What food reminds you of your childhood?

I remember not liking chocolate candy or ice cream growing up. My Dad would take us to an ice cream parlor and I would only order a soda.If we went out to dinner most of the family would order a Fish dinner,but I always order Turkey with mashed Potatoes. I would never eat Fish. The favorite food I loved that my Mom cooked was soup or pasta. Now things have changed and I love all the things I hated as a kid.
 

Fuzzybuddy:
"My mom called it "birdnest". It was several layers of corn mashed potatoes and ground beef. The top layer was mashed potatoes, which had this baked crust consistency."

We called this Shepherd's Pie and I still make this sometimes. I love it.
 

On breadmaking day my mother would fry bread dough in shortening and then sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar.

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White rice for breakfast with a splash of milk a little butter and some brown sugar was a favorite day before payday breakfast.
 
  • Roast chicken. My mother once roasted 22 chickens different ways, trying to find the best method!
  • Corned beef and cabbage
  • BBQ ribs and sweet cornbread
  • Old-fashioned oatmeal with raisins, topped with brown sugar, a pat of butter, and milk.
  • Liver and onions
  • Sweetbreads in mushroom cream sauce
  • Lobster with garlic butter. She would cook this and the sweetbreads at midnight, so when we woke up and ran downstairs to ask "What are you cooking?", she would reply "This is for adults (it was expensive, after all!). You wouldn't like it."
    Of course, that's like waving a red flag in front of a bull! We insisted we would like it, really, really we would. She would give us a taste and we loved it! My siblings and I still love both!
  • Baked caramel custard. She experimented to get the most delicate custard that could still be unmolded. Me, I don't bother unmolding it, I just enjoy that wonderful soft smooth texture.
  • Strawberry shortcake with biscuits made from Bisquik. When it was really hot and humid during the summer, sometimes she'd come home from work exhausted and just make a giant shortcake for dinner. Lots of sweet juicy berries macerated with sugar and topped with big dollops of heavy whipped cream.
    The first time I had those icky angel food commercial shortcakes, someone should have taken a photo of the face I made, LOL!
My Nisei mother never made Japanese food. I only got it at group picnics when other mothers would bring it, or the rare times we'd go to a restaurant. My Nisei father hated rice - said he ate too much of it in the internment camps - and preferred meat and potatoes!
 
MarciKS said:
I have no idea what that means Gaer
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Oh, That's because you're so young. You would take the skin on, chicken parts and hold them over a fire to burn off any feather pieces that wern't plucked correctly. After the chicken was "singed", you could bread it, season it and fry it.
 
Gaer said:
Oh, That's because you're so young. You would take the skin on, chicken parts and hold them over a fire to burn off any feather pieces that wern't plucked correctly. After the chicken was "singed", you could bread it, season it and fry it.
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Might have something to do with wear I'm located too. Never heard of such a thing in KS.
 
Matzoh Brie, Hebrew National Salami on Rye, Mrs. Stahl's Knishes (can't get them anymore), U Bet Chocolate Syrup, my Grandma Rose's Matzoh Balls.
 
Pinky said:
Hated the stuff, but ate it anyway. Don't know why we didn't have peanut butter back then. Maybe molasses was cheaper.
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My grandparents and great-grandparents served it because it's a good source of vitamin B and maybe a few other nutrients, plus it was inexpensive and easy to obtain. Maybe your family did the same?

Apple crisp, butter shortbread, sponge toffee and Tahitian Treat soda... those take me right back to childhood. Hopefully not consumed all together. :LOL::eek:
 

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