<p>Pork tenderloin is on our weekly menu. I get the 4-pack from Costco. The night before, I place in baking dish & marinate w Italian dressing, so my HS freshman can put in the oven 45 minutes before we get home. Very easy and it’s something he will eat.</p>
<p>We always had the breaded fried version of the tenderloin. When I go home, I eat one every day I am there.</p>
<p>When my relatives would come out to Seattle to visit in the summer from Mo, they would bring enough pork to share with everyone. I made it with an egg dip & soda cracker crumbs & fried. Melts in your mouth. ( also use soda crackers for fried oysters- got to find a gluten fee alternative)</p>
<p>Having a Swanson TV dinner was a big treat at my house growing up, because they were relatively expensive, I think. Sometimes we got to have them when my dad was on a business trip or my parents were going out. A big, big treat was having TV dinners or chicken pot pies in the living room on TV trays, watching Lost in Space and The Flintstones!</p>
<p>I liked my mom’s pork chop and baked bean casserole, also swiss steak and city chicken. We too had pancakes and bacon for dinner once in a while . Also, I’m from Pittsburgh originally and Isaly’s chipped ham barbecues were always good. Loved making the old Chef Boy Ar Dee pepperoni pizza kits. TV Time popcorn .This is a good thread because it brings back memories!</p>
<p>We went through a bunch of those pizza kits.</p>
<p>I’ve NEVER made/served cooked carrots of any kind. They make me physically gag. I like raw carrots though.</p>
<p>Creamed ham on toast. Yuck.
La Choy chow mein from a can. Double Yuck.</p>
<p>My dad used to make these potatoes called “Shannyboat Potatoes”. Ring a bell to anyone? To this day I don’t know what they were. Cooked sliced potatoes with some grease is all I can remember. Triple-dog-yuck.</p>
<p>ETA…SevMom…my parents are both from Pittsburgh…I have such great flavor memories of Islay’s chipped ham. I wish I could have some!!! (do you remember shannyboat potatoes?)</p>
<p>JustaMom, I haven’t heard of those potatoes. Sounds kind of Irish?
I’m the opposite-love cooked buttered carrots but really don’t like raw carrots at all.
When I travel back to Pittsburgh, I always make a point of getting some Isaly’s chipped ham (chipped really fine) and also buy their barbecue sauce. Also Reymer’s Lemon Blennd and Tom Tucker Ginger Ale. I’ll be there next month so I’ll get my fix then!</p>
<p>Childhood foods that I have not eaten since - Spam, liver, lima beans, eggplant. </p>
<p>Childhood foods that I still love but can’t get here - scrapple, creamed spinach, creamed chipped beef (although we called it dried beef), Carolina rice, Goetze’s caramel creams, TastyKakes. When I visit the Phila. area, I stock up!</p>
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<p>Toledo, I also know what lefse is. My Norwegian grandmother served it every Christmas. We would wrap pork sausage in it. It wasn’t until we went to Epcot that we learned that most Norwegians just sprinkle lefse with butter and sugar - much tastier. My mother still orders lefse every Christmas from someplace in Minnesota. I still have a couple of packages in my freezer.</p>
<p>Grew up as an army brat, so we moved around alot, but our special go to meal was always lobster. Now only have it a few times a year, but it’s still my favoirte food.</p>
<p>My dh is German potato salad…YUCK!</p>
<p>Some things I loved as a kid & still make: meatloaf, chili, baked beans, fresh fish on the grill, hamburgers on the grill, steaks on the grill, white bean-and-ham soup, blueberry pancakes from scratch, homemade meatballs, Christmas cookies & pastries, homemade pies, homemade bread. In almost every case, my version is a marked improvement over Mom’s. Well, except for some of the baked goods, but mine are pretty good, too.</p>
<p>Some things I loved as a kid but never eat now: sloppy Joes, cabbage rolls, liver & onions, sardine sandwiches, pot roast, pork roast, fried chicken, hot dogs, bologna.</p>
<p>Some things I hated as a kid but love now: pretty much anything with sauerkraut, almost anything Chinese, scalloped potatoes, mac & cheese (yes, I was that rare kid who hated mac & cheese).</p>
<p>Some things I never had as a kid but love now: pasta & pesto, pasta e fagiole, Polish sausage, many healthy made-from-scratch soups (Mom made split pea soup from scratch; other than that it came from a can), tuna casserole (my Dad’s one condition on marrying Mom was that she promise never to serve tuna because he hated it, but DW makes a terrific tuna casserole), lobster, sea scallops, lots of fresh shellfish dishes; Indian, Thai, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, and other ethnic cuisines that pretty much didn’t exist in this country, at least not in our part of it. Besides restaurant fare, we’ve adopted recipes of some of our favorite dishes into our cook-at-home repertoire.</p>
<p>On the whole I’d say there’s not more than a 35% overlap between what I ate as a kid and what I eat now.</p>
<p>My mother made liver and onions about once every two weeks while I was growing up. I never ate it then and I would never eat it now. I hated the smell and it looked awful. To this day my father still asks me if I cook it. He tells me I have undeveloped taste buds. Its probably one of the few foods I have an aversion to and I still don’t understand how my mother made enough for us of us to eat and she and my dad were the only two to eat it.</p>
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<p>And believe me, the smell was the best thing about it. Pasty texture, bitter taste, absolutely vile.</p>
<p>I was lucky–my mother also hated liver, so we never had to eat it. She was also one of those who never ate any kind of fish or seafood (and still doesn’t).</p>
<p>I am glad that the yogurt in the stores today, is nothing like the yogurt my mom used to buy in the '60s. That stuff was sour!</p>
<p>Fortunately I was never subjected to liver and onions but my parents would order it at restaurants (Sears had a cafeteria back then). I’ve never seen the value in eating something that processes every chemical ever taken into the body. I realy don’t think it can be good for you.</p>
<p>And how about the giblets from a turkey? Other than my mother, who eats those?</p>
<p>I created a wonderful liver and onion recipe before I decided to stop eating it because the liver collects the drugs used on the animals. Calf liver is preferred to cows. Fry with onions, mushrooms, pepper and sherry, and ketchup is optional. It is delicious.</p>
<p>Chopped liver is another wonderful dish if you eat liver. How about pate?</p>
<p>After she got tired with the steak and salad and canned fruits/vegies, my mom became a great cook. I still make her lasagna (has nobody so for mentioned lasagna?), spaghetti sauce, soups, salads, briscuit, kugel, various chicken dishes, leg of lamb.</p>
<p>She never made a casserole of any kind, never used a recipe.</p>
<p>I do a lot of ethnic cooking - Mexican and Indian - that she never did.</p>
<p>Never eaten liver.</p>
<p>Never will.</p>
<p>My mom would occasionally give us TV dinners as a treat. “Salisbury Steak” - marketing genius.</p>
<p>The 50’s and 60’s were an interesting time, culinarily speaking. I’m grateful my mother wasn’t very adventurous:</p>
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