Favorite meals as a kid?

I was blessed with a Mother who was a great cook and foodie. I'd forgotten about chip beef on toast. We didn't call her's SOS. Made with the salty pink beef that came in a jar. Still wish I could match her chicken dumplings. I can come close to the spaghetti, meat loaf and mac and cheese. Too many more to list.

School lunch was not memorable.

We always went to a diner that served the best chicken fried steak. Still chasing that dragon.

Peach cobbler, cooked it a dutch oven, on coals from a camp fire.

Grits with milk and sugar.

My mother was great in the kitchen and my father was skilled with the grill and oven. Favorite meals as a kid included Korean short ribs, roast beef hash, stir fried lotus root with pork belly and mushrooms, Chinese spareribs, Chinese poached fish, spaghetti that would make a Sicilian proud, dah bin lo (what you guai lo call "hot pot" ... [Beer]), and of course a breakfast with rice, eggs, and Portuguese sausage. I prefer crisping the rice in a pan with the eggs over easy on top of the crispy rice and topped off with a dribble of oyster sauce.

Mom was a great cook, paternal grandmother as well. Favorite was roast beef cooked with potatoes, onions and carrots every Sunday.
Potato salad that Mom made to my personal tastes. Brownies that I will always remember. Loved the pies my grandmother made from scratch. Deviled eggs, ham, caseroles, Mac and cheese, all good stuff.

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Originally Posted by TheGrey

Hotdish is serious stuff. :) I'd explain it, but there's a far better description here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotdish

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TheGrey must be from Minnesota. That's the only place they call it Hotdish that I know of. LOL. (I work with a lot of MN peeps).

I miss the yellow gravy they use to put on mashed potatoes back in school.

Forgot about boiled roast with potatoes and carrots. Add flour to make a gravy and white bread for sopping. Mmmmmm

Never heard of hotdish, ever. I never had green bean casserole til I moved to OH ('85).

I still make corn casserole at Thanksgiving (I'll post the recipe in the "Recipe for the Day" thread).

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Originally Posted by Mazin

I miss the yellow gravy they use to put on mashed potatoes back in school.

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You had the yellow gravy to? Good stuff. That reminds me of Salisbury steak, except they used brown gravy for that. Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, and a home made roll, great meal!

It took me a few days to remember, but I always looked forward to stromboli day in the cafeteria.

Adobo, pancit, sio pao, and fried lumpia. Didn't have them all the time, but they were the favorites.

My favorite Sunday after church lunch was going to visit the hospital cafeteria where my dad was making rounds. They had delicious fried chicken and mashed potatoes.

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Originally Posted by Brian

TheGrey must be from Minnesota. That's the only place they call it Hotdish that I know of. LOL. (I work with a lot of MN peeps).

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Yah, youbetcha!

And it's completely different from casserole. Completely. :)