Posted on 06/12/2006 10:25:30 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
I was reading Reminisce Magazine yesterday. For some reason that magazine always makes me hungry. So, what were the best foods you remember as a kid?
I do remember Price's and Prince's.
Price's was across from Madings Drug and behind the Episcopal Church.
Pershing Junior High down the street.
I moved away from Houston to Tulsa in 1992.
Remember the PoBoys at the Cellar Door on Stella Link or a PoBoy from Antoine's?My first high school job was scooping ice cream at BK 31 flavors down near Chimmney Rock Rd. with Randy Quaid.
When I was a about 10 mom and dad took us to the beach. We bought shrimp and crab fresh off the boat and boiled it in seawater right there on the beach. So yummy. I have never had sea food since that tasted that good.
Hmm, I don't remember Price's. Which direction from the church?
I loved Jack-in-the-Box's secret sauce in the 1960s. It was almost a remoulade sauce, except not spicy. It was a 1000-Island "type" but thinner. I also have been addicted to their awful, greasy, mystery meat tacos (the small ones) from time to time, but I always recover.
It was near Stella Link. It turned into a Jack-In-The-Box later on.
Oh, you already answered the question I just spent a post asking, lol.
Mading's? Not Interurban? Remember Rettig's ice cream parlor in that same strip center on Holcombe? That was a loonnnggg time ago. [Never mind - that was further down towards the Shamrock.] Mading's is the health food grocery store now, I think (not Whole Foods, an indy). Maybe it was a Rice Food Market at one time, too.
Behind the Episcopal Church? Oh, on Stella Link maybe? I just can't picture it.
My family ate at that Cellar Door all the time! A friend of my mom's was one of the owners. It was a boring place to me at the time, so I can't recall the food very well, but in general, in later years, I liked other Cellar Door's food.
And that BR 31 was *my* Baskin-Robbins, lol. I didn't know Randy Quaid worked there. He went to my elementary school. If you remember a stupid chick who brought her *dog* in one time for ice cream, that was *moi.*
No, wait, you mean the BR on Bellaire, right? I was thinking Westheimer at Chimney Rock. Oh, the Bellaire one is my BR *now*! I haven't brought my dog into the one. She died. Different dog, too.
Haha, I've been writing my post while you wrote yours. Yeah, I know that Jack-in-the-Box and it knows me. The Chinese food place down the street is among the best in town - go there often.
YES! That's one of my favorite memories too.
But, sometimes I would cut a thick slice from one of the big tomatoes and lay it between a couple of slices of white sandwich bread slathered with Miracle Whip Salad Dressing. Tomato would cover the whole slice of bread. Yum!
My husband could eat BLT's, or just bacon and tomato sandwiches, every night when the tomatoes first "come in".
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God gave us real sherry. It was never God's intention to load sherry with salt for cooking purposes. >:P
We always used the clear Karo - mix it in a bowl then put on the sandwich......;^)
*grin*...Close, but I'm from the South, so I had my butter and sugar in a homemade biscuit. I liked 'em best when mother would poke a hole in the front edge and stuff the butter and sugar in there...didn't drip, or drop sugar as bad that way. : )
I'm missing my cheesesteaks....... ;^)
Sitting in my grandma's kitchen during thankgiving time.
I remember sitting on one of those stepstools that look kind of like a high chair, and watching her mix up the pumpkin pie batter. She had this big sunbeam mixer that had a certain smell when it ran, which I came to associate with good things in the making.
And then there was the smell of spice: ginger, cinnamon, allspice...I would watch her crack eggs, and measure out the canned milk she used instead of cream.
Days gone forever.
How interesting! Now I'm going to *have to* find out what those pizzelles are. They sound like Zeppole before you make them into circle loops for frying. But the word sounds like it has "dati" at the end, like "cucidati" cookies, which are much fancier with fruits and nuts in them.
I did an Italian Christmas dessert buffet thing once and studied up on some of those before I made them. I'm not Italian or Sicilian, but love the idea of St. Joseph's altars, especially the sweets - so I've kind of nade a hobby of them.
I forgot you said you live in Tulsa now. Have you made it to Ike's Chili Parlor yet? That's another very favorite childhood food memory for me!
That Sunbeam mixer smell always smells like chocolate cake batter to me, lol! It *still* does, no matter what I'm fixing. Vivid imagination.
Red Robin makes a great shake and burger - I think there is one off of I10 somewhere -
I bought one of those freezer chambers at Williams Sonoma and didn't care for it - maybe I wasn't freezing it well enough. I will stick with my electric ice cream freezer instead.
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