There was so much Hamburger Helper in my childhood. My dad's third wife made it at least five times a week. I've never made it or ate it in my adult life. Blech.
Post by JayhawkGirl on Jan 28, 2014 0:47:00 GMT -5
Cotto salami, Oscar Meyer round sliced tube pack meat. Blech. Dinner sausage-the horseshoe shape things. Tuna anything Ham Pork chops-the tough, bone in thin cuts ruined me for all pork other than bacon
Round steak turned into Swiss steak or mushroom steak. My dad went on a kick making it again and was surprised how hard it was to find that mechanically tenderized meat theses days. My 38 year old self made a pb&j at their house, just like when I was a kid, lol.
Fuck no, my mom is an awesome cook, and she has a thing about not repeating meals too close together. I think our most frequent meal was spaghetti, and that was like once or twice a month. lol.
BUT there are things that I looooved in college that I cannot even look at now. Hot chicken sandwiches. *shudder* Those were my go-to drunk food, and I saw them come up one too many times.
Hmmm...I can't really think of anything in particular. One thing I realized after I started cooking myself is how much my mom and dad overcooked EVERYTHING. Which, when you're cooking for 7, I don't think optimal tastiness is really the goal. We had lots of things like casseroles, stews, spaghetti, that sort of thing. Veggies were always a bag of mixed veggies microwaved in a glass dish with some water, whereas I'm always sauteeing or roasting our vegetables.
One thing I could really go for now are some Steak-Umms. My mom used to cook those on a big electric griddle, then I'd put some in a pita and put ranch dressing all over it. Drool.
OMG, for breakfast?! I love those damn things but for breakfast?!
looseseal I eat Schwan's pot pies every time I visit my parents. They live off of Schwan's "food" (eew) and those things have like 5,000 calories each, but I just can't quit them.
My mom used to make us eat braunschweiger and miracle whip sandwiches. I want to barf just thinking about it. I am pretty sure this is the reason I can't abide miracle whip now.
I like braunschweiger and miracle whip sandwiches on white bread. I don't eat them all the time or anything, but I like them.
My dads turkey chili looks like vomit. He also used to be super proud of his homemade Caesar dressing, it tasted like ass. My brother liked scrapple as a kid, I never touched that GROSS!
My mom used to make us eat braunschweiger and miracle whip sandwiches. I want to barf just thinking about it. I am pretty sure this is the reason I can't abide miracle whip now.
My mom fed us braunschweiger sandwiches, too! Gag!
Post by gullterre15 on Jan 28, 2014 8:30:16 GMT -5
Nope. We had assorted nannies that always did the cooking. We went from Indian, to Mexican, to German. It was an International revolving door. It was crazy as a kid, but now I have am open to pretty much all kinds of food.
Spanish Rice. Whatever the eff that is. Rice with tomato juice and peppers, or something? I don't know exactly, but my mom made it all.the.time (probably because it was cheap and easy), and it was terrible.
Johnny Marzetti - noodles, cheese, hamburger, some sort of tomato sauce, baked in a casserole. *gag*
She swears she just isn't a good cook, but she cooks SO much healthier and tastier now than she did when I was a kid, when she was using 70's and 80's church cookbook recipes. I actually asked her why she made all that crap food, and she said she isn't sure, and never really liked it herself, but she just made it anyways. Thanks mom!
OMG I'm laughing so hat at the church cookbook thing. My mom had a series of Betty Crocker cookbooks she used in the 70s (see my list of vile foods posted earlier). And ditto to the Spanish rice thing. Add ground beef and shove it in a hollowed out green pepper and you have the stuffed pepper my mom made at least once a week it seems.
Hamburger Helper. I'm pretty sure we had some variety at least once a week.
My older sisters tell the story how my mom made chicken livers one night and wouldn't let them leave the table until they tried it. They sat there for like two hours, and when the younger one tried it she pretty much gagged it back up right there. It got my oldest sister out of trying it and I don't think my mom ever made it again.
Tuna noodle casserole Elbow pasta with chunky spaghetti sauce (for some unknown reason, my sisters kids love this stuff, so much so they got it added to the lunch items at their very small elementary school)
My mom used to make us deviled ham(in the can) sandwiches with mustard. Makes me gag to even see it in the market now. I know that she was a single mom, worked 3 jobs, and we never missed out on anything, and that she was saving $$ by feeding us this, but ew, gross!