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?
On Christmas eve a man who worked for my Dad, would come by with his wife and drop off home made tamales. We'd have them for breakfast on Christmas morning. The best ever!
Found this humongous recipe on a Texas forum.
Try it out and send each of us a half gallon.
http://www.dallashistory.org/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl?read=47394
"Salad Dressing
1 quart Miracle Whip Salad Dressing
1 quart Wesson Oil
6 ounces Tarragon vinegar
1/2 cup Louisiana Red Hot Sauce
3 ounces worchestershire sauce
1/4 cup salt
2 - 12 ounce bottles Del Monte Chile Sauce
3 eggs, beaten
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup French's mustard
8 medium pods garlic
1 can paprika
Mix it up with a beater.
I kept it refrigerated of course, but it made so much that I never made it but the one time. I hope this helps some of you out there who miss it."
I like provolone better myself. Cheez Whiz just costs too much for what it is, so I don't keep it around. I had just been in Philly when I found those at the grocery, so the CW was on my mind. They came with provolone already on them.
Pizza...the one I had yesterday, the one I had last Thursday, the one I had the Sunday before that, the one I had...
:-) (Ok, maybe not that often...)
Actually, in my food-memory vault I retain cordon-bleu in a great gasthause in Germany.
Good heavens! That's the website where I found the earlier recipes and discussions and there wasn't anything posted on it after 2005. I must have visited in late April (2006), just before that lady posted her recipe and all those others replied to her!
How funny, the Universe heard my desperate plea and here came the answer! I do want to try the recipe, but will have to hand out jars of it on the street corner after I send it to Brockles fans here - can't freeze that stuff, lol.
Nah, I'll cut it down and try it - just need to get some tarragon vinegar. Or maybe I'll steep my own and get rid of some of the tarragon I have. I like it, but it's overpowering and can't be used in many things. Thanks!
I'm a Buddhist, if I wanted to I could go on every thread and say
"IT'S ALL AN ILLUSION, YOU ARE NOTHING!"
but I don't.
I remember my grandmother's homemade popovers and molasses raisin bread. Homemade bread and tea would accompany every meal. I loved thick slabs of that molasses raisin bread spread with jam. I also enjoyed the occasional supper of fried bologna, ham and duck eggs. The duck eggs came straight from the nest that morning.
Baker's Chocolate looked so good! Blecch!
That's the South, sure nuff.
That's why I *never* buy unsweetened Baker's Chocolate to this day. If it's in the house and it's chocolate, it might get eaten. Always buy Sweetened or even Bittersweet - lol, it's tolerable.
Anyway, deals were struck with both the donut and pizza guys.
I was on hand for opening day at the Astrodome and saw Mickey Mantle hit the first homerun in the Dome. I then got a job with Harry Martin Catering selling popcorn and I kept that job all thru high school.
My younger brother also went to St. Vincent De Paul and he was a classmate of Eric Hilton, Paris's uncle. The Hiltons were living atop the Shamrock back then and my brother was invited to hang out there with Eric and friends and torment the chefs and jewelers.
It was great to grow up in Houston and I have many friends still there. I don't miss the traffic. It gets just as hot or hotter here in Tulsa than Houston and I miss the Gulf.
But, it's always a quick Southwest flight away and I'm making plans for a baseball/fishing trip for later this summer.
I had just escaped eight years with the penguins and avoided them after that. Sister Mary William busted me in Eighth Grade for eating barbecue potato chips on a Friday. I was sent to Father Connelly and the case was dismissed, but I still got a ruler wack from the good sister for general principle. All that at St. Vincent De Paul where, BTW, half the students were marched to sinks after meals to brush with Crest toothpaste, supplied by the company, for a national test. I was mad that I came late (mid-fourth grade) and was denied those extra minutes away from class that the Crest kids got.
The Berlin Wall had nothing on the fence between Jesuit and St. Agnes. Fathers Schrum, Sykes, Allen, Baker and Kidwell had eyes in the back of their heads and Mr. Smelko was a hard one to handle.
Anyway, 1968 arrived and I was off to join the Navy and go to Vietnam.
Let's see - the Dunkin Donuts is still there, but the Shakey's has been an Enterprise rental car place for quite a while, if it's the next building west that I'm thinking about. Right across from Holy Ghost. Yeah, that's the Triangle.
I took my first driver's test close by and my friend took me to that Baskin-Robbins afterwards, when I flunked parallel parking. I had never taken driver's ed because I was too young in OK, then moved here and was old enough to get my license. I'm a year older than Randy and a few years older than Dennis. Never knew either one.
Wasn't here for the Astrodome opening, but came down a few weeks later from OK with family. We moved here in July and I think my first game that I went to in the Dome was a Cardinals game, because I was a big fan of theirs, but I could be wrong. If Stan the Man was still playing and had been here, I'd remember it - I was a huge fan of his. How exciting for you to see MM hit *that* homer!
I remember that some of the Hiltons lived here then, but didn't know how that would be in relation to Paris, lol. How fun to hang with them! Remember the diving board at the pool there? I *never* dove from it.
We had moved here from just north of you - mom was from Tulsa. Lived up Hwy 75 twice and here in Houston twice, as far as childhood. More moves back and forth as an adult.
So, have you tried Ike's chili? It's Cincinnati-style, like you get "three-way" with spaghetti. It is *not* Texas chili. It's dark brown and has to have some vinegar put in it (IMO) to cut it a bit. Anyway, it was my first taste of chili as a kid and I still put vinegar in my chili, almost always. And I was the state champion chili cook up there at one time - but a whole different kind of chili and no vinegar. Or beans.
I think deep down that's why I only by cocoa powder. :-)
That's the real Neapolitan pizza. Mmmm good, has to have sausage (not the chunk Italian!) on it.
Soy? Heh.
You want to talk evil, let's talk about
CORN SYRUP!!!!
(dramatic minor chord)
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