I have enjoyed all the recipes. Most of them I grew up eating and still fix for my family. The peanut butter cookies (I made and took to a church social a few years ago, one of our 90+ year old gentlemen had trouble stopping eating them. He had not had them in years and appreciated them very much). Potato candy, hamburger gravy and mashed potatoes, macaroni and tomatoes, fresh baked bread, homemade noodles which made creamed turkey or chicken dishes. Creamed meat dishes served over bisquits. Dandelion salad with rose petals. Lol these are all comfort foods in our house as well as shepherds pie. Salmon croquettes with white sauce or salmon soup. Low country boil. Tonight was a lentil and veggie soup with dumplings and homemade yogurt for dessert.
DH favorite meal is sliced potatoes in a casserole dish with fried pork chops on top. Cream of mushroom soup is poured over potatoes and chops then baked until potatoes are done. He said he only married me for this dish.
He is so goofy. Everybody knows we got married because I had the furniture and he had the empty house.
or was it because of all the money he made.... NOT!
My family actually prefers all the "depression era" food and can become grouchy when favorite dishes aren't served.
My mother would slice green onions place between 2 slices of buttered bread with a dash of salt. OR
Green onions sliced, bacon fried and crumbled onto onions with hot grease poured over it and made into sandwiches.
And who can forget wilted lettuce with hot vinegar, or cucumber and onion slices marinated in seasoned vinegar.
Diced red tomatoes, onions marinated in italian dressing with cooked sausage links or kielbasa sliced and served over italian bread.
The garden was our friend. Shame our entire garden was destroyed this year due to flooding.
Want to see a family line up at the stove, fry up those green tomatoes. They eat them faster than I can cook them.
I guess we must have been poor when I was growing up, not sure because of the foods we ate, we were always full and content and thought we were getting treats. It may have just been a throw back from when my parents were kids.
I learned alot from my mother, she died at 54, how to sew, cook, clean, garden, build, reupholster and refinish furniture and to make something out of nothing (now called trash to treasure). Most without using modern chemicals and stains and things. Miss her terribly, she was my best friend.
Dad taught me plumbing, electrical wiring, roofing and auto repair. He said he never wanted us to be dependent to pay someone else to do the work for us.
