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tsatske -> As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 1:59:46 AM)
I started to post this in the thanksgiving dinner thread, but it was such a hijack, I thought i'd start a new thread. I miss my grandmother's fry bread. (thanks, BKSir). And, once my mind is moving in that direction - her chicken and dumplings, which she purely hated and would never share the recipe for, but which, thankfully, my sister has managed to duplicate. And her liver and onions. Oh, for perfectly well made liver, with liver gravy. I must have been the only child in America who looked forward to liver for dinner. What foods do you miss that someone who loved you (or someplace you loved...) made for you just perfect?

sunshinemiss -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 2:03:39 AM)
It's weird, I know, but I miss my grandma's peanut butter salad dressing. She realized that I love love love peanut butter and somehow found a recipe for that. Now it was not great dressing. But she did it for me. That was so sweet. I miss my grandfather's biscuits and gravy for breaky on special occasions (although all I need do is look at my hips, and THERE THEY ARE!). My first girlfriend used to make oyster stuffing. I miss that. *nice idea tsatske (is that short for ekstatic?)

tsatske -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 2:06:19 AM)
SSM - no, it is a yiddish word for, well, stuff, whose only purpose is to be stuff. Like the statues on your display shelf, ect. But it has a completely archaic and unused territarry meaning which appeals to me - 'beautiful but brainless woman, arm candy'. :D

sunshinemiss -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 2:10:12 AM)
ohhh like chatch kahs. (spelling, I know)

tsatske -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 2:12:33 AM)
yea, it's spelled tsatske. although there is a derivitave American word spelled chtochtke, (i think) which refers to stuff whose main purpose is to put an advertising logo in your hand - be it on a ruler, a can opener, a paperweight, a notpad, whatever.

Llyren -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 3:37:20 AM)
It's one of those words that has a dozen different spellings, and one I've always enjoyed using. It sounds more interesting than just plain knicknacks. Back on topic.... I miss my mom's cooking. Everything she made was wonderful, except for her roast beef. She liked it so well done it was practically jerky, and felt that as long as she was purchasing and preparing it, she could do it however she wished. I particularly miss her homemade fudge cake frosting.

Kalista07 -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 4:47:22 AM)
This was the first year that I made the deliberate decision to not go home for Thanksgiving not due to safety, issues, sickness, etc. I spent this year with His family and while it was wonderful and I felt very welcomed and loved.... I missed my moms cinnamon sugar pie (I think that's what you call it?). She would always make one as she was baking the pies and my dad and I would share it... I don't think she's made any since he's died..... The other thing I really miss is this slush stuff she used to make during either Thanksgiving or Christmas.... As I was growing up, it had some kind of alcohol in it. Once I finally convinced them I was seriously not going to drink again she finally stopped making it with alcohol. She sent me the recipe last year, which almost broke my heart.... Kali

Termyn8or -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 8:08:05 AM)
FR Believe it or not leftovers. Back in the day there were no microwaves, at least in people's houses. All reheating was done in pots and pans or the oven. I was reminded yesterday about her stiff mashed potatoes. Compared to her's, most all others were practically potato soup. So by mid week it was time for leftover roast from Sunday. All you have to do it throw those stiff mashed potatoes in a skillet and get distracted. They were fried mashed potatoes. I hit a restaurant a while back and they had fried mashed potatoes, but they were a big disappointment. They were like potato pancakes which I have never really liked. Our fried mashed spuds had no flour or eggs. This was the real thing. I made sure I was last in line - y'all take your white squishy stuff from the top. I want that brown crispy stuff at the bottom. T

DesFIP -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/27/2009 8:36:50 AM)
My grandmother's iced tea, I don't know what she did but it was unparallelled. She never shared recipes. I've always thought it was flavored with limes and oranges but that isn't it. Her potato blintzes. Cheese are faster to make but I loved potato more so she would make them for me. Cheese empanadas de verde. Coconut cake made by the same cook. I really need to go to Queens to an Ecuadorian restaurant and take away all my favorites. The soup with a lump of yucca in it the name of which I've never known.

MadameMarque -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 3:09:31 AM)
I miss my brother scouting food and drink that I would enjoy. One of the best was served at a Greek restaurant run by a friend of his, oysters and spinach cooked on the half shell, garlic, lemon juice, perfectly prepared and fresh. I had 3 of my 5 siblings around me that night. Two of my brothers got up and danced to the live music, at the coaxing of the dancer in their troupe, which was a joyous thing. One of my brother's friends flirted a little with me, and my young half brother made warning growls at him to back off, an impulse for which I so loved him. That same epicurean brother used to have a party for the family and his friends, at the holidays, every year. I miss that. Sometimes the family got along miserably, I'm afraid. Maybe today, we could do better? I miss my family actually wanting to be together, and those parties.

purepleasure -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 4:20:00 AM)
My grandmother's secret recipe chocolate cake. I recently found out the secret ingredient (besides love) is cinnamon.

afterforever -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 4:40:32 AM)
I was thinking down a completely different line with the name. The delicious yogurty greek dip.... Anyway... my bff's ex-girlfriend's vegan cheesecake. I make the same recipe with fruit, she makes it with coffee and chocolate. Must remember to put my cunning plan to get them back together into action...

Daddysredhead -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 7:05:33 AM)
I miss my Mom's apple dumplings, her homemade fudge, and just about anything else she made. She was an amazing cook.

devilishpixie -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 7:09:34 AM)
My grandfather used to go fishing every weekend for catfish and I would clean it and fry it up. I miss that smell. Doesn't seem right to do it with store bought fish and lord knows I haven't been fishing since he passed.

SassySarijane -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 3:46:39 PM)
I miss my Dad's sweet n sour beets. Can't even find a recipe close to his to try and make them myself. It was like eating candy.

BKSir -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 3:50:06 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: afterforever I was thinking down a completely different line with the name. The delicious yogurty greek dip.... Tzatziki Sauce? :) I LOVE that stuff. Damn near eat it just by itself. [:D]

Acer49 -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 4:37:09 PM)
I miss my grandmother's whipped sweet potatoes,

LaTigresse -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 6:06:51 PM)
I am a better cook than my mother and have been able to recreate most of my grandmother's recipes but the one thing I cannot, no matter how hard I try, is duplicate her fried chicken and gravy. I have come to the conclusion that it had to have been the chicken itself that made it so good.

lronitulstahp -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 7:43:31 PM)
my maternal grandmother's EVERYTHING!!!!! Ay, that woman could cook! my aunt Connie's banana pudding my aunt Jeanette's ensalada de bacalao (which is like a potato salad with salted cod...yum!)

ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: As long as we are talking about food.... (11/28/2009 8:25:15 PM)
My ex's borscht. She was half Russian; she learned it from her grandmother growing up in Moscow. I never asked her to teach it to me, and for years after we broke up I tried repeatedly to reverse-engineer it... but I never came close, and finally just stopped trying.

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