A totally useless question for Wednesday

[Amelia]

Is there any one food or combinations of foods, that when you eat it/then brings up strong memories of your youth?

For me it's a tuna fish sandwich. Of course I now eat my tuna in a pita pocket or on heavy whole grain bread. But when I was a kid in grade school, my mother would make me tuna fish on soft white bread. YUMMMMMMY But what I really remember is how she would wrap the sandwich in waxed paper (no plastic sandwich bags back then). Mom would fold the paper in such a way that created a little slot where she would tuck in the pickles. I hated pickles mixed in my tuna; still do haha. But sometimes the paper wouldn't hold up very well and the pickle juice would leak through and make a pickle tasting spot right in the middle of the sandwich. I would eat the sandwich all around and leave the pickle spot. On a good tuna sandwich day I would get a few potato chips in my lunch and I'd peel the top slice of bread off and layer the chips on and replace the bread. MMMMMMMMMMMM A tuna and chip sandwich is awesome.

[olger]

A solitary lemon cookie conjures up images of the Charles Chips van making its monthly stop to our home back in the early 70's.

olger

[David Koot]

Yeast sandwiches. Mother was a strong believer in the nutritional value of yeast. So, for school lunches she would spread yeast (torumel, no doubt) on bread and send it to school. A distinctive flavor, really not bad.

[Amelia]

Ok everyone, go back and reread the question.

[Clio]

Loma Linda Sandwich Spread with mayo and lettuce on whole wheat.

It was a sorry day indeed when they quit making it.

[Halfstep-Denise]

White Cheddar Macaroni and Cheese reminds me of 8th grade at Pleasant Hill Jr. Academy. YUM-O!!

Halfstep-Denise :llama

[Clio]

Something my grandmother called Barenfrusctik (sp?).

She rendered it in English as Farmer's Breakfast. It was a Sunday morning tradition/custom/ catastrophe-if-not-made at our house.

Diced potatos and onions cooked fried until golden brown on the bottom and tender all through. Then beaten eggs with seasoning salt, chopped parsley, and a little dill poured over all and cooked covered until the eggs were done. Shredded Jack and Cheddar cheeses melted over the top of that until the cheese was gooey and runny... Served with Morning Star Farms breakfast sausage patties, fresh fruit, and biscuits.

Oh wow.... I think I might have to make that for dinner tonight....

[Dottie]

Homemade banana ice cream at my aunt's; peanut butter and jelly mixed with butter so it didn't soak into the bread at home; breakfast at Grandmother's in Kentucky (fried eggs, potatoes, bacon, homemade biscuits, gravy, and fresh milk from the cow--the bacon was from her pigs). Food was very important in our family. It always would bring us together: grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins by the duzzins. . .

[Clio]

Oh Dottie! Yum! Food was also very important in our family. The gathering around the table, big family meal with visiting, it could take hours to eat.

And even more hours to prepare for the whole tribe.

My grandma made something she called "knippies" We made a pasta dough, rolled it very thin and flat and cut it into squares. Each square was filled with either a sauerkraut and onion filling, or a cottage cheese, onion, and herb filling. Then we folded the square in half to make a triangle and fried it in butter and 1 cup of sour cream and a 1/4 cup of watter until the dough was done. A little longer if you liked them crispy on the bottom.

Serve with sour cream, fried potatoes and onions. Garnish with ketchup only if you were brave enough to take Dad's ribbing about what did you get all that "red" on your plate?

Our family was almost evenly split between the sour cream purists and the ketchup renegades....

No... we never claimed it was *good* for you.