Question of the Day, Friday, March 4

Good morning!  And Happy Friday!  It's been another long week and I'm ready for the weekend.

What were some of your childhood food combinations that your mom made? Or any favorite combinations that you prefer now?

If we had tomato soup, we always had toasted cheese sandwiches to go with that soup.

If mom made waffles, she always made creamed chicken to be spooned over the waffles. (Interestingly enough, most of the time there was an Old Black Joe cake for dessert, too. With a simply vanilla frosting.)

If mom made meatloaf, we could always count on scalloped potatoes as a side dish. Same with ham. Ham on the table? So were the scalloped potatoes. (And a Hot Milk Sponge Cake with chocolate frosting.)

If Mom made spaghetti, there was always a cabbage salad to go with.

If Mom made liver and onions, we could count on fried potatoes, too.

If Rick's mom made chili, she always served it over white rice....that's how Rick likes it even now. Chili must be served over rice, white rice preferably. I rarely make white rice, but for chili, it's some kind of law.

What about you? Any family favorite combos? Anything out of the ordinary combo?

I don't know if I'd say this is a favorite from when I was a kid or a family thing or what have you. File it under "weird" I guess. I like baked beans mixed with Kraft dinner. It is so good!!!

I also like to make this weird concoction that I call "tuna surprise". What's the surprise? There's no tuna in it! :lol3: The recipe originally called for for tuna, but I usually don't put it in. It's also Kraft dinner, but instead of milk use sour cream (which I do anyway), add a can of condensed mushroom soup, and mix it all up. It's fantastic, don't knock it till you try it, lol. And of course you can add tuna to it if you wish. I've not had it in AGES and it's as bad for you as it sounds, but it was yummy.

Oh, and when I was a little kid, I really fancied ketchup and American cheese sandwiches.

Mine and my sisters all time favorite is Mommy's Cabbage rolls and potato salad. We eat til we bust on it. Another one we grew up on was home made veggie beef soup with hot dogs. Its one of those soup days here so I will be picking stuff up to make it today. One combo I got my nephew started on was any time my mom made home made hot dog sauce I would make some shells and cheese and put some of the chilli in it. He would tell me all the time Sissy this is so good. 

Not really. Mom hates cooking. She was more of a "reheater". Dad did most of the cooking except at holidays and then mom did most of it but dad helped. 

I don't recall any meals where if this is on the table, that always will be too unless it was Thanksgiving or something like that so I guess I don't do that either. For DH and me, it was always just whatever we were in the mood for. 

DD loves chili but with spaghetti. 

My mom isn't much of a cook and my dad is SUPER PICKY; there are only about 10 things he'll eat. The number is going down as he gets older---he's eventually going to run out of things he'll eat! He may starve to death instead of die of old age . So when my dad was home (maybe 50/50? He was in the Navy and was deployed a lot), she would only serve what he wanted so it was limited. When he was gone we would get more creative but they still weren't elaborate meals.

But yes on the chili with rice! That's one of my dad's favorites, and he will NOT eat chili without rice. A lot of people here think that's weird, I'm glad to know someone else does it! It has to be mixed in until the chili isn't soupy anymore.

Another thing people seem to think is weird is chicken pies (usually Marie Callender microwave pies :tongue2 with mashed potatoes. They say "the pies already have potatoes in them" , which is true but oh well. Maybe it started because my dad doesn't like soupy pies either, so the mashed potatoes sopped up the gravy? IDK but that's how I like them now too.

Grilled cheese sandwiches with chicken noodle soup (my dad got tomato soup but we kids didn't like tomato soup). Ham sandwiches with vegetable beef soup.

Ground beef goes in spaghetti sauce, ground turkey in chili. I don't know why! My mom still does it that way, but I don't put meat in either one.

Fish sticks with rice, sausage with rice, chicken with rice. My dad likes rice, lol. And some peas and succotash (corn and lima beans) mixed into the rice, always.

I like to mix leftover mac & cheese and chili together. Yummy! But I mix all kinds of stuff, I have odd eating habits.

My dad's wild rice soup has always been my favorite. I copied the recipe when I moved out.
We always have it with thick, warm, buttered slices of rosemary olive oil bread to dip in the bowl.
It's heavenly. I might have to dig that recipe out this weekend...

A cheese and tomato sandwich never fails with me. Quick, easy, tasty and nutritious. Why should we make snacks and life complicated?

bobkater said:

 
A cheese and tomato sandwich never fails with me. Quick, easy, tasty and nutritious. Why should we make snacks and life complicated?

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I agree. One of my go to meals these days is a veggie sandwich. lettuce, tomato, onion, jalapeno and Just Mayo garlic mayonnaise on a sub roll. Sometimes I add facon, sometimes not. It's so yummy. 

I also like toasted english muffins with vegan spreadable cheese on them. I have a regular cheddar, a pub style beer cheddar and a garlic and herb chevre cheese that I get from a goat sanctuary in California. So good. 

http://sanctuaryatsoledad.org/

On Fridays for supper, we kids would often have fishsticks and baked beans.  It was quite good.  The fishsticks that we used to have were frozen and are hard to find now, exactly like they were.

raysmyheart said:

 
On Fridays for supper, we kids would often have fishsticks and baked beans.  It was quite good.  The fishsticks that we used to have were frozen and are hard to find now, exactly like they were.

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When I was a kid, we used to eat Mrs Paul's fish cakes. They were also frozen and so good. I emailed them about them a couple a years ago and the rep that replied said that they had been discontinued a long time ago. So long ago that she had never heard of them. 

We always had mac and cheese with fish in any form.  Sometimes it would be fish sticks but sometimes it was fresh caught that was breaded and fried.

We always had scalloped potatoes with ham.  Mashed potatoes with fried chicken, roast beef  or meat loaf.

Of course the tomato soup and grilled cheese.  I think that one crosses regional lines.

The only one I remember as being a sure bet was fried flounder with Kraft Mac and Cheese on the side. And, broccoli.  

IDK why, but it goes together good and I still to this day will do this for Tom and I.

Only bit of my mother's cooking I miss is æbleskivvers. I want them so bad. It's a Danish pancake ball with fruit in the middle. My mother did cherry with powdered sugar and apple with cinnamon sugar.

Hatchytt said:

Only bit of my mother's cooking I miss is æbleskivvers. I want them so bad. It's a Danish pancake ball with fruit in the middle. My mother did cherry with powdered sugar and apple with cinnamon sugar.

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 I was recently in the Danish town of Solvang here in CA and tried æbleskivvers.  They're very sweet!  How neat that you got homemade ones.  

If I could find a reasonably priced æbleskivver pan, I'd make them myself. I'd be willing to wager that Rune would love them.

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when my mom made chili, she'd make cornbread to go with it -- in cast iron molds of 6 'ears of corn'.

mom used to always make meatloaf on mondays, that is until my dad and brother told her that they never wanted to have meatloaf again. a very sad thing for me, because i love meatloaf.

with our thanksgiving dinner, either ham or turkey, mom always made cooked mashed butternut squash with a bit of butter and salt/pepper mixed into it.

mickNsnicks2mom said:

 
hmmm...

when my mom made chili, she'd make cornbread to go with it -- in cast iron molds of 6 'ears of corn'.

mom used to always make meatloaf on mondays, that is until my dad and brother told her that they never wanted to have meatloaf again. a very sad thing for me, because i love meatloaf.

with our thanksgiving dinner, either ham or turkey, mom always made cooked mashed butternut squash with a bit of butter and salt/pepper mixed into it.

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I think meatloaf is a love or hate thing, I love it I think because it's a comfort food for me.  Some people really hate it.  I only make it when I am really craving it because I don't think it freezes very well, at least it doesn't for me.

I don't care for burgers that have so much mixed in them that they are almost like meatloaf.  I tend to like burgers with just salt, pepper, and cheese on top.

mickNsnicks2mom said:

 
hmmm...

when my mom made chili, she'd make cornbread to go with it -- in cast iron molds of 6 'ears of corn'.

mom used to always make meatloaf on mondays, that is until my dad and brother told her that they never wanted to have meatloaf again. a very sad thing for me, because i love meatloaf.

with our thanksgiving dinner, either ham or turkey, mom always made cooked mashed butternut squash with a bit of butter and salt/pepper mixed into it.

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The very first meal that I made completely by myself was a New England pot roast. I was so proud of that dinner. Rick came home from work, saw what I had made, and you could actually see his face fall. "Oh, pot roast," was the response that I got. Needless to say, I was heartbroken. But how was I to know that every Monday night for DECADES, his mother made pot roast for dinner? He said he could tell exactly what day it was by the dinner on the table. Monday was pot roast, Tuesday was meat loaf, Wednesday was beef stew, and so on. It made him crazy and he swore that when he got married, he would never, ever eat pot roast again. Was that the same situation with your dad's and brother's response to meat loaf?

Well, we have pot roast for dinner from time to time. And meat loaf. And beef stew. And so on. I really try not to overdo menus, unless I know for sure that it's something Rick loves. I swear we could eat spaghetti every week and he'd be happy.

Tomato soup and grilled cheese is still my favorite "I'm icky" meal.

Pork roast with asparagus casserole.  Never had a pork roast without it.  Never will.

HOT apple pie with cheddar cheese melted over it...GOD SO GOOD

Steak on the grill with corn cooked in the coals

We have always had chicken with rice a roni. It's always been that way.  And beef or pork with mashed potatoes.

And Baked beans with hamburgers and hot dogs.