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Spaghetti, meatballs, salad, garlic bread, red wine.

Bunny Plantation style white bread
Hellmans mayo
tomatoes (just got the first ones from the garden last weekend!)
salt/pepper
Yum

My mothers "pink dip" made with cream cheese, ketchup & other goodies with Lays Ruffled potato chips for dipping.
Braunschweiger smeared on rye bread, topped with Hellmans and thick tomato slices, salt and pepper.
A slab of cream cheese covered in Pickapepper Sauce and served with Wheat Thins.
Jack in the Box taquitos with their fake guac and fake sour cream.

Too bad i can't eat like this anymore. I miss it.

Baton Rouge, LA

Crabmeat cheesecake, Redfish Katie (grilled redfish topped with lump crabmeat) and a really good bottle of red wine. Now I've made myself hungry.

Happy Birthday!

Roasted stuffed zucchini with a little mozarella & parmesan on top.

I am so lucky! My momma was a great cook (from New York) and my (first) MIL was a wonderful little (literally) cajun woman from Louisiana. (The only thing I wouldn't eat that 1st MIL cooked was beef - it had to be like shoe leather or she wouldn't take it off the grill. Burgers, steak, didn't matter, you got shoe leather so you wouldn't get sick. The first time my then-husband had a steak that was medium rare he couldn't get over the fact that it had flavor!) In spite of the whole beef thing, I really had the best of both worlds. Delicious food and cooking lessons, too! My (now) MIL is another cajun woman - according to my husband, she cooks to eat, period. And I have to take my husband's word for this because I don't think in the last six years I've had anything she's prepared. Y'all are making me think I should count myself lucky.

My momma did have this friend in New Orleans that used to make something with canned baked beans and hot dogs. I don't know what she did to it but when she was finished "doctoring it up" it was inedible to me. Whenever we went to dinner at their house and momma found out this dish was being served she fed us before we left our house. We still had to have the "no thank-you" portion but at least we weren't starving by the time we got home.

I must admit I never heard of a ramen/nut salad. The Jello mold thing? It was everywhere.

My father was Norwegian - pure bread! When i would stumble home at 3/4/5/6 am (we lived in New Orleans) he was always at the kitchen counter eating a "snack". Did I mention my ENTIRE family suffers from horrible insomina? (If I get 2 or 3 hours of sleep a day I count myself good! Been this way since I was 13 and no - all the little special drugs DON'T help). Anyhoo - Pumperknickel or Rye bread, mayo, cold sliced baked potatoes, salt, pepper, horseradish, sliced creole tomatoes and more salt & pepper. I admit this is still one of my favorite early am, can't-sleep-gotta-snack-snacks. My husband was raised on the bayou in really, really, south Louisiana - can't wrap his head around this. My dad was raised in New York city - gimme a break - and there's a dozen or twelve dozen other things he'd be eating when i stumbled in at bizarre hours of the am - I crave them all on a regular 3 am basis! Too bad I just can't survive it anymore - wish I had his stomach lining and now I want some serious snacky food!!!!! Gotta love the dad that teaches you to snack seriously!!!