Favorite food dishes from childhood

[Sweet Bliss]

Originally Posted by Queenie

I grew up eating Finnish pancakes on Sunday mornings. Has to be on the my favourite things to eat as a kid.


That most amazing little crepes!

You also need a special pan to make them. The pan my mother used and now my sister uses has been passed down on my father's side of the family for over a 100 years.



And Finnish bread. My father was mostly Finnish so we ate a lot of Finnish foods.

Tell me more about Finnish bread and food!

[weatherboi]

My Grandmother would make a smoked fish dip with either bream or mullet. She would put it out with captains wafers before the main meal, like an appetizer.

My grandparents grew green peanuts every year. It was a white skinned heirloom peanut and it was smaller and more tender than the kind sold on the side of the road. We would harvest and have a giant peanut boil to prepare them quickly for freezing. We would eat them day and night for 2 days and then no more till my Grandmother would decide to pull a couple of bags from the freezer for everybody to try and "share".

One year all my grandparents orange trees got killed by a freeze. They didn't get graphted(not sure if that is the proper term) properly so the fruit was never sweet again. They would use the juice from the fruit to make sour orange meringue pies. I can't explain the deliciousness that could never be replicated by my lips or hands because the trees no longer exist in this world for the land was swallowed up by the local establishments' need for a dollar store.

My dad was part owner in an apple orchard in North Carolina and so for a couple of years we would go up there and help bring in all the apples when they were ready, I remember my hands being sticky. We would bring back enough to make a bunch of applesauce for the year for everybody in the family. It was pink in color from the skins. My mom would only pull out the applesauce when we had cubed steak or pork chops and although they were the entree, everybody was looking forward to "the sauce".

I learned at an early age to enjoy the endeavor in acquiring these treats as opposed to focusing on replicating them later in life because somethings can NEVER be replicated and only celebrated.

I love my life!!!

[puddin']

me grandma heddie was a baker extraordinaire... neva measured a thang. when asked how to make a particular pie, cake, etc... it was "oh a pinch o' this, a dash o' that.".

her choc'late and lemon meringue pies, red velvet cake and blackberry cobbler were to die fo'.

the cobbler especially was a summer extravaganza. all the grandkids would go out on a blackberry pickin' expedition early mornin'. and while heddie was bakin' said cobbler, we kids were all takin' turns at the ice cream churn.

great memories...

Auntie Marjory's Eccles cakes. She was a baker and confectioner by trade; I recall travelling on the steam train to Fleetwood so my Ma could help Auntie Marjory at her bakery in the market.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/eccles_cakes_72475

[deathbypoem]

Anything that was considered "day care" food was acceptable. Including but not limited to...

Fish sticks
Mash Potatoes
Cooked Carrots
nuggets (of any kind) dipped in mashed potatoes
Pb&j
Hot dogs n mac & cheese
beef and noodles
anything that was bland or overly seasoned lol

[~baby~doll~]

my mother was not a great cook. She did make a delicious scrumptious chicken soup. The aroma was filling it was so good.

She made fantastic Kugela or Kugel



a Lithuanian dish from potatoes on weekends and we would have slices with each meal. It was good with maple syrup as well for breakfast.

Dinners consisted of round steak, the kugela and some vegetable 80% of the time. It got old and i developed a need for salt. LOL

Tastee-Freez cones were a great treat, i did not have them often so they were extra special.

[puddin']

Originally Posted by ~baby~doll~

Tastee-Freez cones were a great treat, i did not have them often so they were extra special.

taste-freez, wow! where i grew up it was dairy queen. we only eva got dairy queen when we were stayin' at me aunt's in the summer. loved those dilly bars & buster bars. yum-o!