I used to make potato soup from scratch occasionally, usually just to get rid of a bunch of junky potatoes left at the bottom of a sack. Some onions, and a little bit of canned milk, celery seed, parsley flakes, whatever.... Sometimes it turned out really good, depended on how the potatoes cooked up, always better than canned. I rarely buy raw potatoes anymore, only for baking.
Glad the Dinty Moore turned out well, Joe. It looks good. I was expecting a bad review. This may be why... My mother had a style of cooking that was different from everyone's. There was to be absolutely no juice left over when you were finished cooking something---beans, potatoes, whatever, even stew. She cooked the meat in a pressure cooker, then added vegetables. This is what it looked like. I didn't care much for it. Everything tasted the same except the beef. Think I would like Dinty Moore better. Just found out it has a fancy French name: Le pot-au-feu.
OMG have not had tomato gravy in years! I tried making some the other night, did not turn out well. Hubby would not touch it anyway. How do you make your? My first hubby and I as kiddos and married lived off of this and fried potatoes !
It's been so long I can't remember. Probably just added flour or cornstarch and cooked it until it thickened. Maybe ask @Beatrice Taylor. I'm not a good cook.
We made two versions. In the winter it was canned tomatoes thickened with a roux of butter and flour, S&P, maybe a splash of cream. This time of year and into the fall it was milk gravy made in the pan after we had made fried green tomatoes. When we fried green tomatoes we always cooked a few slices of bacon to render some fat, dredged the green tomato slices in seasoned flour and fried them. To make the gravy we added the leftover seasoned flour to the hot bacon fat in the pan, made a roux and added enough milk to make a medium gravy/white sauce. Fried green tomatoes with bacon and gravy make a hearty breakfast on a cool fall morning!
Well dang it.. sure looked good to me. We made ours with just bacon grease flour water and tomato sauce.. . yours looked better
Gloria, that was not my picture. I try to avoid fat. Just tomatoes and flour has no fat, not usually good either. lol ..Told you Bea would know. I had to look up roux.
Creamed peas on toast The peas are reminding me too much of chipped beef on toast. .. Let's add a couple of fried eggs for distraction.
Me neither, Gloria. How about chicken and dumplings---a dish that allows you to make use of old tough chickens. Chop, chop, plop, plop!
I don't know about depression eras but a very simple lunch that I like is baked beans and franks. Hot dogs work, but the red franks are better, and I would cut them up and add them to the beans before eating. Plus, I'd trade the coleslaw for more beans.