Recipes

[Nonametoday]

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@on the bay wrote:

Yes, and I'm afraid it is mine.

When I was first married, we all were to bring a "dish." to my inlaws-our first dinner together!😬 Cooking has never been my favorite thing.

So I thought I would make a healthier version of pasta.

So I got some green noodles and made some kind of green noodle casserole concoction.

After that, I was asked to bring the soda only at every family get together since lol!

The other one is my southern grandmother would make us either a breakfast or her dinners for our birthday. We all loved everything she made so much.

One of these was her fried chicken.

The best you've ever tasted.

Anyway as she got on in years, we were all over for someone's birthday and a little while into the dinner we were all pretty much gasping for water. I hated water but like everyone else I was gulping down about 2 glasses asap.

Turns out she had accidently used the salt thinking it was the pepper and she had poured and poured.

(She of course used a lot of pepper always).

You have never tasted such salt in your life. A little chicken with the salt!

My brother in law said it had all the salt of the state of Utah lol!

And sadly that was the last time she made it because her eyes just were not what they used to be. 

I practiced her fried chicken many times til one day I actually made it pretty much like hers! I was so proud.

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@on the bay 

My mother was a great cook, not as good as my grandmother, but close.  My DH and I loved to go to her house to eat.  We lived a couple-hundred miles away and with 4 kids, it was always quite the trip and quite the treat to sit down to her table, but the last time we did, I noticed the chicken was bloody and motioned to the children not to eat.  I did not have to.  They had seen it as well.  We feigned we had stopped off on the way and were just not hungry.  The vegetables were wonderful as the lady who cooked in her restaurant had made those and sent them over.  So we filled up on those and pretended afterward we were just to filled up from the drive-in where we stopped and the great veggies.  It was so sad to see that happen.  We knew she would never cook again and she didn't.

[on the bay]

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@RedTop wrote:

I think the worst thing I've ever eaten was my MIL's ham gravy.   My husband and daughters liked it, and my SIL makes it to this day.  

Once was enough for me!   I told my husband his mother should've bottled that stuff and sold it as a colonoscopy prep!   

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@RedTop . 😂

[lynnie61]

@Love my grandkids   oh my.  Was the Swiss steak with tomatoes or a dark gravy?  My mother made the best Swiss steak EVER in dark gravy, I have tried for years to copy it, it just is just NOT the same.  She would flour eye of round and sear in a cast iron skillet, then  used the dripping and cream of mushroom soup and then bake it after the meat was pan fried.  One of her best dishes.  So good.  My friend growing up, their Swiss steak was made with stewed tomato’s.  Never liked the tomato version. 

[DiAnne]

My Mother was a horrible cook.  Almost everything she made had Campbell's soup in it or French onion soup.  It was not as if she did not know what good food was because she and my Father got dressed up most weekends and went out to nice restaurants and her parents were both great cooks and had owned an upscale supper club. Gowing up in Southern California she had access to fresh food year round she just did not like to cook.

[ECBG]

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@customerqvc2 wrote:

The worst meal I ever ate was when my DH's sister made Thanksgiving dinner one year.  She put a frozen turkey in her back seat and she and her DH drove hours and hours to our house with it back there.  The next day, she put that turkey in the oven and roasted it.  Holy smokes that turkey was so dry and it tasted like cardboard.  Between the heater on and off in the car and all those hours defrosting unrefrigerated in that back seat---holy salmonella!  I think the only thing that saved us from disaster is that nobody ate much of it and we politely threw the leftovers away.

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@customerqvc2 

Your description is scary!  If an elderly person had eaten that turkey, and it had developed salmonella, it could have been life threatening.

[ECBG]

One Christmas Eve, my step sister and her DH (whom had eaten at my house and her mother's home many times with all being homemade) did a turkey dinner. 

They made 1 packet of turkey gravy, didn't even use the strained turkey drippings.  Just powder and water.

We had 1 C gravy for 12 people.

Another time he smoked pork for a back yard barbque.  He used high heat for a shorter period.  Of course hi heat on protein equals tough.  It was like leather.

[Love my grandkids]

@lynnie61 Not to be rude but just thinking about that dish makes me gag, don't want to go into the details of that horrible mess.

[depglass]

My mother didn't "cook" this, but I sure hated it and about gagged every time she made it for lunch.  She put cottage cheese in tomato soup.  I liked each individually, but the combination was gross.  

[Mj12]

DH's family is big on making a nasty concoction every holiday called Heavenly Hash. It consists of canned fruit cocktail mixed with mini marshmallows and whipped cream. Vile stuff.

[SloopJohnB]

@QVCkitty1  While, fortunately for me, my mother and both grandmothers were great cooks, your sweet Aunt Betty reminds me of an old TV show.  Years ago, an episode called the Pickle Story on the Andy Griffith show, had Aunt Bee making some pickles that turned out terribly.  Since she thought everyone loved them, as they didn't want to hurt her feelings, she kept making them more.  

She even entered them in the county fair.  Andy ended up substituting them with store bought ones just to spare her feelings.  🚫🔖👎