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Title: Not a recipe
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 07, 2006, 10:29:50 PM
Okay.  Here is a question for you.  Why do most people of the male gender not like casseroles????
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 08, 2006, 08:05:25 AM
Because you don't have the meat and potatoes separate on you plate???????
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 08, 2006, 08:06:23 AM
Correction, before Janet catches it.  Your plate, not you plate.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Jane on November 08, 2006, 01:26:04 PM
If they are like my father was, they do not like the items touching each other. Even though it ends up in the same place. It was a riot to watch him make sure they were not even touching. Of couse this was a man that would tell you "Salads are rabbit food".
Army Mom
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Teresa on November 08, 2006, 06:34:19 PM
Quote from: Rex Vinette on November 08, 2006, 01:26:04 PM
If they are like my father was, they do not like the items touching each other. Even though it ends up in the same place. It was a riot to watch him make sure they were not even touching. Of couse this was a man that would tell you "Salads are rabbit food".
Army Mom


I'm with your dad!
I am the same way.
I like my food seperate. and I do not "graze".
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 09, 2006, 08:27:10 AM
I eat my peas with honey
I've done it all my life.
It makes them taste kinda funny
But it keeps them on my knife.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Teresa on November 09, 2006, 08:59:42 AM
Now after I think about it, I HAVE.. and do mix some things.
Of course, gravy.. but that is a given on stuff. (I would eat it on everything if I had my way and my butt and belly wouldn't brag about it.)  *  :P *

The weirdest thing I have mixed is spinach and cottage cheese.
Lucy Criger used to eat it that way and when I was young and used to spend the night with Roxann and Colette Criger, she had me try it and I liked it.
Everyone else was totally grossed out.

Marks, Uncle Richard McLean eats ( or used to ) sliced tomatoes on his pancakes.
If I think about it, I could probaby add some more oddites on eating combinations.
((Probably becasue my family IS a bunch of oddities LOL))
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 09, 2006, 10:38:44 PM
Ya got that right!!!!!

Quote from: Teresa on November 09, 2006, 08:59:42 AM


Marks, Uncle Richard McLean eats ( or used to ) sliced tomatoes on his pancakes.
If I think about it, I could probaby add some more oddites on eating combinations.
((Probably because my family IS a bunch of oddities LOL))
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Teresa on November 10, 2006, 04:29:08 PM
Well why don't you just look in the mirror sister if you want to see odd,,

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Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 10, 2006, 04:48:57 PM
Should I use your mirror or mine????
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: indygal on November 10, 2006, 07:26:08 PM
Hi y'all,

This is a fun topic. I've got some weird family "mixed togethers" for you:

spaghetti sandwich
bologna and potato chip sandwich
peanut butter and tomato sandwiches (they rock!)
peanut butter on a grilled hamburger
sliced radish and butter sandwich
sauerkraut mixed in mashed potatoes

Then there's my mom's infamous Jell-O salads: lime with pears and cottage cheese, lime with chopped lettuce and cottage cheese, lime with a dollop of Miracle Whip on top, orange with shredded carrot and pineapple. OK, probably not too weird, now that I think about it....hmmm.....

My ex used to top his mashed potatoes with whole kernel corn, and he liked maple syrup on fried potatoes.

Not really "weird" foods, but a little unusual are mayonnaise cake and vinegar pie. Have any of you ever tried these?
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 10, 2006, 08:03:22 PM
Mayonnaise cake was quite popular in the 1960's and it was good and I have lost my recipe for it.   So was the lime jello with pears and cottage cheese and the orange jello with shredded carrots and pineapple and raisins.   

I have had many a radish sandwich with the white icicle radish and plenty of butter.  They are just as good as eating the radish with a slice of bread & butter. 

Even the sauerkraut mixed in mashed potatoes sounds good and I can't stand sauerkraut.

One of KFC's items now is the bowl of mashed potatoes, corn, chicken nuggets and gravy, layered instead of mixed.  The rest of the weirds I haven't heard of before.

Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Jane on November 10, 2006, 09:39:42 PM
Ok, have you ever heard of pancakes with gravy on them? How about a glass of milk with a piece of cornbread mixed in? Put butter on bread then add slices of onions fold in half, folks that is good eaten.

Last but not least, my Father would take cottage cheese  put tomatoes on them then put about a teaspoon or more on top. That was  dessert to him.

My Mother was from Arkansas and Dad was born and raised in Kansas.
We could watch the chickens thru the floor boards when we ate breakfast.
Army Mom
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: genealogynut on November 10, 2006, 09:44:43 PM
My father-in-law used to spread peanut butter on a slice of bread, then spread some honey on top of that.  I can remember thinking "oh, yuk!"
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 10, 2006, 09:54:21 PM
How about crackers and milk?  That's what my sister-in-law used to want.

I have used onion sandwiches to break up a cold, but my girls refused to try it.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: MarineMom on November 11, 2006, 05:05:32 AM
My mother loves onion sandwiches and luckily for her so does my dad I've known them both to eat one for a late night snack ??? How about a french fry sandwich? or "chip buttie" as they are called in England. Another thing my parents like is fried bread they fry their bacon and then fry bread in the bacon grease and top the whole greasy mess with a fried egg--that is sunday breakfast for them :o.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Teresa on November 11, 2006, 10:04:30 AM
My mama used to love lard and sugar spread on homeade bread. a couple boiled aggs and they had lunch. She said that they ate lots of that when she was a child.

I love crackers and milk.. and the best breakfast or snack is cold cornbread with milk and half n half on it.
And milk toast.... warm milk and melted butter on a big slice of toast.

We used to take bread and dip it in the bacon grease in the skillet and eat that. I still am known to do that.. but I use bacon grease in everything  that I cook.

Sauerkraut is wonderful.. I make a dip that has hamburger in it and it really is good., My sister and I like to take sauerkraut and put it on potato chips and eat it.
Mark could make a meal out of sliced tomatoes and cottage cheese and some like sugar sprinkled on the top.
Bologna and potato chip sandwich?? yes I love those.

Quote from: MarineMom on November 11, 2006, 05:05:32 AM
My mother loves onion sandwiches and luckily for her so does my dad I've known them both to eat one for a late night snack..


And is that how you became to "be created?" Guess that smell of onions on the breath was just too big a romantic pull to keep them apart. ... LOL LOL
( Hope you know I am just kidding with you) ;)

Quote from: Rex Vinette on November 10, 2006, 09:39:42 PM
Ok, have you ever heard of pancakes with gravy on them?


We could watch the chickens thru the floor boards when we ate breakfast.
Army Mom

No I have never heard of pancakes with gravy.. but guess it wouldn't be much different than biscuits and gravy.

You must have had a tall house if anything could roam around under the floor boards.. LOL
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Jo McDonald on November 16, 2006, 08:02:55 PM
Well, here I am in south Texas and I have not been on the forum for quite a long time, much to the chagrin of my "oldest earth angel" - Teresa - but whn I read all of the "not a recipe"  entries I had to put in my 2 cents worth.  I absolutely love cold soup beans on a slice of buttered home made bread w/ a thin slice of onion---- bologna and jelly (any kind) on a slice of home made bread --- fresh tomatoes and hard fried eggs on a toast sandwich --- crackers with a sprinkle of sugar over them, on a plate with coffee poured over it ----corn bread and milk --- milk toast --- oreo cookie with a slice of bologna wrapped around it - OOOOOhhhhh Yum!!!! -- cottage cheese with ANYTHING is wonderful --- A slice of chocolate cake, hot from the oven,  with homemade butter on it  ----
  Well, have I grossed everyone out yet?  ohhhhhh ~~~~ one other thing  -- I LOVE fried mush with a  big blob of homemade jellly one it...Now I know that Kjell loves fried mush also, so maybe he will relate to "Mother" on this one.
  Well, the list goes on and on -- and Richard McLean is right --- tomatoes are good with pancakes,  sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, fried potatoes, toast and tomato sandwich, and everything else, for that matter.
   Have a happy eating fest, everyone, and a Happy Thanksgiving !!
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Jo McDonald on November 16, 2006, 08:15:40 PM
Janet.....I think the reason that most men do not like casseroles is ~~~~~~~~`there is NOT ENOUGH work involved to get a meal on the table for them    hahahahahahahahaha
  Think about it ... "you mean this one dish is all we are having?      well..... I don't think one dish is really a full  meal --- just ~~~~~~~~~``you know~~~~~`one dish?? 
At least THAT is the LOOK and the attitude of the one that I cook, for and have cooked for the past 59+ years.
Hooooooooo  Hummmmmmmmmmm     that is life in the female lane, girls !!!
  But------I still keep hangin' in there, but for that matter, so does he!!  I would not trrade him for the world.
  Do we have casseroles very often???   NOPE
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 16, 2006, 09:02:22 PM
Jo, good to see you back on here.  I have wondered where you were.  And you really do have a weird taste in food.  Is it an Elk County thing?  My sister-in-law, Elizabeth, likes some of those things, too.

I'll be thinking of you down there when we are deep in snow here.  If we ever get any moisture.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 16, 2006, 09:32:54 PM
Mother,

Talking about Jo being "down there" when we are in deep snow.  Let me tell you...a couple of years ago it snowed where Jo and Fred stay for the winter.  She sent pictures.  It was hard to imagine.  Snowed on Christmas Day when good old Kansas was dry and sunshine.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Jo McDonald on November 16, 2006, 09:47:06 PM
Hi Wilma,
 Elizabeth and I were in the same grade when we went to school at High Hilll.  East of Howard.  One of the funniest things I remember of her and I  is:  We were having our Christmas program and my part was a little girl that had lost her dolly.  I was crying - probably going Boo Hoo Boo Hoo and Elizabeth came on the stage and said, "why are you crying" and I replied " I have lost my dolly".  Then she said, "Don't cry little GALE" I will help you find your dolly"
She really did say Little Gale    and we have sinced laughed about that.  We were no doubt nervous as two little girls would be with all of our parents sitting in the school house watching us.  
Isn't it strange how some really small incident stays in your memory all these years?
 We had a wonderful childhood -- all I have are happy memories abound with love and laughter.
Title: Re: Not a recipe
Post by: Wilma on November 16, 2006, 10:12:38 PM
You were in school with Jim, too, then.  I didn't know that.  I did know that Jim's mother knew your mother, but I didn't know you had been in school together.  We used to live just south of your aunt in Severy.  Expect you knew that, though, didn't you?