Food your parents made you've never heard of anywhere else

i think my uncle makes green beans almondine, but no soup involved, just almonds and a little olive oil.

One of our weeknight staples was pizza casserole: ground beef, egg noodles, tomato sauce, baked with lots of mozzarella on top. Not very interesting and hardly pizza-like. It only occurred to me a few years ago that my parents probably eliminated the pizza topping ingredients since that's something we never could agree on.

This kind of casserole is sort of one of my staples too (I don't use meat, usually, and add vegetables), but isn't it just "baked ziti" basically?

Cowboy beans sound kind of tasty, actually.

my grandmother always made something very similar to it and actually, i think it's really popular around buffalo because i've had it at lots of catered events. i never thought anything of it until a friend from utah mentioned 'funeral potatoes' as this big mormon thing. they call it something different in buffalo, though. but my aunt would always bring it to christmas eve.

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I had to know what's in Mormon funeral potatoes, and found this Essential Mormon Cookbook! I love the review stating it's the only cookbook I'd ever need :)

(which, finding that one, led me to the I Can't Believe It's Food Storage! cookbook - jackpot!

hahahaha people also bought

http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Believe-Its-Food-Storage/dp/1935217178/ref=pd_sim_b_4

Do you have a three-month supply of food for your family? Are you building up and using your long-term food storage? In I Can't Believe It's Food Storage , author Crystal Godfrey explains how to transition common food-storage items (such as powdered milk, whole wheat, and dried beans) into your own recipes.

lol @ needing a book to figure out how to incorporate beans into a recipe.

that is what's making you lol???

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705276685,00.html

Also, please use plain cream of chicken soup. Don't use the herbed kind or the kind with allegedly roasted garlic. And please do NOT use the Healthy Request variety. Seriously. What's the point?

Exactly! These ARE funeral potatoes, after all!

i can't imagine going to a funeral and bitching about the food served. that just seems really rude/inconsiderate.

can't imagine having my own planet full of ~~ladies~~

Oh man that "treat" with the dried milk + honey + peanut butter soooooooo Utah.

xpost to Que: I am not sharing our bathroom with another chick, just sayin'

Funeral potatoes sound delicious! I need a church cookbook, I think!

Oh man that "treat" with the dried milk + honey + peanut butter soooooooo Utah.

― quincie, Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:57 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

I think I made this in 6th grade home ec

i once had to make this thing at girl scout camp that was like ground beef on a stick wrapped in canned biscuits that you cooked over the fire like s'mores.

Haha yes, hot dogs on a stick with biscuits wrapped around it! Weird, sort of...proto-corndog.

how do you can a biscuit

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4591455/CanofPillsburybiscuits-main_Full.jpg

has anyone mentioned chipped beef yet?

New entry: Coffee Cheese aka Hillbilly Fondue

Grate cheddar cheese (sharp or mild) into a coffee cup until it is mounded over the top a little. Pour hot coffee over it and set a saucer on top. Leave it alone for about five minutes until the cheese melts. Scoop the melted cheese out and put it on biscuits (canned are fine) or toast.

I still make this because it is seriously delicious, even though I understand it sounds disgusting to many people. I'm sure that this is not specific to my family but it's not as common as it should be.

O_O I think we used that to make what was called a 'texas tommy' in home ec too xxp

I don't even know how you could make something like those canned onions at home.

My brother-in-law got me hooked on making the Cook's Illustrated version of green bean casserole, which basically has you using fresh beans and making your own mushroom and cream base instead of using canned soup. I think they tried a bunch of homemade onion options before saying fuck it, just use the canned ones.

― joygoat, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

This is a seriously good recipe. I love how CI cuts the crap and tells you how to make the tastiest everything, even if it ultimately comes from the can.

The problem with the stuff in a can is it is concentrated processed food. Its very high in sodium for one thing. Thats why it is so "tasty". Its meant to be 4 bowls of soup!

Mum always made bechamel from scratch for us, so I'm glad I know how to make it. All my cream/pasta bake bases are either bechamel or cream.

TBH I'm kind of weirded out by the idea of fresh beans smothered in sauce to begin with. Vegies are for eating as is, not smothering in salty creamy stuff :/ Maybe its an aus thing.

yeah I've never had a green bean casserole, but no matter how many times I turn and combine the listed ingredients above in my head I can't come up with a version that might taste good

Green bean casserole is one of those things that's totally delicious and necessary only one time per year. I hardly never eat any super salty processed to death but stuff like this is definitely an exception.

Basically my whole childhood was based on salty packaged processed overcooked foods and I'm well past that era in my life.

I'll also just go on the record here as being pro-canned cream of mushroom soup.

When I was in first grade the teacher asked us all to share our favorite recipes so they could be published in the paper and to my newly single and financially struggling mother's utter horror, I gave the recipe for my then favorite meal: elbow macaroni mixed with canned cream of mushroom soup.

My mother would use up the last bits of turkey, mixed with frozen peas and cream of mushroom soup, topped with Bisquick, as "turkey pot pie".

Ground meat in milk gravy. It was served over chunks of boiled potatoes and you'd sorta mash them together with your fork. Not my favorite.

We had something similar - hamburger gravy (like sausage gravy, only extra-bland) served over biscuits or toasted white bread.

this thread is making me feel rather lucky that my mom made a lot of stir fries and basic meat + steamed vegetables.

Any "stir fries" would fall into a category of foods that my mom still to this day refers to as "funny business" and thus viewed suspiciously at best. And why would you steam vegetables when you can boil the hell out of them for an hour?

My mom made a lot of amazing food, too. She'd make her own pasta + stock + etc for chicken noodle soup, make her own barbecue sauce (from a recipe that called for coffee grounds – she used Pero instead), freestyle a great ginger salad dressing, make a perfect pizza crust, insanely good creole shrimp/black beans + rice, shit I can't even step to. OTOH there are seven people in my family & I can't blame her for taking some occasionally questionable shortcuts from time to time. I don't want to misrepresent her mad cooking & baking skills, tho.

I'm amazed she can make anything at all, given what my Grandma makes. She took care of us for two weeks once while my parents went on vacation. Most memorable dish was stirred-together flavorless tomatoes & stew meat with rice (of the baffling/amazing gloppy/crunchy texture combo). She told my parents, "Your kids sure eat a lot of cereal."

I mean I love making risotto but I don't think I'd want to make it for seven people.

my mom made a wide array of utterly bizarre casseroles. mostly ground beef based but there was also a tuna/canned peas/potato chip number. my favorite was the ground beef w/tater tots and I think cream-of-mushroom soup as a binding agent. worst was our neighbor "mrs. yerina's casserole" a ground beef w/noodles and MAYO monstrosity. I loved my mom's take on chili -- very mild w/lots of green pepper -- served over spaghetti cincinnati-style. and these "corned beef hash sandwiches" on english muffins, from I guess a can. her deserts were dynamite, not uncommon but stuff I don't see much anymore like snickerdoodles and bundt cakes. she considered herself a healthy eater and was always pushing fresh fruit on us but I look back at all that hamburger...and canned vegetables...and mayo...and think "why did it occur to anyone that these foods should be eaten together." it was the 60s, man!

so glad i grew up a NYC jew. we don't eat casseroles.

Dude what about kugel? Kugel is TOTALLY a casserole!

kugel is not made with canned cream of mushroom soup and potato chips.

M. Coleman, the snickerdoodle (a fine food and the only reason I have cream of tartar around) is alive & well. Especially on this site, where she has recipes for snickerdoodle muffins, snickerdoodle tarts, snickerdoodle sortbread, and snickerdoodle 'blondies',

<3 kugel
i am also really glad i grew up withe a jewish bff and tons of jewish family friends because i learned about the wonders of brisket and kugel and lox and whitefish salad and latkes.