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 the south side of San Antonio, there's a Pic-nic convenience store and gas station. They got a little old Mexican lady there who's around 102 who makes the most kick ass carne guisada....
I like mine with half provolone, half white Åmerican. Comes out absolutely perfect.
Yes! Christmas tamales!
Tarragon and grapes make a nice chicken salad...
I'll ask my dad. I know she didn't add anything but a good sugar shake to the wushdede, but I'm not certain when she added the sausage into the dough for the loaves. I never paid a lot of attention to what was going on in the kitchen. We only visited our New Yorker relatives a few times a year so I was usually busy goofing off with the cousins. It was the kids' job, btw, to sauce and top the pizzas (using grandma's sauce and under her supervision, of course). The kids also supplied the sugar shake, not that we minded. The wushdede was gone before the first pizza came out of the oven.
Also, I'm betting you're right about the spelling--it is probably something along the lines of -diti or -dati. The San Fratellan dialect is so far removed from every other dialect on the island that my grandparents could only understand each other if they both spoke Italian. Good thing they both learned English!
Ike's Chili on Boston, downtown Tulsa has...
Closed, but... has relocated to 5941 East Admiral Pl. I was there for the closing back in 1997. It was quite a day. I was surprised at the emotion that it aroused in the community. I've yet to try the Admiral store. I may go over for a bowl today, as hot and sunny as it is today.
I went to Jesuit but transferred to Bellaire mid-term Sophomore. Quaid lived over on Grape, West of Chimney Rock and I lived over on Imogene, East of Chimney Rock. We both had tape recorders and we would make home made comedy tapes and entertain our families. We hung out with Sid Lasher at KHOU on Allen Parkway several nights a week. Dick John was the anchor and they were cool with us being on the set and in the control room. Dennis and Randy appeared on Sid's morning show one morning after their Beagle Maggie had a litter. Sid made an appeal and all the pups were spoken for before the show was over.
Mr. Quaid was an electrician and Mrs. Quaid sold real estate for Jimmy Greene. They were divorced but very civil towards each other and the boys.
My parents eventually built a bigger house over by Tanglewood and we left Meyerland.
I did spend three years in Hollywood after a hitch in the Navy, chasing a dream and hanging with Randy and Dennis. I eventually realized that I was going nowhere and went back to Texas and went to work for Halliburton out in Fresno off of 288.
So, it's all my fault.
What a cool thread!
Mom's home made lasagna, and crustless cheescake. Can't afford to make the cheesecake these days. Sundays, when Dad would BBQ steaks...
I remember when we had this behemoth of a gas stove out on the enclosed patio. We had an electric stove in the kitchen, but we used the other stove because it cooked better. Dad made short ribs once, and we were carrying the platter into the kitchen when a couple of ribs slid off. We grabbed them and threw them back on the platter. "DON'T TELL YOUR MOTHER!!!"
Another time, I was around 10 yrs old, and one of my cousins came to visit us after her hs graduation. We had strawberry shortcake for dessert, and a fly landed on top of one of them. My mom threw it in the trash, instead of just removing the "diseased whipped cream". My dad and I just looked at each other and shook our heads. My bf is the same way about flies. I don't like them either, but I don't have a flipping heart attack over them. Cover the food, and swat as many as you can get. Ants are worse.
I sent my oldest girls down to stay with them during the summers. Dad was retired, and made fruit cobblers with homegrown peaches and plums, homemade bread, and all kinds of goodies, plus he had a garden full of veggies. They still talk about it. My dad was a damn good cook : )
Thought you might like this thread, Liz :-D
Many thanks for the ping.....and for posting your home-grown memories.
Crustless cheesecake? Sure would like to have that recipe.
Course, we could also redo the Monte Cristo recipes for the benefit of this thread.......LOL
I was thinking "one dozen" sure doesn't sound like very much!
"Can't afford to make the cheesecake these days."
Why? How exotic is the cheese?
Yeah, they "coulda" had a chizstek at Geno's. Well, I'll keep it in mind when I'm delving into Sicilian recipes.
I'll remember it by "whooshdati," or very quick cucidati, lol, or "wishdati" as in "wish" it had figs and dates in it. I'm thinking it's a word with "ui" or "oui" in the first part.
One of my favorites is a recipe for "fava bean" cookies for good luck on St. Joseph's Day. You make up the dough using orange extract in it. The dough is a dark brown. You shape the cookies into "lima beans" and bake them. When you take them out of the oven, they have turned into white cookies, like the white outsides of fava beans.
They are good luck because the beans saved Sicily during a famine - and Joseph is their patron saint.
Well, I knew the Boston Ave Ike's had closed, but I did think there was still one there in town somewhere. I actually ate there the *last time* probably the year before they closed. Glad you knew and that you were there! Have a 3-way for me!
I remember Sid Lasher, but not his KHOU show. He had been the weatherman in Tulsa when I lived up north of there as a kid, so it was neat to see him in Houston. Ron Stone had been on our little local radio station (the signature music, I'll always remember, for his weather segment was an instrumental version of "It's Rainin', Rainin' in my Heart).
He told me in later years that his BIL owned the station, which was why he was on and later went to KVOO (I think it was - the Kind Voice of Oklahoma - could've been Ch. 6 or 8 - I'm stuck on Ch. 2 in memory, but maybe because of KPRC). Don't know if that's true.
So, you weren't one of the KiTiRiK kids, lol. I remember Dick John, too.
Well, if you were a Meyerlander back then, I was your neighbor, for a short time, up front on Beechnut. Went to Horn, then Lovett when it opened - but moved back to OK about 2 months into 4th grade. When we moved back here the next time, we were in Briargrove Park. Went to Lee with all the T'wood people.
So sorry you aren't a Hollyweirdo, but "them's the breaks", huh? Oh, you were an evil H'burtoner instead! You didn't *really* start this. My great-grandfather did. He gave one of his store clerks the money to go start his own store, called Duncan Store - then just Duncan, OK - then just "Heart of the Evil Empire," spawning ground of the late Earle P. I was one of the people writing stuff for them here in Houston about the time you were working for them. Did you carry your aluminum briefcase?
Small world!
Oh, my. Monte Cristo's are my downfall, too. Haven't had a really good one in ages!
We used to have chain here in Houston called Jojo's that was like a Denny's with an alcoholic beverage license and I think their Monte Christo's were the best I've ever had. They *understood* those of us who liked some sweet stuff with our sandwich and dusted them with powdered sugar, served with a small ramekin of orange marmalade, which I always had to ask for a 2nd of.
La Madeleine makes them, but theirs aren't as good. That's one favorite food that I cannot make at home to my liking. I'm not a good fryer of things, since I hate the smell in the house, so not much practice. Thanks for the memory - and a new project.
Good thread. Just stumbled on to it.
I think it's a rule that EVERYBODY'S grandmother was the best cook ever!!!
What I haven't seen on the thread however, is the "wierd" stuff from around the world. Here's my contribution:
1962 - Tipton County, TN - Hog Nut Dumplings (for real!)
1967 - Philippines - Monkey on a spit
1967 - Philippines - Fried Dog - cut up like an 8-pc chicken
1968 - Korea - Dog Stew
1968 - Korea - Cat Stew
1975 - Spain - Don't remember the Spanish spelling but it is pronounced Kreeya Deeya. My friends took me to a Tapas bar outside the Plaza de Toros in Puerto de Santa Maria one Sunday evening and ordered these for me. Looked like sliced Chorizo sausage. They were the bull's nuts from the bull fights that day. Damn, I'll never forget that!!!
1997 - Hong Kong - Raw Shark filet
1997 - Hong Kong - Bird's Nest Soup
1997 - Hong Kong - Sharkfin Soup
1997 - Hong Kong - Hummingbird Tongues
Just a few of the more memorable ones...
This is for all Texas Freepers.
In 1976, I was sent to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX to audit a cryptographics course. My hosts took me to a restaurant called "John Zentner's Daughter." Anybody ever heard of it?
Their specialty was a top sirloin served on a 22" platter. It literally hung over the sides. It was slathered in this dynamite garlic-butter sauce. The placemat was the "doggie bag." The waitress said that I would definetly need it. The tossed salad was an entire head of lettuce carved out, tossed, and put back in the head. Endless pitchers of sweet iced tea were included. I think the whole bill was like $15 bucks. One of the most memorable meals I've ever eaten.
I've often wondered if that restaurant was still open. Other than that experience, San Angelo was pretty much blah...
S-o-o-o-o-o. you like Monte Cristo's, eh (leering and twirling mustache? ) You are going to regret you ever said that-----because the Monte Cristo recipes are coming at you-----bigtime:
Here's a baked version of the Monte Christo Sandwich.
Sandwich two slices Pepperidge Farm bread with slice of ham, slice of Swiss cheese. Cut sandwich diagonally.
Make Batter (enough for 4 sandwiches): Combine 3 large beaten eggs, cup milk, 1/4 tea salt in shallow dish. Dip sandwiches in batter turning once. Now coat sandwich evenly with 4 cups Rice Krispies crushed down to 2 cups.
Place on a well-greased sheetpan, drizzle with melted butter. Bake 450 deg. 10 min or so til crisp and lightly browned.
Traditionally served with garnish of sliced strawberries and compote of sour cream (although I was once served the MC in Florida with a side of currant jelly mixed with heavy cream).
Wow! "Baked" is wonderful. Sounds excellent. Of course, I'll tweak it a bit for my tastes, but will definitely do it.
I think I want cornflakes instead of Rice Krispies. And an additional slice of cheddar or American - love the taste of Swiss melted together with "less" of a yellow cheese. Makes a softer melt and still tastes like a rich nutty Swiss.
Happen to have a huge quantity of mermillo - quince paste - on hand and that would be great with it. I like the sound of currant jelly mixed with cream - will have to experiment with that sometime. Thanks a bunch!
But the best thing, ever, was my dad's Hot Dog Goulash recipe: 1 small onion, chopped
1 cup chopped celery
1 package hot dogs, sliced
2 cans stewed tomatoes
toss it all (except the canned tomatoes) into a pan and sautee in 1 tbsp oil. Seaon with pepper, garlic...
When lightly browned, add the tomatoes, and simmer for about 20-30 minutes.
Serve over rice.
Of course, back in the day, he used the regular old pork dogs, but a healthier version would be to use the turkey dogs, and serve over brown rice.
We spice it up now with tabasco or hot sauce, but back then, it would have been sacreligious to do so!
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