I was thinking about this tonight - I made Spaghetti with Marinara and Fish Sticks tonight for dinner. My mom used to make this for me when I was little. I wanted to make it because my son, who will eat fish, has never had Fish Sticks - Mrs Pauls' to be exact.
I haven't eaten them since I was in my 20's and since they were on sale at Shoprite, I thought I would buy a package and make them for him.
I was a bit disappointed as the memory was better than the taste. I really feel that they have changed since I last ate them. They used to be rounder in shape and when you baked them they got really golden brown. Now they look more like rectangles and they did not brown well at all.
Anyway, I was thinking - everyone has a favorite dish from when they were a child. I have several of which this was one. Another was something my mom did with ground beef and cans of Green Giant Mexi-Corn. She browned the meat, added a can of the corn and some mild chili powder and served it over rice. I don't know if she got this from a magazine (she read Woman's Day and Family Circle) or if it came from her imagination. Either way it was simple but really tasty.
What are some of the retro foods you make these days that remind you of your childhood?
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chicken, biscuits and gravy. Those biscuits were so big
and fluffy!! Also a mixture of red kidney beans, onion,
our own canned kernel corn with ground beef. That's
the best tasting mixture she ever cooked.
cooked rice, onion and salt/pepper. Separated the
cabbage leafs, put them in boiling water just enough
to wilt them. Stuffed them with that mixture and made
a huge roaster pan full. She would put a layer of sauer
kraut on bottom first then layered the cabbage & kraut
till it was full to the top.
cooked rice, ground beef, chopped onion and tomato
sauce. Boiled the peppers till the color started to fade &
drained them. Stuff them with that mixture and make a
hole in the middle of the stuffing with the handle of the
wooden spoon then pour tomato sauce in it. Baked in a
wood stove oven she never had a timer, never watched
the clock she just knew when they were done.
And I forgot to say that the stuffed cabbage was baked in
the wood stove oven too, Maybe that made them taste so
darned good!!
and she used sour milk, fresh eggs too. Then she
fried up fresh bacon cut right off this big slab she
kept in the larder. And home made sausage too!
Cooked on the wood stove. Plenty of fresh butter
that Grandma churned from the milk old Bessie had
it was the creamiest ever. They would milk her at
5 in the morning, by 12 noon the cream was thick
enough to spoon off the top, put in the butter churn
and us kids helped churn the butter. Lots of fun too.
She made the best Molasses cookies ever big as a
saucer and really soft too.