| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/6/2007 11:39:04 AM | The worst: lentil soup with pork fat cubes, macaroni and cheese, rice pudding, semolina pudding. Sludgy cooked spinach. Green liver for school lunches.
The best: fresh french bread with unsalted butter and strawberry jam, meringue cases filled with fresh cream and strawberries, white asparagus and new potatoes, home made cheesecake. Curries with sultanas and slivered almonds seem to stick in my mind from school lunches.
My mum and grandmother were fantastic cooks and bakers. I do okay, hate cooking for one though. | |
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c7t101
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| NOTHING , LIKE NOWDAY'S
Posted: 3/6/2007 11:50:27 AM | You know it’s funny. Growing up we weren’t extremely well off and my mother had to make some simple meals. One in particular was a tomato, and beef, chicken or turkey bone based soup with home made egg noodles. Now when we were kids that soup lost popularity with us. Guess we had it a little too often. But now when mom (76 yrs young), makes that soup my sister, bother, and my family all get together for this soup. You see now to us it is a real treat. Funny how a simple childhood meal, can bring families together again.  | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/6/2007 11:52:09 AM | My mom was an excellent cook until my dad died. She just gave up, many times we would look at the mess on our plates and wonder how much alcohol she had consumed that day..
Before he died, she made fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy. Cat fish to die for, fried mushrooms, the list goes on. She gardened and canned all our vegetables, made dill pickles that tasted better than any store bought.
She baked bread, made donuts, and the best coffee. The pot was always full and always fresh. Once my dad died she just crawled in a bottle and never came out. She died about fifteen years ago. They say we mirror our parents, well I'm a widow at about the same age my mother was, but I have not resorted to alcohol thank god. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/7/2007 10:36:10 PM | | The secret to good coffee is the old swedish coffee. I simplified it down to adding two egg shells with the grounds. They seem to neutralize the worst of the acids and no need for a whole egg in the cup. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/7/2007 11:15:19 PM | As a kid, growing up in England in the 60's, mom basically deepfried everything and cooked it till it looked like something the cat had coughed up! And for the longest time I thought that was how food was cooked! Bless her! She is a wonderful mom, but her cooking.........not so wonderful!
But to this day I still love chips, egg and beans. A solid stalpe of Englands working class. Cheap but filling. Not very nutritious, but it hit the spot! And any Limey reading this will know exactly what that is.
And chip butties!! You can't beat 'em! | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/8/2007 12:38:46 AM | The worst food I remember from childhood was a "stew" my mother made from ground beef, canned peas and your guess is as good as mine as to what else except flavour ... completely lacking. Served over white bread ... blech.
Next worst might be Krapt Dinner.
Best food ... a soft boiled egg with my grandfather every morning. It was a routine I cherished ... he'd cut the top off his egg and give it to me and we'd eat together. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/9/2007 11:54:04 AM | | I grew up in a border town in Arizona. One the greatest foods I miss, is street tacos. We would head over to a small town called Algodones and go straight to the food vendors that cooked their food on the street. Who cares what meat it was, it was great and cheap. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/26/2007 6:02:29 PM | dumplings with cooked plums inside; sweetened by rolling in sugar & cinnamon~
i saw another fish refer to it as a certain name i am unfamiliar with...
my mom was german, born in rumania, but i am wondering who knows what this is called, and how to make it, as i cannot replicate it like hers, mmm mmm good! | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/26/2007 7:43:15 PM | i do both, they all end up in boiling water and sometimes it seems easier with a sharp knife and others i use a spoon to quickly coax them into their bath. i save the leftovers and flash fry them for a crispy outer texture too; but it's been a long time since i've made them.
my mom made a dry roux for them sometimes, but i never mastered the technique; mine always seemed burnt!
how do you make yours? | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/26/2007 8:10:06 PM | my mom was the campbells cream of mushroom soup queen,she had so many caaseroles. only 4 i would still eat..lol. she was big on overcooking,or frying chicken and 90% of the crust would fall off,ground beef that was burned and still raw in chunks.plus she loved Little Debbies,Pet Ritz cream pies.
i liked beef stroganoff,this macaroni and cheese-ground beef caserole,chicken spaghetti,chicken divan
hated liver,hamburgers,fried chicken,mashed potatoes,boiled potatoes,sauerkraut | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/26/2007 8:33:56 PM | My Mom used to buy this meat...(or was it??) called 'steakettes'...some sort of ground up meat that I could barely choke down. I would sit at the table for hours trying to feed the crap to the dog so I wouldn't have to eat it. Just the thought makes me want to gag!!! LOL
My Mom was kind of a bland cook...but I miss her cooking...  | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/26/2007 9:10:34 PM | Mom's liver and onions! yuck! I think she cooked it one days when we (me, my three sisters, and brother) were particularly bratty!
Chocolate, not that I didn't like it, but I used to break out in hives in between my fingers whenever I ate it. Thankfully, I outgrew that one! | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/27/2007 8:35:20 AM | lol@ steakettes...those shapeless tasteless little pieces of meat that look like they have been trampled by guys wearin golf shoes...
faves: hot home made peach pie w/ ice cream
cheese souffle w/ ham and cabbage rolls
oven hot heel of bread slathered with butter and the foam you skim off when making strawberry jam
chili w/ garlic toast
least faves: the very first "TV dinners"...(they are not as bad these days but they still have the hell processed out of them)
soggy fish sticks...(i only eat fresh walleye...or tuna)
canned peas
turnips...(ewww...they are just rude)
brussel sprouts | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/27/2007 10:16:37 AM | My favorite dish was (and still is) my mom's Norweigian/Italian spaghetti sauce. We had it every Saturday night for dinner, with carrot sticks and I would get a sip of my dad's Budweiser. Sorry - can't share this recipe in the "spaghetti recipe" thread! 
My worst memory was a rice casserole that Mom made. We had it a lot, and I liked it until the night I threw it up right after dinner - ewwwwww!! Never ate it again. 
I will never, ever, EVER touch meatloaf again as long as I live. At the cafeteria in college it was the funkiest looking shit I'd ever seen - colored flecks of SOMETHING in it........ I would have to walk out of the cafeteria on meatloaf day with the heebie-jeebies. I haven't touched meatloaf in the last 25 years. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/27/2007 10:50:57 AM | Salditos were something we always had around as kids.....little dried plums rolled in salt and chili powder.....we would suck on those things for hours....
Moon Pies with a RC cola in the bottle........
homemade tortillas with butter and cinnamon.......
IBARRA chocolate.........
Huckleberry Pie..........with homemade vanilla ice cream (with the hand crank ice cream makers)
hushpuppies.............
pecan pie........pecan tassies too
cheese on toast
all GOOD
BAD
Creamed chipped beef on toast.......
creamed peas and potatoes.......
boiled okra.............gagggging sounds
tripe....I'll eat it, but I won't like it
Spam in any form.......especially spam jelly..........
kidney, liver and tongue.......sorry but can't do it
chitlins........ugggh
and last but not least
ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS.......... | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 3/27/2007 11:18:54 AM |  Everyone has tastes that are differant. ( I happen to love chipped beef on toast..lol) I haven't read every post, but I am sure its there somewhere. ...lesseee
SPAM Sandwiches
Apricots
Prunes
Lima beans
As we get older, or tatses get more sophisticated. And what I ate as a kid...have no desire to eat some of it now.
The Grainy instant mashed taters in the original foil covered TV dinners.
The Pot Pies with the stuff that looked like chicken..... | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/1/2007 1:21:01 PM | | There was a field close to my house where the neighbourhood kids and I would gather to play softball or indulge ourselves in bug hunts. A raised section of it was often covered with wild strawberries and whenever I'd pick some, I'd take them home and my grandmother (who lived with us) would always (and quite happily) whip together a pie within no time. I swear that I still remember the smell as she baked them. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/3/2007 10:05:44 AM | Liver - my mom would cook it and I would
sit on the front step until it was over -
I would not eat that night - I would rather
starve than eat liver-
Foods I remember - artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs
and garlic- homemade raviolis - homemade pizza - homemade
canolis -Cuccidahtis - sicilian fig cookies we make together - - oh and
biscotti - but not like the ones you buy - these are round
with black pepper you boil them and then you bake them
- and you dip them in coffee -
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/3/2007 2:21:34 PM | good - fresh out of the pot home made strawberry jam on white bread. peanutbutter and jam sandwiches.
bad - overcooked, congealed, crispy fried eggs. canned pork and beans. frozen fish sticks. warm ham sandwiches. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/3/2007 2:36:50 PM | Too this day I hate BUTTERMILK ugh,. I was asked as a kid about 11 ys old if I like buttermilk,. I said I loved it and so they got some,. Gave me a glass took a big drink,. ohhhhhhh nope not what I thuoght it was awful,. See I got it mixed up with eggnog big difference LOL,. So anyways they didn't believe in waste so every morning yill it was done I had too drink a glass of buttermilk.
A good thing I remember is Mom cooking homemade french fries with 4 kids she was standing over the stove cooking a long time too keep up with us,. I have never tasted french fries as good as those. Mom use too cut up cucumber and put it in a bowl with vineger and water and salt,. that was a treat for us ,. LOL | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/3/2007 2:39:10 PM | | Hey did anyone else ever have a hanger toaster when they were kids? Its a hanger bent in half and put on the stove and we would cook our toast on it. Poor Mans toaster,. and thats when we were told the burnt toast was good for your blood. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 4/4/2007 7:57:00 AM | I grew up in Northeast Texas. The food I grew up on is called "Soul Food" nowadays...lol.
Meatloaf.....hated it as a child...but like it now with lots of catsup!
Pinto Beans, served with soft fried potatoes and cornbread (yum!)
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, white gravy, and green beans
Pot Roast, mashed potatoes with brown gravy
Chicken & Dumplins
Lots of grilled and barbequed meat!
Liver & Onions...ok, I was a weird child...I liked it
Fried chicken liver...yes, I like this too!
Ok, now I'm getting hungry! lol
Jazzy | |
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