The Food YOU Grew Up On:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm




In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

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Hawkeye10 said:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm




In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

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Hawkeye10 said:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm




In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

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My grandparents were big influences in my family's diet from both sides, though we were a little closer with the Poles from my Dad's side since we lived in their Polish neighborhood. My Mom did awesome Southern Italian including some Americanized Italian, since she was taught by her mother and grew-up in the Sicilian Neighborhood. She tried her best to learn Polish cooking from my Polish busia so she could please my father, But while she did a few dishes kinda' passably, she never made the jump to cooking really great Polish food. For that it took my Dad and Polish grandparents, who always were over and really were amazing cooks. So my Mom did excellent Italian, and my Dad and Polish grandparents did excellent Polish. To top it off my younger bother became a formerly trained chef, never married, and lived at home most of his life. He is a superb cook! Always was - before culinary school, during culinary school, and after culinary school! I grew-up in an amazing food-centric house!

My wife could eat their food every day of the week! She loves it, and has been learning some of the recipes. So yeah, my house was filled with cooking that I can only dream of doing as well as them. We still always look forward to going to my Mom's.

Here's a recent example of my family's diligence to good cooking (Post #7):

DP

We had our good meals and our bad meals. We never ate fast food, which is why I think I'm fairly fit, despite my horrible diet now, lol. We went out to eat maybe...3-4 times per year....I remember one place, called Po Folks, where kids eat free...maybe Goshin will remember it?


Anyway, my dad was always a better cook than my mom, for most things. We ate awesome BBQ, and terrible pasta, though I liked it as a kid. I recognize now, though, how bad her sauce is, lol. Cours, I'll take that to my grave....

Hawkeye10 said:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm

In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

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We ate out in the normal course of events not too infrequently, but the normal was my mother and on some weekends father would cook three courses. We did travel around Europe a lot, though. Then we went to restaurants tasting the regional cooking as we progressed through the various countries.

It was a we'll appreciated treat, when my mother allowed us a hamburger and a Tree Musketeers Bar.

Hawkeye10 said:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm




In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

:2wave:

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My "main squeeze" is my wife and she enjoys the Cuban food on which I grew up. We make those old dishes often - picadillo, frijoles negros, tostones, arroz con pollo, arroz con leche, flan Cubano. Now I will probably be taken to task by the forum managers for including Spanish words in my post.

Hawkeye10 said:

You take your current Main Squeeze for a week of eating it non-stop...

Would they be impressed yes or no?

tyvm




In my case I say "NO", because I cook light years beyond my mom, and we ate "out" little, in part because she did not believe that providing fast food to her kids and husband was her fulfilling her wifely duties so how good my mom could cook is pretty much all she wrote.

Your mileage may vary.

:2wave:

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I grew up on spaghetti, sloppy joes, massive cans of chef boyardee(do not know if they still sell these then you could only get them at warehouse stores) ramen noodles grilled cheese hamburger beans tips and rice and tips and gravy.

Tips and rice was steak sliced up with rice, never figured how my mom came up with that name, and topped with gravy. tips and gravy was ground beef and rice with gravy, same thing but cheaper. Hamburger beans was cheap ground beef mixed with cheap jumbo cans of baked beans.

When my family was dirt poor, we ate alot of crap food with better stuff being on an afford to buy it basis. However hamburger beans was one my family kept demanding even after my father made good money and we had a much more diversafied and sophisticated diet. If anyone here ever ate it you would be like wtf why would anyone eat this, but if you grew up with it being a dirt cheap food you grow to love it.

Boerewors, translated very literally to "The Farmers Sausage".

It's a type of sausage unique to South Africa, extremely tasty.

We ate whatever the roads provided.

humbolt said:

We ate whatever the roads provided.

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Road Kill Cafe Eh?

"You Kill It! We Grill It!"

Crovax said:

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What does Freud say about thus?

rhinefire said:

What does Freud say about thus?

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Well at least it's not In-N-Out Taco.

We lived three blocks from a White Castle so I never went to church knowing I already was living n heaven. We could get five for 25 cents with a coupon!

rhinefire said:

What does Freud say about thus?

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4x4 animal style with a coke