Strange Food | Pad Patter 5-16-2023

My mom did a lot of Jello salads too. A family favorite was Lemon Jello with pineapple tidbits (small chunks) and grated carrots. Sounds awful, but it was good.

I used to make a Strawberry-Banana Jello ... strawberry-banana Jello (can't find it anymore), Cool Whip, and strawberries (I usually used frozen).

So I wasn't the only kid that added ketchup to my mashies. My sisters sure didn't LOL!!!

And we always dipped our roast beef into ketchup or poured some on top. Maybe b/c we ate meatloaf with ketchup???

 

My mom still does. And my brothers did. I probably did at one point, I just don't remember.

 

"Grilled cheese" growing up was open faced - cheese on toast, with bacon bits, onion and tomato. I didn't know you could make it with 2 slices of bread in a frying pan until I lived in a dorm in University and someone made it that way lol

 

We used to eat:
pickle sandwiches - dill pickles and mayo on white bread
great northern beans over cornbread with ketchup
many, many Jello salads, including the famous Watergate salad that our family called "green stuff"

This sandwich sounds weird perhaps but we ordered it at a restaurant and it was yummy!! Waitress said it was even better if the bread was toasted. I don't remember the name, but Google shows lots of recipes for this.
2 raisin bread
peanut butter (your choice smooth or crunchy)
couple slices of crispy bacon
several slices of granny smith apple - your choice to peel or not

peanut butter as a dip for carrots, apples, and bananas - some people do pickles, but I am not a fan

 

When we were n Holland recently we ordered a savoury platter and it came with steak tartare. Hubby wanted to know of he could ask them to eat it. I said he couldn't and then had to eat all of it myself. He laughed and told me he can see I grew up foreign - meaning more of a German heritage than his Zimbabwean one.

 

I love me some mustard ...french fries, too!

 

My kids love ramen. I might have to try this.

 

I used to do that too... I still like mashed potatoes with ketchup!

 

I LOVE steak tartare!!! And salmon tartare... delicious!

 

One of the things we do in Czech Republic that is totally normal but not to the rest of the word is fried cheese - a slice of edam coated in flower-eggs-breadcrumbs and then fried like a schnitzel. Totally delicious!

Another thing we make is open sandwiches called topinky: dark bread rubbed with raw garlic with ham, ketchup and grated cheese on top keeping it all together. The perfect dinner!