Collard greens
Cabbage

Southerner

Anonymous wrote:Dressing on Thanksgiving and Christmas, Potato Salad,Chocolate Pie, Cornbread, Creamed Corn, Fried Green Tomatoes

I grew up in the South if you couldn't tell!

Gumbo
Spaghetti with stewed chicken cooked in instead of ground beef, corn on the side
Red Beans and Rice
Shrimp, Okra and Tomatoes
Jambalaya


I've gotten pretty close on the others but still can't touch her gumbo. And I make a pretty good gumbo.

Also grew up in the South .

Salmon cakes - like crab cakes but made with canned salmon. The cakes themselves were fine, but I really loved eating the canned salmon bones

Cabbage and kielbasa in the crockpot, with caraway and hot mustard - YUM. I would still make this but I am the inly person in my house who would eat it, and a whole crockpot full is A LOT

Similarly, kale and smoked (pork?) neck in the crockpot. It's the reason I have always loved kale. Mom stopped making it about 10-15 years ago when she said smoked neck was getting harder to find in grocery stores.

Two dishes that she still makes for family holidays, and which I still love - sauerkraut and fresh kielbasa, and seven layer salad.

My mom makes something she refers to as Sinful Mac and Cheese, which is a box of Kraft mac and cheese, a can of cream of mushroom soup and about a cup of frozen peas. We make it together about once a year while the rest of the family looks on in horror. I digestively regret it for about a day after, between the sodium and the fat content, but it's horrifically delicious.

From her non-revolting repertoire, she makes a creole noodle dish that's awesome that I can't imitate for the life of me. It's red beans, green peppers, fennel seeds, paprika tossed with pasta of whatever shape.

This thread is making me sad. My mom was a horrible cook. Favorite meal she ever served was Honey Baked Ham.

Homemade waffles & bacon
Pork roast
Meat lasagna
Fried garlic chicken wings & mini drumsticks
Potted chicken & meatballs served with rice

Mom- tuna noodle casserole and goulash were my favorites. Since that was about all she could cook except canned soup, it's pretty good I liked it.

Dad- meatloaf. He made really excellent meatloaf. I didn't even know meatloaf could be good until he put it in rotation during my nights at his house.

I don't make it often, but I apparently inherited Dad's meatloaf skill and can turn out a pretty great one. Not as great as his, but pretty darn good.

Recently, I decided to try tuna noodle casserole for the first time. Got a recipe from the internet for slow cooker tuna casserole.

It was just...so. very. very. bad.

It's a tie between my Jewish mom's chicken parmegiana and sweet sausage and pepper sandwiches on thick italian bread
. None of us touch the stuff anymore, but it was mouthwatering!

Anonymous wrote:American chop suey.

+1 - Forgotten about this

Dressing on Thanksgiving and Christmas, Potato Salad,Chocolate Pie, Cornbread, Creamed Corn, Fried Green Tomatoes

I grew up in the South if you couldn't tell!

Carry out. She cannot cook and it was bad. I learned to cook and did a lot of it.

Latkes, charoset, and Thanksgiving stuffing. Mom was a very good cook of holiday foods, and a not-so-great cook of everyday foods. By my senior year I discovered frozen meals and thought they were super exciting. I kind of knew that frozen Salisbury steak a la TV dinner was gross, but at the same time I'd never had anything like it (Mom's everyday repertoire was limited to chicken, turkey, trout, and turkey burgers -- all plain and completely unseasoned). When I went off to college, I discovered a whole new world of foods, like meatballs and chicken patty, that I'd never tasted. Now when my mom comes over, I cook!

Mom: Taco salad with Doritos.
Dad: Lamb curry with rice and a ton of condiments. Sister and I got to pull out the "special" spoons (demi-tasse) to use in all of the dishes for the condiments.

Chicken a la King was another favorite. Don't remember which parent made it.

Both parents were amazing cooks. The taco salad was the one "junky" meal my mom made, which is probably why I liked it so much.

Anonymous wrote:I am a midwestern kid of the 70s/80s and my favorite meal was my moms beef stroganoff. I haven't had it in years, and I'm sure my kids would barf at it, but man beef stroganoff night was THE BEST. I also loved "jello salad" it was made it canned fruit and marshmallows lol!

My three favorite dishes my Mom made were (she's gone now): A buttermilk based beef strogonaf , Scottish Mince with Sauerkraut and peas. And goulash (actually a beef stew)

Slumgullion -- basically a tomato based stew with ground beef. Yum.