Your Mom's Best / Worst Meals

Hated liver. LOVED liverwurst. Go figure.

 

Mine, too. Everything was fried in a dollop of bacon grease from that cannister. I wonder how old the grease was at the bottom of the can..... Nobody ever got food poisoning from it.

 

My Mom was a good cook it was just me not liking some of the things that she cooked. If I didn't like the smell or the way it looked I didn't want to eat it and every opportunity I could get 'out the kitchen window it went.'

 

My mom was from the Ukraine, and I always loved it when she made Pirogis and "Pigs in Blankets".

 

My mother never made a meal that I didn't love.

 

@John Brunner

According to my Dad, a calf ceases to be a calf and is considered a cow when it begins eating grass. The very best liver is calves' liver, before the animal has eaten other than milk. Both were always available at our numerous Czech butcher shops, calves' liver being much more expensive. My mother made the most wonderful calves' liver and gravy, smothered with onions, why, even @Ken Anderson would have enjoyed it!

Aside from all that, liver is one of the most nutritionally-perfect foods in reality, 'ceptin' for it's high cholesterol content.

Frank

 

@Beth Gallagher

My mother made tripe soup. In recent years, I've learned the Mexican dish Menudo is actually tripe soup. It was tasty, fairly thick, and the tripe itself very rubbery requiring much chewing.

Frank

 

@Hal Pollner

"PIEROGIS", the Polish word, are similar to Czech dumplings except the dough is rolled thin, and they are usually filled with sauerkraut or a mix of meat. Wonderful eatin'!

Frank