The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

Beef chile relleno to go from Serrano’s for din-din tonight...!!!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

5-ish pages behind again...now, that’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout...!!!!!

 

[Rista1313]

@figmentfan423 Just asked the teenager to feed the cats their canned food.

You would have thought I were asking him to clean up a hairball. He kept trying to gag.

Well i'm 48, and I'm not fond of dishing out wet food either...it makes me gag too!

 

[donaldtoo]

Not really related to your post, but I just had a major epiphany while reading it. You and most of the people here speak of the 70's as if it is a long time ago. I think of the 70's as yesterday. I got married in the 70's, we had both of our children in the 70's. For you folks it is history to me it is my life. Now I'm depressed.

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Just kidding! It would take more then that to depress me.

My folks were married in 1960, had me in 1962, my next youngest bro in 1964, my youngest bro in 1967, and my 12+-year-younger lil’ sis in 1975. So, it sounds like she’s about the same age as your 2 DDs.
But, both my folks also definitely did their homework at some point with only a kerosene lamp and my pop did attend a 1-room schoolhouse through the 8th grade.
They never tried to pull the “We walked uphill to school both ways...!!!”, as there was plenty of other stuff they could actually prove from both being raised on farms ‘til they graduated, HS...!!!!!
As you know, fortunately, they’re both still around, and their 11 grandchildren have heard the stories as well, many times...”the old days”, as you know, is all relative...!!!
Hope they’re around to tell our dear lil’ Emy...good times...!!!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

Well i'm 48, and I'm not fond of dishing out wet food either...it makes me gag too!

My DWifey quit dishing out wet dog food to our dogs when she was expecting our first...made her gag every time, and still does.
She could, however, eat the he** out of Taco Bell during that time...!!!!!!!

 

[Figgy1]

@figmentfan423 Just asked the teenager to feed the cats their canned food.

You would have thought I were asking him to clean up a hairball. He kept trying to gag.

A little mom at the top of your lungs would be appropriate with your booboo

 

[Figgy1]

Shock number 2 still open KMart

 

[Figgy1]

Look what i found and james got a shirt

 

[Figgy1]

Dinner at PF Changs lettuce wraps saki sangria YUM, warm saki, chicken pad thai,

 

[Figgy1]

More food spicy chicken, veggies and tofu with brown rice

 

[donaldtoo]

To be honest, the 70’s don’t feel like that long ago, although when I realize that a song I loved from the 80’s is almost 40 years old I am flabbergasted.

Frankly, I’m surprised I survived beyond my early 20’s, so I look at all the wonderful, beautiful rest that has been since as gravy...!!!!!!!!!!!
Not much about all those years ago gasts my flabbers...!!!!!

 

[Gabe1]

My mom made the best rouladen. My step dad would get the meat from the German butcher. It always had a pickle. I love pickles so never had a problem with that. I think the sauce is what makes that dish.

Wow! Have not had Rouladen in years. I love pickles too. But my favorite German dish remains Souerbraten with gravy along with a side of Spatzel. Maybe some fresh
sauerkraut.

 

[Gabe1]

How my mom and I text now that she found the GIF keyboard on her phone.
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Well don't let her teach my Mom. Mom is finally getting the hang of her iPhone, pretty proud of her for learning at 84. Texts became better when I bought her a stylist.

She is cute though, each sentence is a new text until she is done. I now just see it is her and wait until she is done sending a half dozen texts on one thought.

 

[donaldtoo]

So all this talk about how we learned to cook got me thinking....most of us learned from our mother or some sort of mother figure in our lives. Here's the question(s): What dish growing up that your mother (or whoever cooked for you) was the worst in your opinion? And what was the best?

Worst: My mom made scalloped potatoes which were normally excellent but when she was trying to include a cheap protein when money was tight she made scalloped potatoes with canned tuna and cheese. Ugh! All of those were fine on their own but not together.

Best: Homemade spaghetti sauce which was actually my great-grandmothers recipe (she had been a private chef for a rich family in Chicago). And if my mom used fresh from the garden tomatoes....even better!!!

Side note: A few years before my mom passed I told her how much I had detested the tuna scalloped potatoes and she was shocked, she thought they weren't bad. But she apologized for sending bacon bit (the cheap artificial ones) sandwiches sometimes to school for my lunch, she thought that was the worst thing she ever made for me. I then gave her a shock by telling her how much I had loved those bacon bit sandwiches and I thought they were a special treat and that I looked forward to them. She had always felt bad for sending them when she didn't have any money left in the budget for lunch meat and then turns out I loved them.

I am being totally honest when I say, at least off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything my mother made/still makes that I didn’t/don’t like...if I think long enough I might, but, I honestly just can’t right now. Liver and onions, whatever she made, was always so good to me...!!!!!
On a similar lunch sandwich note to yours, though, I do remember her apologizing for sending so many cheese sandwiches with us for lunch several years ago. These were not processed cheese sandwiches, btw. They were made from pretty thick slices of block cheese (she thought the processed stuff was garbage), with mayo, and I always loved them, but, she had no clue how much I loved them until not all that long ago...!!!!!
Lesson learned...
Never forget to give your loved ones a hug, and let them know how much you love them...!!!!!!!
And, if it applies , their attempts at cooking, cooking/food, as well...after all, food is love...!!!!!

 

[Gabe1]

Haven't a clue where a Dairy Queen is around here. Never had a Blizzard, but they look tasty..

You would love Blizzards. Every flavor imaginable. Time to google search nearest one to you. Most our close in October until May so you might have to get a move on it.

My favorite is the triple chocolate with a fudge well in the middle. Blizzards are much thicker and more dense than normal custard DQ ice cream.

 

[donaldtoo]

My mom usually packed our lunches. I didn't like school lunch at all, I tried a few things but blurg..... My sister liked school lunch so she would have it more than I would.

Yep, preferred my brown paper sack lunches as well...and to add to my previous post, we also did get things like PB&J, tuna, etc., on a fairly regular basis, but, for some reason the cheese sandwiches stuck with mom as something with not enough nutrition in ‘em.
Heck, she coulda’ just sent me with a big chunk a’ that block a’ cheese every day, and Ida’ been just fine...!!!!!

 

[Gabe1]

Mom had a few I hated, like kielbasa with sauerkraut, dad's favorite liver and onions, and Lima beans. But I don't think it was her cooking that made it bad. I think I just don't like those things.

What was bad was fried spaghetti. Leftover spaghetti? Add the sauce, and fry it. Until it was crunchy. No thank you!

My favorite dinner growing up was her meatloaf. Always with mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, and homemade biscuits. Luckily, I got that "recipe"from a phone call with Mom. The recipe that is lost is rouladen. Mom only made that once in awhile, and it was always so good. I have looked through all of her cookbooks, and haven't found it. Which means it was another recipe filed in her head.

My DD has made her own recipe book of my old world recipes and watched me make them since there is not any written recipe as I was taught by sight and taste, I go through a sink full of spoons tasting some recipes along the way.

2 days ago my neighbor that moved back to Ohio texted me for my recipe for Stuffed Green Pepper Soup. I gave her the ingredients. Then I asked how many she was feeding.
I was able to ballpark how much of each item.

 

[Gabe1]

So all this talk about how we learned to cook got me thinking....most of us learned from our mother or some sort of mother figure in our lives. Here's the question(s): What dish growing up that your mother (or whoever cooked for you) was the worst in your opinion? And what was the best?

Worst: My mom made scalloped potatoes which were normally excellent but when she was trying to include a cheap protein when money was tight she made scalloped potatoes with canned tuna and cheese. Ugh! All of those were fine on their own but not together.

Best: Homemade spaghetti sauce which was actually my great-grandmothers recipe (she had been a private chef for a rich family in Chicago). And if my mom used fresh from the garden tomatoes....even better!!!

Side note: A few years before my mom passed I told her how much I had detested the tuna scalloped potatoes and she was shocked, she thought they weren't bad. But she apologized for sending bacon bit (the cheap artificial ones) sandwiches sometimes to school for my lunch, she thought that was the worst thing she ever made for me. I then gave her a shock by telling her how much I had loved those bacon bit sandwiches and I thought they were a special treat and that I looked forward to them. She had always felt bad for sending them when she didn't have any money left in the budget for lunch meat and then turns out I loved them.

My Moms cooking...

The best thing in my lunch box was hunts pudding packs. Sandwich was either jelly, boiled ham or liver sausage on wonderbread both meats with mustard. Jelly was hard to screw up.

Worst: Chop Suey Don't know what she thought she was making but it didn't resemble Chop Suey.

Best: Baked Potato

My Dad was the family chef for about a year. My Mom was in a hospital for about a year.
We got hot cereal for breakfast before the sun came up...he doubled home for lunch (we could not stay for lunch we all had to go home) hot dog or spaghetti
Ohhs, Chips. Dinner Hamburgers, pork chop or steak with potato chips. Snack time freezer of ice cream, help yourself. That was the best year of food at home ever.

 

[Gabe1]

I don't care for the new Dooney Belle purse. $300 I like the smaller designs better.

 

[Gabe1]

Hello BEVERLY lovers. She is back!!! at Club Cool!!!

And I want to try the chocolate cake with banana mouses
in Epcot Norway.

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