Foods you grew up with...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spanakopita
Avgolemono
Mom's roast chicken and roast potatoes
Mom's French toast
Kourambiedes
Homemade pierogies and kielbasa

Can I come home with you for dinner?

My mom made an excellent cheese/spinach souffle. One of my very favorite memories is how on souffle day, my dad would relax the house rules and let my pet parrot sit at the table with us, because souffle was the parrot's favorite food, too. No one could resist the happy little clicks and whistles he made when you gave him his spinach souffle... He would do his little foot-stompy dance of joy... I'm tearing up. Weird food association, I know.

[Anonymous]

Homemade chocolate chip cookies
cream chipped beef on toast
pecan rolls
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese (but when Dad made dinner, he jazzed it up by adding either sliced hot dogs, bacon, or spam!)
tuna noodle casserole
egg salad sandwiches
black bean soup
minute steaks
baked beans
green salad with ranch dressing
tv dinners!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of my very favorite memories is how on souffle day, my dad would relax the house rules and let my pet parrot sit at the table with us, because souffle was the parrot's favorite food, too. No one could resist the happy little clicks and whistles he made when you gave him his spinach souffle... He would do his little foot-stompy dance of joy...

That is so cute!

[Anonymous]

OMG. Popovers. yum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:crepes
chicken paprikash
pierogies
stuffed cabbage
homemade cream puffs
Maryland blue crabs
chicken and dumplings
white bread used to sop up the grease from the big fat steaks my mom would broil - sounds so gross now, but we fought over that piece of bread!

We used to dip the bread in the grease as well. I do it once in a while now, but I dip it in bacon grease. Soooo good! and I also had the pierogies & stuffed cabbage. This is motivating me to try to make the dough for pierogies. It never tastes the same as my mom.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in Hawaii:

Plate lunch
Laulau
Spam musubi
Shave ice
bento from Shirokiya

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Tiny creamed new potatoes from our garden.

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Lox on a raisin bagel
Hannukah gelt
Chinese food on Christmas day
Latkes
My great-grandmother's chicken fricassee
Hot dogs (every Friday night until I turned 12 and couldn't take it any more; haven't eaten one since but I sure loved them back in the day!)
Dobish torte
Charoset
My mom's pumpkin pie ("the pie that bites you back")
Trout (always hated trout but we ate it frequently)
Chocolate chip cookies

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homemade daal, rice, naan, raita, and various curries.

Till today that's my comfort food.

That and a bagel with a schmear and a coffee lite and sweet. (I'm an Indian girl with an NYC heart

[Anonymous]

Jello mold - all kinds
Black and White cookies from the Italian bakery (anyone know where to get good ones here?)
porkroll - no one hwew will know what this is
really fresh sweet corn on the cobb
Mom's homemade beef stew
breakfast for dinner (omelets, pancakes)
funnel cakes
GOOD pizza
chocolate marshmallow ice cream (purchased in a 5 quart tub)
and especially, Mom's meatloaf - still the best I've ever had!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Warm baguette that you start to eat before leaving the boulangerie
- Sushi made with ham and gruyere because my Japanese Dad could not find sashimi grade fish years ago in Paris
- tea with cucumber sandwiches and scones at boarding school in Scotland
- Whole milk left out in glass bottles on our porch at dawn: the bluetits would peck at the aluminium top and drink it before we did.

Sounds lovely. I have such fond memories of the food I grew up with. My mom was an amazing cook:

Spicy masala omelettes
Chicken Biryani with cucumber raita
Curried spinach with beef
Semiya (dessert made with vermicilli, sugar, milk, and spices)
and always a good cup of strong tea

This made me drool...though I'm more of a kheer girl myself, and I'd have to add rajma to that list! Did your masala omelettes have green chiles and onions, too??

[Anonymous]

-Grilled cheese (w/ Kraft cheese) and Campbell's tomato soup
-Ham and scalloped potatoes
-Egg casserole
-Fluffernutters
-Sloppy joes
-Good pizza
-Old Italian family recipes like homemade pasta and great sauces
-My grandma's sour cream coffee cake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Mama's homemade vegetable soup and cast-iron skillet cornbread on a cold day
skillet fried chicken
pepper steak over rice
Grandma's baked beans
meatloaf and mashed potatoes
chicken casserole
lemon lush dessert
homemade light rolls
macaroni salad
jello salads - apricot jello salad, 7-Up salad, cranberry salad (jello was HUGE in the 70's)
sugar cookies at Christmas
iced tea at nearly every meal

I really miss sitting around the supper table with my family every night. Saying the blessing before supper without fail. I need to do a better job of doing this with my own family. I think it's sooo important in making kids loved and part of something bigger than themselves.

My list continues...
pork chops and gravy
yellow squash fried in cornmeal
fresh green beans out of the garden (we called them 'snaps')
homegrown tomatoes
black-eyed peas
October beans with chow-chow (a type of relish, kind of like salsa)
strawberry pie with whipped cream
German chocolate cake

Man, I miss my mama. You can tell I'm southern, right?