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Post by sdw on Oct 28, 2013 13:50:45 GMT -5
I like salmon patties myself,we haven't had them in alone time,a can of salmon is too expensive.My Mom doesn't put cracker crumbs in hers,she uses cornmeal.All the other foods that were mentioned are all comfort foods.We have pinto beans and cornbread at least once a week,but I quit eating cornbread with thr beans.Nickie I like manwich,but I like my Moms sloppy joe recipe the best.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2013 14:15:16 GMT -5
That's how I was raised too. Nothing was thrown out (as in "wasted"). It was saved for the next meal or recycled for the next meal or went in the "slop jar" for the pigs or portioned out for the dogs and cats. Egg salad with bacon or even eggs and bacon on a cold biscuit make a good afternoon school snack.
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Post by maxwalton on Oct 28, 2013 18:37:49 GMT -5
The key word in my family was/is SOUP. During the depression, my grandfather put every single scrap into some kind of soup.
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Post by vintagekym on Oct 28, 2013 19:35:14 GMT -5
Waste not want not, is what I can still hear my mamaw saying.
We are a beans and cornbread family here in Kentucky, we use salt pork to season our beans, but my mother in-law prefers to use smoked jowl or country ham. I love salmon patties every now and then, I use the cracker crumbs, but dredge my patties in cornmeal......I love the crispy edges.
Fried cornbread is my favorite, or baked in my big old heavy iron skillet...LOL
Love me some good meat loaf too.
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Post by sweaver on Sept 20, 2020 5:08:05 GMT -5
Aw, Kimberly! You're mentioning the things my mom made and I liked! My mom was a meatloaf gal too, but I thought crackers or bread crumbs were suppose to be added to it! She never did that with hamburgers, but to the salmon patties - she did. (she fixed it just like meatloaf) All the things my mother made for dinner - I make. I promise, If you're ever at my table for a meal, Kimberly... I will not serve anything with crushed up crackers. If we didn't like what Mom was making, we had the option of making a pb&j sandwich for ourselves, but that was it. I never did care for Mom's "goulash"! That was definately a sandwich night!
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Post by sweaver on Sept 20, 2020 5:14:26 GMT -5
I had to laugh when I read this because I despised salmon patties too. I grew up in the 60's and 70's and we had to eat what was put in front of us unless it was something we really didn't like and not just being picky eaters. There were two things I just couldn't stomach and one was salmon patties. Made with creamed peas on top of the party. Yuck and yuck. The other one was bean soup. My family loved bean soup night at my house and I hated it so I always cocoa wheats on those nights. Haha. I still hate both of them to this day.
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Post by sweaver on Sept 20, 2020 5:24:41 GMT -5
I'm watching the Walton's right now and something is bothering me. Lol. The kids are home from school and wanting a snack and Olivia says there's soup on the back of the stove or there's some bread dough. First of all. Yuck. Is it raw dough? Who eats that? I mean cookie dough is one thing. I remember when I was a kid and loving raw cookie dough and cake mix and brownie mix. I loved it so much that licking the bowl and the beaters just wasn't enough for me and I used to swear when I grew up I was going to sit down with the entire bowl of raw whatever dough and eat the entire thing uncooked. I guess I outgrew it cuz I never did try it. My problem here is what kid wants to eat bread dough and if so wouldn't it make you sick? They say you shouldn't eat any of it raw because of the eggs and stuff but it seems like raw bread dough would make you very sick. Eating it for a snack is just odd. I don't know why it's bugging me so much. I know it's not real. Yet here I am, having paused the program to first Google eating bread dough and then come here to ask you all what you think about this. Lol
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Post by Easton on Sept 20, 2020 7:00:27 GMT -5
^ There are no eggs in bread dough. There is nothing to make you sick. There are raw eggs in cookie dough, however, and it's the raw eggs which can give you salmonella.
However, back then, they had their own farm-fresh eggs every day. They didn't hang about in the ice box for days at a time. The eggs would be quite safe to eat raw.
These days, not so much.
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Post by Easton on Sept 20, 2020 8:37:53 GMT -5
I just remembered a scene in which John and Grandpa came in for lunch. Grandpa was starving only to discover that lunch was warmed-up pancake from breakfast.
I doubt if much food was wasted in the Walton household.
I've read a few posts here in which members mentioned having to clean the plate. Our family had a similar rule. If we served ourselves, we had to eat what we took. If the food was served to us, we didn't have to eat it all.
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Post by rickking on Sept 20, 2020 12:24:21 GMT -5
My parents always told me not to waste food, to think of the starving children in China.
So I always cleaned my plate, never wasted a bite.
But to this day, I've never figured out how it helped all those starving kids in China!
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Post by whisper on Sept 20, 2020 12:55:28 GMT -5
My parents always told me not to waste food, to think of the starving children in China.
So I always cleaned my plate, never wasted a bite.
But to this day, I've never figured out how it helped all those starving kids in China! Ah yes! I was eating for Africa
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2020 12:57:16 GMT -5
My parents always told me not to waste food, to think of the starving children in China.
So I always cleaned my plate, never wasted a bite.
But to this day, I've never figured out how it helped all those starving kids in China! For us it was the starving children in Africa. I think we were supposed to be grateful that we had more than enough to eat. But that seems to be the only thing we were supposed to be grateful for though.
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Post by goodnight on Sept 20, 2020 21:21:55 GMT -5
My grandmother made tuna cakes instead of salmon cakes. I actually liked them.
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Post by tommyc on Sept 20, 2020 21:27:31 GMT -5
We had to eat whatever we took/asked for. But if there was a side dish mom made that we didn't like, we just wouldn't ask for it or mom knew not to put it on our plate. The main dish was never a problem, as we all loved whatever she made. I'm not much of a fish eater but I absolutely loved mom's salmon patties. She told me how she made them and I can make them pretty close to the way her's tasted. I was pretty spoiled by mom's food. In college, law school and even married life, I'd still get mom's food. During the week when she cooked for dad, they'd make a plate of food for me. When I'd visit on the weekends, I'd always come home with 4 or 5 plates of mom's home cooking. My wife wasn't much of a cook so when I got married, mom and dad would always give us enough so we both could eat. After I got divorced, I took more interest in cooking. My mom taught me many of her recipes. As mom got older, I returned the favor and when I would make some of her special dishes, I'd take mom and dad a plate of what I made. They would always say how good it was and I think I mad mom proud that I made her recipes. Now that mom has passed, I long for her home cooking. What I cook tastes good but just not as good as her's. I think because it is missing the love she put into her cooking. When I make one of mom's signature dishes, I'll take my dad over a plate of it. He always says how good it was and tasted just like mom's. Hope he means that and is not just being nice
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Post by Easton on Sept 20, 2020 21:48:27 GMT -5
^ My mother made the best baked beans I've ever tastes. I asked her for the recipe but she never had one. All she could give me was a list of ingredients with no measurements except a package of white pea beans.
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out the proportions. I couldn't even get close to the flavour.
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