The best food your mama ever made

Many good things. One of my favourite breakfast things is tomato choka and roti or naan. Good stuff

 

My mama's favorite food to me is her macaroni and cheese with bread crumbs on top.

 

We tried a recipe from Alton Brown a few months back and love it. Easy to make and the best mac & cheese ever. Even has panko on top. (Leave out the onions though). yum yum yum.

Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network

 

My mother was and remains a lousy cook. I'll spare this forum the misery of any of her dishes.

Tom

 

My mom, also, was a bad cook and didn't like to cook. She could make two things, both of which resulted from following a recipe wrong. One was a pot roast. I think she set the heat too low for too long and the result was very good, and she continued to make it that way. (I didn't quit eating meat until I was 19.) The other was orange marmalade. I don't know what she did wrong to make it turn out so good.

Other than that my step-fathers (two in succession) did most of the cooking. When I was around 15 I learned to cook, so I would not have to eat my mom's cooking, after she said "If you don't like it, cook for yourself." I learned from my second step-father, and I consider myself a good cook, though my dishes are basic, nothing fancy.

 

My Mom's still a good cook. Dad's learning, but progress is slow. I learned the art as a teenager when my Mom went back to school, and haven't stopped. Recipes are for those who lack imagination.

 

Many yummy dishes, but my favourites: schnitzel and dessert crepes (palacsinta)


bon appetit

 

Chili not spicy or hot
Bread pudding
Apple betty
No bake cookies

Now my grandma could make the best home made noodles and mashed potatos. She could also make really good dumplings. No one has ever been able to make them like she used to. Not even my mom. My mom can make good noodles and mashed potatos but they just are not the same.

Over all my mom is a great cook but things I listed are the best.

 

Me too. My mom eats only hot dogs, bacon, french fries and white bread. I have no idea how she's still alive on her diet that lacks ANY fruit, veggie, or dairy. Strictly white bread, potato, and pork products.

My childhood consisted of her making meals for us that she would not even eat herself! I eat a lot better and healthier now that I'm married to a resteraunt manager.

 

Ewwww. That's not even food.

 

Whoopie Pies. I'm just old enough so Crisco is listed as an ingredient...

 

Whenever we use a recipe we find 80% of the time we use a 1965 copy of the classic Betty Crocker cookbook. We have a version from 2004 as well but all the recipes are made to be low fat, low flavour. The '65 copy uses lots of butter, lots of crisco, lots of lard, and stuff like that.

 

How does anyone talk about mom's cooking and not mention GRILLED CHEESE?



To this day I still ask my mother to make grilled cheese for me.

 

My mom made us eat fried bologna smeared with mustard, served with Fritos corn chips for a side dish. Spaghettios were considered a treat. However, she made the most beautifully decorated and delicious birthday cakes.

Seriously, all of the above is true, but one of my favorite dishes made by my mom is a wilted endive salad made with a scrumptious vinegar and bacon dressing. I'm drooling all over myself just thinking about it.

 

+1. Darwood would have been at risk of developing diabetes if he had continued on that trajectory.

 

My fav is the old fashioned fried okra. Old fashioned fried okra is where the little slices of okra are covered top and bottom in corn meal and then fried on a griddle (or frying pan) with butter. Each okra slice is turned by hand after it browns. Mother passed away back in 2003; so, once a year I break out the frying pan and fry up some okra. If okra were larger in cross-section, it wouldn't be that much of a hassle. But frying those little bitty pieces is a huge labor-intensive effort.

 

My mom is was a terrible cook too. She went through phases though:

During the health-kick-phase we bottomed out at raw oats, with raw peanuts with raw milk for breakfast and boiled venison heart sandwiches in my lunch box for school.

I'll spare you the details for the home-cooked-phase.
I think our problem was she was so sensitive about not being a good cook we couldn't say anything and she never really admitted she didn't know how so she could learn.

 

It should be noted that she did not feed us the diet she feeds herself. She just didn't eat the normal meals she made for us. If you can't taste what you cook, you have no idea if it's good or not or how to make it better. She does make good pancakes and waffles though...(cause she'll eat those).

It's wierd...my dad will eat anything at all, she'll only eat from a tiny list of options. It's downright embarassing to go to a resteraunt with her.