Poor Mans Meal

Thats cool Leon..

I watched it all the way through. Neat lady. great recipe.

I love cooking shows like with Rachel Ray and another, Alten Braun (Good Eats).

My grandmother often would speak about what it was like during the great depression.. Horrible times. Grandpah would walk many miles for a gallon of gas for the family car. America was humbled then.. Thank the Lord we got out of it, and thank the Lord for good cooks like this lady who helped us get through it unscathed..




Bill
 
I'll always miss my Grandma.
Although I was blessed with her living well into my adult years, sharp as a tack and without the dementia that usually comes to older people. She was 92 when she passed away.:engel016: She was a great cook and an absolutely astounding baker. Never had a lemon meringe or rhubarb pie that compared to hers.
 
me mum does something similer every now and again, allthough she uses proper sauges and some bacon and maybe a bit of leek, guess this is where she got the idea from :applause:
 
Clara is a sweetheart.... she could cook for me any day. :d I bet that meal was great.... :applause:


TARPSBird said:
I'll always miss my Grandma.
Although I was blessed with her living well into my adult years, sharp as a tack and without the dementia that usually comes to older people. She was 92 when she passed away.:engel016: She was a great cook and an absolutely astounding baker. Never had a lemon meringe or rhubarb pie that compared to hers.
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Same here Tarps. I'd love your grandma if she made a killer rhubarb pie. That's my all time favorite. My mom's mother was a super cook too... boy I miss her.
 
That takes me back!
my Grandmother used to cook with me
taught me how to cook also
and because potatoes are my favorite food
good video thanks
H
 
kinda funny, everyone remembering their grandmom. mine had all 5 sons and 4 daughters with their spouses and kids over for breakfast every sunday after church. my cousin owns the house now. it has been gutted and is all new inside...


















but when it rains, the whole house still smells like bacon!




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Henry said:
That takes me back!
my Grandmother used to cook with me
taught me how to cook also
and because potatoes are my favorite food
good video thanks
H
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I thought you were British Henry, turns out you're Irish scum like me! No a day goes by without a potato in some shape form or fashion. :costumes:

Have to admit, both of my grandmas were great cooks and taught me much about cooking too, as did my mother, she's a great cook too. Her sweet potato turnovers are out-of-this-world.

Caz
 
Cazzie said:
I thought you were British Henry, turns out you're Irish scum like me!
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speaking of irish, and grandmother's cooking, try this out:

GRANDMOM'S
IRISH SODA BREAD



Preheat oven to 350˚

3 Cups sifted enriched flour
2/3 Cups sugar
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 Teaspoon baking soda
1 Teaspoon salt (Mom used ½ teaspoon)
1 ½ Cups raisins
2 Eggs (beaten)
1 ¾ to 2 Cups buttermilk
2 Tablespoons melted butter
Walnuts optional

In a large bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in raisins. In a separate bowl combine eggs, buttermilk and melted butter. Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until flour is moistened. Pour into greased loaf pan. Bake 350˚ for on hour. Remove from pan right away.
 
My grandparents could make a meal out of just a box of macaroni and a can of tomatos. And when I was in my early 20s, I ran into almost a year of no job and no money except what I could scrape up. Me and my first wife lived on pinto beans and fried corn bread for months. No oven to bake corn bread in, just a wood heater that we could cook on top of. About the only meat we got was what wild rabbits I could shoot.

That Poor Man's meal looked pretty good!
 
My wife and I were talking about our respective childhoods in regards to the money we had to live off of.

You could always tell when it was getting close to payday and the cubbard was running a little low, Mom would fix fried bologna and soft-fried potatoes for supper, or something similar to stretch the budget a little further.

And you know what?

It tasted pretty good ! Nothing fancy, but just plain old Southern cooking made with real butter, real lard, deep-fried,.....all the bad stuff. I remember one Mother's Day our 1st or 2nd grade class put on a presentation for the Mother's in attendance and my discertation about my Mom was, "She's a good cooker !"

I can still taste her pot roast and her chicken and dumplings.....hmmmm hmmmm good !:woot:
 
Good ol' fried bologna! Most folks think of it as jail food but aboard ship during Vietnam we got it for breakfast on a regular basis, as often as bacon or sausage. Also cheese omelets made from bright yellow instant egg mix. If you didn't mind an omelet that looked like rubber from a Mae West, it tasted OK! :d
 
i lost my grandmother that cooked early in my life..the night i was born she was in the horsepital and my dad was told she wouldnt make it through the night..cancer...then the baby doc came and said "you HAD a son".....dad said he about dropped..mom and dad had allready lost one baby in a still born birth......wasnt a good few minutes for my dad...

gramma made it 16 years and died on my 16t birthday..but she didnt do much cookin in her sick years and my moms mom never did cook...

and a lilttle tattletail on my mom..god love her..

yesterday she went to make my dads fav..lemon cake..used my grandmothers old recipe..made it from scratch which is a huge challenge for my mom....put it in the oven..cooked it at the temp setting and trime said in the recipe.....however..on her stove.its a duel control....you have another dial for bake/broil/clean....and you can control the broil temp..(which is cool)..so...she "baked" the cake on the broil setting..the top 1/4 inch was cooked and the rest was just raw....:monkies:
 
Sounds good I'll have to give it a go .. :)

Though my Dad always use to tell me about some of the things he use to have to take to school for lunch ... like salt and pepper sandwiches, or cold mashed potato and ketchup sandwiches ...
Then there was desert ... coffee sandwiches ...

To be honest I've tried them all ... they're not bad. ;)
 
I used to be one of the best Top-Ramen cooks in Arizona!!

:d


Put a bit of this in there.. Put a bit of that in there.. ooooo lah lah!


lol..


Snuffy,

How about making some recipes' of those. Sounds pretty good.

At the Old Hanger, they have a cooking room for us guys thats pretty cool. Was pretty cool to hear some of the recipes floating around. (Arrghh havent been there in ages.. )


Bill
 
During the great depression there was not much to eat. Many the time my brother and I went to bed hungry. Usually the meal of the day was a pilot cracker and hot water.
Once a month the Government Commissary would open up and we would get Beans, Flour, Cheese, Prunes and what ever came available. Dick and I contracted Rickets from the poor fare.
I certainly hope we are not heading for one now.
 
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