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This is kind of a spin-off of the Zippy Dog/School cafeteria thread. Is there a particular dish your mom (or whoever cooked in your house) made that you never make now, but occasionally get a craving for it? Mine would be fried chicken.
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29 Comments:
Hot dogs cut up and put in baked beans.
crazyspice at 5:00PM on 03/14/08
Dried beef gravy on biscuits with sliced and fried potatoes in butter.
OH...and pizza burgers!
jcrisco at 5:04PM on 03/14/08
hot dogs cut up and put into those Lipton pasta bags...oh, the memories!
bitchincamero at 5:27PM on 03/14/08
Oooh crazyspice, I used to love hot dogs and baked beans too! Let's see, my mom also used to make salmon patties a lot. I liked those.
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Chew on That at 5:27PM on 03/14/08
I had forgotten about hot dogs in baked beans. We didn't do it often, but it was good when we did.
beth1 at 5:30PM on 03/14/08
corn fritters
bessfour at 5:39PM on 03/14/08
Sauerbraten. Loved it, but never made it. Don't have any excuse. .
PerkyMac at 5:40PM on 03/14/08
my dad's macaroni and cheese. The Martha recipe is good, but it's not the same..
ansate at 6:42PM on 03/14/08
My grandmother made the best banana pudding in the world. There was heaven in that bowl. I've never been able to come near to recreating it, and the recipe was lost when she passed away.
And this is gonna sound kind of gross, but I was hooked on it then, and still binge on it occasionally. A small white sushi rice ball surround a pickled clove of garlic and dipped into shoyu. Heaven, I tell you. I especially liked when the pickled cloves were pink.
chisai at 6:43PM on 03/14/08
Oh! Wagon wheel pasta with butter and S&P!
crazyspice at 6:47PM on 03/14/08
Chicken Divan anyone? That was the casserole of choice in my family in the mid 70's - it included chicken, broccoli, whipped cream, mayonnaise, some worcesteshire sauce ... always served with Near East rice pilaf and a cranberry jello salad.
SSMom at 8:33PM on 03/14/08
franks and beans, in which my Mom's secret ingredient was Grape Jelly, or so she claims. as as adult, i've never actually made this.
luckshenkugel, which i make every few years. Mom's version is a heart attack in a meal - tons of sugar, butter, stuff that's bad for you! a side dish shouldn't taste like dessert, but it's SO good!
redhead at 9:21PM on 03/14/08
me too, lochshen kugel. i haven't made it in yonks but it was a staple of my childhood. with gobs of sour cream and sugar.
cybercita at 10:45PM on 03/14/08
My mom made "creamed chicken," which was chicken that she boiled, I think, and cubed, then served with tons of gravy inside a puff pastry shell. We had this with mashed potatoes, and it was absolutely my favorite meal.
producestories at 11:56PM on 03/14/08
You reminded me of Chicken ala King on toast points! I liked the dish, but picked out the pimento. That was Mom's fast food dinner.
PerkyMac at 12:25AM on 03/15/08
This is so strange, but my mom, who despised cooking, would often brown hamburger meat and canned corn to it and serve it over mashed potatoes. It sounds kind of sick now that I've described it, but sometimes I feel like I'd like a plate of it for dinner. I never make it though.
PumpkinBear at 2:20AM on 03/15/08
@PumpkinBear.....Something about the hamburger & corn thing. It is ringing a bell! My mom made something very much like that, but I recall there was some sort of brown gravy involved.
crazyspice at 11:16AM on 03/15/08
c-spice @ "Wagon wheel pasta with butter and S&P"
My de facto grandson's favorite!
He calls them "choo-choo wheels", and adds (lots of) parmesan and/or ketchup.
PS: Wheel-shaped pasta are also popular with motorcycle clubs, who call them "Harley Wheels".
srhcb at 11:35AM on 03/15/08
My mother made a Swiss steak with rice casserole from an old Spry (that was a shortening like Crisco, children) cookbook that I wasn't hot on at the time but later grew to crave. I lost the little book, and managed to have Mach Waxman, owner of the great kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore in NYC find it. When I looked at the recipe again, I'd forgotten just how much fat there was in it, but oh, gosh, was it tasty.
lemons at 12:33PM on 03/15/08
I miss choucroute garni made with salt pork, sausages, and topped with a tomato sauce.
GumbeauxGal at 1:10PM on 03/15/08
@sthcb - Harley Wheels, who'd a thunk it!
I do recall adding parm from the green shaker can! Better memory now. Thanks!!
crazyspice at 1:32PM on 03/15/08
My Mother fixed breaded, fried Eggplant.
Fried Okra, Tomatoes, & Onions together.
And her Egg Custards, OH, the memories & the fat.
Thanks for helping recall good ones.
Afganer at 9:15PM on 03/16/08
One package of Kraft Mac and Cheese (the kind with the powder cheese) prepared according to the package directions (only with canned evaporated milk and cheap margarine instead of butter and fresh milk) mixed with one can of Hormel Chili with beans. I got this whenever I was sick, injured or just down.
Sad part is about twice a year, I make it and eat it. It's some kind of culinary Prozac.
Christian Smith at 4:55AM on 03/17/08
My Moms pot roast. Her secret? Go read the paper until it's almost burned. Man was that good.
TBsMOM222 at 6:33AM on 03/17/08
caldo verde! my mom just called it portugese soup but boy was that stuff bliss in a bowl!
huney_bumper at 9:25AM on 03/17/08
@SSMom--
My mom makes a similar version of Chicken Devan that I used to love.Except, she would always sprinkle parmesan cheese on top and I hated the crispy layer it made. Now, that's about the only part of it I do like (augh, mayonaise--CRINGE!!). My mom still makes (I'm only 19, so I still get to go home on my college breaks...) an African-type dish called Baboutie. Has anyone ever had this? It's a ground beef dish, combined in a mixture of onion, egg, and torn bread pieces and curry flavored. She serves it with rice. It is so delicious!
I could list so many more things that my mom makes as "specialties"--and she's always been one to measure spices and food simply based on her memory--pinch of this, large splash of that, etc...
luswim06 at 10:26AM on 03/17/08
My mom used to make a pork dish that was basically boneless pork chops - she cut the fat off and rendered it to cook the chops. Then she added bottled salsa and, no lie, apricot preserves. It turned into this whole spicy, sweet/sour thing. I haven't had it in years, but I occasionally think about making it.
I also can't make my beef stroganoff or my chicken marsala taste like my childhood memories of them, good as my own recipes are.
Amandarama at 10:35AM on 03/17/08
My mom was/is the cook. There are lots of things that she doesn't cook anymore, for health reasons or just for the fact that the kids have moved out. She doesn't have to do those easy weeknight "feed a crowd" meals anymore, and now when we go over for dinner she likes to make a more special meal.
I miss: her macaroni and cheese
Chicken tortilla casserole
Spaghetti and meat sauce
and for dessert, brownie pudding.
blush at 3:47PM on 03/17/08
My mom is a good cook, and some meals were just simple -- and perhaps cheesy to the majority of people who post on this site -- because of all the clubs and activities I did in school: shake 'n' bake pork chops; pan enchiladas; ground beef mini-patties with gravy, mashed potatoes and corn (on the side -- not in the meat!); and chicken and rice casserole (yes, it had a can of cream of mushroom soup!).
She also made good stew (which I have a hard time replicating!), clam chowder, and lasagna with sauce that would take a day or so to make.
misseditor at 7:56PM on 03/17/08