If you were coming to my house for dinner when I was a kid, you would have to come armed with straws, your own seasoning, and some plop-plop-fizz-fizz.
Mom was known for cooking hot dogs twenty different ways, and not the Chicago-style kind either. Nope. Our hot dogs were boiled, broiled, or fried.
Add a can of beans, a couple of slices of processed cheese, crushed potato chips, and some tomato slices…dinner was served. Mmm…mmm good.
If mom couldn’t prepare it from a box, can, boil it in a bag, or add water, it didn’t get prepared. But on special occasions she would slave over her crockpot. She’d make her famous spaghetti sauce, apricot glazed ham, salad, and her lime green Jell-O. Yum…yum.
Mom’s famous spaghetti sauce ingredients:
1 can tomato paste
1 can tomato sauce
1 pound of the cheapest ground beef you can find
salt, pepper, and sugar
Make sure you brown the meat before adding all of this to your crockpot. Then, let it cook all day.
Apricot-glazed ham:
I pound canned ham
1 jar of apricot preserves
Make sure you slather the ham with the preserves before you put in the oven.
Lime Green Jell-O:
1 box of lime green Jell-O
Plenty of water, more than what the box recipe calls for. That’s why everyone needed to bring their own straws
Salad
Iceberg lettus
Thousand Island Dressing
Make sure you wash the lettuce before you slather it with the dressing
Mom will always be remembered for her cooking ways. They are recipes that could put Martha Stewart to shame.
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! I know I’m late in my well-wishings but I’ve worked all weekend. I’ve done close to 70 haircuts since Friday. So I’ve got zombie brains.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
Your mother was definitely younger than mine. I am not posting her recipes as some of them are from the early 1900's. They don't even make those ingredients anymore. Nice memories, Shelly
ReplyDeleteFunny memories. There were always jokes around my mother's cooking abilities. She could burn water, you know.
DeleteHi Shelly,
ReplyDeleteWow, that actually takes me back to my days in Canada. I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener...maybe that didn't sound right.
Hope you had a lovely Mother's Day.
Gary
I haven't eaten a hot dog ....in so long...I can't remember.
DeleteIt was a nice day, but I loppity-lopped until 5. Sweetman gave me money to pick up a nice dinner on the way home.
Well it must have worked because you grew up and turned lovely! Must be the lime jello? LOL
ReplyDeleteYou know, I didn't know what broccoli was until I left the house.
DeleteMy mom used to make beans and franks (and brown bread) for dinner not every weekend, but a lot of them.
ReplyDeleteBeans were usually for dinner every night at my house.
Deletecrushed potato chips clearly she knew about the value of combining textures :) - I grew up on Italian feasts every night of the week, and my best friend had a mum that cooked like yours, we used to fight over whose house we wanted hang out at, because we both preferred each others mother's dinners :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I started dating, I ate at the boyfriend's house. I dated a Puerto Rican and a Laotion boy in high school. I didn't realize food good taste until then.
DeleteHey--that looks like my crock pot!
ReplyDeleteDid your mom ever give you Beanie-Weenie? Some people make jokes. I happen to like Beanie-Weenie, especially with potato chips.
And this is why I have gastrointestinal problems....
Beanies-weanies at least three times a week. YUCK!
DeleteLOL!! Wow, that reminds me of some dishes growing up in Oklahoma. Now I'm so much more thankful for my European mom who had me eating Brie, croissants, crepes and a lot of Italian and Hungarian dishes.
ReplyDelete@Norma - Lol! Yes, that is why you have those problems! Some of that processed junk does taste so good though.
Of course, when I left home, I cooked totally different. No PROCESSED crap.
DeleteLOL! Your mom sounds like mine! At my house, we knew dinner was ready when we started to smell it burning!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun recipes, too!
LOL!
DeleteMy mom was a contrast to yours. She really enjoyed cooking. Some days it would be simple, and others it would be a meal for the ages.
ReplyDeleteOur meals for ages would be at a restaurant. I learned how to cook from cookbooks and my boyfriends' mothers.
DeleteHoly wow, so stealing these :) Great post!
ReplyDeleteSarah Allen
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Really? LOL!
DeleteWow, those are some memories... At least they bring a smile to your face.
ReplyDeleteIn my house, every dinner came with pasta. Italian through and through. I NEVER eat pasta anymore.
I never eat hot dogs or Van Cam Pork and Beans or jello or anything processed. Yuck!
DeleteThe cheapest ground beef you can find is actually supposed to make food yummy because of the fat. I don't buy that kind. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't buy that kind either.
DeleteI can't believe I've never used a crockpot in my life!
ReplyDeleteI use it but not for Mom's Famous Spaghetti Sauce.
DeleteWow! These sound so good, and I never know what to do on my crockpot. Yay! Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteI cooked Greek ribs in mine tonight,
DeleteThe description of your mother's food makes me hungry. We ate a lot of the same things. Thanks for the memory.
ReplyDeleteFunny. It was the trend back then. I guess.
DeleteShelly, LOL, that brings back memories of my mom's food. Here was the standard:
ReplyDeletespaghetti with Ragu spaghetti sauce
meatloaf
swiss steak
porcupine balls
TV dinners
Repeat. :0) Maybe that is why I love to cook and rarely make the same thing twice. ;0)
That's funny, I'm the same. I refuse to eat hot dogs and never buy processed crap.
DeleteHaha! No matter what moms cook though, they'll always be the top chefs in our mind.
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