I made a supper tonight that I haven't had since I was a kid. I found a can of corned beef in the cupboard, I boiled a few potatoes and mashed everything together. I added some green onions, a few dashes of pepper and formed the mass into little cakes. After they cool off in the fridge I fry them up in a non-stick pan.
Cover them in ketchup and it's quite a good meal. Eating them made me feel like I was a little kid again becuase my grandmother always made me "meat cakes".
Any foods that make you feel young again?
Posts: 1774 | Location: Canada | Registered: 01 July 2004
Cut raw mangoes...sprinkle some salt and chilli powder..it reminds me of the days I used to spend summers in my dad's village and we both would do this right in the mango orchards.
Boiled (spiced) potatoes wrapped in a piece of bread and then deep fried..eaten with ketchup..humm..reminds me of rainy afternoons in Goa. Mom would allow me to make this only after finishing homework!!!
Eating Rotis made of Barley (really tough) with fresh churned butter and pickle or dal.So u put this directly on the roti and slowly eat to the center...yumm. Tasted heavenly only in my grandma's village...sitting on the huge terrace wall.
Cut raw mangoes...sprinkle some salt and chilli powder
Are you telling me you can get decent mangoes in San Francisco? You need an axe to cut a mango bought in a Seattle grocery store. I've given up on tropical fruits (unless I'm in the tropics). My mother was the worst cook on earth so the only thing that would bring back my childhood is burnt roast beef with frozen lima beans.
Posts: 4964 | Location: Michoacán | Registered: 27 May 2004
My mother also is a terrible cook. We ate anything that cood be microwaved, toasted or eaten cold. My mom's obsession is popcorn though, which I gladly share. And the other day I had to whip up a hippy version of my childhood favorite, vegan mac and cheese with veggie dogs. It was de-lish.
Originally posted by Not the first Are you telling me you can get decent mangoes in San Francisco?
They are not as good as the ones in India but we do get raw mangoes in the INDIAN grocery stores here. I think they come from Mexico and Guatemala. Its not the same though. And yes my "Chef" knife is good enough for them.
NTFT, I haven't had my mom's cooking in years! Sometimes I go back to Houston, have her cook up a batch of food, put it in ziplock bags, and I freeze it. Too bad I didn't inherit the cooking genes!
Since we could have whatever we wanted for our birthdays, I always screamed for hotdogs wrapped up in a Pillsbury crescent roll with a thin slice of processed ( ) cheese.
Child of the 60'S, I hang my head in shame when I read these other postings!
Since we're on the subject of stuff our moms made, mine made--and still makes--THE best chocolate chip cookies. She makes 'em from scratch. She'd bring in a plate when I was coloring a second grade art project. I think she made a ton for herself after she took me to get my driver's permit (and had me drive). After a weekend at home, she'd send me back to college with a tinful of 'em. The guys in my dorm would pay the front gate guard on campus to page them when he saw me pass thru, so they could be ready to scarf on 'em when I arrived in the building. She'd sent me a box of 'em, in dry ice, when I was cranking out my Master's Thesis....
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Posts: 771 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 28 April 2005
*sigh* Vegetable beef stew with sweet buttered corn bread. Especially when it's snowing outside and my snow boots are drying in front of the fireplace.
My grandma makes THE BEST applesauce in the universe with apples picked from her tree. Grew up eating it from baby food on up until I was old enough to help make it, climb the ladder and pick the apples and mash them in the ancient sieve. To this day I will not eat any other apple sauce; it tastes funky.
Blackberry cobbler (it just tastes better when you've spent all afternoon in the sun getting your arms scratched up picking the blackberries!)
We lived out in the country in what used to be part of Grandpa's wheat pasture, and we spent a LOT of time at Grandma's house after school. Very few "home cooking" memories have to do with my parents, bless their poor hardworking souls! I always salivate when people say talk about homemade bread, but I've still never tasted any as good as Grandma's.
When I was a kid, the very best summer treat in the world was a float in a chipped coffee mug made out of vanilla ice cream and orange shasta -- and it had to be eaten out in the yard under the shade tree in front of Grandpa's shop. Now I no longer eat such caloric things as ice cream or regular soda. *sigh*
Posts: 21 | Location: Southwest | Registered: 25 July 2005
Originally posted by Urban Kitten: Since we could have whatever we wanted for our birthdays, I always screamed for hotdogs wrapped up in a Pillsbury crescent roll with a thin slice of processed ( ) cheese.
Child of the 60'S, I hang my head in shame when I read these other postings!
OH Man! Do I remember those things. I loved them. Smothered in Ketchup they were the best.
Homemade Pogos!
Posts: 1774 | Location: Canada | Registered: 01 July 2004
My mom isn't much of a cook, but on rainy days we always had cheese on toast...melted cheddar cheese with worstichire (sp) sauce over slices of Wonder Bread. Yummy!
My grandma used to make me malt-o-meal. On Saturday mornings I like to make it and I think of her. I try to emulate hers but she would get it just perfect.
My mom made Chicken Divan pretty frequently, and I love her for it. It's a layer of broccoli, a layer of shredded chicken, a sauce made from Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup, mayo, lemon juice, and curry powder. Then it's topped with cheddar cheese and bread crumbs. I used to make it myself all the time, but have since gotten away from using canned soup in my cooking because I like to make everything from scratch. Last time I tried using an original recipe, which didn't use canned soup, but it just wasn't the same.
When I was really young my dad used to make fried Spam on toast which we would dunk in hot chocolate. I'd not had it for at least 10 years, but decided to give it a shot a few months back. It was still really yummy, and you Spam haters can bugger off. :P
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Posts: 459 | Location: Wellington, New Zealand (Yay!) | Registered: 10 June 2004
Sometimes I go back to Houston, have her cook up a batch of food, put it in ziplock bags, and I freeze it. Too bad I didn't inherit the cooking genes!
I still eat if from time to time. My partner finds it disgusting but I love it
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