar while still warm and mix well. I still make this and love it! Tue May 01 18:56:45 -0700 2007 2532671 41042 jacquelyncoffey 3 2533040 FUNNY! We make that too, but with butter, and salt and lots of pepper! Tue May 01 19:26:33 -0700 2007 2532967 57801 lollya 2 4838236 Sounds similarto what my great-grandma called Red Stuff. Boiled macaroni, drained, mixed with a can of undiluted tomato soup and half a block of Velveeta. Served with boiled ring bologna. Yummmmmm. Tue Jul 07 20:00:40 -0700 2009 2532671 1091147 almond3xtract 1 2533141 A very fond Saturday morning memory is ground beef with scrambled egg with lots of ketchup. I swear the only place I've ever seen this in the "real" world is DOG FOOD. But it was soooo good! Tue May 01 20:16:36 -0700 2007 1530905 63743 fooddiva 1 2533522 - Cheese and strawberry jam sandwisches made with Wonder bread. My mom went "gourmet" on us when I was a teenager and switched from Velvetta to making them with Cheddar. I still love this. - My childhood friend and I made this up: Hilshire Farm Kielbasa w/ grape jelly rolled up into a flattened Wonder bread "tortilla" - I hipped my hubbie to this one and it's his favorite breakfast in the world (w/ a side of fried eggs): white rice, chopped up tomato with salt & lots of bacon!!!! Wed May 02 00:26:12 -0700 2007 1530905 94393 Workalot 1 2533540 Mom didn't cook much and she worked and went to school at night. We were latchkey kids. One thing she did -- she had a wide, shallow clay pot that she put dry rice (Uncle Ben's), some tomato and onions, and topped with thin, bone-in pork chops. I assumed there was some liquid, too, but I don't remember. We would put it in the oven at whatever temperature (who knows? I was 11-17, brother was 6-12) for an hour or two and then ate it. It was pretty good, better than most of the other meals we had. Wed May 02 01:01:00 -0700 2007 1530905 85615 misohungrychewlow 1 2533553 oooooh. Crush a bunch of graham crackers, very (very!) finely. Mix with a glass of milk. Stir well. Enjoy (and scrape the grease off the roof of your mouth if necessary). Very yummy. Really weird, according to my teenager. Really a pain, vis a vis lactose issues. But very yummy. Wed May 02 01:23:39 -0700 2007 1530905 49525 cayjohan 2 2585342 Ha, I used to do this, but it's even better w/ condensed milk. I used to eat warm rice krispy treats batter; on occasion I made part of a batch upon arriving home from school... Not weird though I guess. I used to love microwaving and browning mini candy bars in the microwave... 3 Musketeers melted, gooey, and bordering on burnt. Sat May 19 21:25:31 -0700 2007 2533553 15572 Emme 3 2586156 How funny! My kids always FROZE their Snickers/3 Musketeers. Sun May 20 11:39:06 -0700 2007 2585342 93465 PhoebeB 4 4648351 Very cold 3 Musketeers bars are utterly fantastic. I bite the chocolate coating off and then eat the delicious gooey middle. Sat May 02 11:37:17 -0700 2009 2586156 288063 elance 1 2533762 First time I'm reading this very funny and endearing thread. My mother in law raised a gaggle of kids on many odd but budget stretching "recipes" Something like hot dog stew or mashed potatoes stuffed length wise in a hot dog was considered "high livin" during the week. Although my Dh still enjoys the occasional hot dog, it's gourmand all the way. Dear mother in law, still laughs at the crazy days of family meals but has offered to make me hot dog stew MANY times...so far....I can't say I've had the pleasure. Wed May 02 06:11:52 -0700 2007 1530905 36312 HillJ 1 2533843 This thread is a hoot! My contributions are really gross... when I was growing up my mom would make "Pizza cheese sandwiches" which were a slice of bread spread with ketchup, topped with a slice of american cheese and a sprinkle of oregano (when she was feeling especially motivated--this was what i hated) cooked in the toaster oven until the cheese was all bubbled up and crusty. The second thing she passed off as a meal makes me cringe! stuffed hot dogs: take one hot dog per person eating, slice it almost in half lengthwise, place in 9-13 pan. Squirt mustard in sliced hotdog, cover all with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with parm cheese from the can, dot with butter and bake until crusty. I actually ate this weekly until I was about 11 years old and my dad had a heart attack. I never saw a hotdog in our house again. aa Wed May 02 06:44:30 -0700 2007 1530905 49465 amyamelia 2 2535231 my mom always ate avocados with Miracle Whip in the pit hollows. I didn't know everyone didn't do this for a long time. (some of my friends hadn't even tried avocados....) Wed May 02 12:54:21 -0700 2007 2533843 12341 vanillagrrl 3 2535779 Ewwww. Miracle whip. That reminds me that I grew up on grilled cheese sandwiches made with miracle whip on the bread instead of butter. Tasted good then, but I don't think I could eat one now. Wed May 02 14:55:40 -0700 2007 2535231 49465 amyamelia 3 2535831 People who like Miracle Whip seem to be always from Oklahoma or Nebraska - there is something about those flat sandy areas that make them need sugarized mayonnaise....GACK! anyway, a lot of you have "poor" recipes that are actually heritage foods. MMMM- sorghum!!!!! keep up the good work - this is a great thread! Fried baloney with american cheese - the curled up balony holds the cheese just great///FRITO PIES! nobody mentioned this yet? Fritos, chili, cheese - all melted and crunchy and salty and HOT - YUM!!! Wed May 02 15:09:23 -0700 2007 2535231 95798 twinks 4 2586192 We made/make our Frito Chili pie with a 3/4" bottom layer of buttered grits mixed w/chopped green chile, then chili/cheese/Fritos layered over that. If your chili is good, this is a GREAT dish. My grandkids, as my kids did, love fried baloney cups filled with scrambled eggs and topped w/grated cheese. Sun May 20 11:52:54 -0700 2007 2535831 93465 PhoebeB 4 2586507 Miracle Whip is also super common in Southern IN. Growing up you could always find Miracle Whip in everyones fridge, but I cannot remember a time when anyone I knew had mayo in their house. Miracle Whip is just the standard there. Sun May 20 14:47:55 -0700 2007 2535831 82243 ArikaDawn 5 2586611 Right. I don't think my Texas mother knew there was such a thing as mayonnaise. Sun May 20 15:44:34 -0700 2007 2586507 93465 PhoebeB 6 3278665 Being from Kansas my mom still swears by Miracle Whip excusively. I keep both as I like it for some things and good old mayo for others! Wed Jan 09 14:55:50 -0800 2008 2586611 156002 btrswttx00 4 4896774 For fundraisers you'd get the canned chili ladeled into the split open little bag of fritos then top with sprinkles of cheese and chopped onion. This is still an organization and family fave. My 6 year old adores frito pie. Tue Jul 28 08:20:19 -0700 2009 2535831 1092553 aggiecat 1 2537647 What fun! But I feel pretty lucky, because the recipe that immediately comes to mind is my Sicilian stepfather's pizza: homemade yeast crust, usually thick (with admonitions during the kneading process that "the dough is a living thing"); lots of diced onion (about one per pizza), canned plum tomatoes, mozzarelli, a grated Parmesan we used to call Locatelli, oregano, and spritz of olive oil. Also occasionally canned anchovies (broken into pieces). I still make it. Must be made in square pans and cut with scissors to be truly Scafidi. Thu May 03 08:18:17 -0700 2007 1530905 42728 Amanita 2 2585240 What a great thread, and there are several dozen things I'm going to try on my grandchildren. Here are two of our family "mooshes" we still make and love. Cook the pink out of a half-pound of Jimmy Dean Hot sausage, add a chopped onion and green pepper (the frozen chopped pepper is one of the great leaps forward of modern times; tenderizes so fast), saute til tender. Add a great big can of Pork & Beans and a can of chopped green chile, season with a big splash of Sweet Baby Ray's Hot & Spicy BBQ sauce. (Or Adobo or Taco seasoning or Tabasco or cayenne or dry mustard, brown sugar, catsup, chili sauce; whatever suits you.) Another skillet-meal we love in the summer with cornbread and sliced tomatoes is this: In a big skillet or braising pan w/lid, cook most of the the pink from a lb. of ground beef, add a chopped onion and green pepper, saute til tender. Add 6-8 sliced yellow summer squash (or part zucchini). This will make a huge heap. Cover and lower heat, let the squash cook down, turning everything over top to bottom now and then. When it's the tenderness you want, season w/S&P, a sprinking of oregano or somesuch. Might want to reduce the liquid a bit. It varies w/the squash. Sat May 19 19:57:23 -0700 2007 2537647 93465 PhoebeB 3 5128382 We had a garden and the giant zucchini would become truly monstrous if we didn't pick them every day. Mammoth zucchini were gutted of the seedy, pithy center, then stuffed with hamburger, cooked rice, green pepper and onion, and baked with tomato sauce and grated cheese on the top. We sometimes had fried grits or cornmeal with syrup for breakfast (cooked, chilled and sliced into rectangles). Very rarely, my Dad made real scrapple from bits of pork, usually from the head, mixed with white cornmeal, chilled and fried up the same way for breakfast. Sat Oct 24 18:02:12 -0700 2009 2585240 1116118 skamama 1 2585399 My mom would make us "decorated eggs" for supper when we got home late after a long car trip or just didnt' feel like a big dinner. Scrambled eggs topped with Wolf Brand Chili (no beans). I grew up in Texas and have never seen Wolf chili in California, where I live now (and not sure I'd actually eat it anymore). But, boy was that a good combo, topped off with a little sour cream and ketchup. Sat May 19 22:05:51 -0700 2007 1530905 86449 cafecreme 1 2586516 One of my sister and her fiancees favorite dinners is a bag of seasoned fries cooked per the instructions, topped with a jar of Big-B-BBQ and shredded cheddar cheese and then put under the broiler until the cheese melts and BBQ heats through. They eat it just like that and apparently they've had it the past few Sundays, but it gives me the shivers just thinking about it. Sun May 20 14:53:13 -0700 2007 1530905 82243 ArikaDawn 1 2586623 My mother's family came from northern England and we always had bread sauce with our roast chicken or turkey. Scald homo milk with an onion studded with a few cloves. Add white bread crumbs until thick and let it simmer a while. Fish out the onion and add a dash of white pepper and a knob of butter. Pour gravy over top. Heaven. I make it myself with my poultry but my mom still makes it best! Sun May 20 15:50:07 -0700 2007 1530905 88583 Cheers 1 2586643 My mom makes an interesting version of Matzah Farfel that I don't see anywhere else. We ask for it all year round (traditionally it's a Passover dish). She soaks the Matzah pieces (boxes and boxes) in an egg batter until it's all absorbed.Then she spreads it into a thin layer onto jelly roll pans and bakes it (stirring regularly) until it's dry, light brown and crunchy. Let it cool overnight and hope no one has eaten it all as a crunchy snack instead of popcorn. The next day brown lots and lots of onions (her words exactly). Bring chic stock to a boil in a large stock pot, add the matzah until moisture is absorbed and then add the onions, stirring regularly until the whole mixture is soft and light brown. Add more stock (preferably hot) if the mixture seems dry. Salt and pepper should be added for seasoning at any point in this process but traditionally, my mom's was over salty so I hesitate to be more specific. You'll need to experiment. If I can pin her down to the actual measurements, I'll pass it along but this is the way she generally cooks. She does make variations sometimes by adding mushrooms or shredded chicken. You can use it like a side dish instead of rice, etc., as a Turkey stuffing or it's even good as the basis for a hash (instead of potatoes) topped with eggs, etc. Is anyone else's Farfel similar?? Sun May 20 15:59:38 -0700 2007 1530905 15774 MSK 2 2590328 Yes, this is actually how my grandmother suggested I make matzah farfel for my seder a few years ago. It was great. I can't remember whether it was her embellishment idea or mine, but mine had sauteed onions and mushrooms mixed in. Mon May 21 20:27:41 -0700 2007 2586643 11377 seattledebs 2 2596280 The eggs make it sound like kasha, the broth makes it sound like risotto. Hmm, matzotto? Wed May 23 14:31:28 -0700 2007 2586643 13445 Louise 1 2586724 My parents made something called "Mexican-American Casserole" that was layers of tortilla, cheese, refried beans, and salsa or tomato. I don't remember exactly, but as a child without a good idea of potential food horizons it was fine with me! ;) I also remember eating a lot of "bologna and cheese and mustard and ketchup" sandwiches, but I don't know whose idea that was originally! Sun May 20 16:47:01 -0700 2007 1530905 29608 Neuromancer 1 2586757 Bananas and SOUR CREAM ---> Not yogurt, LOTS of rich sour cream that will give you a stomach ache because its not supposed to be eaten in large amounts Sun May 20 17:03:02 -0700 2007 1530905 17319 Feed Me 1 2587074 My mother used to make open-faced burgers that she called "(insert family name) burgers". My kids used to love them too. Ground beef combined with chopped onions, diced Velveeta, and held together with Heinz chili sauce. Spread on open-faced hamburger bun, and bake or broil in a hot oven until done. Yum!! Sun May 20 19:19:22 -0700 2007 1530905 61989 ksmms 1 2587870 My mother is korean, so lord only knows where she got these recipes: When I was younger, my family never topped our spaghetti with the stuff from the green can. Instead we each took a slice of yellow processed cheese and mixed it into our spaghetti and sauce. When I think about it now....ughh My mother also used to take ritz crackers, mix them up with some melted butter to form a kind of mealy paste, and then sprinkle/mix them up with steamed broccoli. I love this simple side dish . Also in highschool my mom (or me) would make me a sandwich with toasted white bread and smashed avocado on it. By lunch time, the avocado was brown, but it was still really good. Rice + soy sauce + furikake sprinkles + butter all mixed up = disgusting now ): I tried to recreate this dish a few months ago out of nostalgia and I felt pretty sick to my stomach. I also remember in elementary school getting the worst thing ever. My mom would take a flour tortilla, spread it with creamcheese, add sliced cucumber, and then roll it up. When you sliced it, it made gross pinwheels and I had to eat it all. not a dish, but I loved cookie crisp cereal in chocolate milk or those cinnamon square cereal (forget the name) with lots of cinnamon sprinkled in the milk. 2nd time I've edited this post: sauteed green beans or boiled (very very quickly - prob 5 mins) and tossed with cream cheese - it makes a nice sauce when you add the cream cheese to the green beans. I have tried green beans and goatcheese, but I think I like the original version better pork chops fried in a pan with slices of tomato and onion on them and cream cheese added on top. We had this like once a week growing up childhood favorite: boiled squid tentacles and body dipped into ketchup. Its traditionally dipped in chojang (sugary chile sauce), but my sister and I used ketchup because it wasn't spicy and it had the same color Mon May 21 07:30:31 -0700 2007 1530905 24546 bitsubeats 2 2589932 I love freshly made hot white rice with butter and soy sauce! Or rolled up warm tortillas with butter and salt! My friends used to think I was so wierd. The pepsi with milk didn't help either! Mon May 21 17:32:58 -0700 2007 2587870 100242 Me so hungry 3 2612125 Hot white rice with soy sauce, hot sauce and butter is one of my all time favorite comfort foods. My grandmother would indulge me by letting me eat that for dinner. I still eat it occasionally as a hangover remedy My Mom would make Texas Hash - a rice dish with ground beef, stewed tomatoes, chili powder, onions and I guess some sort of liquid baked in a casserole dish. Tue May 29 20:03:21 -0700 2007 2589932 86005 amethiste 2 2594742 cinnamon toast crunch! Wed May 23 08:44:41 -0700 2007 2587870 57801 lollya 2 2595015 I'm Korean too, and my aunt used to fry up rice with butter and soy sauce, too - man is that good. That and cooked spam?? Gooood. I just don't eat it now because I'm afraid of all the fat in the butter. Haha and we still do eat squid cut up and dipped in ketchup. Thinking about it now, I guess it IS weird. Wed May 23 09:54:31 -0700 2007 2587870 18288 janethepain 2 3230135 Another Korean here...We used to do a lot of weird things with rice... hot steamed rice w/ butter and kimchee hot steamed rice mixed w/ a raw egg and a drizzle of soy sauce hot steamed rice in any kind of soup we ever made, especially ramen and when we owned the deli: -dollop of tuna salad on a saltine w/ a few alfalfa sprouts and a slice of pickled jalapeno steamed rice (we also served teriyaki) w/ bacon and pepperoncini peppers and from my aunt: pita filled w/ thick slices of hillshire farm smoked sausage, tomatoes, lettuce and monterey jack cheese. nuked until cheese is melted and lettuce is wilted and warm. thick slices of hillshire farm smoked sausage sprinkled w/ pepper, put on a plate w/ paper towel and nuked til crispy. sometimes we would wrap these in romaine lettuce leaves or just eat them w/ rice and kimchee. Fri Dec 21 22:49:29 -0800 2007 2587870 56183 soypower 3 3290699 still love to eat hot steamed rice mixed with raw egg and soy sauce. another weird thing I ate growing up was something called coffee soup. My half italian grandmother served this to my sister and I when we were little and we loved it. take a slice of white bread and put it in a bowl. Add coffee, milk, and sugar to the bowl and eat with a spoon. Sooooooo good Sun Jan 13 10:05:24 -0800 2008 3230135 24546 bitsubeats 2 4648358 Avocado sandwiches! I love them. My mother always put lemon juice in the avocado to stop it from going brown, and the sandwiches also had cheddar cheese and mayo on them. Sat May 02 11:40:41 -0700 2009 2587870 288063 elance 2 4918629 LoL we did that with our freshly steamed rice too!! My brother used to love hot rice, I can't believe its not butter, and kimchee "juice" all mixed together. Sometimes we'd add chopped kimchee to the mix, throw it all in a hot pan, and let it get caramelized and crunchy in a hot pan. My mom also rolled pickles and cream cheese with sandwich meat and we ate it with lettuce. Kinda like an Americanized "ssam" We also did the same thing with squid but mixed 1/2 ketchup 1/2 chojang! Wed Aug 05 02:01:05 -0700 2009 2587870 1099300 ajkm 1 2589794 My beloved gramma used to fry up a bunch of bacon, crumble it, then mix a cup of Helman's mayonnaise with some sugar - god knows how much - into the hot grease. This, with the crumbled bacon, would get poured over iceberg lettuce until it wilted. This is what she called salad. Which may very well explain my grandfather's need for a triple bypass... Mon May 21 16:41:41 -0700 2007 1530905 65263 neobite 2 2589908 Made right, this is a "Wilted Lettuce Salad" and one of the best salads on earth, and it has no more fat/oil than most other salad dressings. I can eat the whole bowl of it and not care if there's anything else on the table. (Except maybe some cornbread.) Mama made it (and the kids and I still do) with leaf lettuce torn up in a bowl with sliced scallions. (We do it sometimes with baby spinach or a mix.) She fried about 4 slices of bacon crisp, crumbled it and set it aside, added to the drippings about 2 T. of cider vinegar and the same of water, brought it to the boil and poured it over the lettuce & scallions, added the crumbled bacon and lots of black pepper, tossed to coat/mix/wilt, garnished with sliced hardcooked eggs. When I noticed your post I was about to post something I just remembered, so I'll just tack it on here. I invented a fantastic summer treat for the kids back in the 80s in hot Dallas: Reconstituted frozen limeade mixed with a can of cold pear nectar and poured into glasses over a dip of either lime or pineapple sherbet. O my, is it good and refreshing! I haven't made it for years because I've not been able to find pear nectar in my part of Maine. But I think I saw some recently at our natural food store and I'm going to make this again if the durned weather ever warms up. Mon May 21 17:21:53 -0700 2007 2589794 93465 PhoebeB 3 3574810 We had wilted lettuce salad, too, though not often, but I think it was with leaf lettuce from the garden. As kids we used to fix various floats including a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a tall glass of oj. Tue Apr 08 15:54:44 -0700 2008 2589908 169792 lgss 2 2597640 Neobite, your post about your gramma's weird salad reminded me that my grandfather's idea of a great salad was a wedge of iceberg lettuce topped with red cocktail sauce (the kind that they used to put on shrimp cocktail). Wow, weren't the 50s exciting! Thu May 24 03:50:19 -0700 2007 2589794 24468 chicgail 3 2599904 Shiver... Yeah, I can almost see that in the glaring four-color photo of wege lettuce with cocktail sauce in, like, the Better Homes & Gardens book. Right next to the tomato-and-pineapple-in-aspic salad. Yowsa. And then everyone drinks some Blue Nun and picks a random set of keys out of the bowl... Although, given PhoebeB's support of it, I can kind of wrap my head around the idea of a bacon grease salad. Like a BLT, minus the T and the bread. Though something about my grandmother's addition of mayo makes me go gackk. Thu May 24 16:37:00 -0700 2007 2597640 65263 neobite 1 2589919 Kivarita, I've seen the recipe for sloppy joes like you enjoyed in old midwest church basement cookbooks and could never figure out the purpose of the chicken gumbo soup in a sloppy joe! but here goes my unlikely favorite: Mom made hamburgers like this: lean south dakota beef mixed with onion and ketchup and salt and pepper, then the raw mess was spooned into burger bun halves and broiled, I don't know why it was so good, but it really was. Mon May 21 17:28:14 -0700 2007 1530905 99062 archangelcat 1 2590337 Our quick/easy meal was my favorite as a kid is still a comfort food I love. We called it "tuna fish munsch." Sautee onions and tuna, and add tomato sauce. Cook together until the flavors mix. Add in peas (optional). Serve over pasta with parmesan. I even like it cold the next day. Mon May 21 20:31:47 -0700 2007 1530905 11377 seattledebs 2 2590628 My father used to take chopped liver, spread it between pieces of bread dipped in egg/milk (life French toast) and fry it in a skillet in chicken fat. It was a heart attack in a frying pan, but it was delicious! Mon May 21 23:12:51 -0700 2007 2590337 86167 kawachi 3 2592504 What fun topic. When I was a kid. . . - I ate and loved fried boloney, fried salami or fried hot dog sandwiches with mayo. - Grilled Hamburger patties with Cambell's cream of mushroom soup with lot's grated cheese to make a superb gravy ALL OVER fresh or day old rice. Yum Yum! - Philly cream cheese on sour dough bread served with spaghetti. - Dennison's chili over day old rice. - Fried tacos made using crumbly hamburger. - Fried wontons made with hamburger meat. - A bowl of hot steaming rice with a raw egg mixed in with a splash of soy sauce. - Oscar Mayer Baloney rolled up in a warmed tortilla. - Fried rice made with eggs, bacon and shredded cabbage.and lop chong(chinese sausage) Cholesterol problems? Nah! I've been dead for years : ) Tue May 22 12:46:20 -0700 2007 2590628 99017 Pakkai 4 2598848 Pakkai, some of these sound like standard Japanese-American fare. Thu May 24 11:35:14 -0700 2007 2592504 36661 Sam Fujisaka 5 2607896 Isamu, Indeed they are! Mon May 28 10:36:38 -0700 2007 2598848 99017 Pakkai 1 2598815 Inspired by the comments to this post, I made two of these "recipes". Last night I took some leftover brown rice, drizzled soy sauce on it, and sprayed it with butter spray - it tasted like I remembered my aunt making it (though admittedly, making it with fresh sticky rice and real butter and decent soy sauce like my aunt made it would obviously taste better). But for a spray butter and funky-looking soy sauce, not bad. I can hear some of you barfing right now. Today I had a piece of Wonder bread spread with margarine (hey, it was the only thing my office's cafeteria had) and sprinkled with Splenda. Not quite as successful. Bleh. Thu May 24 11:27:56 -0700 2007 1530905 18288 janethepain 1 2600144 "Sloppy Lentils" Cooked lentils with pwd. garlic, chili pwd and prepared mustard.....we'd eat it on bread or tortillas and often with extra mustard and cheddar..... Thu May 24 17:58:13 -0700 2007 1530905 95942 havi 1 2600181 Strawberries rolled in sour cream and then brown sugar. Thu May 24 18:11:33 -0700 2007 1530905 97258 pickychicky1979 2 2600265 My mom would do this when having people over for brunch with whole strawberries and/or fresh pineapple cubes. I was apprehensive of the sour cream as a kid (I guess anything with 'sour' in the name wasn't too appealing!), but it was really good. Haven't had it in years! Thu May 24 18:49:21 -0700 2007 2600181 82634 sarahvagaca 3 2600280 We had something called Love Soup. Don't know where it came from but I make it all winter long. Best the day after it's made. 1 can of kidney beans 1 can of cannellini beans 1 package of frozen spinach 1 large can of crushed tomatoes 1 small can of tomato paste 1 whole keilbasa Enough chicken or veg stock to cover. put it all in a big pot and cook until warmed through. It's really much better the next day. Thu May 24 18:57:09 -0700 2007 2600265 82314 hungry329 1 2600400 I guess I was pretty lucky growing up. some things my mom made that i've never had elsewhere: -chicken or shrimp "curry" with vegetables and organge juice -"five spice" pork, which was diced pork glazed with ketchup, soy, and chinese five spice powder -my jewish grandmother's chicken: fry bone-in, skin on chicken pieces in oil until brown, add cream of mushroom soup, possibly sour cream? and bake until the chicken falls apart. serve with egg noodles. -my italian grandmother's mollenban soup: i've never seen this anywhere - chicken soup with farina "noodles" grated into it. - my parents version of tacos: onion, ground beef, ketchup, worcestire, soy, same thing again with beans instead of meat. serve over fried corn tortillas, guacamole, sour cream, tomatoes, lettuce, grated cheese and tabasco. i still make this. -this i've heard of, but never had anywhere but with my dad: fresh berries with heavy cream and sugar. -pork chops with tomato and onions, baked forever. - my favorite sandwich - alfalfa sprouts on toasted white bread or pita with lots of mayo. nothing else. Thu May 24 19:56:38 -0700 2007 1530905 11190 fara 2 2611194 my dad made this outrageous sauce on perciatelli pasta called bersalieri. You take onions and genoa salami and saute (like you would sautee pancetta and onions for amatriciana) andd tomatoes. Then you cut finger sizes pieces of sharp provolone,WHile the past is cookign you add the cheese to the sauce. ITs gets nice and melted and on top of the perciatelli outrageous!!! Tue May 29 14:30:55 -0700 2007 2600400 50432 TessCooks 3 2612187 that sounds good! i've never had provolone in pasta. Tue May 29 20:30:47 -0700 2007 2611194 11190 fara 3 2613663 I still eat this....make 2-3 slices white toast. Heat one can cambell's condensed tomato soup (do not add water) add 1 slice processed american cheese. Heat to melt cheese and soup and stir. Tear up toast and pour the soup mixture over. Serve with cold milk. My comfort food since I was a child. Everyone else in my family hates this, mother, husband, children, sisters...oh well. Wed May 30 10:41:54 -0700 2007 2611194 24318 eileenmary 1 2617379 This is not so much a family thing as a regional thing. I grew up in Hampton Roads, Virginia. In this area many Chinese restaurants had something called "Yat Ga Mein" on the menu. Locals called it "Yock". I'm visiting home and had it for the first time in about 20 years. The dish consists of noodles with a brown sauce, onions and a choice of shrimp, l chicken, beef or pork. I think it tastes suspiciously like a combo of ketchup and soy sauce. In this area even the 'Chinese' restaurants that are owned and operated by Black people have 'yokamein' on the menu. Has anyone else ever heard of "yat ga mein''? Thu May 31 10:59:12 -0700 2007 1530905 86005 amethiste 2 2825644 I know what dish you are looking for, and a search found me a recipe. The brown sauce is likely an oyster sauce. Unless you are going to use the sauce, it's hardly worth buying a bottle, the size is available in the stores. the recipe I found has chinese mushrooms, meat, bok choy, bean sprouts, green onions, the noodles and the sauce. It IS yummy!! AnnieG Wed Aug 08 11:08:59 -0700 2007 2617379 99375 violabratsche 3 2826645 Sounds good. Is it possible to post a link to the recipe? Thanks :-) Wed Aug 08 14:42:03 -0700 2007 2825644 86005 amethiste 1 2617434 My mom used to make "fried cinnamon buns"--she'd take those boxed white-icing-yellow cake cinnamon buns, slice them into about thirds and fry them in a skillet of butter (lots and lots of butter)--it was absolutely a heart attack on a plate (but truthfully worth it!). Thu May 31 11:11:41 -0700 2007 1530905 97171 chocoannie 1 2621302 Two more memories are now dredged up from reading this thread - which probably should have stayed there in the abyss! "Heavenly Hash" - Cool whip with flaked coconut, drained fruit cocktail, and chopped walnuts. << shivers >> "Hawaiin Smiles" - Spaghetti with "doctored" ketchup on it, topped with squares of Velveeta. Mom usually did much better than this, but at least these made me appreciate her other efforts even more! Fri Jun 01 12:55:25 -0700 2007 1530905 52113 Seldomsated 1 2824807 This is such fun...I really should have been working instead of reading all this though! It just inspired a one hour office conversation! I used to clamor for my Dad to make me scrambled eggs. Still don't know how he did it, but they were half fried, half scrambled, with the whites separate...guess he just didn't stir it much before putting it in the pan! I also remember olive loaf sandwiches on white bread with ketchup...do they even make olive loaf anymore? My fav which I try not to ever buy...german bologna on white with ketchup. Did they even have anything other than white bread? I don't remember anything else at our house, and as a result...I still love it. My mom put together a simple dessert that is still good today...a can of crushed pineapple, slightly drained, some heavy cream, and those mini marshmallows...mix em all up and it's great, if fattening. She also did things like others have mentioned...french dressing in avocados, usually served on a "cold plate" for hot summer days...occasionally with shrimp salad made with canned shrimp, a real treat in those days, sliced cucumbers and hard boiled eggs. Mom made porkchops the only way I will make them today, although I've doctored it. She bought the thin ones with the bone, browned them with s-p and then added carrots, potatoes and mushroom soup! I do it by adding shitakes, white wine and thyme...but it's still my go-to comfort food. She also made New England boiled dinner...a porketta (smoked pork shoulder) with potatoes, cabbage and carrots and onions all in one pot...just boiled the heck out of it. That reminds me...I've got one in the freezer! In our office conversation this morning I was asked what I ate differently as a child that I don't eat today. I lived in Teheran Iran for two years in the late 50's, and when my Mom and I would take my Dad to the airport for business trips, we would by a three pound tin of Beluga Caviar.........for 5 bucks! We would go home and eat it with chopped egg and onion, with a spoon. THAT is something I don't do today...at $150 an ounce! Wed Aug 08 07:46:40 -0700 2007 1530905 109812 crosby_p 1 2825245 Finally had time to read this - so much fun! Our school system served a scaled down shepherds pie thing called Potato Turbait. The local newspaper recipe request column would get people asking for instructions, no idea where the name came from. Was the only way I would willingly eat canned peas. My ex used to take a deep bowl and smash up a can of chopped up Vienna sausages, a can of sardines and masses of saltines. Looked like dog food & was quite smelly. Talked me into to trying it once and it was much better than it looked! Wed Aug 08 09:34:09 -0700 2007 1530905 111267 meatn3 1 2828267 My mom used to make something she (and her sisters) grew up calling 'scratch beans.' Old-fashioned flat string beans (Romano string beans) were thinly cut on a diagonal, then sauteed in a little oil and salt and pepper added while the bean slices were still very crisp. Just before serving a beaten egg was stirred in until cooked. Simple but delicious. Thu Aug 09 06:33:09 -0700 2007 1530905 60923 MobyRichard 2 2877221 fascinating! This inspired me to make my mom's version of hamberger cassarole the other day, delicious. My mother also made plenty of "___ baked with Campbell's cream of ___ soup" including frozen spinach & cream of mushroom which I loved. Also: - casseroles topped with canned fried onion rings (ew!) - a dessert she called "Depression Ice Cream" with evaporated milk frozen in an ice cube tray, anyone heard of this? Fri Aug 24 08:18:17 -0700 2007 2828267 66377 marfa 1 2877363 my mom used to use leftover pancakes to make sandwiches.... bologna sandwiches of course. i used to hide in the school yard to eat them as they were so good, but so embarrassing. she also used to make weiners and saurkraut which is just what it sounds like....served hot, only two ingredients. Fri Aug 24 08:47:48 -0700 2007 1530905 92635 jessi20 2 2950254 I do this too, with sunnyside eggs as the filling. Although I'm dying to try it with a veggie sausage patty... There's a breakfast chain in Canada called Cora's that serves a crêpe wrapped around an omelette with whatever breakfast meats/sides you want shoved inside. It's definitely a post-marathon meal. Mon Sep 17 16:51:48 -0700 2007 2877363 10681 piccola 1 2878084 How great that this thread has been around for a year - great to read everyone's replies. But I didn't see this one - Fried Mush. Leftover oatmeal chilled in a square dish overnite, remove and slice. Fry in butter, serve with more butter and syrup. Fri Aug 24 11:27:54 -0700 2007 1530905 59853 AlaskaChick 2 2950233 FFood's dear mother puts a sprinkling of tomato juice and white vinegar over her potato chips, along with salt and pepper. FFood says don't gag until you've tried it. Mon Sep 17 16:46:12 -0700 2007 2878084 128076 FFood 3 2950264 hey FFood, you sound uncannily like jfood. and for the record, nothing about that makes me want to gag. salt & vinegar potato chips with a little tomato & pepper for added kick? yum! Mon Sep 17 16:53:56 -0700 2007 2950233 103920 goodhealthgourmet 4 2950678 Yeah..it's cracking me up, wish I'd thought of it Mon Sep 17 18:58:10 -0700 2007 2950264 109347 elgordoboy 3 4918041 we did the dame as alaska chick, only with cream of wheat Tue Aug 04 18:37:55 -0700 2009 2950233 109905 laliz 2 2950719 wow, i can't believe i never thought of this... it sounds great. Mon Sep 17 19:11:56 -0700 2007 2878084 102095 vvvindaloo 3 4648423 Going on the snack food line, I had a friend in college who turned me on to putting the vinegary red pepper sauce (think Frank's Red Hot, not Tabasco) onto crunchy Cheetos. Douse them good, then add a squeeze of lemon. Wow. Adds a whole new level to a snacky staple. Sat May 02 12:18:16 -0700 2009 2950719 275592 SgtStens 2 4744958 We had fried mush in Central PA...only it was made with cornmeal.....fried and then topped with syrup. Like scrapple without the meat in it. Fri Jun 05 08:01:50 -0700 2009 2878084 35992 vacationmomma 3 4797954 Kinda makes me want to whip out a batch right now..... Tue Jun 23 08:46:49 -0700 2009 4744958 59853 AlaskaChick 3 4811859 I wondered when someone would get around to fried mush. We'd usually have cornmeal mush for dinner and then fried mush for the next day's breakfast. Sunday our big meal was mid-day (usually some kind of roast) and sometimes we'd have popcorn and apples for the evening meal. Another special dish was suet pudding--a steamed pudding with custard-like sauce. It's so rich that would be the whole meal. Sat Jun 27 18:41:54 -0700 2009 4744958 198984 Jeri L 2 4924084 i just found this thread...i love it! I remember "Fried Mush" from an old (1930's) series of children's movies called "The Little Rascals"...I believe it was made with cornmeal though. Thu Aug 06 16:03:24 -0700 2009 2878084 1087551 hotmexi 1 2950362 Hard Spaghetti!! My Mother made it, and I made all the years my kids were growing up. In fact,my youngest son just asked me how to make it a few weeks ago. I pk. thin spaghetti, one or two cans tomato soup, s&p, a little butter to top. Cook spaghetti, drain, add soup, s&p, put in a two qt.baking dish, dot with butter, pop into a 350 degree oven for at least an hour, or until the top gets hard. Mon Sep 17 17:24:12 -0700 2007 1530905 115579 Mother of four 1 2950420 my mom's [and grandmother's] holiday stuffing recipe was unlike any i've ever seen. oats, crushed cornflakes, grated carrots, onions, canned mushrooms, chicken broth, pepper, garlic powder , and the 'secret' ingredient...schmaltz! [known to the goyim as chicken fat]. cooked inside the turkey, always with an additional huge batch baked in a casserole dish. sounds bizarre, i know...but it's beyond delicious. my friends would always call to find out when she was making it around the holidays so they could come over and chow down. now i make my own [healthier] version of it for thanksgiving, and everyone inhales it. Mon Sep 17 17:40:11 -0700 2007 1530905 103920 goodhealthgourmet 2 2950528 french toast with sour cream - I didn't even know people ate it with syrup until I was in 6th grade or so. Also we ate our scrambled eggs with syrup! Mon Sep 17 18:12:04 -0700 2007 2950420 12088 Jcooks 1 2950581 Dad used to make a "breakfast drink" for my brother and I- egg yolks blended with sugar and espresso. We were barely even school age. Mon Sep 17 18:24:27 -0700 2007 1530905 102095 vvvindaloo 2 2950703 I grew up in NYC and my Italian/Sicilian dad scorned bottled pasta sauces. He would make his own from canned tomatoes and it would cook all day. We had some sort of pasta with red sauce (we called it "gravy") EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY WITHOUT FAIL. If it was a holiday or special occasion, we'd have a pork roast AND pasta. Sometimes as a special treat my mom would make squid. She would carefully clean the squid and separate the tentacles from the body. She would toss the tentacles (or legs as we called them) in seasoned flour and fly them up. They were delicious and we all fought over them! She would then mix seasoned bread crumbs with a beaten egg until it was the texture of oatmeal, and stuff the squid body with the breadcrumb mixture, seal it with a toothpick, and then pan fry them, set them on a paper towel to drain, and then she'd pop them into the huge pot of gravy simmering away. By the time dinner was ready, the squid was so tender you could cut it with a fork. The sauce had gently permeated and seasoned the breadcrumb mixture. And the squid lent the sauce a subtle marine flavor.... mmmmm. Heaven! Mon Sep 17 19:06:42 -0700 2007 2950581 119816 MysticYoYo 3 2950742 sounds fantastic! i love those dishes made by old-school new york italians...my college roommate's mom made the BEST 'gravy,' and whenever she came to visit she'd cook us up a huge batch & we'd freeze it. crap, now i'm craving it.... if i can track down the recipe i might have to try it with your mom's squid addition. Mon Sep 17 19:18:02 -0700 2007 2950703 103920 goodhealthgourmet 3 2957579 Once, my mother (born in US of Italian parents) decided to cook squid in tomato sauce. The smell was so terrible I had to leave the house for a few hours. I still won't go anywhere near squid; I consider it "bait." Wed Sep 19 17:47:24 -0700 2007 2950703 12520 walker 4 2957621 it's such a shame when an experience like that turns you off to a food forever. squid is fickle. when overcooked or improperly prepared, it can easily take on the texture of rubber tires. BUT, when handled with care, it's so good! grilled, stewed, fried...the rings, whole bodies, tentacles...whatever. i'll take it all :) Wed Sep 19 17:58:17 -0700 2007 2957579 103920 goodhealthgourmet 1 2950586 I read most of this thread, and I don't think this has been mentioned. When I was six, I "invented" Cool Whip ice cream. My first attempt was cool whip mixed with Hershey's syrup, because I wanted chocolate Cool Whip (which they now make, but they didn't then). In college, I made peanut butter Cool Whip ice cream, which is just sinful. You have to make sure the Cool Whip is thawed in order for it to mix well. I also do mint chocolate chip Cool Whip ice cream. Add a half teaspoon peppermint extract, mini chocolate chips, and a few drops green food coloring and mix. They are all better re-frozen after mixing, and they are great with fat free Cool Whip. It makes a nice low-fat summer treat. Mon Sep 17 18:25:44 -0700 2007 1530905 81820 starbucksbrew 2 2950627 Pasta and egg anyone? This dish is irresistible to anyone under the age of five in my family and has sustained countless scores of "too skinny" cousins for generations. My economical grandmother basically boils pasta, saves some of the water with the noddles in the pot, and then wisks in an egg. Gross to all who have passed puberty but for some reason the kids can't get enough. Mon Sep 17 18:43:11 -0700 2007 2950586 114840 sgarland 3 2950649 actually, it sounds like a simplified poor man's carbonara...without the cream, parmesan & bacon/pancetta. Mon Sep 17 18:49:36 -0700 2007 2950627 103920 goodhealthgourmet 4 4860965 Sorry, no cream in proper carbonara. The reaction of the fat and pasta water make it creamy. Wed Jul 15 10:15:32 -0700 2009 2950649 208878 mrschef1 1 2950777 My mother devised a tasty strategy for removing any nutritious qualities from romaine lettuce. This culinary staple, wilted salad, entailed taking a basic romaine salad and pouring bacon grease and pieces over it. I can't tell you fondly I recall this meal and this period of my life, when I had no qualms or second-thoughts about consuming undiluted bacon grease. Oh, and buttered noodles and buttered white bread after school, a Southern equivalent to the European's supremely decadent Nutella and bread. Mon Sep 17 19:29:18 -0700 2007 1530905 121609 jackietreehorn 1 2950886 "Ground Ham": Cut baked ham off the bone and grind it or chop coarsely in Cuisinart with a lot of sweet pickles. Add mayonnaise, a little mustard, and some pickle juice. Eat in sandwiches or on saltine crackers. Drink Vernor's Ginger Ale with this. Huge tradition in my husband's family, and now in ours. Mon Sep 17 20:06:31 -0700 2007 1530905 15521 Querencia 2 2955448 We called it ham salad (b/c it's kind of like chicken salad). That's what we did with leftover ham after Thanksgiving. Wed Sep 19 08:41:10 -0700 2007 2950886 81820 starbucksbrew 2 4745110 My mom made sandwich spread just like this, using any leftover roast. I still do. Rereading this old thread has got me craving some very strange food. Fri Jun 05 08:43:52 -0700 2009 2950886 11995 pikawicca 1 2950994 My grandfather was from Utah. He would make something the called Milk-Toast. He would toast white bread, butter it and break it into bite size pieces in a cereal bowl. He would then pour warm milk over it and add salt and pepper. For him it was a comfort food. Mon Sep 17 20:49:19 -0700 2007 1530905 126101 Antilope 2 2957553 That's a really British food. It's traditionally fed to sick kids or old people - thus a comfort food for pretty much everyone. Wed Sep 19 17:38:50 -0700 2007 2950994 10681 piccola 1 2955567 Whenever we had a ham in our family, the next day my mom would make a concoction of cooked elbow macaroni, cubed leftover ham that had been sauteed in butter with an onion , them mix in 2 eggs and a little bit of milk, put plenty of pepper on top and then bake for about half an hour until the top is crusty. I still love it and can't cook it because I'll sit and pick at it until the whole casserole is gone! Wed Sep 19 09:09:11 -0700 2007 1530905 114762 divamon 1 2955633 My mom made salmon patties a lot. I never really found it weird but I realize now that I've never heard of or seen them anywhere else...they were good! Funny thing was, I hated when she made plain salmon, but salmon patties I devoured! They're made in a skillet. Anyone else make them? Wed Sep 19 09:25:57 -0700 2007 1530905 112406 Chew on That 2 2955933 sure! kinda like crab cakes...but with canned salmon. it's not unusual at all. i've seen recipes for them in numerous magazines & cookbooks over the years. Wed Sep 19 10:37:53 -0700 2007 2955633 103920 goodhealthgourmet 3 2955993 My mom made both the macaroni casserole described above, as well as the salmon patties. I used to like them with ketchup. God I was a gross kid. Ketchup on everything. Wed Sep 19 10:52:51 -0700 2007 2955933 18477 jamesm 2 2957750 Love it! We always ate them with a side of baked beans. Wed Sep 19 18:40:55 -0700 2007 2955633 75006 amy_rc 2 4915516 We did this too! And we put sour cream and salsa on top. It was a fav. of mine. =) Tue Aug 04 04:29:20 -0700 2009 2955633 1081227 DishDelish 1 2957770 My mom used to make Sunshine Pears. Canned pear halves with a little bit of real may in the center and some shredded sharp cheddar. Our "family" recipe is Hot Cabbage Slaw. My Grandma says it is an old Pennslyvania Dutch recipe. It is course cut cabbage boiled in a little water with salt, sugar and butter added. Then you add heavy whipping cream and flour and, finally, a some vinegar. It is definitely an acquired taste. I've eaten it every major holiday or family gathering for my whole life, so it isn't a special occasion without it. All family members like it and newbies to the family are about 50/50 on it. Wed Sep 19 18:48:55 -0700 2007 1530905 75006 amy_rc 1 2957832 This thread is so much fun,only took me 2 hours to read but I had to finish! I have not seen this yet: Chipped chopped ham from the local Isaly's or Dairy Bar in my case.(I used to live in PGH) Mix in saucepan with ketchup and relish and serve hot on a bun. (an earlier post used BBQ sauce)-Boy do I miss that Hormel Chipped ham-nothing I mean nothing like it down south!!! My mom used to make a dish she called Ta-made-EE-OK-ta-may? I have no idea how to spell that one. She used noodles and pork and soy sauce and I think just heated it through-maybe a little tomatoe sauce too?Anyone heard of it? I'm going to use some of these ideas in my arsenal!! Thanks Wed Sep 19 19:13:02 -0700 2007 1530905 123913 chocchipcookie 1 2958438 I've never heard of anyone else who has heard of this, let alone tried it, but my brother (a big guy, into sports, and a teenage eating machine) came up with this when we were kids. Every reaction I've had has been a shuddering "EEEEWWWWW". White or wheat bread (we always had Wonder or Roman Meal Wheat) braunschweiger (liverwurst OK, in the midwest, all we had was braunschweiger at the time) mayonnaise (we always used Hellman's) Peanut butter (we always had Jif Chunky, my brother's favourite) Spread mayo on one slice of bread, peanut butter on the other, put slices of braunschweiger between in the the sandwich and eat. Usually with a huge glass of whole milk. This is something that sounds disgusting, and smells horrible when someone is eating it in the room, but it's REALLY good. I've had this later in life and still enjoyed it, and I've even added bacon to it. Though this is obviously something you can only eat once every three or four years. :) Thu Sep 20 03:53:02 -0700 2007 1530905 119275 Morganna 1 3229608 Okay, my husband and son LOVE banana sandwiches made with sliced bananas and mayo on white bread. I will make it for them, but not eat it. Fri Dec 21 17:05:04 -0800 2007 1530905 128667 trishy 1 3229740 What a great thread that keeps on going. I've seen references to bread, crackers or cornbread in milk or buttermilk as a snack. Both my grandad and my mother did this; you ate this right before bed. I always thought it was rural thing, but maybe it was an Arkansas or Oklahoma thing. My mother used to bake pork chops in milk. I'm sure she used whatever milk she had, perhaps even evaporated milk. I think we all thought it was good. I believe my Dad put lots of pepper on his serving. And she made something called Spanish rice. I have no idea how she made it. She was wishing for it several years ago, and I couldn't duplicate it. Of course her memory is so bad now, she couldn't tell me. Apparently her cousins made it for her when she was a little girl. Did anyone else eat mayonaisse sandwiches? In our family it was Miracle Whip, but you get the idea. White bread and mayo. And my family loved wilted lettuce salad. Hot bacon grease, sugar and vinegar poured over leaf lettuce, hard boiled egg, radishes, green onion and bacon. This is good! I still make it once a year in the spring. Fri Dec 21 18:18:36 -0800 2007 1530905 134265 sueatmo 2 3230933 yes I don't eat Miracle Whip now,but sure did love white bread and miracle whip sandwiches. I would beg my mom to make them for me, she wouldn't eat mayo of any sort, but I would pester her for them. Sat Dec 22 11:16:23 -0800 2007 3229740 50431 chef chicklet 2 5128400 My Mom's Spanish Rice was good, and there were nine of us, so I'm sure it was economical. She used white rice, a pound of hamburger, chopped onion, garlic, and a couple of cans of tomato sauce. Sometimes, she'd use bacon if we didn't have hamburger, and sometimes she threw in a little of a dried Italian herb mix. One key was to put the rice in a heavy deep pan in a little oil to toast for a minute before adding the hamburger and the rest of the ingredients, or use the bacon grease to toast the rice after taking out the bacon, then add the onion and rest of the ingredients. She threw the water in there, put the lid on tight, and that was supper with a green salad and maybe some dessert, like bread pudding (yum!) or Crazy Cake (a moist chocolate cake without eggs or milk --- see attached photo of recipe card). Sat Oct 24 18:17:09 -0700 2009 3229740 1116118 skamama 1 3229791 Yes. A salad that I still find refreshing but I do not serve it to anyone but me as it is too simple: Shredded iceberg lettuce but into a bowl, lots and lots of sliced green olives. Then add enough Best Foods mayo to bind. Icy cruchy from the lettuce, tangy vinegar from the olives and creamy from the mayo. This dish cannot be stored. Also, one I used to replicate but no longer do: Slice bananas lengthwise onto a salad plate, cover each banana with a thin layer of mayo [I love mayo]. Sprinkle lots of fresh chopped walnuts on top and dig in. Fri Dec 21 18:53:52 -0800 2007 1530905 13794 SilverlakeGirl 2 3230012 The iceberg salad sounds like a treat. Don't know about mayo on bananas, though. I thought of another family dish which I don't know of anyone else making, and that is my mother's fruit salad. She started with a can of fruit cocktail--remember that--added slices of banana and nuts and bound it with some sort of whipped topping. Seems to me it was Dream Whip. We ate that often for more festive occasions. Fri Dec 21 20:58:13 -0800 2007 3229791 134265 sueatmo 2 3230162 Another simple salad a friend from North Dakota made... Half head of iceberg lettuce, chopped or torn bite size, two or three sliced barely ripe bananas. Dressing is half a cup of Best Foods and heaping tsp sugar thinned with tblspoon or so of milk, mixed well and tossed with salad. I like to add a handful of raisins, craisins or dried blueberries, and sometimes nuts. Fri Dec 21 23:19:44 -0800 2007 3229791 64823 OldDog 1 3230949 A friend of mine in Minnesota makes her sloppy joes the same way as you. I always assumed it was a Midwestern thing. No? Sat Dec 22 11:27:40 -0800 2007 1530905 129072 mercyteapot 1 3230963 My Mom used to make hot dog hash... cubed hot dogs fried with potatoes, green pepper (I don't think we ever had red bells when I was growing up), onion and cubes of American cheese. My grandmother was known to make bologna salad, similar to the way she made ham salad- meat put through the grinder and mixed with mayo and pickle relish. My Dad didn't like ricotta cheese so we always had our lasagna, stuffed shells, etc. without it. I think my Mom used mozzarella and colby cheese to make them- whilst visiting my sister this summer, I discovered she uses the same recipe. I make it the more traditional way, using ricotta cheese. Sat Dec 22 11:33:41 -0800 2007 1530905 129072 mercyteapot 1 3279338 My brother invented the "B_______ Family Loaf". One Thanksgiving with friends, he was tasked to bring a traditional family recipe. He layered together a casserole of Spam, canned green beans, Campbell's mushroom soup, and Durkee fried onions and baked it up. There may have also been stuffed green olives, hot dogs I'm not sure. He proudly presented the B_______ Family Loaf for all to marvel. It was about halfway through the meal when a gracious but repulsed friend noticed he hadn't eaten any, that he was pushed to confess that he had invented it; we hadn't been eating it all these years in our house! I will, however, attest, that 'hot dog pizza' was on the menu. Yep, normal pizza dough, sauce, and cheese; we just sliced up hot dogs for toppings. Why? I have no idea. Wed Jan 09 18:02:58 -0800 2008 1530905 57416 chilibaby 2 3279423 That's a Mexican recipe! Where I live, topping pizza with hot dogs is way too common. They call hotdogs "salchichas" here, which means sausage, but we foreigners learn the difference in terminology pretty fast... Like, don't order sausage and eggs for breakfast unless you really like hot dogs! I am glad you bumped up this thread. What a fun read. In my family, I grew up with something called "tough cake." My grandfather was Welsh/English so the roots may be there, but I have never seen another recipe. It is a really stiff dough of flour, shortening, a bit of sugar, currants, milk to moisten, and baked in flat cakes on a griddle. Tough they are, and chewy and I think delicious. Not too sweet. Last "forever" in an airtight container. I have the recipe an aunt developed using Bisquick, but haven't made them for about 20 years. Might do so this week! Wed Jan 09 18:41:15 -0800 2008 3279338 98904 MazDee 2 4918625 My family used to put Kimchee on top of our pizza and let it caramelize in the oven. The combination of salty, spicy, gooey, and crunchy was soooo GOOD- Eveyone should try it! Now that I think of it, we ate Kimchee with everything, including spaghetti! It's the balance of something rich and pickled that made it so perfect. Wed Aug 05 01:52:00 -0700 2009 3279338 1099300 ajkm 3 4918757 i like that kimchee on pizza idea! salty, hot kimchee against the rich mozzarella! mmmm. Wed Aug 05 04:56:35 -0700 2009 4918625 105717 alkapal 1 3279695 Just wanted to add my thanks for a wonderful thread. I've only been able to read about halfway through so far, but I intend to come back and finish! Wed Jan 09 20:22:51 -0800 2008 1530905 129072 mercyteapot 2 3280430 I spent the whole day yesterday reading this great topic! What fun! Here are my family favs. Wonder bread with Miracle Whip and fresh sliced tomatoes from the garden! Yum Toasted Wonder bread, lots of butter, sliced garden tomatoes with lots of salt and pepper. My son once brought a friend home to spend the night. The next morning we had the toast and tomatoe sandwiches which he turned his nose up at. I told him that was what there was to eat. He tried it and loved it! His mom called me a few days later to tell me how he was raving about toast and tomatoes! Ha! My mom made me Penny Gravy - thin sliced hot dogs sauteed in butter, then made into a cream gravy over toast! Really good! I was not so wild about the creamed tuna! Yuk! We had peanut butter mixed with syrup or molassas on bread. Scrambled eggs always with ketchup! My concoction of saltine crackers with Miracle Whip and slivered raw onion! Awesome! My Gram made her ham salad as usual with mayo, pickles, onion,,,but the secreat was ground up hot dogs! Good! My uncle with his large unsliced deli bought piece of bologna that he grilled till nearly charred! Just yummy! Then finally Chocolate gravy served with biscuits! Can you believe it! 2 cups milk 4 tbsp cocoa 4 tbsp sugar 4 tbsp flour Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Slowly bring Milk to just below boil. (Do not boil!) Whisk in Dry mixture. Stir almost constantly until gravy thickens. And my mom did make the gumbo Sloppy Joes too! Now I have copied and pasted a whole list of new things to try! Thu Jan 10 06:45:00 -0800 2008 3279695 156002 btrswttx00 3 3283498 I love Wonder bread! We grew up with it around the house until middle school then we switched to Iron Kids. I used to take the crust off and smush the middle into a ball before I ate it. Once a year or so I make ham salad (my mom's secret is 50% Ham, 50% Bologna) and I buy Wonder bread. It is the only time I keep it in the house and it feels like a luxury. The other thing Wonder bread is good for is cinnamon toast. The two recipes I can't wait to try from this thread are 1) the glazed donut with american cheese warmed in the oven 2) chocolate gravy Thu Jan 10 19:18:55 -0800 2008 3280430 75006 amy_rc 1 3283020 My dad used to make hot dog pancakes on weekends when we were growing up. Pour out pancake batter on the griddle and then put sliced hot dog rounds in the batter - sometimes in a happy face design or sometimes just random. Wait till cooked on one side and flip. Butter and syrup just like regular pancakes. Still make them occasionally to this day. Thu Jan 10 16:37:26 -0800 2008 1530905 92508 Raymondo 2 5153963 Amazing! I just posted the same thing, almost word for word, before finding this one and realizing our odd family tradition of hot dog pancakes isn't so out there after all. Hilarious. Tue Nov 03 20:13:56 -0800 2009 3283020 61591 fredamoon 1 3283299 for holiday or fat-worthy breakfast occasions.....in our family we make our scrambled eggs with the addition of a large dollop of real mayonnaise. Although i think this came from the inlaws. When we were kids, Mom would make "sloppy joes" but with canned corned beef (i think) instead...and i think ketchup for the sauce or something. Also when we had chili, it was made with canned tomato soup instead of real or canned tomatoes etc. I remember having tacos on certain occasions, and the corn tortillas were made soft in oil, and the whole thing was swimming in orange grease, but so good. The hamburger-macaroni thing alot of people make and some people call goulash....Mom always made it with rice, and called it Hungarian goulash. "Baloney stew" ...i have maybe found one or two people even in my home province that ever had this growing up , i think it is specific to one very small island. Basically it is chunks of balogna, maybe a bit of onion, chunks of potato, all boiled, and a gravy made off the whole lot. I remember it being really good...surprisingly. A dessert we had every x-mas ( and had this past x-mas!).."Broken Glass" ....it is a graham cracker crumbly crust...a whipped cream/pineapple juice/crushed pineapple mixture with gelatin i think...and mixed in are chunks of red, green and orange or lemon jello that has been made with a little less water to retain the firmness of the cubes....a little more graham is sprinkled on top....basically when it's cut, the slice is supposed to resemble stained glass or church windows. Thu Jan 10 18:09:43 -0800 2008 1530905 153184 im_nomad 2 3285623 Nomad..my mom made the sloppy joes like that too! But these were really BBQ Beef sandwiches. She helped make huge quantities for school fun nights too! It was just canned corned beef and BBQ sauce all mixed together and then heated! Serve it up on soft buns Really good! I have not thought of these for years! Really easy! I'm trying this one! The orange grease reminded me of this brick type chili we would buy in the meat case. Who know what was in it! It was supposed to be mixed with other ingredients and served like regular chili. But he loved it slice cold on saltine crackers! Good again! Brick Chili Mix (for freezer) 6 pounds lean ground beef ****** fry and then add water and cook it down till water is gone ***add 2 large onion -chopped fine ____ and cook till done...then add in 1 1/2 cup chili powder 6 Tablespoons cumin 6 Tablespoons garlic powder 1/2 cup paprika Mix in 3 cups of saltines (soda crackers) fine crushed ****** Add some water to make it sloppy and cook down When it is the right thickness cool and place in loaf pans..about a pound to each pan.(I use the aluminum small disposable pans) Freeze and bag.. To use..thaw add tomato juice and there you have a chili soup.... Fri Jan 11 11:48:19 -0800 2008 3283299 156002 btrswttx00 1 3283638 It's interesting to read all the stuff with processed food in here that people find so hilarious. I'm in my 20s so some of this stuff is a bit foreign to me! However, I remember that a favorite dinner conversation in my family was when my sister and I would beg my parents to tell us about the "gross" stuff they would eat as kids, alot of which is making appearances on this board! A few favorites that I have: My grandmama used to get out a block of cream cheese and a bag of corn chips and scrape off bits of cream cheese with the chips. It's really tasty! My mom spent a year in Germany when she was just out of seminary and brought back Poppelmeyer stew, named after the family she lived with. It's essentially ground beef, onion, cabbage and potatoes and used to be one of my favorites. My fave comfort food, which i had for breakfast this morning is cream of wheat, but my parents used to not pay much attention while cooking it so it got huge lumps in it which my sister and i LOVED. i still try really hard not to stir too much when I cook it in an attempt to get really big lumps. Thu Jan 10 20:10:53 -0800 2008 1530905 87292 polyhymnia 2 4648471 I used to love lumpy Cream of Wheat too! However when I made Cream of Wheat I could never get it lumpy. I woulod make lumps with Cream of Wheat and water and drop them in like dumplings Sat May 02 12:46:35 -0700 2009 3283638 86005 amethiste 2 5042384 I loved the lumps too! Sat Sep 19 13:36:12 -0700 2009 3283638 1110490 Stern Lecture 1 3285531 My fiance's family makes "Syrian hotdogs". It's ground beef mixed with raw onion, garlic salt, and parsley, rolled into hotdog shapes and then grilled. They are delicious! Although I tease them all about calling it a hotdog, why not make it flat and call it a Syrian hamburger? They don't think I'm funny! Haha. I'm sure I'll be making this for our future children and laughing about it with them too. Fri Jan 11 11:27:00 -0800 2008 1530905 147969 kmills9408 2 3289488 Okay, I've read all these posts, and no one has mentioned my mom's icebox pudding. This was in New England in the '50's. She'd make chocolate pudding, and layer it in a Pyrex loaf pan (about a 9X5), with whole graham cracker layers in between. She'd start with the crackers, then the pudding, then the crackers, etc. About three layers later, she'd top the whole thing with pure whipped cream. Stick it in the fridge overnight (just enough time for the crackers to soften), and voila...a taste memory that can't be beat! Sat Jan 12 18:13:45 -0800 2008 3285531 27482 critter101 3 3299615 Oh I love this thread. I used to make PB and Tomato on Toast. Mostly because we had a LOAD of tomatoes at the end of the summer. Also Iceberg lettuce, 1000 Island Dressing, and Cottage Cheese, with Sunflower seeds on top. Still eat it all the time. My mom's version of spanikopita is my fave. More like a calzone because she used whole wheat bread dough with some spinach, garlic mixture inside. Still have her make it everytime I go home. Tue Jan 15 20:13:28 -0800 2008 3289488 82314 hungry329 3 3339565 I forgot about that! Spent the night at a friends once, her mother made it & called it Chocolate Torte! But she used cool whip...We still licked the platter clean! Sun Jan 27 22:35:20 -0800 2008 3289488 111267 meatn3 3 3574792 Oh I remember that! sometimes she would make ganache for the top instead of whipped cream. Oh to be young again! Tue Apr 08 15:50:50 -0700 2008 3289488 180068 Smileelisa 2 3319143 I made something like this. One time I had the fixings for hamburgers, but no hamburger buns,so I rolled the meat into a hot dog dog shape and called them "hamburgerdogs." Made them a few times cuz I kept forgetting to get the regular buns. Sometimes you just have to improvise... Mon Jan 21 21:11:05 -0800 2008 3285531 14447 rednails 1 3299754 Every time my family ate mashed potatoes -- there had to be pickles. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and pickles were a common combo. Whenever my mom breaded chicken, she would take the leftover seasoned bread crumbs, mix them with an egg and a little milk and fry it into a patty. My sister and I would always fight over this! My dad also did the noodles & sour cream combo -- he's from Romania, and I think its an eastern European thing. I like to add grated Parmesan. It makes it kinda satisfyingly gluey. Great comfort food. Tue Jan 15 20:55:01 -0800 2008 1530905 140849 burritobelle 1 3323507 You know, every time I look at this thread, I remember some other dish we ate when I was growing up. I remember two cheese and toast dinners- one was melted cheese, probably American, I honestly don't remember ever having cheddar, served over hard boiled eggs on toast. The other was a deviled cheese dish, Welsh rarebit-ish, except again it was probably American cheese and "corrupted" with the addition of canned corn and black olives. Does anyone else remember when Kraft sold American cheese in blocks like Velveeta comes in? The boxes were blue. Wed Jan 23 06:37:38 -0800 2008 1530905 129072 mercyteapot 2 3440805 I remember the Kraft American Cheese in the blue box. We used that and Velveeta when I was growing up. My granddaughter often spent a few weeks with me in the summer when she was in grade school. I often made her velveeta and miracle whip sandwiches on white bread and she loved them because none of those foods were in her kitchen at home. Reading through all of these made me realize that most of the things that we thought were unique to our family, actually weren't. I tell friends how I loved to make sugar sandwiches with white bread, butter, and white sugar and they've never heard of it. My mother's chili was a lb of hamburger browned and crumbled, opened 2 cans each tomato sauce, tomato soup, kidney beans, and 1 can whole tomatoes, drained the beans, and mixed everything in with the hamburger, salt and pepper, and a little bit of chilli powder. We thought it was delicious but we all outgrew it. Leftover rice with milk, cinnamon and sugar was a great treat before bed. A friend said her family ate that also, and called it rice pudding. My grandma's goulash (or what the kids called macaroni soup) was browned hamburger and stewed tomatoes mixed into cooked elbow macaroni. She always served it with soft buttered white bread from the market. Another treat was potato soup. she boiled a couple of potatoes until just tender, added about 3 T butter, then stirred in a beaten egg. She added 2 or 3 cups of milk and heated it just until the milk was hot. She added salt and pepper and we thought it was great My favorite sandwich is scrambled eggs on white bread with miracle whip, ketchup, salt, and pepper. One last treat that I've not seen here was to pour 2 T white Karo syrup onto a small dish, stir a tsp butter into half of it and a tsp of peanut butter into the other half, then dip pieces of white bread into one or the other. I still do that; not often though. Wed Feb 27 13:02:45 -0800 2008 3323507 170049 meggiesgm 3 4669262 My grandmother was from Ohio and she used to make me sugar sandwiches after school. Never had them anywhere else. She also used to fry apple slices in butter and then sprinkle sugar over them as a treat. Another thing she did was boil potatoes and then squeeze yellow mustard over them, again as a snack. She said her mother used to give her those. She also made goetta (spellling?) a kind of sausage shaped pork thing with pinhead oatmeal and fried it in the morning with eggs. Sat May 09 14:47:23 -0700 2009 3440805 213547 cathodetube 3 4918640 My Korean-American family never did sugar sandwiches/toast but my mom did something similar. She took refridgerated pilsbury biscuits, stuffed each one with a mixture of brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, and toasted sesame seeds, flattened them out into disks and grilled them on a hot pan with a little butter until the sugar melted inside. YuM! As a kid, I also remember having leftover sticky rice with warm milk to help me sleep. Until now, I thought my family was the only one that did this! Wed Aug 05 02:25:46 -0700 2009 3440805 1099300 ajkm 3 5003424 I used to get sugar sandwiches (or rather, sugar toast) too! My mom would toast the bread, spread butter on it while it's warm so it melts, and then sprinkle some white sugar. I loved that as a kid. Thu Sep 03 16:37:41 -0700 2009 3440805 1099218 arlenemae 2 3574248 My mom made a cheese and toast dish. she would butter slices of toast on both sides and put them in a baking dish. she fried hamburg mixed with mustard, s&p onions till browned then layered the meat mixture alternately with 1 cup of cheddar cheese. then she would mix an egg, dry mustard and milk and pour it over layers in the pan. baked till golden brown and bubbly and it tasted soooo good. I haven't thought of that dish in years. I will have to make it soon. Tue Apr 08 13:25:20 -0700 2008 3323507 180068 Smileelisa 1 3328067 I remembered another one: My family makes "Heavenly Hash". It's diced pinapple, diced marchino cherries (with all thier juice), cracked pecans, marshmellows, and lots and lots of whipped cream all mixed together. We have this every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Anyone ever heard of this or something similar? Thu Jan 24 10:12:40 -0800 2008 1530905 147969 kmills9408 2 3338956 My sister makes something similar, that she learned from an ex's mom... she calls it Banana Split Pie. Think it has bananas, pineapple, strawberry, nuts, whipped cream, some kind of sweetened cream cheese mixture, all in a graham cracker crust. It's pretty tasty stuff! Sun Jan 27 17:55:12 -0800 2008 3328067 161191 MlleYeuxBleus 2 5030631 My mom and her sisters have this recipe called "Pretzel Jell-o." Have you heard of it? It's a layered dessert made up of pretzels, creamed cheese and (you guessed it) Jell-o. As a kid I loved this dessert (still do!) because my job was to break up 3 cups of pretzel sticks into small pieces. Then you spread the pretzels in a 9x13" pan, pour melted butter over it and bake for 20 minutes. That was the crust. Then you mix sugar and creamed cheese and carefully spread it over the cooled crust. The last layer was strawberry jello dissolved in pineapple juice and 2 boxes of defrosted strawberries. You then pour it over the well-chilled creamed cheese layer. After you let it set overnight, you're left with a sweet and salty, crunchy and creamy Jell-o dessert my mom and her sisters loved making for family gatherings. When I first described it to people, they looked at me like I was crazy! But after I made it for them...they quickly changed their opinion. Now I don't even tell people what it is, I just make them eat it before they make up their minds! Sometimes the best things are made up of the oddest combination of ingredients:) Tue Sep 15 00:21:03 -0700 2009 3328067 1109446 thedragonlady 3 5116745 that sounds so good, I love salty sweet goodies (think Payday candy). I will give this a try!!! Tue Oct 20 07:04:25 -0700 2009 5030631 166707 JEN10 1 3341135 Sweet Manicotti. My grandmother always added cinnamon and sugar to their manicotti filling. Serve as you would regular manicotti (tomato sauce, meat, and all), but a nice combination of sweet and savory. Delish. Mon Jan 28 11:24:28 -0800 2008 1530905 102907 brian874 1 3341447 How about a white bread sandwich with margarine and potato chips. My dad loved saltine crackers all broken up and covered with milk. That was his favorite late night snack. My mom made a stew out of beef cubes, rough chopped vegis, and covered with Italian Salad dressing. She'd cook it all afternoon. It was so greasy and the vegi's turned to mush. Funny I haven't had it in over 20 years and my stomach still curdles at the thought of eating it. Mon Jan 28 12:28:30 -0800 2008 1530905 158403 jcattles 1 3342493 How about a breakfast burger? When I was a kid I used to make these. Once in a while I still do. 2 slices of buttered toast made from white bread Ketchup on one piece toast Strawberry preserves on the other piece of toast 1 cooked plain hamburger patty Assemble as a breakfast burger and enjoy. Mon Jan 28 17:07:45 -0800 2008 1530905 126101 Antilope 1 3440982 My mom swears that Bologna Boats were served when she was in grade-school- one slice of bologna stuck in the bottom of a cupcake pan with an egg cracked in the middle- then baked. It actually looks like a South Beach diet recipe a friend made with canadian- was rural WV ahead of the times in the 50's? My husband makes cheesey spaghetti- 1 lb of pasta, 1 lb of velveeta, 1 lb of ground beef, 1 large can of peeled whole tomatoes- they must be broken up using scissors while still in the can (diced tom. "just aren't the same"), and 1 med. onion. Cook/drain the pasta and saute the meat and onions. then dump everything into the pasta pot until the cheese is melted. It is so unhealthy but tastes pretty good. Wed Feb 27 13:41:49 -0800 2008 1530905 139194 lhb78 1 3441574 I used to spend summers at my grandma's house with my aunts and uncles, along with my family. My big family thing is called "Stovies." You take left over boiled potatoes and peas, and cook them in a pan with salt and pepper. I loved these! Or there's "Hamburger Stew," which is essentially the same, but with ground beef and carrots. I hated it. But with the 15 people at my grandma's house now on weekdays in summer, we don't even cook the peas anymore. In fact, if any make it to the table, we're happy. We just serve fresh peas in a bowl, and people spoon them onto their plates and eat them. My pre-teen cousins have even been known to eat them on ice cream, or snack on them throughout the day. So there just aren't any leftovers for Stovies. Wed Feb 27 16:18:35 -0800 2008 1530905 161585 miss_bennet 2 4648369 There's a dish called Stovies in Scotland which is mashed potatoes with corned beef - fantastically good, even though I don't like corned beef. Sat May 02 11:48:31 -0700 2009 3441574 288063 elance 1 3442455 What a fun thread! I haven't read it all but have to contribute and hope I'm not duplicating. As a kid one of my favorite things was cinnamon toast - 4 thin slices of butter, which just fit on a slice of white bread, sprinkled with sugar and a little cinnamon and placed in toaster until the sugar starts to caramelize and butter has soaked through the bread, still makes my mouth water. My wife from the other coast used to love "noodles with sand" just noodles with bread crumbs in browned butter sauce - actually not bad, but I've never heard of it anywhere else. Wed Feb 27 22:07:39 -0800 2008 1530905 163829 Billow Fair 1 3442459 Oh yeah! I forgot my current favorite sandwich: BLT on sourdough toast with egg salad and a few slices of avocado...amazing. Wed Feb 27 22:13:39 -0800 2008 1530905 163829 Billow Fair 1 3573625 We used to drizzle condensed milk on untoasted white bread. Mmmmmm. Tue Apr 08 10:58:07 -0700 2008 1530905 39545 tatertot 2 4525591 we did too. As well as toasted & buttered white bread with condensed milk. If we had French Bread, we used that. I'm wondering where you are from. I'm from New Orleans. Sat Mar 21 13:27:58 -0700 2009 3573625 44582 Isabella 2 4634467 My mom did something like that, I had forgotten about it. White bread covered with condensed milk and coconut and baked. It was delicious!. She called it angel something. Mon Apr 27 19:57:10 -0700 2009 3573625 98904 MazDee 2 4651071 I still like condensed milk on both toasted and untoasted bread for breakfast sometimes - yum! And steamed bao (bun) dunked in condensed milk is a Chinese thing. I'm in Boston. Sun May 03 17:38:39 -0700 2009 3573625 19334 content 1 3573942 My mom's 'pork chops cacciatore' - browned pork chops and sliced onions, topped with equal parts ketchup and water, simmered for about an hour. It was kind of good, I get cravings for it once in a while. Tue Apr 08 12:10:28 -0700 2008 1530905 124908 jeanmarieok 1 3574191 My mom would cook shell pasta (the small ones) and add a bit of butter then mix in a can of tomato soup grated parm cheese. I haven't read all the posts so I don't know if anybody else had it. I don't remember if it had a name or not but we loved it. I still make it every now and again but my husband won't touch it. shrugs Tue Apr 08 13:13:59 -0700 2008 1530905 180068 Smileelisa 1 3574333 Dont know if anyone else mentioned this as this thread has gotten LOOOOOONG, but one of my moms favorites ( and now mine) Scrambled egg on buttered white bread with sweet bread and butter pickle slices.OMG i want one right now..... Tue Apr 08 13:45:57 -0700 2008 1530905 37451 bastet212 1 3574572 Yogurt and plain pasta noodles. My wife would make this for our young children (about 15 years ago) and they loved it. She said her mother made it for her when she was young. My wife is half Armenian and called it Madzoon and Noodles. Madzoon is the Armenian word for yogurt. Tue Apr 08 14:44:54 -0700 2008 1530905 126101 Antilope 1 3574780 Mung sandwich (had never heard of mung beans in the midwest back then). It's an open faced peanut butter and jelly sandwich tasted in the oven to melt the pb&j. The name comes from what yum or mmmm! sounds like with one's mouth full of it. Haven't had a mung sandwich in 35+ years. Tue Apr 08 15:46:33 -0700 2008 1530905 169792 lgss 1 3575307 My mom is from the Philippines. With 5 picky kids (I hated RICE as a kid), she got pretty creative. A can of corned beef, a fresh tomato and a hard boiled egg all smooshed together eaten with rice with bare hands (I hear it's a provencial thing) you grab a bit of rice, a bit of the corned beef stuff, and eat it. Used make me quesy, now I think it's pretty good. Dinty Moore's beef stew over rice was one way she could get me to eat rice. Another way was any kind of soup over rice. She also made something she called "Swiss steak", cube steak dredged in flour and fried, then covered in Campbell's tomato soup -served with mashed potatoes. She used to cooked an eggplant (Japanese variety) on a fork held over the stove burner , peeled it and ate it with rice. Our favorite thing was the fried wontons with ground beef and cabbage, served with a sweet and sour sauce she made with ketchup, vinegar and I think pineapple juice. Tue Apr 08 18:34:39 -0700 2008 1530905 159972 paso_gurl_100 1 3576451 I have finally read the entire post and had to add a dish nobody else mentioned. When we would visit my polish uncle he would make EVERY MORNING for breakfast scrambled eggs and polish kielbasa. I hated it as a kid and still do. I favorite of mine that my Italian noni used to make was Polenta topped with homemade tomato sauce and fresh grated parm cheese. She would spread the polenta out on a huge board and top it with the sauce and cheese. Still one of my fav foods although my husband doesn't share my love of it! In his family growing up they used to have shrimp gravy alot. I had never heard of it till we got married and he made it for me. I had actually googled it and no recipe came up for it so I think maybe his grandma invented it. He would cook bacon and onion together in a dutch oven till the bacon was crisp then he would make a roux cooking the flour till it browns. add 1 can of cream of mushroom (we use chicken), old bay seasoning, oregano and curry powder (optional). Add shrimp and a little water if seems to thick and cook just till shrimp turns pink. serve over rice. If anybody else has made this before please post, I am curious. Wed Apr 09 07:28:40 -0700 2008 1530905 180068 Smileelisa 2 4648373 Your Polenta dish sounds a lot like the Polenta Pizza that I thought I invented! Basically it's Polenta topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and the pizza toppings of your preference (black olives, green peppers, mushrooms, and chorizo sausage for me!) Sat May 02 11:51:03 -0700 2009 3576451 288063 elance 1 3708197 My mom would serve the following 4 items as a meal when we were kids: gingerbread bacon baked beans cole slaw Her mother used to serve the same meal back in the 50's-60's, but she doesn't know how combination came about. I wish my grandma was still around to ask. It's a strange meal, but good stuff! Oh yeah, and one of my favorite sandwiches Mom made up is simply muenster cheese and chili powder stuffed in a pita and microwaved until melty. Wed May 21 09:08:30 -0700 2008 1530905 121480 buckeye.mary 1 3708291 My grandmother would eat fresh, mashed strawberries, between two slices of buttered white bread. Wed May 21 09:28:57 -0700 2008 1530905 126101 Antilope 1 3709214 My mom used to make "Beanie Wienies" - saute an onion in oil, add some chopped hot dogs - saute that a few minutes. Add salt and pepper and 2 cans of Pork & Beans. Heat through. Yummy! Wed May 21 13:27:06 -0700 2008 1530905 189670 Lilli62 2 3709354 My mom didn't make Beanie Wienie, but the elementary school cafeteria had it regularly (1965?). It was one of the few edible dishes there (in my 3rd grade opinion!). I still make it sometimes when I absolutely can't cope, although I tend to use something like the Hillshire Farms cocktail sausages rather than hot dogs (since I don't even have to cut those up). Enough Tabasco and it is fairly edible. Wed May 21 14:03:25 -0700 2008 3709214 174540 dkenworthy 1 3709806 Cold peanut sauce noodles. They have a basis in common recipes, but it was our "twists" that make them strange: The sauce was peanut butter, sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce and hot sauce (mix and add boiling water until it's the consistency you want). Chill sauce to room temp or colder and pour over: - cold spaghetti noodles - cold julienned cucumbers, chopped lettuce, cabbage, other veggies you have on hand, and - cold strips of an assortment of Carl Budding luncheon meats (the really thin, cheap luncheon meats - it's not the same with better meat!). We'd arrange the noodles, veggies and meats on a platter - take what you want, cover in sauce, toss and eat. YUM. Also - not a strange food so much as a strange name: my godmother always called frozen grapes "lollygobbleblissbombs". And speaking of frozen foods - I've always loved frozen sweet corn nibblets. I eat them frozen while watching tv. YUM. Wed May 21 16:23:10 -0700 2008 1530905 156153 akq 1 3721156 My Aunt Ruby used to make a dish in the mid-70's that I've never heard of before or since. It is called "Ribble and gravy", and it is eaten for breakfast. It is basically rubbery nuggets of cornmeal that you top with a fried egg and cream gravy. The actual ribble pieces are made by stirring hot water into salted cornmeal, and then frying that mix, stirring pretty much constantly, until it is broken up into many little nuggets of differing sizes. The egg is always over-easy or sunny side up, so that you can cut into the yolk and let it ooze down into the ribble pieces along with the gravy. My aunt lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in northern California, and I remember that she told me when I was 6 or 7 years old that this was a recipe that the gold miners would make. It's kind of like a cornmeal hardtack, so I could actually believe that. I'd love to know if anybody else has ever had this dish! Mon May 26 09:39:37 -0700 2008 1530905 117760 angusb 1 3909126 We have something my Nan-Nan called "Pink Sandwiches" Cream cheese, a little mayo, chopped maraschino cherries. On white bread only(don't even try wheat!) She took this to every shower, church gathering, family gathering, whatever. It was always raved about by everyone. And I was so surprised as an adult to realize there are people who have never had it. What could be wrong with it? It's essentially dessert on bread. Yum! We miss my Nan-Nan but we'll carry on the pink sandwich tradition. Mon Jul 28 14:29:52 -0700 2008 1530905 213968 cal_rascoe 1 4525959 My wife is Armenian and we are always making Armenian Pilaf. One time we had some left over Pilaf and some left over spaghetti sauce. I mixed them and the result was really good. I now make it all the time. Give it a try. I call it....... Spaghetti Pilaf 4 Tbs butter 1/4 cup vermicelli (uncooked), broken into small (1/4") pieces 1 cup white rice, (uncooked) 2 cups chicken broth, heated almost to boiling.salt to taste 1 (32 oz) jar your favorite Spaghetti sauce In a 2-qt saucepan melt butter over medium heat. Add broken up vermicelli, stir well to coat with butter. Saute in butter until vermicelli is toasted a golden brown, stirring frequently, about 5-minutes. Don't allow to scorch or burn. Add rice, stir to coat and simmer in butter a minute or two. Add heated chicken broth to rice. Stir rice a few times. Bring chicken broth to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Cover and cook on a low simmer for 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir with a fork. Cover and allow to rest for 5-minutes. Mix in 2 or 3 cups of your favorite spaghetti sauce. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve warm. Sat Mar 21 16:04:05 -0700 2009 1530905 126101 Antilope 2 4547920 I think spaghetti sauce is a great addition to almost everything. I like to mix it half and half with pesto sauce and put it over pasta or vegetables, or poach eggs in it, it seems normal to me but I don't know if anyone else ever does it. Great on spaghetti squash with lots of parmesan. Sun Mar 29 04:20:38 -0700 2009 4525959 11097 coll 1 4540418 My mom would make potato pie. Chunks of hotdog and potatoes in a double pie crust with dots of butter, pepper and salt. We would put milk on the finished product. We loved it. I have made it since and didn't like it. Perhaps the hotdogs should have been removed for better health. :) Thu Mar 26 09:43:57 -0700 2009 1530905 273812 teacher1 1 4545113 My Polish farm family would finish perogie by sauteeing them in browned butter breadcrumbs. Later I found the rest of the world eats them sauteed with onions and served with sour cream. I prefer my grandmother's method. delicious! Fri Mar 27 17:17:26 -0700 2009 1530905 265047 puddin head 2 4771222 My grandma did the buttered bread crumbs for her dessert prune piegogi. She did the sauteed onions with the savory potato or mushroom pierogi. If we were really lucky she would do 3 flavors of pierogi for our supper and the prunes for our dessert. Awesome stuff, I agree delicious. Sun Jun 14 06:16:36 -0700 2009 4545113 1083157 notyourmomma 1 4547859 Tuna Bake: Baked potatoes, scoop out the innards and mix with cheddar and canned tuna. Re- stuff the potatoes, then top with beaten egg whites and more cheddar. Bake for about 15 min. Disgusting, but my brother loved em and asked for them all the time. Also, mac and cheese with Worcestershire sauce. Love it, always grosses people out. Sun Mar 29 00:30:38 -0700 2009 1530905 274513 wallyz 2 4652264 I love mac and cheese with Heinz 57 sauce. Yum! Mon May 04 07:57:37 -0700 2009 4547859 13519 Cynsa 3 4922383 Guilty pleasure: Mashed potatoes or baked potatoes with Steak Sauce. I picked the habit up during sunday steak dinners, you know the sauce gets on the potatoes and it's good. So why even wait to have steak, just sauce up the taters. Yum. Thu Aug 06 07:58:07 -0700 2009 4652264 1092553 aggiecat 1 4634097 Spaghetti Red: Fry bacon, crumble. In bacon grease saute diced onions. Boil spaghetti. Add all ingredients and ketchup to taste. Enjoy! My sister and I loved this and asked for it all the time. Mon Apr 27 17:31:00 -0700 2009 1530905 75006 amy_rc 1 4634360 Macaroni and tomato juice (and a little butter). Absolute comfort food and I still eat it today (as do my kids). My husband doesn't get it. Elbow macaroni is traditional but Iike it best with the little Catelli alphabets! Mon Apr 27 19:19:17 -0700 2009 1530905 173282 beggsy 1 4634516 My grandfather made us Cream of Wheat topped with butter and parmesean cheese before he sent us off to school in the morning. I've never heard of anyone else eating this. I still get a craving for it sometimes. Mon Apr 27 20:14:46 -0700 2009 1530905 116045 TMT1977 2 4796917 When I was a kid my mother used to fry up slices of cold leftover Cream of Wheat in butter and then we would sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. I loved the really buttery and crispy edges! Mon Jun 22 22:14:57 -0700 2009 4634516 1087684 cmocva 3 4797435 we had the same fry up with cold grits (sans cinnamon sugar). crispy, buttery edges!!!! (or done in bacon grease, of course). mmmmmmmm good! Tue Jun 23 06:15:26 -0700 2009 4796917 105717 alkapal 3 4807403 That sounds great! And I just got a fresh box of Cream of Wheat yesterday! We would slice up cold corn meal mush and fry it up and eat it with maple syrup, but that's not exclusive to my family; it's quite a traditional recipe. At Dominick's stores in Chicago they used to sell bricks of cold corn meal mush for slicing and frying. I dearly miss it. Thu Jun 25 22:30:00 -0700 2009 4796917 19694 shortribsfordinner 1 4657541 My grandmother would dip saltines in egg (it MUST be thinned with some water) and fry them up in oil. We'd put them in chicken broth. I still make it for lunch on a Saturday occasionally. The broth pools up in the little bubbles of egg and the crackers get a little bit soggy after a minute or so - it's really quite wonderful. Tue May 05 18:10:54 -0700 2009 1530905 265241 buzzy715 2 4663525 Reading these recipes makes me smile and makes me a bit sad. . . My Mom used to make a delicious dish when I was a kid with leftover blue crabs that she called "crab sha la". Now that age has caught up with her, she cannot remember her recipe (and never wrote it down), but it was crabs in a thick and chunky sauce of tomato, peppers and onions. She served it over rice. I know I am missing the particulars, though and I was never one to watch my Mom cook. . . still remains in my memories, though! Thu May 07 13:10:26 -0700 2009 4657541 130022 SouthernFoodie08 3 4674778 Thanks SouthernFoodie, for this post! One of the most beautiful things about this thread is to see how food intimately connects people to their most cherished memories... I have been thinking a lot more about how I need to learn family recipes from my grandmothers, and soon. My maternal grandmother, who is 93, has just scheduled a time to teach me to make "jong," (zhongzi in Mandarin Chinese) a special food made in the 5th month of the lunar calendar, with sticky rice, yellow mung bean, preserved salted pork, boiled peanuts, chestnuts, chinese preserved pork sausage, and a preserved duck egg, all wrapped in a bamboo leaf, tied with string, and boiled. Strangely enough, like all of the midwesterners who eat white bread with sugar, this wrapped rice is eaten with....white sugar! When I was given these for lunch as a child, I was absolutely humiliated to have to ask the lunchlady for scissors to untie my leaf-wrapped lunch, which curiously looked like a hand grenade! Incidentally, I've been reading a book about memory, and food, called "Second Rising"....an excerpt of the cover: "Who knew that a grandmother kneaded sorrow into each loaf of bread she baked, or that her memories were preserved along with the pickles she and her granddaughter made?" Cheers to the memories of home cooked food, and the memories that follow! Mon May 11 16:34:03 -0700 2009 4663525 216395 unturtlesoup 4 4678343 Unturtlesoup? is that name because you only like mock turtle soup? What a lovely post, pointing out the fond memories of food often inextricably linked with the cooks who came before us, many now gone. Most loved these masterpieces as children and now think they're not for us, not healthy, too unsophisticated. And I loved your story about the jong lunches you brought to school, being embarrassed to ask the lunch lady for scissors to cut them open. What a universal emotion for a kid -- never do a thing to make yourself stand out from the rest! I've spent three days reading this thread and yours was the last and most meaningful. I'll be back when it has grown another half mile or so. Tue May 12 18:05:11 -0700 2009 4674778 61763 hoosfoos 4 4861082 I'm running out to look for that book! Sounds touching and wonderful. Thanks. Wed Jul 15 10:46:25 -0700 2009 4674778 208878 mrschef1 3 4771429 i feel your pain. i was raised partly by my grandmother and it's very difficult to see age catch up with them. at the time you're so concerned with that and all of it's emotionalness - you don't even think to get information from them - it feels weird. consider this a challenge to get it close to her recipe, maybe even make it with her or for her to taste, it might spark "this needs a little..." i found that sometimes the thoughts are there it, it's just finding new ways to bring them out. good luck to you. Sun Jun 14 08:03:12 -0700 2009 4663525 57801 lollya 3 5142966 This sounds close to the Crab Shala your Mom made.You can just serve it over rice instead of spaghetti for a trip down memory lane: http://www.online-cookbook.com/goto/cook?p=rpagep&rid=00017B&serves=0 Fri Oct 30 09:33:20 -0700 2009 4663525 151032 casalbore spirit 3 5142984 This sounds close to the Crab Shala your Mom made.You can just serve it over rice instead of spaghetti for a trip down memory lane: http://www.online-cookbook.com/goto/cook?p=rpagep&rid=00017B&serves=0 Fri Oct 30 09:39:40 -0700 2009 4663525 151032 casalbore spirit 1 4682126 A very simple thing I'll fix for myself when my husband isn't home is simply elbow noodles cooked and mixed with a regular size can of chopped tomatoes (Muir Glen is the best). But first I take my little hand blender and run it through the tomatoes so there are no big chunks of tomato (canned tomato sauce is just too thick). I put the pureed tomatoes in a bowl; nuke them til they're hot, then pour over a bunch of cooked macaroni. You must eat it right away or the noodles with absorb the tomato sauce to quickly and then the texture is all wrong. This is sooooo good; I really crave it sometimes! (My husband insists on putting grated Parmesan on it! which ruins it in my opinion even though I LOVE Parmesan) Wed May 13 20:13:57 -0700 2009 1530905 61553 vicsailgarden 1 4682299 My grandmother used to serve us on occasion a spaghetti recipe of which I've never seen replicated. She supposedly learned it in Italy on a trip abroad, but it's very different than any normal pasta dish. She would take several large tablespoons of saved bacon grease and saute 1 diced medium onion until soft and translucent. Next add the majority of a can of tomato paste (not sauce) and melt into the onion/grease mixture. Follow by adding cooked and drained spaghetti noodles and coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper. I would love to know if anyone else has heard of something like this! Wed May 13 21:53:26 -0700 2009 1530905 292534 crowing 2 4737865 I'm from West Texas and grew up eating macaroni and tomatoes. It was cheap, mainly, and we liked it. Sauted onion in bacon grease, add canned tomatoes, salt, pepper, and already boiled macaroni. I still like this, particularly with home canned tomatoes. Tue Jun 02 21:58:56 -0700 2009 4682299 203880 pplachno 1 4690403 I had to reply ot his thread. My mother used to make "beanburgers" All of us kids loved them. She would take a hamburger bun, top it with pork and beans, a fresh slice of tomato, a slice of purple onion, and a slice of american cheese. (The individually wrapped kind) Then she would put it under a broiler to melt the cheese. It was great, I loved it then and now. My sister used to take biscuits, roll them out flat, place a tuna salad like mixture in the middle, fold them up, pinch them together with her fingers and and place them in the oven. When they were almost ready, she would take them out, criss cross them with two slices of the same chees and call them "tuna bunwiches"... Beanburgers and tuna bunwiches...Man, I think I am gonna go see what I have in the kitchen right now! Sat May 16 18:38:35 -0700 2009 1530905 293324 ssp2 2 4690666 My favorite cake when I was a child was a strawberry cake, my mother made it. I don't know the recipe but it had angel food cake, strawberry jello and frozen strawberries. Sat May 16 21:41:16 -0700 2009 4690403 293350 karenfitzsimmons 3 4953129 I have made that cake when my daughter was little. She told me it was her favorite birthday cake ever (she's 30 now). It was from the back of the cake mix box. I know i have it somewhere. I'm gonna find it and make it again...thanks for the reminder...it's really a wonderful cake! Mon Aug 17 10:39:46 -0700 2009 4690666 1102312 maydaycolorado 1 4708481 When my sister-in-law came into our family nearly 50 years ago, she brought with her some weird and wonderful recipes. One of my sons favorites is grilled chocolate sandwiches - sounds gross and very bad for you but delicious. Just place chocolate bars (Hersheys is the best) between butter (on the outside) bread and grill like grilled cheese sandwiches. One of my favorites was potato candy - boil one small starchy potato til tender, peel and mash. Then start adding powdered sugar (it will take a lot) until you have a thick dough. Sprikle powdered sugar on work surface and roll out to about 1/4 inch thick, spread with peanut butter then roll up. Place on dish in a horse shoe shape, cover and refridgerate til firm. Slice and eat. Sat May 23 03:37:10 -0700 2009 1530905 322208 doviacres 1 4708632 just thought of my favorite peanut butter concoction when I was a kid - spread peanut butter on a slice of bread, slice banana on top of that and then cover with minature marshmallows, broil until golden. Yummy! Also loved, and still do, peanut butter and bacon on toast. First came across this when I worked in a restaurant as a teenager in Ohio Sat May 23 06:14:38 -0700 2009 1530905 322208 doviacres 2 4730697 I eat this for lunch all the time now! I'll add to this: my gramma used to mix an opened tea bag with sugar and give it to my brother and i to pretend it was chewing tobacca. Note: we lived in tobacco country NC, so EVERYONE chewed tobacca, and this way, we could fit in!! Crazy?! Sun May 31 15:49:52 -0700 2009 4708632 157661 hollyd 1 4722985 For at least four generations, quite probably more, my family has made a Dutch mashed root vegetable dish called geschtomtepot (I'm guessing this is how it's spelled, as I've only heard it pronounced aloud). Potatoes, carrots, sometimes turnips, and onions, all boiled together until soft, then drained and well mashed with butter and cream (or evaporated milk). It was always served piled high in the serving bowl, with a sprinkling of nutmeg or paprika (but mostly nutmeg) and a pat of butter. Hubby has added garlic to the recipe, which is tasty but not particularly authentic. There are related Dutch dishes called stamppot and hutspot (same basic ingredients, but chunkier), and a Swedish dish called rutmus, but I have never come across the name "geschtomtepot" outside my family. Anyone else? Thu May 28 14:37:12 -0700 2009 1530905 323780 Soozcat 1 4735432 Canned hominy in a white sauce (like for mac and cheese, but no cheese) with lots of pepper. When I was little, I would snarf down entire cans of hominy by myself. Maybe it's a weird southern thing? Tue Jun 02 08:23:16 -0700 2009 1530905 261368 Caffeine826 2 4737861 I grew up eating hominy (yellow and white) where my mom fried diced bacon and onion, then added a can of chopped green chilis, some Velveeta, and canned hominy. It's really good! My mama is 74 and still cooks for the whole family every Sunday dinner. My favorite thing she makes is swiss steak, frying lightly floured little strips of round steak, then adding lots of julienned carrot and celery, sliced onion, and V-8 juice. She simmers it until the steak is tender and the gravy is thick. YUMMY with mashed potatoes. Tue Jun 02 21:54:00 -0700 2009 4735432 203880 pplachno 1 4738144 This green jello mold that my grandmother makes is straight from the 50's. It has lime jello, mayonnaise, horseradish, pineapple, walnuts, and cottage cheese.I thought she was the only one in the world who made it but have since discovered that it is a standby for women of her generation. My Stepfather's potatoes which are mashed potatoes with sauerkraut that's it but they are so good. Wed Jun 03 04:36:37 -0700 2009 1530905 322213 YAYME 2 4743840 My mother makes lime gelatin salad in a Tupperware mold with a center design that could be changed for the season (Christmas tree, valentine, star, four leaf clover etc...). It consisted of lime gelatine, cream cheese, pineapple, pecans and a teaspoon of miracle whip. We used to make it in cherry too. :-) Thu Jun 04 19:37:14 -0700 2009 4738144 86005 amethiste 3 4744307 wow! that mold must be at least 30 years old, huh? (seems like a '70s thing). Fri Jun 05 04:03:12 -0700 2009 4743840 105717 alkapal 4 4780030 I recently found a mold like this at a thrift store - judging from the type of plastic it seems to be from the '50's. Clever design and very space-saving! Tue Jun 16 21:26:07 -0700 2009 4744307 111267 meatn3 5 4780287 meatn3, you've gotta make some wild mold and show us a picture! ;-). Wed Jun 17 03:01:01 -0700 2009 4780030 105717 alkapal 4 4781238 I think you are right alkapal. I was born in '71 and remewmber Mom having that mold when I was a little kid. I still like lime gelatin salad... Wed Jun 17 09:44:34 -0700 2009 4744307 86005 amethiste 4 4896952 Tupperware still sells them! But I haven't seen the festive holiday centers. My mom had one too. i wonder where it went? Garage sale? Tue Jul 28 09:08:24 -0700 2009 4744307 1092553 aggiecat 2 4797967 sweetie still requests a similar dish at Thanksgiving - but with veggies in it - shredded carrots, celery, etc. Its a standing joke - will he get the lime jello this year or wont he? Tue Jun 23 08:49:27 -0700 2009 4738144 59853 AlaskaChick 3 5146867 My mother still makes something only my immediate family loves, and everyone else thinks is revolting: orange carrot jello salad. Lots of shredded carrots molded in orange jello. I hate almost all processed food-type things, but boy oh man do I love that weirdo "salad". Sun Nov 01 09:59:13 -0800 2009 4797967 1119205 lara.colleen 4 5154198 My mom makes this too, only she also adds a can of crushed pineapple, and the drained juice to make up some of the water in the jello. Sometimes there she tosses in a can of mandarin oranges too. Wed Nov 04 00:28:54 -0800 2009 5146867 86221 lulubelle 4 5154660 it's not revolting -- it's carrot salad within jello (esp. with the pineapple). and pecans. i think i've seen it with mayonnaise, too. (or some creamy stuff). Wed Nov 04 07:12:05 -0800 2009 5146867 105717 alkapal 5 5154974 While we're on the topic of carrots, my MIL's "Vitamin Salad" - grated carrots, diced celery, raisins and salted peanuts with enough mayonnaise to hold together and a bit of lemon juice to perk it up. Actually pretty darn tasty. Wed Nov 04 08:41:40 -0800 2009 5154660 13709 buttertart 6 5155306 yep, i like carrot salads! did you ever see my carrot thread? i can't recall if you were on that thread..... http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/535586 Wed Nov 04 10:03:52 -0800 2009 5154974 105717 alkapal 2 4947710 Mmmm, I grew up on lots of different German foods. We used to do Spareribs, sour kraut and mashed potatoes. We always spooned our kraut onto our potatoes. Yum!! Fri Aug 14 18:07:45 -0700 2009 4738144 1081227 DishDelish 1 4741214 My grandmother would make a "Shepherd's Pie" of sorts with a few cans of vegetable beef soup (Campbell's condensed - without adding the water) and top it with canned biscuits and my stepmother used to make this tater tot casserole that was something like ground beef, onion and bell pepper, a bottle of ketchup and topped with frozen tater tots and cheddar cheese and baked til golden brown and bubbly. Wed Jun 03 23:36:18 -0700 2009 1530905 231950 jscrow 2 4741257 jscrow, will you be able to identify the suspect tater tot casserole from a photo line-up? ;-) http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=tater%20tot%20casserole&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi darn it, now i'm wanting tater tots. but plain. maybe squirted with some frank's hot sauce. Thu Jun 04 00:59:07 -0700 2009 4741214 105717 alkapal 3 4743668 this is too great! thanks for the laugh. Thu Jun 04 18:24:49 -0700 2009 4741257 15774 MSK 3 4862067 must. buy. tater tots. soon. Wed Jul 15 15:43:02 -0700 2009 4741257 223367 nvcook 4 4863253 nothin' could be finer than to eat a tot o'tater in the mor-or-or-nin'! Thu Jul 16 04:45:22 -0700 2009 4862067 105717 alkapal 3 4896982 Ok, a little off topic but this thread made me think of my all time favorite Christmas Card....front is a Cartoon of 3-4 tator tots inside it said "tater tots, with their eyes all aglow...." I still smile thinking about it. It's in an album somewhere. Tue Jul 28 09:14:57 -0700 2009 4741257 1092553 aggiecat 4 4898890 aggiecat, just wait till fellow hounds "tatertotsrock" or "ilovetatertots" find out about that! ;-). Tue Jul 28 19:51:46 -0700 2009 4896982 105717 alkapal 3 5101702 OMG. All of those look like her tater tot casserole, except for that last one on the 3rd row with the peas on top. *shudder* Wed Oct 14 01:26:28 -0700 2009 4741257 231950 jscrow 2 4743703 Genius, pure genius! I bet it was great! Thu Jun 04 18:41:25 -0700 2009 4741214 36661 Sam Fujisaka 2 4743709 :: hanging head:: we've made, and enjoyed Tater Tot Casserole. I even like saying it. Take my gourmand card now, I don't deserve it. Thu Jun 04 18:44:09 -0700 2009 4741214 20991 shanagain 3 4743736 Our neighbors regularly enjoyed it and I always wanted my mom to make it but she wouldn't indulge. Their recipe had a can of green beans, cream of mushroom soup, beef, ketchup and, of course, the tots. Lucky ducks! Thu Jun 04 18:53:19 -0700 2009 4743709 75006 amy_rc 4 4743743 No ketchup in ours, but corn and green beans. 'Cause I'm a good mom, see? See how I did that? ;) Thu Jun 04 18:58:05 -0700 2009 4743736 20991 shanagain 3 4771437 hahah. no need to surrender your card...we all enjoy a few things from the past. :) Sun Jun 14 08:08:28 -0700 2009 4743709 57801 lollya 3 4847723 Nope, hold on to your card. In every chef interview, they ask the chef what he or she makes at home. If the chef mentions a foo-foo vertical recipe and says that he makes it for his kids, he's lying right through his nostrils. Foodies of the world, claim your tater tot casserole, bologna sandwiches, and recipes involving canned cream soup. Hold your spoon up high and be proud! Fri Jul 10 16:05:18 -0700 2009 4743709 274906 MissMichal 4 4853835 Even Anthony Bourdain has stated that his guilty pleasure is neon orange macaroni and cheese. Mon Jul 13 09:58:29 -0700 2009 4847723 1091147 almond3xtract 2 4915534 One of my favs growing up was my Mother and Grandmothers tater tot casserole made with Campbell's golden mushroom soup, ground beef, onion, and canned green beans. I loved it! Tue Aug 04 04:43:25 -0700 2009 4741214 1081227 DishDelish 1 4745166 I just thought of another one: cantaloupe with gravy. Here in the south (TX, specifically) a cook was always measured by her cream gravy, and my Grandmother, coming from Georgia to Texas, was the stereotypical great Southern cook. One of the funny accidents we discovered was that cream gravy on salted cantaloupe is absolutely delicious. (Most things are, come to that.) My stepmother turned me onto using mayonnaise in mashed or whipped potatoes, though my mom throws a bloody fit if I use it in her presence. LOL Fri Jun 05 08:56:31 -0700 2009 1530905 20991 shanagain 2 4897007 Texas (and southerners everywhere) All hail the power of cream gravy! It and pan gravy were the first two things my Mom taught me to cook. Seriously. I've been called by friends on Thanksgiving day to talk them down off a gravy ledge. Of course, I did have a Grad school friend who didn't quite undertand how butter was made. City girl from Baltimore. I thought she was joking when she said she thought it was cooked, with flour or something. She was serious. Tue Jul 28 09:20:09 -0700 2009 4745166 1092553 aggiecat 1 4745174 I don't believe that anyone has mentioned tomato gravy on biscuits. Never see this anymore, at least not here in the Midwest. Fri Jun 05 08:58:14 -0700 2009 1530905 11995 pikawicca 1 4770956 OMG, I'm new to this site but have't laughed this hard in years. My English-Irish grandmum used to make my (very skinny) mum chocolate bar sandwiches on buttered brown (probably sweet date-like) bread. Sat Jun 13 23:12:53 -0700 2009 1530905 1083312 wendyb964 1 4771242 My husband will eat "no lie" white bread, peanut butter, cold butter, mayonnaise, grape jelly and sliced american cheese sandwiches.....quite regularly at least until he had the stroke. It totally grosses me out. Grandma used to take slices of deli ham, spread it with ballpark yellow mustard, roll it around a ripe banana, put it in a buttered casserole, top it with cheese sauce and broil and eat. Always with canned asparagus on the side, chilled with vinagrette and chopped hard cooked eggs. Same food stuffs put together, never to vary. Ham rolls and cold asparagus. Shudder. We fry pepperoni slices in a skillet, pat them dry, they crisp nicely and use them on white bread with tomato, lettuce and mayonnaise. A PLT if you will. Spicier version of a BLT. Amazing how much grease is leached out of a fried pepperoni slice. Daddy used to make big bowls of large chunks of white bread toasted quite dark, unbuttered and topped with scalding hot milk, a chunk of cold butter and lots of salt and pepper. Milk toast was his "supposed" hangover cure. I can remember sitting on his lap as a toddler and sharing a bowl. I have a most treasured picture of us perched on the picnic table looking out at John's Pass, slurping away our hot milk toast. God Bless you dear Daddy. Sun Jun 14 06:26:38 -0700 2009 1530905 1083157 notyourmomma 2 4788980 I'm making the gumbo sloppy joes right now! Fri Jun 19 18:29:28 -0700 2009 4771242 287899 bunnyshank 1 4789157 Yup, that was sloppy joes in my house too. I looked it up and It was called "Sunday Night Sloppy Joes" and was originally from Better Homes and Garden...Probably 40+ years ago because I remember eating them as a child. Fri Jun 19 20:09:21 -0700 2009 1530905 32847 ajcraig 2 4789971 another from the Sargent home is a bologna sandwich, with white bread, mayonnaise and sweet gherkins sliced in rings all over the sandwich! Sat Jun 20 08:27:31 -0700 2009 4789157 1086694 LaDonna 1 4789968 oh yes, here are a couple: Egg in a Cup, All Beat Up Great comfort food when you are sick. two or three very soft boiled eggs. salt and pepper real butter slices soft white bread (no crust), torn in bite size pieces. Gently stir together. yummy. Sat Jun 20 08:26:37 -0700 2009 1530905 1086694 LaDonna 2 4794082 Especially good if the butter isn't all the way melted, and there's a lot of it. In our family no bread in it, toast on the side, cut into soldiers (strips) if my (English) dad was at the helm. Mon Jun 22 05:56:09 -0700 2009 4789968 13709 buttertart 1 4791068 Creamed eggs on toast. Hard boiled eggs, chopped. Stir them into a white sauce spiked with cayenne and salted. Put the whole mess over toast. Sat Jun 20 17:37:18 -0700 2009 1530905 10087 Pat Hammond 1 4791209 In my mothers' family (they are English) they had a special treat for dessert or a snack that we called "doorsteps and fruit" .......you slice off a very thick slice from a loaf of homemade white bread (that's where the doorstep part comes in) and put it into a soup bowl .....then you open a can of canned raspberries in juice...pour that over the slice of white