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My mother was German, maternal AND paternal sides.
She had 5 sisters.
When the clan got together on T'giving, it was a riot!
Sleeping on pallets. Six kids to a bed. How in H-E double hockey sticks they prepared THAT much food, that quickly, in THAT kitchen!
The table they set would make a Luby's blush!
The dessert table was ten foot long with a variety that would shame a bakery.
Them old German girls should could cook.
My paternal grandmother was from Mobile, Ala.
She hooked up with the 6 sisters on T'giving.
My mom was the last of the line. Lost her in Feb of 2020 at age 98.

BUT....

The venison my dad could turn out off the old kerosene stove in our 2 room hunting "camp" was unbelievable!

An old iron pot.
Chunk up the tenderloins. Salt, pepper and dredge in flour.
Brown in bacon grease in the bottom of the iron pot.
Remove the meat when browned.
Using Carnation canned milk, make gravy in the bottom of the pot.
Return meat to pot, cover and set on simmer.
In the meantime, make fries and biscuits!
A meal fit for a king and starving hunters! LOL!

When winter weather was cold and snowy my Grandmother would make beef stew topped with pie crust made with lard. It warmed your body and soul.

Chicken fried in a cast iron skillet with milk gravy made with the strainings for lack of a better term for the mashed potatoes.

Oooh. Pop rocks. The chicks loved it when i would dump a pile on my tongue and lick them in just the right spot, about a half inch above the slot.

Grandma Stella made Lasagna with little meatballs in it for special occasions,it was REALLY good.Her entire Thanksgiving meal every year was a big treat.Her brisket,German potatoe salad,etc.Even her ice coffee was unreal.
She made me peppers and eggs on Italian bread,and her summer lemon pie was delicious.My mom was a good cook,Grandma Stella was phenomenal.

Grandmas, Roast beef, broad beans from the garden, Yorkshire pudding, and homemade mint sauce......

The Midlands, England..............

A tongue sandwich is the BEST cold beef sandwich made...

Fried bananas fritters made by mom.

Ha, ha! Wiley, there you are. Believe it or not, A just called me from Atlanta and told me she misses you and TRHG. Out of le bleu.

Hey, I have something to send to you. When it arrives, I expect you're going to crack up.

PM sent, and yoroushiku onegai itashimasu, Sensei.

Yep. My GrandDad called those “Tater Cakes”

Damn good stuff !!! 🤠

I completely forgot about those and they were fried in the lard from all the bacon grease poured off the bacon from the cast iron skillet that never cooked anything under the temperature that would melt lead…

You guys don't still do that?

It's always fun reading these threads coming from parents that were conceived in Italy and born here. I really have zero American history to speak of.

The taste/smell memory that took me the longest to forget was from a tonsillectomy at age 4. Back then they used ether. I was through high school before I stopped having flashbacks of the smell of that stuff.

Pics or it never happened.

homemade tortillas and tamales, I made a few dozen tamales yesterday.

We had a handful of weeknight dishes that seemed to get served with boring regularity. But those don’t stand out.
The ones that stand out most in my memories are things like the burnt toast and buttermilk my grandpa would eat at every meal, crawfish from a sack of in south LA, scrapple, Grammies vittles made with Copes dried corn, hunt camp dinners with hot slaw and creamed lettuce, and quite a few others.

Lol I love Farleys hair in that clip.

Fried Lake Erie Yellow Perch. Grandpa was a commercial fisherman. We ate a whole bunch of perch!

None stand out for me, try to forget mine!