Pan fry white bread (garlic butter both sides). Set aside.
Same pan, pan fry burger, garlic, onion, green pepper till brown. Spoon off the grease. Add 1/2 coffee cup of water with dissolved beef bullion, basil, parsley to taste... stir till absorbed/ nearly burned off. Add one can of mushroom soup... stir till hot.
Serve on top of the bread.
A REALLY good breakfast, which I am sure came down in my family from hard times:
Boil a pork liver (thoroughly), wrap it in tinfoil and refrigerate overnight. using a potato peeler (peel off the dark rind of an area first) slice the liver very thin, and roughly according to what is needed today. Buttered toast... lay the sliced liver in one layer covering the toast. Salt according to taste.
Keep unused slices with the liver in the tinfoil wrapper (back in the fridge). One liver will last about a week to 10 days with a family of 6.
A really good lunch or light dinner, which again, came from hard times:
Peel eggplant, slice 1/8 to 1/4th " pieces. Dip in egg wash, dip in bread crumbs (I like Italian). Pan fry (low/med) in butter till golden brown and a fork will not lift. Serve on open faced white bread w/ butter... salt accordingly, and if in season, a big slice of tomato on top.
As I’m reading these recipes, I realize how many of them I grew up eating, not realizing they must have come from my grandparents who fed them to my parents, who fed them to us. Cinnamon/sugar toast, mayo sandwiches, American cheese sandwiches, etc.