My family was poor, but my mom always had a hot meal for dinner, anything from fried bologna and eggs, spam and eggs, meatloaf, greenbeans and mashed taters, and on Fridays it was always bread pudding made from the leftover bread from the past week. Please list your cheap but delicious meals your mom served you. As the economy falters many of us will be serving those tasty meals of the past.
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I grew up on pinto beans, cornbread, and fried potatoes. We rarely had frozen or processed dinners.
I bet your mom made the cornbread in an iron skillet, and used the bacon grease on the stove in the coffee can to line the skillet!
That is exactly what I grew up with. My grandparents lived next door and there was always beans and cornbread on the stove. We also ate fried potato sandwiches with mayo and onion. On occasion my sisters will get together and make them -- great memories.
YES the Best!!!…I sure do miss moms old fashion cooking
Sometimes she would! My grandma made her biscuits like that. I'd love a biscuit like that again.
Norwegian ancestry here, as well. Grandma (and mom) made LEFSE and homemade bread and buns. We didn't have biscuits, either.
I make a delicious Waldorf salad…
The key is to use three different types of apples. That way you get three different flavors of apples in the salad. Not too much mayo, because you can always add some later when needed. Celery, walnuts, and very little raisins. Too many raisins can ruin the salad, because they plump up with the moisture, and then turn some of the apples brown and discolor them. Sometimes I’ll just throw a few in when I serve myself an individual serving.
This time of year you can find an apple called tango. Tango apples are my favorite apples and they’re only around in the fall. If you make a Waldorf salad with tango apples, Honeycrisp apples, and Gala apples, it’s such a wonderful sweet and tart treat! A very refreshing light salad.
Salt and pepper to taste.
(also lemon juice in the apples before you add anything else will keep them from turning brown)
I think they called that "cracklin" cornbread, didn't they? Because the bacon grease made the edges a little crispy in the iron skillet? OMG, it's great!
Wasn't just bacon grease. It was "everything except from fried baloney and hamburger". Gramma's orders.
The amazing gravy that grease made. I miss it.
I got a choice between freezer crap or home cooked meal. Don't like what we cooked? Lol fuck off and have a hot pocket.
I would have been in so much trouble with my dad for disrespecting my mom's cooking if I tried to eat a hot pocket.
Sometimes she didn't feel like cooking and we'd just have something like that for dinner, with a few small extra things or leftovers, but you didn't just go get that by yourself.
My parents wanted me to be self sufficient from a pretty young age, if I didn't like something I had to do it myself.
When I was older I would make dinner if I didn't like what they were planning on making, it started with a "fine YOU do it then!" But later on they liked having one less thing to do. it got to the point where they would say they're making something I didn't like without having the ingredients because neither of them wanted to cook that day.
Now I'm a chef and in a year or so, when the property I want is ready to rent, a restaurant owner.
Seems like a win win situation.
Good luck with the restaurant.