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| bramble |
Posted - May 16 2005 : 06:17:24 AM
I meant to bring this topic up in the winter but last night at dinner it came up again.What foods do you associate with "home"? We had meatloaf (1/2 veggie and they didn't even know!), fresh corn on the cob, and fresh green beans. My husband and son have been away the last three weekends and this was the first Sunday dinner we have had in awhile. My son made the comment "If we've got strawberry shortcake for dessert(we did) this is my best meal...EVER!" Not fancy food but obviously his favorites that someday will remind him of us and "home".
I can't look at homemade mac and cheese, baked custard or homemade pies and not think of my Mom. When I'm sick,I want a cup of tea and cinnamon toast,to feel better. Are there foods that trigger those warm fuzzy thoughts for you? Foods that are probably ingrained in your dna by now because you must have them? (I'm not talking chocolate here girls, that's for another day!)
with a happy heart |
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| CityCat |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 9:27:08 PM
Well, I'm not a true traditionalist when it comes to making miso soup. I start with a powder soup stock because making the traditional soup stock from scratch needs bonito (dried tuna) flakes, and I usually don't have any. If you can find the book "Seductions of Rice" by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, it has detailed instructions how to make 3 types of Japanese soup stocks, and ways to use it. If you want, I can also post the traditional recipe.
I first heat up the instant dashi (soup stock) and add maybe just tofu cubes and wakame seaweed, or maybe I'll go the green beans and potato route. Other people I know put in things like spinach or kale, but it's not something I grew up with. Once the items in the soup is cooked, you take it off the heat and then add miso to taste. I prefer the darker type of miso because I think it has a better taste. The lighter the miso, the less salty and less concentrated the taste. Stir the miso into the soup so that it dissolves, and serve it sprinkled with a bit of finely chopped green onion. Don't boil the soup after the miso has been added. Miso has a lot of nutrients and good bacteria that will be destroyed if exposed to a lot of heat.
I hope that helps! Cat |
| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 5:32:39 PM
Bangers and mash is very nice and my kids love it.
I would love to know how you make your miso soup, and have been talking of making some, didn't know how really, since I saw it mentioned on a British TV show You Are What You Eat. I have some instant miso soup in the pantry. |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 5:30:44 PM
When I was a kid and got sick my mom would always make milk toast for me. I still eat it when I'm not feeling well.
Catherine -- your bangers and mash sound yummy.
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
| CityCat |
Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 4:55:57 PM
Homestyle comfort food, eh? My take on it is a bit different. Comfort food for me is probably soup. Miso-soup in particular. Real "inaka" style miso soup. (Inaka = country) The soup is full of any combo of vegetables (potato, green beans, white radish, eggplant) maybe with some fried tofu, or really simple with just little cubes of really fresh tofu, or maybe a bit of wakame seaweed. The aroma of the nutty, salty miso paste in a slightly fishy broth... Now that's comfort food! (or not?) 
I also LOVE bangers and mash. Juicy oven roasted farmer style sausage smothered in sweet onion gravy all on top of garlic mashed potatoes. YUMMY!
If there is still talk of a cookbook I would be interested.
Cat |
| Linda Houston |
Posted - Aug 08 2005 : 1:17:35 PM
My Mother was a great cook and when we were sick, she would make home made potato soup. I did the same for my children and now I am doing the same for my grandchildren.
Another comfort food when ill, dry toast and tea with sugar and cream. It just seemed to hit the spot.
My Mother lived long enough to fix her soup for my children and now that she has passed away, they say, "yours is real good, but not as good as maw-maw's, however, they deep coming back for more.
Linda H.- |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 8:03:12 PM
Karen, Glad a Kansas Driveway oil slick made your Mom chuckle!!! I sure do have the greasy "black oil" on the drive! Texas Tea!!!!
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
You are the fearless rose that grows amidst the freezing wind. Rumi |
| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 7:59:23 PM
Chocolate Gravy is just that........Chocolate Gravy. You just use cocoa and sugar with a regular base. It's yummy over hot buttered biscuits.
Make a roux of flour and butter then add 2tbsp cocoa and 1/4 c sugar (adjust up or down to taste). Add milk and cook until thickened.
Nummy.
and hey I don't think the cornbread/milk mix is so bad as long as you eat it before it's TO soggy.
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| showmemom |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 5:34:19 PM
ok-black oil cake is just a really, really chocolate cake with oil in it instead of shortening or butter! really rich but really worth it!
printed off the comments though and showed my mom-she's been kind of depressed but you girls made her laugh!
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 10:32:33 AM
Oh YUK!! My grandpa used to eat that too. And it came from when they were living through the depression. Sometimes that's all they had to eat for supper. My grandpa also used to eat raw hamburger on crackers while drinking a bottle of beer!
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 10:08:42 AM
My grandpa ate the same thing..yuck...
okay..what is chocolate gravy???
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 07:21:53 AM
Some of the foods you've mentioned and one my granpa liked to eat......
crumbled up cornbread in a glass of buttermilk. I prefer regular milk.
Biscuits and Chocolate Gravy
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| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 9:19:29 PM
Apple Crumble
1 cup self-raising flour, 3/4 cp coconut, 1/2 cup sugar. 2 tabs butter. Rub butter into dry ingredients. Put onto top of apple sauce/stewed apple and bake. |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 8:02:00 PM
or the concrete on my driveway and all the leaky farm trucks...
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
You are the fearless rose that grows amidst the freezing wind. Rumi |
| bramble |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 6:28:17 PM
Jeannie--- Let's just hope it's not " a hunka hunka burnin cake"!
You are quite funny yourself Ms JP Bluesky!
with a happy heart |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 6:13:36 PM
Bramble, you are hilarious! I have never heard of black oil cake either, but to me it made me think of Elvis' hairdo!
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
| bramble |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 5:05:39 PM
Uh guys.. what is Black Oil Cake? Puts me in mind of oil derrricks and oil spills or perhaps the Beverly Hillbillies "then one day he was shooting some food and up through the ground came a bubbling crude...Oil that is Black Gold, Texas T!"
In the words of Ricky Riccardo " LUCY, you got some splainin to do!"
(Forgive my adled brain I was in the sun all day!)But WHAT THE HECK IS IT?!!!
with a happy heart |
| ivmeer |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 10:33:33 PM
Sorry, FloralSaucer. I post lots of recipes on this board, but I think my mother would murder me if I gave this one away. |
| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 06:27:00 AM
Well, I thought it was like a crisp, but I have since made a crisp and it isn't. Similar idea though.
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/Recipes/recipe_apple-crumble.asp
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| showmemom |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 06:02:54 AM
my mom would make porcupine meatballs-hamburger, rice and spices-cover them with a tomato gravy; mashed potatoes, corn and hot rolls.
and then Black Oil Cake with chocolate frosting-a zillion carbs but oh, so good.
love the cookbook idea.
floralsaucer-what is apple crumble?
talk to you soon.
karen
living' large in MO |
| FloralSaucer |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 03:16:26 AM
I haven't heard of sweet and sour cabbage, so not sure how it is supposed to be. I have printed out the one on cooks.com. Sounds interesting, thanks.
I like apple crumble. |
| greyghost |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 08:12:05 AM
Ham & potato casserole, and Chicken pot pie are my two favorite "comfort home" foods.
Now what makes me at home (for my home, not associated with growing up) Oatmeal or chocolate chip cookies are a must once a month - and fresh bread once a week. :)
Now y'all are really making me miss my kitchen. :.( |
| mollymae |
Posted - Jul 16 2005 : 07:06:10 AM
You're making me hungry, Kay!!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
Sisterhood of the Traveling Art |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jul 15 2005 : 10:17:35 PM
We had a major comfort food supper tonight -- fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, and milk gravy!!! And after I was done eating my food I had to have the piece of bread with gravy on it for the ending to a perfect meal. Then chocolate pudding for dessert!! YUM!
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State
North Clark County Farmgirls and
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| FarrarFarmgirl |
Posted - Jul 14 2005 : 3:01:09 PM
M-m-m-m-m, it all sounds good! A favorite thing I remember my mom making and now I do, too, is homemade vegetable soup. I don't know how to fix soup or chili in anything smaller than a canner - even now when there's no one home except me! :o) And then a nice warm fresh loaf of bread spread with butter - not margarine. I could eat that everyday of the week - and sometimes I do! Usually when I make so much soup it goes in the freezer in ziplock bags so when the kids come home they can take some home cooking back with them.
My grandmother used to fix certain foods on certain days. Friday was always fried fish that grandpa had caught with speghetti, Saturday was chili and Sunday morning was fried eggs and for those who wanted it, they put leftover chili over their eggs. Sunday dinner was always roast beef, potatoes and carrots. Those are very fond memories, we always knew what we would be eating when we went to Grandmas depending on which day we went.
It's amazing how many memories are kept alive just by sights and scents in the kitchen. I love the kitchen and making memories for our children. We now have twin grandsons, only 17 months old, but that is where I want to create memories for them, too. IN today's technological world, I hope to show them that there is more to life than TV and computers. We planted two cherry tomato plants on the edge of the garden just for them. They love cherry tomatoes and I can't wait to watch them pick their favorite and eat it standing in the garden. What a fun way for them to discover where their favorites come from - Grandma's garden! :o)
I love the idea of a cookbook, I've always got room to add another one to the collection! How fun it will be to know it is a collection of recipes from dear friends with kindred hearts.
Have a blessed day.
In His hands,
Lynda |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Jul 12 2005 : 11:37:41 AM
Now thats my kinda comfort food Kay!!!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
