I'm just wondering what you all had to eat growing up. I would have to say that as a kid, "Tuna & Noodle's" was something that I ate at lease 3-4 times a week...
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As a kid I ate a lot of Bologna and cheese sandwiches for lunch.
For dinner my mom made a great mac and cheese baked with velveta cheese on top.
Also a great meatloaf and hamloaf.
My grandmother made a great tomato rice soup.Posted 2 years ago # -
Meatloaf! Mom was / is a great cook so even though she taught every day we had good meals!
If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.Posted 2 years ago # -
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My dad always made "Corn Meal Mush"... Looked like a block of Velveta Cheese... he'd slice it thin 1/4-3/8" slices, fry it up in butter and put syrup on it... Something I just couldn't do and still can't.
If it wasn't Tuna & Noodles's it was SOS, I still like that...
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I love both fried mush and fried oatmeal with maple syrup! SOS rocks too along with sausage gravy .
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"American Chop Suey" It's still one of my fav's. It's ground beef browned in a pan then mixed w/ elbow macaroni and tomato sauce. MMM-MMM GOOD
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Brazz, that was another one, only we called it "Beef Goulash"...
They say that the things that haunt you the most are stored in the back of the brain until something triggers them, thanks Brazz... Just joking...
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Phil how about scalloped potatos, I hated them, not as much now.
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With ham type substance? That was one too...
I guess I know how my parents felt raising three kids... I have my own and they eat me out of HOUSE & HOME! I think that's why some of the stuff wasn't so good... or it was made so often...
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My dad used to barbecue round steak on the grill. Me and my brothers and sisters thought it was wonderful. We didn't know about rib-eyes or porterhouse or filet mignons. We were in heaven.
NASCAR...Everything else is just a game.Posted 2 years ago # -
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We only got real meat on Sundays... Roast...
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Phil, Beef or pork? We had pork roast every Sunday like clockwork.
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Beef, my mom got it from her brothers who raised cattle...
Cream of Mushroom soup was always my noon meal before I went to school...
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Lots of tomato soup and grilled cheese as a kid. Still love that.
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A Pollock from Chicago, I grew up on Polish sausage -- both fresh and smoked. But nothing beat meaty pork neck bones boiled with sour kraut, boiled potatoes, and a hearty rye bread. Fresh ham hocks made an excellent substitute when the neck bones weren't meaty, or even available. Loved oxtail stew too.
I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- ThoreauPosted 2 years ago # -
When I was a kid and living in San Diego, my Dad used to take me to the "Tamale Factory" in Old Towne San Diego. We would pick up a large stack of fresh tortilla's.
When we would get them home, Dad and I would have a pepper eating contest to see who would get the first tacos or tostadas off the stove.
I guess that is where I get my taste for "melt your teeth" spicy foods.
To this day my favorite food is Chilis Toriados. That's a roasted fresh jallapenos (seeds in) with some lime juice and a touch of salt. You'll break a sweat with the first bite.... its really just fun food, but definitely worth trying. If your local Mexican restaurant can't/won't make it, or doesn't know what it is, it ain't a real Mexican restaurant.
(I am of English-Irish & Norwegian extraction.)Posted 2 years ago # -
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Lawrence, you should be eating some of this "stuff"; Bacon and cabbage, Barmbrack, Boxty, Carrageen moss, Champ, Coddle, Colcannon, Crubeens, Dulse, Drisheen, Goody, Irish breakfast, Irish stew, Skirts and kidneys, Soda bread & Ulster fry...
Along with; Guinness, Irish breakfast tea, Irish coffee, Irish cream, Irish mist, Whiskey (particularly pure pot still whiskey)& Bulmers (known as Magner's in the United States)
Now for the English side, tea & crumpets and fish & chips...
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Phil,
I'm a "see food" fiend.
About the only food I cannot eat is Jello.
After I found out how gelatin is manufactured I can't eat it.But, as for those stick to your rib dishes you mentioned above, I have no problem.
My Dad calls me "The Coyote" referencing the "Roadrunner" cartoons. I'm not the "Tidbidicus Supersonicus" but the "Eatamusamostanythingus".Posted 2 years ago # -
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I remember when was in the military and being out in the field we might get hot chow once a day, the paper plates that they served it on sucked so you usually ended up with half of it on the ground... It didn't matter, we were so hungry we ate bugs and all...
Now as a kid, cat food and Elmer's school glue, the paste didn't have the right flavor!
Lawrence, you should try it sometime... Right after I try the Peanut Butter and Onion, right?
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As a kid every Saturday night we had fried fish and oysters either at home or we would go out for it. It was my dads favorite meal. In the winter he would fix oyster stew to go with the meal also. We also ate alot of bbq'd chicken.
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In our house the meals I remember most had either a Southern or Mexican flair. Southern is because my Mom was from Texas and her mother my Grandma was from Oklahoma. The Mexican food comes from living in Arizona.
One staple was beans and ham-hocks, which my Grandma made often along with cornbread. I can still remember her soaking the bean before cooking them, and sometimes the beans were white and other times they were one of the red variety.
Fried chicken with biscuits & gravy with black-eyed peas was one of my favorite Sunday meals.
Fried catfish, with cornbread and fried okra… that okra rolled in cornmeal and fried until it was crunchy on the outside… I love fried okra!
For Mexican food it was tacos & tostados… but my favorite Mexican meal was green chili burritos made by shredding leftover pot roast (another Sunday staple). Mom would dice up the left over potatoes and cooked carrots, which was added to the meat and then to a gravy that included a can or two of diced green chili. All of this simmered in a pan making our house smell great until she was ready to roll it up with a little cheddar cheese in large flour tortillas and serve it up.
By the way all of the above was served with large glasses of sweet tea, will at least until I was old enough to enjoy a beer.
If those two ladies still cooked for me I would have died long ago… fat and very happy.
"United States"
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.Posted 1 year ago # -
Everything !!
If light travels faster than sound is this why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.Posted 1 year ago # -
We were pretty poor growing up, so we had a lot of repeats and cheap eats. Fried spam, hot dogs, etc. When my dad could afford steaks, he'd BBQ the hell out of it on the grill. Most times, chicken, pork chops, burgers and any other meat on the grill got BBQ.
As of today, I refuse to eat corn flakes, pork chops, and instant mashed potatoes.
We ALWAYS ate very well when we went to my grandparents' house. All kinds of seafood, Salmon patties, fresh garden veggies, homemade roast beef and noodles, and several other real home cooked meals.
I'm learning several of my grandmother's recipes and making them my own.
Southerners don't talk slow because they're dumb, we do it because there's really no rush.Posted 1 year ago # -
Toas-Tites! A grilled cheese sandwich "pocket".
I've still got the one from our house back in the 1950's.
Spread oleo on both sides of a couple of slices of bread, put a slice of Velveta in the middle clamp the Toast-Tite maker shut trim the bread and lay the whole thing on one of the burners on the stove.
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For lunch everyday at school: a red-plaid metal lunchbox with two peanut butter and grape-jelly sandwich's wrapped in wax-paper that were smashed flat by that big honkin' apple...and Sunmaid raisins, the box of which turned into a cool little cardboard musical instrument at recess.
The peanut butter would be dry. The bread, soaking up all that warm grape jelly all morning would have turned into purple mush, and as usual; the glass liner in my thermos of milk would probably be broken again from playing at the bus-stop.
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Tommy, thanks for the pic. What a cool kitchen device. I've never seen one before.
As a kid I was spoiled. (My wife says I still am.)
We always ate well, or at least that's how I remember it.
Bacon and eggs every morning (except for Fridays when it was pancakes or french toast because we were Catholic.)
Hey, I grew up in central Illinois. That's pig country. Eating pork at least once a day was mandatory.
My favorite meal was fried pork chops, fried potatoes (I learned later some people called them "home fries") with lots of pork gravy on them and corn (what else? cream corn in the the winter and on-the-cob in the summer)-- and homemade apple pie for dessert.
Seems like we always had homemade pie for dessert, except in July or August when we would have watermelon.
I just ate an hour ago, and now after posting this, I'm hungry. I need a pork fix, but pie will do.Posted 1 year ago # -
When I was younger, my parents didn't have much money - one meal I remember is noodles and ketchup instead of marinara. It was pretty tasty and provided me the nutrients I needed as a kid.
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I remember my father would -only- feed me chicken and spaghetti the year I lived with him. . .my mum it was just a lot of hamburger helpers, ramen, sometimes spaghetti or chicken there as well.
My parents can't freaking cook.
Now-a-days I cook a LOT of Italian food, burger sandwidges or breadsticks when I need a 'boost'.
Sincerely,
YoruPosted 1 year ago # -
Velveeta cheese on bread toasted in the oven open faced. Then lettuce and hot-sauce on top of the melted cheese. Yeah, times were tight growing up...good times though.
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I was in the same boat as Onizuka. As my dad was in the U.S. Navy and almost always out to sea, my mom had three boys to feed and clothe. Hamburger & beans and Mac&cheese with spam were pretty usual dinners for us.
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Steamed duck eggs, fried bred and bacon. We were a bit backwoods.
Michael
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.-- Chesterton
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Sounds good to me Obelus.
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Homemade korean egg rolls. Won't anyones but my mother's or my sister's. Spring rolls need not apply. They take a day to make a batch but fried or the steam versions can't be beat.
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Man I guess I had it good growing up in Germany, we used to have Schnitzel, Potato salad, sauerkraut or rotkraut, then on Sundays go to Oma's (grandma) house for a three course meal of noodle soup, roast, potato's, and salad....Breakfast was always great German bread and sausage meats. AWW Man now I am hungry again......
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Raised in the South my family were pretty much Farmers... we ate "country".
breakfast every day with cat head biscuits and white gravy, ham or sausage and always eggs... Dinner was always a meat and vegetables.... We also ate a lot of game..deer,duck,quail...and am happy to say my family still enjoys wild game on a regualar basis.Posted 1 year ago # -
My Mom is an Okie so we had beans and corn bread every Wednesday, left overs Thursday. Friday was lasagna, Saturday left overs. Sunday was pot roast. Monday Left over pot roast. That menu bored the hell out of me when I was a teen but you know beans and corn bread is like soul food for me now. Pinto beans and a ham hock in the slow cooker! OH BABY that makes the house smell like heaven!
If you are wrong and you shut up, you are wise. If you are right, and you shut up, you are married.Posted 8 months ago # -
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We always had one of the following weekly.
Pinto beans, ham hocks, and cornread.
Blackeyed peas and cornbread.
Great Northern beans and cornbread.
All served with fried potatoes and slab of onion or green onions.
Weekends were some sort if meat. Usually Porkchops or Roast.
Sunday mornings mom always made a huge breakfast of pancakes, bacon, sausage, and eggs made to order.Posted 8 months ago # -
Red beans and rice with smoked sausage, or spaghetti, or shrimp creole. Mom cooked a lot from the Betty Crocker cookbook, but the three former were staples, at least once a week. She still makes a gumbo every month. My dad was fried Bologna or spam, and we had that every Sunday with creole cream cheese and scrambled eggs. We had coffee milk too on Sundays, what they call Cafe au Lait at the French Market. I used to think everybody ate this stuff, lol.
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grew up on a farm so we had beef in one form or another almost daily. Hereford, none of this black angus crap that is so popular today. Something about farm raised, grass fed beef that just can't be topped.
Then it was either hot dogs or pork chops the other meals. Usually the first. Rarely we had pasta because dad was a steak and potatoes guy. No pasta, no rice. Grandma always had something cooking. Pies, cakes, cookies, all types of soups and stews. Lived on the same block so it was walking distance.
Dudes of the world abide.
"(Tobacco) is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living."Posted 8 months ago # -
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I still eat this, but when I was in elementary school, I would start the day w/either a soft boiled or fried egg with a couple slices of pork roll (always Taylor's Ham brand)...sometimes some scrapple.
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We had far too much hamburger helper when I was growing up, so to this day ANY of the Helper meals don't make it into my grocery cart. I also can't eat spaghetti. Pasta is fine and I enjoy it, but spaghetti... Yuck. The only comfort food I have is Campbell's Tomato Concentrated soup made with milk instead of water. No tomato soup can or will be better. I've made from scratch, had various restaurants' version. All are not it. Funny how something so simple and basic can be so perfect. I don't know what my kids will despise. We don't have too much of anything to be too much of one meal.
-Jason
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A few will leave you wandering around wondering who you are .Posted 8 months ago # -
When I was first married my ex needed hamburger helper helper!
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pinto beans with ham hocks corn bread and rice with fried taters
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.Posted 3 months ago # -
Pinto beans with salt pork and home made white bread with real butter .Greasy fried taters At least once a week . My aunt still keeps a pot of grease next to her stove . The kind with the strainer under the lid .
“There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”Posted 3 months ago # -
pinto beans with ham hocks corn bread and rice with fried taters
same here and any casserole you can name.
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Rice and chicken fried steak, and occasionally meatloaf smothered in seasoned tomato paste.
"I was born to lose. So I'll die to win." -Breaking BenjaminPosted 3 months ago # -
We had an interesting menu growing up. My mom's side of the family is Italian, but I also grew up in New Orleans. Lasagna was a staple, as was "from scratch" spaghetti. But we also had jambalaya, gumbo, and gator on a regular basis.
"We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.”
[On being from New Orleans]
- Chris Rose, "1 Dead in Attic"Posted 3 months ago # -
My wife is American born Chinese. When her grand mother was alive I asked her to teach me some dishes so I could pass down some food traditions to her grand kids. That was a good way to get in good with a grandmother by the way.
She showed me a few things some a bit involved but good old home style fried rice with bacon is a go to recipe in my house. My wife says I make it better than she can. I always make extra rice and the left overs are used for fried rice.3-4 slices of bacon chopped. You can use scissors and cut it directly into the pan.
3-4 cups of left over rice
green onion
soy sauce
3-4 eggsScramble eggs and set bowl aside.
Add bacon to hot pan and render out the fat. You can pour off some fat if it seems to much but you need some fat so leave some in the pan.
When bacon is getting crispy add rice and break up . Let it crisp up before you turn it. Then let it crisp up again. Crispy parts are the best!
Pour egg into pan and start stirring. The idea is to coat each grain of rice (not to make an omelette) Stir until it has dried out and egg seems cooked.
Take off heat add green onion and soy sauce to taste.That is the basic recipe. You can add peas, garlic, steak, ham, chicken. What ever left over meat you have. I bring a gallon bag of rice in the cooler when I go camping. My friends now request it every camping trip. Great for breakfast, lunch or dinner! A side of steamed broccoli with oyster sauce and you are in for a treat.
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Mostly canned corned beef hash, beans and franks, sauerkraut and beef short ribs, spagetti, meatloaf. Breakfast was cold cereal, oatmeal, maybe eggs and bacon. Steak on Saturday and roast or chicken on Sundays. Ate alot of what I called strange veggies, artichokes, brussel sprouts, squash, lima beans, turnips etc. Mom was a good cook and I love all the afore named veggies as well as many others.
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Grew up on a 400 acre farm. We where pretty much self sufficent on food. (learned early not to name the cows, pigs, goats, or chickens) I remember being so mad as a kid at other kids getting fast food from burger joints. NOW I get so mad that I cant find decent meat or veggies as I had growing up.
"You have to be a man first before you're a gentleman. "
John WaynePosted 3 months ago # -
Potatoes were a staple at our home. We had potatoes everyday with one of the meals, sometimes twice a day. There were beans of some kind at least twice a week, and they didnt come out of a can either. There was one short period of time when I despised potatoes. All of that being said, I never went hungry or ever missed a meal for lack of food. I am very thankful.
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I can recall several wonderful dishes from my past. From my mother: scrapple, sword fish steaks, stuffed veal heart, meat gellitin, pickle herring, beef tongue (a special treat when I was very good), pig knuckles, sweetbreads, tappioca pudding, and tripe. From my step mother: ham with red eye gravy, Lemmon soup, glumkies, fried egg and hot pepper sandwiches. From my father: steakhouse steaks and prime rib, clams on the half -shell (raw clams were my favorite appetizer as a kid), and fiskaboller. On my father's farm I recall a couple of sukling pig roasts that were really awesome. On the farms I worked on I recall having great fresh ham sandwiches. As a young adult I recall discovering escargot, frogs legs, parfaits, and rabbit. Just some of my memories, I pretty much love all foods.
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Hah when I was a young lad we lived in the far north and did for much of my life so far. The foods that I remember from my days as a lad are fried bannock in the morning, whitefish, dry fish (whitefish dried over the fire), caribou, and dry meat (caribou dried over the fire while friends of the family were out hunting)...hah pretty far north. Several years spent in Cambridge Bay and Inuvik. You hear about the midnight sun and the 24 hours of darkness but I would seriously recommend you get up there and see it for yourself. The northern lights sure are pretty and the sun in the summer is worth seeing at midnight.
"Enjoy every sandwich."Posted 1 week ago # -
Macaroni and Cheese... My Mom was a horrible cook back then and couldn't follow the instructions. In the late 50's it came in a box. My Dad was a Sailor and our grocery budget was small, so almost everything came in a box. Boil water and stir it in. I don't know how she screwed it up so bad but it was awful! I haven't eaten Mac and Cheese since!
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I grew up on a lot of italian dishes. My father is 100% Italian but my mother is 1% of everything but. However, she learned from my Italian grandmother.
Pasta e fagioli, but not in soup form; spaghetti with gravy; chicken cacciatore; pizza (of course); of course we at other stuff but those are the ones that stick out the most.Posted 1 week ago # -
Grew up on a farm, so every night was a freshly cooked meal with some sort of meat, a dish of vegetables, potatoes was a must, and there would always be a desert. Salad came along from time to time also.
In the summer dad would grill and we would eat out. Lunches were usually from the school and if not, then I would bring a turkey sandwich or PB&J. With it there would be pudding, chips, carrots, cheese, apple sauce, or an apple.
Breakfast was usually cereal so I could quickly get to school, but on the weekends we made bacon, sausage, eggs (sunny side up and sometimes scrambled), we would also make French toast.
That's a simple run down of what meals were like for me when I was younger.Posted 1 week ago # -
Lots of stews, gumbos, dirty rice, oh and the best meatloaf ever!!
I'm a genius, kinda like Albert Frankenstein.Posted 1 week ago # -
Smelt fry on Friday nights with lots of horsey ketchup,and fried pork brains with scrambled eggs on Sunday mornings.MMMM good!
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Mac & Cheese with added chicken and broccoli. Good stuff
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Tri tip or rib eye probably every other day. Of course both served with a pulse so you know it's fresh!
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