teckky
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Joined: 9/4/2007
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/17/2007 10:08:03 AM | since my family is mexican, i ate a lot of mexican food growing up.. my great grandmom would make pinto beans.. and you know, those are fine on their own. she would then dump them in the blender, put a block of velveeta cheese in with it and murder the thing on high.. it was so gross. you would think she'd know better -_-
what i love from my childhood? everything my mom made : ] i am a big fan of spaghetti.. i know, its simple, but her sauce was to die for. especially over spinach and cheese tortellini. but along with the spaghetti, when i used to eat meat, she would make the most amazing meatballs, a thick and zesty sauce, homemade garlic bread and a caesar salad. simple yes, delicious.. heck yes.
life is good when your mom has her own catering business : ] | |
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teckky
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Joined: 9/4/2007
Msg: 153 | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/17/2007 4:12:03 PM | Good:  My grandma's homemade ravioli, her braccioli, my ma's veal cutlets (I can't believe I used to love to eat those itty bitty baby cows!), roast beef and mashed potatoes on Sundays, sugared jelly rolls, New York bread rolls and Italian bread, cannolis...
It's a miracle I haven't had a triple bypass by now, cept, of course, now I eat like a californian. 
Bad:  Liver! I'll never forget the time my father pretended to like it so we would eat it, and then smilingly made his way to the bathroom to spit it in the toilet.
~Boots~ | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/17/2007 4:12:39 PM | One of the things I remember growing up, is canning season. My mother did canned tomatoes, dill pickles,
jellies & jams. She used to take us up the mountain for huckleberries & wild blueberries. We had apples,
rhubarb, cherries, plums & raspberries growing right in our yard. It was incredible!
One of the things I about living in Abbotsford, there are blackberries everywhere. I have filled about 10 -
4L ice-cream buckets this summer. I don't even like them, but I make jellies & jams for everyone in my family
& my boyfriend loves the blackberry juice.
I just finished making a 5- 1L. (quarts) jars of pickles today.
I also love making home-made chocolates at Christmas  | |
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teckky
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Joined: 9/4/2007
Msg: 157 | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/17/2007 4:43:24 PM | Bad=anything with nutmeg.
Not sure why my mom liked it so much, but I couldn't eat squash until a few years ago when I started cooking it and still can't eat cooked carrots because of the bad taste all that nutmeg's left in my mouth.
"Boiled dinner" wasn't so hot either--pork hocks, cooked cabbage and potatoes all boiled in the same pot. Yuck.
Any wild game.
Liver.
Headcheese that my dad made. Double yuck. My mom and dad owned a tavern, and they used to get free stuff from farmers. If anyone was butchering a pig, my dad would ask for the head. So usually we got to look at it for a day or 2 before my dad got around to doing anything with it. He'd cook it, skull and all. Not sure what his secret receipe was to make the "loaves" that he did, but I guess I'm not so sad knowing that I'll never be able to eat it again.  | |
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fshnpl
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Joined: 7/27/2007
Msg: 160 | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/26/2007 11:50:08 PM | My paternal grandmother used to make the best chicken and dumplings I've ever had. She made homemade dumplings (sort of a noodle), but she could never give anyone the recipe because it was a handful of this and a handful of that. Those glorious dumplings died when she did and I still miss 'em both!
I miss my mother's homemade bread and pecan cinnamon rolls. I'm going to bake her bread and rolls this weekend for my son-in-law. He's never tasted homemade bread before! Poor guy, I was practically raised on it! | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 1:09:49 AM | Amazing. This is my first look at the food thread. Part of this was like reading a good English novel. Thanks for sharing.
Being from the South, food has always been a big deal and I come from a family of excellent cooks. My mom made biscuits (homemade from scratch every morning) because it was
what my Dad preferred.
She also kept wonderful tea cakes in the cookie jar.
I don't remember hating anything.......although there were foods we would have on
Saturday when my dad was not at home....because we liked them and he didn't.
I remember special things like:
fresh coconut layer cake, my dad's beef stew (made with clear broths and vegetables that didn't fall apart plus lots of pepper), vegetable soup made from our garden, cobbler made from fresh picked berries, fried chicken livers with rice and gravy, big/thick burgers from
the grill......
Gosh the list goes on and on. Thanks for stirring the memories.
Becca | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2007 5:47:27 AM | Stuffed Grapeleaves terrify me !
When I was a little girl a family friend with facial hair, warts and a scratchy deep throated voice approached me with a tray of stuffed grapeleaves and I screamed in terror " Mommy ! She's making me eat cigar's...!!!" Just the sight of them gives me the willy's.... | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2007 6:47:12 AM | Gods.. there is so much..
lets see...
Raw milk
Stuffed cabbage
pork chops and sauerkraut
pot roast with all the veggies
my mothers version of chili
Grilled cheese sandwiches
pb&j sandwiches with blackberry jelly (yes homemade)
cherry pies made from real pie cherries
Fresh bread hot from the oven with fresh churned butter.
German potato salad
Roasted chicken
Kielbasa and sauerkraut
Creamed beans, peas, corn.
Spinach with Vinegar
liver and onions (actually i use to love eating it)
jello
homemade ice cream
Apple pies
Blackberry pies
Rhubarb pies
(my mother wasn't that great of a cook but, she was killer at baking)
money cakes
Anise cookies.. (not sure what the real name for them is.. swedish something?)
mashed potatoes made with cream, and butter
I know there are other things I just can't remember at the moment. | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 9:06:12 AM | The good the bad and the evil.
HAM - evil - projectile omitting
sourkraut - remember making it in HUGE barrels, the process of scrubbing ones feet and lets and climbing in and stomping the crap.
Sausage - we would make 700+lbs of it each fall. Always in grandma's basement.
an entire weekend would be consumed preparing all the different varieties.
Even the spare stove down there and all the sneaky samples one would have ensuring the spices were just right.
Slider noodles (oversized spaetzle) - great in any dish, a huge fight to see who got the most.
Creamed spinach - dont touch the damn bowl........ IT IS MINE!
Pot roasts galore with all the fixings
Yorkshire pudding - always done in a cast iron frying pan (in oven) then sliced like pizza, with fresh butter and gravy.
Grandma's home made soups - great memories
White sauce to put on the extra bowl of meat and veg that came out of grandmas soup.......... yum.....
Grandpa's soup - not so good....... he always added hot sausage to every pot..... even chicken and turkey soups.
Grandma's baking - can you say incredible. 25-100 varieties of baked goods for christmas.
Grandma's fruit cake - most hate fruit cake but her 2 varieties were just amazingly great........... still love a GOOD fruit cake today.
wednesday was fish night. 5-15 lbs of fish deep fried
Summer salmon roast.......... can you really go wrong with stuffed smoked salmon and all the corn you can handle?
snout and ear stew.... EVIL!
Ox tail Soup -
lamb - ALLERGIC - HATE IT !
Grandma's poppyseed strudel .... LOVED IT
Sitting in grandma's garden (5 acres) and eating all the strawberries, raspberries and the peas ............ ohhh she hated us for that.
Or sitting in the fruit trees eating all the peaches!
Liver and Onions with pink fried rice..... YUM...... even my kidlet loves it
cucumber salad......... yummy
Aunt lauries Triple Chocolate Kahlua cheese cake........ INDECENT, AMAZING
For years I hated chicken, pizza, as an adult I can eat it
Love tacos - never got them as a kid - son and I both love em | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 10:35:48 AM | | LIVER!!! I hated as child.we had a lot as it was cheap..and darn that dog would only eat so much and mashed potatoes didn't hide it as well as i thought..I love it now..I have even been known to order it out..ground up bologna, relish and mayo was another staple for lunches..also cheap..it was a wannabe ham salad..lol But mom baked the best homemade bread, rolls and sweet rollsfrom scratch..those I do miss and her too as she has passed.. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2007 11:51:39 AM | i love reading about all the rich experiences within this thread, people sharing their stories and memories.
i thank each of you for doing so.
as a child my tastebuds weren't keen on eggplant and my eastern block mother loved it. she made a dish of sauteing them with colored peppers and onions but i can't remember the spices she used. i do recall greatly disliking it but now wish i had had the ability to appreciate it and taken the time to have written it down, but that is another reason i am spurned to try to recreate dishes i once didn't care for in the least. | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 12:33:33 PM | I only remember having to eat Liver ONCE and it was a horrific experience.
My father used to love to empty out the refrigerator on Sunday morning and make some weird egg mixture with the left overs. I haven't been a fan of eggs since Sex Education and watching a chicken forming in the egg (totally grossed me out)
The taco stuff wasn't bad but there were some seriously nasty combos that I barely got down.
Even though I'm Tlingit, there is a heavy Russian influence that shoes up at Easter in the form of Easter bread. Usually a sweet bread with nuts and candied fruits and raisins. The whole thing is topped with a confectioner's sugar frosting and decorated with Jelly Beans. The old fashioned way was to cook it in a coffee can. I prefer to use a cast iron skillet these days.
My mother grew up here so fresh veggies didn't exist, and it was all about canned veggies while I was growing up. To this day I can't stomach creamed corn.
Obviously growing up in various parts of bush Alaska and spending time out on Grandpa's guide ranch resulted in 'game' being on the table. I found that moose meet is only tolerable IF you grind the meat and use it for Taco's. I am a firm believer that you CAN'T make bear meat edible.
As a teenager it was Weds night Tacos and Sat nite at Shakey's Pizza. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2007 3:47:39 PM | The bad: Mothers fried eggs, ham salad, chicken gizzards and I still think these things are disgusting.
The good: Mother's cornbread dressing with giblet gravy, homemade fruit salad,
liver and onions | |
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Jesci
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Joined: 8/15/2007
Msg: 173 | |
| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2007 7:44:17 PM | The Bad:
Hot tuna noodle casserole made with creamed soup and crushed potato chips on top. Ugh.
The Good:
My mom's entire Thanksgiving dinner - turkey, dressing, gravy, mile-high biscuits, mashed potatoes, yams, collard greens w/fatback, cranberry relish. Sweet potato and pecan pies and red velvet cake for dessert! | |
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Posted: 9/28/2007 9:23:07 AM | When I was in elementary school (many many ages ago) they always had the BEST rolls! We also had something called Bologna Boats - slice of balogna with a scoop of mashed potatoes and cheese melted on top! (have heard them called Flying saucers too)
We always had really good school food. I just wish the stuff they are trying to feed my kid was at least half as good as what we had!
~k~ | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/28/2007 11:21:46 AM | | Hey hippychick29 - I remember those rolls! Good heavens, you could smell them through the whole school and they would just melt in your mouth! You know, they publish the recipe for those in the newspaper every once in a while. | |
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