~ Homesick ~

[Lilith]

What food is it that your Momma makes just for you? Or what foods remind you of home? Was /Is there something that no one makes as good as your Mom or Grams? Has this food become your comfort food? As an adult have you been able to master their technique?



No one makes salisbury steak as good as my mom, with yummy lumpy mashed potatoes and gravy.:D She makes it for me everytime I am with her. I have tried to make it but it is a serious pain in the ass to cook. My Grams, she made the best sage stuffing and instant chocolate pudding:D


I had a student once who for years bragged about his "Me-Maw's" chocolate milk. He swore it was the best ever. So at like 10, during summer camp one year, I invited Me-Maw to come make us all chocolate milk. It was truly delicious, and simply Nestle's Quick:D:D;) Funny how it's not at all about how it tastes but about who, and why it's prepared for you;)

[fzzy]

My mom makes cinnamon rolls that are SOOOO wonderful ... she also does other homemade breads that are really good, but the cinnamon rolls (usually done in twists by her) are better than any others I've ever tasted!!!! :p

[Sugarsprinkles]

Hmmmm....my mother made the best damned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. I've got her recipe and they never turn out as good.

Same with my MIL's chocolate chip cookies. It's just the recipe off the chocolate chip package, but for some reason hers are out of this world and mine turn out like crap.
My MIL also makes simply scrumptious baked beans!!

Hubby's Gram used to make these green beans with potatoes and either bacon or ham in them. I would kill to have a similar recipe. I think it must be a German style recipe.

[Lilith]

SS I posted a recipe in your recipe thread for some green beans that I think are similar to what you are speaking of. They have sugar and vinegar in them. I often add boiled new potatoes to them.

[dm383]

My mum used to make what she called "casserole", but what was actually just stew. Her particular specialty was using Oxtail soup as the gravy, and making suet dumplings which she cooked on top of the pot.

I hated it when I was a kid, loved from about age 10 onwards...... and now she doesn't make it any more!! :(

Another thing she used to make was bread pudding.... I make it myself on occasion (not for years now, come to think) and I think mine's better!!

DM

[GingerV]

My Mom's a wonderful person...but not a great cook. She makes up for her faults by covering/filling pretty much everything she makes with New Mexican green chili. THAT I miss.

My grandmother does something to scrambled eggs that makes them an experience...I've watched her start to finish, never managed it myself. My grandfather has a old fashioned popcorn pan that every single child and grandchild is willing to give up their inheritance for.

And to my credit, I resurrected my great grand-aunt's Sugar cookie recipe. Took me ages, but as her name-sake and the only baker in the entire clan, it seemed appropriate. I've sent copies to aunts and cousins...but they all say it doesn't work as well for them. Guess you have to have her name ;).

[BigBear57]

Mom used to make chicken & dumplin's that were always my favorite dish of hers. I always always had them on my birthday. She's more or less, since all the kids are grown and gone, retired from use of her stove. I guess feeding 6 boys for all those years she's entitled.
My Granny, (Dad's Mom) always made this soup at week's end with whatever leftover veggies in the 'fridge and added stew beef, a little of this and that,and macaroni elbows. That was some of the best stuff in the world on a cold winter's day after terrorising the neighborhood. Oh and Granny made some mean Oatmeal & raisin cookies although I ate as much batter as I ever did the finished cookies. I tell Ya every time I see oatmeal cookies I think of hers and I've never had any as good since. I'll always believe it was the love Granny put in hers that made all the difference. To this day fresh baked cookies make me think of home and the comforts of Granny's kitchen.

[PantyFanatic]

My mom makes a macaroni salad that me AND the world thinks is the best. She use to make it for church dinners and had people coming to her for it when they had a private party. It got to where they were third and forth hand referrals. EVERYBODY told her she should start a business or sell her recipe to a company. (She’ll take it to the grave;) ) I have one sister in Denver with her that says she knows the formula, but she can’t make it work. lol


For me, it is a simple ass fried egg. She can fry an sunny side up egg somehow that tastes different than any other I’ve ever had.:confused:

[LixyChick]

Oh shoot SS! I forgot to get that recipe for you, didn't I? I gotta get my hands on that Schwenkfelder cook book.....and I'm making an actual handwritten note right this moment.....so sorry hun!

Mom was such an "innovative" cook.....making use of what was on hand. But, to be honest....till dad left us (mom kicked him out....lol) we weren't so bad off! He was a butcher/breakdown man by trade...and we got some of the most prime beef you could ever know. And mom made the absolute best pot roast and baby browned potatoes I have ever had in my life.....and to this day I (nor my sister's) can duplicate it! She also made the absolute bestest bean soup on the planet.....and I have been able to come really close to duplicating that.....so says my baby sis!

Later in life when I would visit dad and he'd ask, before I came, what I would like for dinner.....I would say, "What's your specialty"? When I got to his apartment I could smell the pork and sauerkraut cooking even before I got inside. He'd start cooking it around 4am that morning and the meat would just fall off the bone and the sauerkraut was never bitter or tart. Mmmmmmm! I think that's one of my most favorite meals to this day!

And one other dish (lmao...lunch dish)....that I can remember from my childhoood wasn't made by mom....but by the neighbor lady across the street. Whenever she made tuna sandwiches for lunch...I had to have one. My mother always used Miracle Whip® in her tuna and didn't by the best tuna on the market (oil packed, cheapy stuff)....and it was rather plain.....but Mrs. Michaels had solid white tuna packed in water and made hers with Hellman's® mayo....and she would dice up dill pickle spears and add them to it. Oh.....and she always made it on rye toast. To this day that is the way I prefer my tuna sandwiches!

*EDITING* I just remembered this too...(and you might be interested in it SS...if you like succotash)*

My first boyfriends mother would take fresh, white corn on the cob and take it off the cob......lots of ears.....like maybe 40 ears..no kidding......and add it to a giant soup pot...to which she would add "fordhook" lima beans (the bigguns)...either fresh or frozen...and lots of them too.....and about 2 cups of reserved bacon fat (she'd save up the fat in the fridge till she had 2 cups and then she would make this dish)......I know....I know....my arteries are hardening as I type this, but it's so friggin delish I would die to have it right now...maybe literally...lmao! Anyway.......she would add a little water.....enough to just come up to the top of the veggies..and the fat would go in...and she would "cook it down" all day and into the evening...on a slow simmer just after the boil. The starch from the corn and the beans would make this thicken a bit and......OMG!!!! I think it's a variation of a soul food recipe she got from a friend...who did the bacon fat with collard greens much like this. Oh...and that's real yummy too! LOL! Oh shit...now I'm gonna start reserving my bacon fat instead of nuking the bacon on that idiotic bacon tray!

[Cheyanne]

Year after year on Thanksgiving, my mom would make "giblet gravy" from the innards (neck, heart, testicles, liver) of the turkey for my dad. She would boil all of it together, cut it up into small pieces and then make gravy...(yuk). Well, since it was tradition, when it was my turn to make Thanksgiving dinner, I would make that gravy for my dad.... it wasn't until the last year of his life that he admitted to me that he hated the stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL Mom thought he loved it, and he didn't have the heart to tell her. (Now, that is love)

When we were kids, my parents would take us to visit Grandma & Grandpa in New Hampshire... Grandma would make a soup that she called "slop". It was chicken stock, noodles and rice... and maybe small bits of chicken.. It wasn't that the taste of it was so incredible, but what she said about it.... she would serve it soooooooooo hot, that if you watched your bowl carefully, it would turn slightly on the table. She would tell us grandkids to watch it turn.. and after it turned, it would be just right to eat...

[BlondeCurlGirl]

My late grandmother made the best baked spaghetti and her chocolate chip cookies were just amazing. We inherited her recipe scribblings in a notebook but the cookie recipe is incomplete, so we can never get it just perfect. She has only been gone two years so it still makes me a bit sad to think she'll never cook for us again. She was a farm wife and made the biggest and best dinners!

The other side of the family has a recipe for a chocolate pudding which can also be made into chocolate pie. It is to die for! My great aunt makes it every Christmas when we all come back to my grandmother's for the holidays!

We also have a recipe for taverns (sloppy joes) from my great-grandma that never tastes the same when we make it, yet follow the recipe to the letter! :p The secret is the apple cider vinegar.

[Eros]

turkey testicles???

[dicksbro]

Loved my mom's pie crusts ... pies were great but the crusts were the absolute flakiest, most mouth watering I've ever had.

She also made a German candy/cake called "Cold Dog." Wish I knew how she made it, but that was one recipe she wouldn't give away. It was a very rich chocolate layered over rum-soaked vanilla wafers and made into a loaf then chilled. It was sinfully delicious.

[babybunny]

Mmm my mom can make the meanest omlets alive. She is the Mistress of the Morning with her uncanny ability to make a mean breakfast meal. Anything and everything you can want in your omlet she will make and makes well. Some glorious fried potatoes on the side, with fresh fruit from the market tops off everything. She has a fond love of gormet coffee that even the non coffee drinkers can refuse the yummy smelling brew.

My mom also is very good at making home made gravy. She makes it with cornstarch instead of flour...Mmmmmmmm :slurp:

Now if you want desserts...talk to my younger sisters...they can bake like no one else. :)

[Steph]

I miss my grandmother's savoury dressing and my mother's fried rice and my father's omelets. We stayed out all night for graduation in high school and my friend and I arrived at my house around noon. Dad offered to make us both omelets. My friend said no but I told my father she said yes so I could eat the two of them :)

[Cheyanne]

Originally posted by Eros
turkey testicles???


Yeppers!!! She would boil them up with the rest of the stuff and then cut them up into little pieces and plop them in with the gravy.....................

[dicksbro]

Boy, going back to grandmothers ... has to be bread and carmel rolls. Fridays used to be "baking day" at her home in Minnesota and all the family would show up to delight in a hot loaf of bread or some carmel rolls fresh from the oven. That was back when you could soak things in real butter and didn't have to feel guilty at all ... you know, the "good ol' days" :rolleyes: Those may be the only things more sinfully delicious then the "Cold Dog" I mentioned before.