Weird foods your mom made

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom added butter to PB&J sandwiches. She would butter the bread, then add a layer of peanut butter on top of the butter, then add the jelly. I never realized it was strange until I was in late elementary school and my friends started to comment on it - and they all loved my mom's PB&Js! It was actually quite tasty.

My aunt ran a deli in Manhattan and she always buttered pbj sandwiches. I think she buttered every kind of sandwich. Everything that came out of there was delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.

I’m not catholic, but DH’s family is. I heard it was just no “meat.” So I’m pretty sure they could still have baked potatoes with butter and sour cream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why, can't dads cook weird food?

My dad cooked really weird foods, but my mom only made one “weird” dish that she learned from her mom and I later learned was an old fashioned British/Irish food. We are mixed AA.

It was basically buttered bread sprinkled with sugar, cut into 4 long strips, and doused in warm milk. We ate this as a bedtime snack. I never thought it was anything other than a family quirk until I was an adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.

I’m not catholic, but DH’s family is. I heard it was just no “meat.” So I’m pretty sure they could still have baked potatoes with butter and sour cream.

Western Lent is less stringent than Eastern. I know people who are Orthodox and don’t touch dairy or eggs for the entire season. Catholics just abstain from red meat, pork, and poultry on Fridays.

[Anonymous]

Sugar sprinkled on top of many foods. Chili, creamed peas and cottage cheese to name a few. Also, a "kid-friendly" meal in her mind was to halve a banana, put a glob of mayo on top (to take the place of ice cream) and sprinkle that with nuts and chocolate sauce. This was a main dish to her.

[Anonymous]

For picnics-peanut butter with bacon, peanut butter with cheese and peanut butter and jelly with margarine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sugar sprinkled on top of many foods. Chili, creamed peas and cottage cheese to name a few. Also, a "kid-friendly" meal in her mind was to halve a banana, put a glob of mayo on top (to take the place of ice cream) and sprinkle that with nuts and chocolate sauce. This was a main dish to her.

OMG gag. This is the only "weird" post so far. My sympathies, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter, Mayo and lettuce sandwiches.

But they are actually great! I still eat them...

I was just going to post the same thing! (But, ugh, I have a gag reflex just thinking about it.)

Are you from the Midwest?

I'm not, I'm from lower NY -- I don't know where she picked it up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why, can't dads cook weird food?

My dad cooked really weird foods, but my mom only made one “weird” dish that she learned from her mom and I later learned was an old fashioned British/Irish food. We are mixed AA.

It was basically buttered bread sprinkled with sugar, cut into 4 long strips, and doused in warm milk. We ate this as a bedtime snack. I never thought it was anything other than a family quirk until I was an adult.

My Irish granny used to make me this too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why, can't dads cook weird food?

My dad cooked really weird foods, but my mom only made one “weird” dish that she learned from her mom and I later learned was an old fashioned British/Irish food. We are mixed AA.

It was basically buttered bread sprinkled with sugar, cut into 4 long strips, and doused in warm milk. We ate this as a bedtime snack. I never thought it was anything other than a family quirk until I was an adult.

My Irish granny used to make me this too.

Me again - she called this dish “goody.”

[Anonymous]

My mom's version of mac and cheese was based on the tuna casserole others mentioned but left out the tuna - noodles, canned cream of mushroom, and american cheese. More american cheese in top with cornflakes for crunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why, can't dads cook weird food?

My dad cooked really weird foods, but my mom only made one “weird” dish that she learned from her mom and I later learned was an old fashioned British/Irish food. We are mixed AA.

It was basically buttered bread sprinkled with sugar, cut into 4 long strips, and doused in warm milk. We ate this as a bedtime snack. I never thought it was anything other than a family quirk until I was an adult.

My Irish granny used to make me this too.

Me again - she called this dish “goody.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why, can't dads cook weird food?

My dad cooked really weird foods, but my mom only made one “weird” dish that she learned from her mom and I later learned was an old fashioned British/Irish food. We are mixed AA.

It was basically buttered bread sprinkled with sugar, cut into 4 long strips, and doused in warm milk. We ate this as a bedtime snack. I never thought it was anything other than a family quirk until I was an adult.

My Irish granny used to make me this too.

Me again - she called this dish “goody.”

That's what my dad used to refer to the caramelized bits on the bottom of the pan, used in deglazing. "The goody." Now I know that's called the "fond" but I can never use that. I always think I need to scrape up "the goody."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.

I’m not catholic, but DH’s family is. I heard it was just no “meat.” So I’m pretty sure they could still have baked potatoes with butter and sour cream.

Western Lent is less stringent than Eastern. I know people who are Orthodox and don’t touch dairy or eggs for the entire season. Catholics just abstain from red meat, pork, and poultry on Fridays.

Yep. That would be me. Not touching any of it. Now, it used to be hard! But, diagnosed with a dairy allergy. This past Lent was ok, I didn't know what all substituted there were for dairy! In the meantime, I discovered lately ice cream, fake cheddar, fake butter.... So in a way, next Lent I will feel like I am cheating.

[Anonymous]

Orange ruffy.... yuck