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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 11/14/2007 9:43:11 AM | SPAM SPAM SPAM! To this day I cannot look at a tin of spam on the shelf in the grocery store!!!!
Spam, potatoes and bean,
Spam, mashed potatoes and beans
Spam, canned zoodles and beans..............need I say more???
My mom was not into cooking lavish meals or anything not frozen, canned or from KFC! Needless to say, I was a 'round' person for most of my childhood! Until I learned to cook and tried all sorts of things that NEVER came from can, freezer and NEVER from KFC, RonnyMacs, or had Mamma, Pappa or Baby in the name!
My husband was amazed that I came from the same family - every meal was a culinary delight in our household! Mom still can't figure out where I got this from! Duck A'la Orange?? Why would I bother? Lobster Bisque? Who eats lobster - she asks. 
I LOVE to watch cooking shows and try it out.
I do remember the huckleberry pies that Gramma maid though Took us all day to pick the berries! Ate 1/2 of what we picked, but a pail always made it back to the farm house kitchen for pies! | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 11/14/2007 10:33:42 AM | Just remembered another 'UCKY' thing that we actually ate!
 Eggs A La Goldenrod
My older sister learned this in grade 10 cooking class - Just imagine:
A form of scrambled (???) eggs over mushy toast with a sort of white sauce (no seasoning added) and served up every Sunday morning for as long as I can remember!!!
I had the unique taste of 'barf' on limp toast!!
But, because my sister was sooooo proud of this creation, and we, being brought up to be polite - no matter how bad it is - all silently swallowed this 'greul' and then left the table as soon as permitted - learned to pretend to have 'cramps' on those Sundays!  | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 12/2/2008 6:28:02 PM | ok so tonight i made chicken paprikas and since i couldn't remember how to properly make spaetzle instead i opted for a cross between potato dumplings and the better tasting, better textured spaetzle. no traditional cucumber salad nor thick slices (read slabs) of french bread cut on the diagonal, but smooth whole grain white sara lee bread and butter. so just paprikas, dumplingspaetzle, bread n butter and well... some peas dabbed with butter, salt n pepper. i wasn't happy with the faux dumplings at all.
anyone out here have a foolproof spaetzle recipe? one that you've actually used and is tried and true? what do you prefer, dumplings or spaetzle, and why; please?
nowhere near as sweet and smokey as my mom's. but a sort of smallish tribute to her to kick off the holiday season. now, who else recently made something they recall (even IF incorrectly,) from their childhood? | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/26/2009 7:52:38 PM | who here knows how to make policintas?
or spaetzle, correctly; i must be doing something wrong!
and it's been ages since i made stuffed cabbage, anyone willing to share their recipes for the above would be greatly appreciated because cooler weather is around the corner and i'm looking to make some cozyish food soon.
thanks for your suggestions, hope this finds everyone healthy and doing well. | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/26/2009 11:10:54 PM | if I had to chose ONE favorite food from my childhood, it would probably be blackberry cobblers ... my aunt would send all us cousins down to the creek with pails where we'd eat most of the blackberries but bring back enuf for her to make several huge cobblers! yum! I think I've perfected my version of her recipe ...
works equally well with peaches ...
the recipe given previously for dumplings was really interesting (whip egg whites, gently fold in egg yolks then sprinkle in cream of wheat) ... as I'd NEVER have thot to make it that way ... maybe I'll try it! my aunt always used cream fresh from the dairy and good old Bisquick! | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/26/2009 11:18:59 PM | Hello Edge,
There is a thread here in the forum on the first page right nowm called Hungarian Dishes, or something Hungarian, anyway, Bessie is wonderful. SHe posts all of her homeland cooking. In mesg 23, page 1 she has a spaetzle recipe, very easy. I made this and I made the mistake of making them too big, so dropping about 1/4 tsp of dough is about right.
On page 4 msg 96 and 98 Bessie and someone else mention the policintas you talk about, but I never saw the word over a recipe. Either I missed it, or it isn't labelled as that name with the recipe. Since I do not knmow what it is, I can't guess, so you will have to go in there and look. Bessie has some really wonderful recipes there.
I bet Bessie has a stuffed cabbage recipe up, but I can post mine here which is a Jewish recipe and Bessie says Eastern European Jewish recipes are about the same as Hungarian.
Cabbage Rolls
Bring a very large pot of water to boil. Remove the core from a head of tightly packed cabbage. Turn off the boiling water and place the whole head of cabbagin into the pot, cover and let sit for 20 minutes. This allows the leaves to be separated easily without tearing. When 20 minutes is up, place head in a colander to cool, then separate the leaves carefully. Save the cabbage water.
While cabbage is softening, mix together:
2# lean ground beef
1 cup raw rice
1/2 cup chopped parsley
salt and pepper to taste and any other herb or spice YOU choose
When cabbage is done add 1 cup cabbage water and mix well. Place a heaping tablespoon to tablespoon and a half at the large stem end of each cabbage leaf. Fold over the sides, then roll up tightly without tearing. Make rolls until all meat is used.
Cut the core end out of 4 very large onions and slice them into cresents like for fajitas, or a large chop
Open an 8oz. can of tomato paste
Measure and hold 3 tbls Italian herb blend and 1 tsp cayenne pepper (optional) and any other herb or spice YOU like
Remove all of the zest from 1 large lemon, then juice it well
In a very large skillet with lid place 1-2 tbls olive oil, saute all of the onions until soft and turning golden.
Add the herbs and spice and saute for another minute
Add the tomato paste and mix well
Add 1 1/4 cup of cabbage water and mix well. (the more herbs and spices you use the more water you will need) Mix well and remove sauce form pan to a bowl.
Place the cabbage rolls in the skillet and when you have one full layer, add some sauce to the top. Repeat layer after layer adding sauce to the top of each layer. Pour 1 cup of cabbage water that is mixed with the lemon juice and half of the zest, to the bottom of the pan. If any sauce is left put it all on the top layer and add the remaining zest.
Cover the pan with the lid and cook on very low for about an hour, until the very center cabbage rolls are done. Serve with lemon wedges and warm French bread.
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2009 2:46:11 AM | I'm Italian so for us the kitchen is our favourite room to share with family and friends, cooking, laughing, talking, and eating.
My mother, god bless her, is the best cook EVER! I consider myself to be a great cook, but I could never been as wonderful in the kitchen as my mother is.
I eat Italian cusine, but other types of cuisine as well sometimes.
My mother taught my sibs and I how to make sausages, pickles, and cheese. She makes her own homemade pasta sauce and rapini (which I love).
When I was small and didn't feel well or was upset she'd make me lasagna with rapini or cheesecake squares and it always made me feel better and she still does this to this day.
She did make liver with onions sometimes when we were little and I ate it until my sister told me what it really was (they told me it was steak). Now the sight of liver makes me feel nauseated. 
I used to eat sardines as a child, now I won't touch them. 
I didn't like carrots as a child, but I love them now. Raw or cooked.
My mother raised 3 kids on her own and she's the best mother. She taught me the importance of family, friends, and l0yalty. She taught me to always respect myself and be true to who I am as a person. I had a wonderful, happy, healthy upbringing with my mother and sibs despite an absent father. | |
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| bad food from childhood
Posted: 9/27/2009 8:02:38 AM | *shudders*
Ucky thick tomatoe soup consistency of clotted blood and tasting like curdled vomit.
Put me off ketchup for the longest time as well ..
Thanks, mother | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/27/2009 3:21:27 PM | I love this thread! I already posted my favorite GOOD FOOD from my childhood ... my Aunt Myrtie's blackberry cobblers and Aunt Grace's peach cobblers ...
probably my WORST BAD FOOD experience was trying to gag down my mother's version of cream of wheat ... I have TRIED to replicate the horrible lumps of cream of wheat she created but I can't ... for the life of me, I don't know what she did to create something that horrible ... slimmy lumps of globs of wheat, swimming in CANNED MILK! I feel pukey just thinking about it!
Mom would decide to master some particular food and she'd cook it over and over and over ... cream of wheat, for example ... she cooked cream of wheat every morning for MONTHS ... maybe YEARS! but she never "got" cream of wheat! thank GOD she finally gave up on cream of wheat! she was much better at oatmeal!
we once had brocalli every night for over several months before she decided she'd "gotten" it and finally switched us over to brussels sprouts ... she tried so hard! she made EVERYTHING "by hand" and shunned boxes of cake mix and the like!
in her defense ... she MASTERED pancakes and corn fritters!!! she made great pancakes and corn fritters! AND she could make great pancakes and corn fritters ... on a wood burning stove or over an open camp fire! once she "got it," she HAD IT! she didn't have all the fancy equipment I've got ... wish she'd lived to see the goodies we use now to cook with ... she really would have been amazed ... | |
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| what good or bad food do you remember from childhood?
Posted: 9/29/2009 7:46:15 PM | Red beans and rice -- the kind the schools served were cr**.
Boiled shrimp, boiled crab, seafood gumbo....I LOVE that stuff!
My FAVORITE however, is : boiled CRAWFISH , and other things that are mixed in the pot with it ...such as corn on the cob, "new potatoes" , and smoked sausage . I ate the hell out of that stuff !
In fact, I love boiled seafood so much, that when I got my tonsils taken out at 7 years old, I wasn't one of those kids who asked for ice-cream-- I wanted crawfish! | |
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