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crystalbella77

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what are the foods you remember from childhood??

I remember when my mom would make biscuits and gravy...she rarely did, but we all loved it and so it was a huge treat! Also, her lasagna was always so good! I hadn't made lasagna on my own until like last year because I was so scared it wouldn't taste like hers.
 
For some reason, sloppy joes and tater tots take me right back to my childhood. I don't remember eating them that often, but it has a certain nostalgic feel to it.
 
For me it's crepes, it was always a special treat on the weekends and even better at my grandmas house, :)
 
My mom was the worst cook. It also didn't help that we were dirt poor. Her method of cooking was to take the cheapest meat (usually thin thin pork chops or cut-up frying chicken) and put it on a cookie sheet and bake the heck out of it. It was always super super dry and hard as a rock. I had this boyfriend when I was 21, and I told him I didn't like chicken. He thought I was crazy, but I had never had normal chicken that wasn't hard and dry. Now, of course, I love chicken. LOL.

One of the things we had probably three or four times a week was some sort of pasta with tomato sauce and ground beef. We also had a lot of those little chicken pot pies and boil-a-bag sliced meat/gravy packets.
 
Chicken soup! Or chicken salad. Ohhhh or corn soup. Which sounds gross, but is one of my absolute favorites.
 
We were super poor too...we used to get those Budding Beef packets that were like .50 cents and put those on sandwiches with ranch doritos. LOL! It was such a treat to get those doritos!
 
crystalbella77 said:
what are the foods you remember from childhood??

I remember when my mom would make biscuits and gravy...she rarely did, but we all loved it and so it was a huge treat! Also, her lasagna was always so good! I hadn't made lasagna on my own until like last year because I was so scared it wouldn't taste like hers.
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my grandpa's biscuits and gravy. that was the best!

oh! and white beans and corn bread with ham! YUM! i still would eat that once a week if i could, but no one else in my family likes it.
 
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Breakfast for Dinner, Mac 'n Cheese, Fish Sticks, and some really, really, BAD Chicken 'n Dumplings that my mom made one night and before my brother and I could eat it....she took it off the table and put down boxes of cereal and some milk. Trust me, it had to be really bad for my mom to let us eat cereal for dinner. Sorry, went off topic but that soooo reminded me of a funny night for dinner.
 
Both of my parents are really good cooks, so I had some yummy favorites from both of them as a kid. My mom made delicious belgian waffles and my dad made biscuits and gravy. Those were the best breakfasts! For dinner, my favorite from my mom was a special chicken alfredo and my dad would make this amazing battered squash straight from the garden with BBQ ribs. I am hungry just thinking about it!
 
My mom was a great cook, and an even better baker. My mom and dad both canned.

I was just thinking about this the other day...about food from my childhood. What I remembered, and what I liked and didn't like.

Verinikas (with ham gravy) and Zweibach (mennonite/German dish). This was difficult to make, but my mom made it so well. There was never enough...all of us kids LOVED it!
Potato soup
Salsbury Steak
Meatloaf
Roast dinner every Sunday
Bisquits and gravy (bacon)
her famous jello salad (I don't eat it though) and her veggie dip (at every holiday)

I think these were the basics. We had these a lot. I don't remember what some of the other meals were...maybe bbq chicken, but my dad had a habit of grilling everything until it was soooo done and dry.

Even though my mom was a great cook, I wasn't a fan of most of these foods. I would try things other places and try to come home and recreate them for my family, but they were creatures of habit, and had to have the same old same old things all the time. My dad still isn't willing to branch out, although when I go up there, he has to eat what I make!! LOL
 
We grew up on a pretty tight food budget... most meals included some sort of ground beef which I hated. Sometimes my mom would just bake a big ground beef patty in a pie pan and cover it with ketchup. Ew! But then again I was the pickiest eater ever! Every Sunday we'd have a roast with potatoes and gravy which I love now but always hated as a kid. The other big memory is home canned fruit... my mom canned a lot and we always had some sort of canned fruit for lunch: pears, peaches, plums, applesauce, apricots, etc. The best was lots of homemade bread and jam.
 
Hmm... my Mom used to make a dish she called Red Flannel hash that I just loved. It was corned beef hash with beets in it and it made everything red, then she'd fry eggs on top. Sounds really weird, but I just loved it! She also made a super yummy potato soup and also canned the best grape juice I've even had in my whole life. I sure wish there was still a stockpile in our basement!
 
Every Sunday we would go to my grandparents house for brunch and we would have bagels with cream cheese and lox. I still love it and it is a total comfort food for me. My mom used to cook what we called frankfurter goulash. It was fried chopped onions cooked with hot dogs and cut up potatoes With water, paprika, and Dijon mustard. When ever I was given the chance to pick a meal that is what I would pick. For breakfast I would always pick matzoh brye. It is matzoh and eggs cooked kind of like you would cook French toast. We would eat it with syrup. Yummy!
 
Oh, definitely homemade biscuits with chocolate gravy - a.k.a warm homemade chocolate pudding. Sooooo good!
 
My mom: broccoli/cheese casserole, runny eggs with grits, cinnamon toast

From Nanny: mustard greens at her house and crackers & peanut butter when we went on trips (she always had them in her purse)

From Grandma: fritters, homemade chocolate sauce on homemade ice cream

From my aunt: beef flavored noodles (I still make her make these for me when I go eat with her)
 
mlewis said:
Oh, definitely homemade biscuits with chocolate gravy - a.k.a warm homemade chocolate pudding. Sooooo good!
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yes!!

also, my mom makes really great homemade pizza and chicken and dumplings...

funny sidenote: I just glanced at the title of this post and thought it said childhood 'friends' and was all set to reminisce about childhood friends that I still have... apparently, my eyes aren't what they used to be! :)
 
I make my mom's 'Spanish' Rice (which is abt as Spanish as Conan O'Brien) when I am homesick for her. I really have to commit to wanting to eat it for the next 4-5 days since no one else in my family will eat it. I still cannot make mashed potatoes as thick as my mom's.

Hmmm... Bisquick biscuits, broccoli-cheese casserole/the church potluck special, Hamburger Helper, and Kraft mac 'n' cheese (which my mom never made, but I ate almost every night when I got home from work in high school) remind me of my childhood, too.
 
My mom always made (and still does) a delish pork chop dinner. I, however, am afraid to cook pork.
It just freaks me out and I don't usually love pork that much. But that dinner is a crowd pleaser and everyone loves it!

She also makes prize winning rice krispie treats, I know that does not sound like a big deal, but there is
something magical about hers, even my amazing baking hubby agrees. She gets the perfect ratio of
marshmallows to rice krispies and they are perfect everytime. We still ask her to make them to this day!
 
I really don't have many memories of what my mom used to make, but I remember my grandma letting us kids help roll and cut homemade noodles for chicken and noodles which was a total treat. I didn't get to help much cooking as a child, probably because my mom was not big on cooking.

I try to let the kids help cook sometimes, but I can't stand the mess it makes so I'm not as good about it as I should be.
 
Hmmm, I loved 'sketti' and 'panpakes'. I absolutely hated spinach. My mother used to tell me I liked frog legs and pig brains 'n eggs but I refuse to believe that yuck.
 
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