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Post by super on Jan 30, 2016 12:40:16 GMT -6
I grew up on whatever is on your plate you eat it or else! My mother came from a large German family so we eat a lot of cooked cabbage, veggies, Swiss steak, and casseroles.
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Jan 30, 2016 13:46:10 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 13:46:10 GMT -6
Next week is a big chile cook off near where we are staying. I have gone the past two years. For two bucks you can sample as much as you eat from the 25-30 people in the contest. The good all boys (and a few girls) down here really know how to make chile.
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Jan 30, 2016 14:08:49 GMT -6
Post by dumdave on Jan 30, 2016 14:08:49 GMT -6
We used to hit the local chili cook offs in TX all the time. Music, dancing and all flavors of chili. I liked the venison best. This was B.C. Before Children.
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Jan 30, 2016 14:23:25 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 14:23:25 GMT -6
We used to hit the local chili cook offs in TX all the time. Music, dancing and all flavors of chili. I liked the venison best. This was B.C. Before Children. I had a venison chile for the first time two years ago. I really liked it, but the young man who made it wasn't there last year.
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Post by Anonymous on Jan 30, 2016 15:19:17 GMT -6
We grew up eating typical stuff, spaghetti, casseroles, pork chops, potatoes, etc. Once in awhile my mom would make something awful like chop suey. I can remember us kids sitting around the table and my sister gagging on the food. We had to sit there and eat what was served. Sometimes we would sit there for hours. lol
We liked eggs and grits for breakfast.
In my teen years, my stepdad and I would have chili cook-offs. I liked mine thicker than he liked his. I still try to perfect my chili. It's seldom made the exact same way twice. I don't care for it as thick now, but do mess around with the ingredients, like adding chocolate.
Weekends at my dad's house would be frozen pizzas, popcorn, potpies and Hershey bars with almonds. A weekend trip to the local bowling alley/coffee shop would get us donuts.
I love to cook. I'm always trying new recipes. I could eat chicken every day, but my household demands more. If I try a new dish then it comes up for vote whether it stays in the rotation of meals. We also try to reinvent our leftovers into new meals. Waste not, want not.
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Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 16:20:42 GMT -6
My Wife is Filipina. She cooks all sorts of stuff, some of it is great, some of it is scary. Unusual vegetables and spices and soy sauces from China Town markets. We grow some of the different varieties ourselves in the garden. I am not big on internal organs myself, I generally pass on liver, heart, etc. She cooks some kind of dish with a cow stomach, it stinks, I won't eat it. Fish eyeballs, no Thank You, I tell her I love her SO much She can have mine too. I did sample a dish She had that featured Pork blood, it was really rich, too rich tasting for me. Chicken feet are a common snack for them. Crunchy, we throw them away, or grind them into who knows what. No Thanks. I guess I am just not THAT exotic. Our youngest daughter is the editor of a cooking magazine. Although she grew up eating Italian food (and steaks on the one night a week when my wife had to work), she now doesn't eat meat and cooks a lot of vegetables with names I can't pronounce. Where did we go wrong?
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Jan 30, 2016 17:27:23 GMT -6
Post by capncrunch on Jan 30, 2016 17:27:23 GMT -6
I do not like liver and onions. I do not like ham and bean soup.
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Jan 30, 2016 18:16:38 GMT -6
Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 30, 2016 18:16:38 GMT -6
Although we have been in Mexico many times, I have not been foolish enough to buy food from a street vendor. LOL, That's just about the only place we did eat when we were down there. Man, some GREAT eating, and very cheap. But then, I have a cast iron gut...... The only caution I took was to make sure I carefully wiped the bottle of beer or coke, that will get you no matter who you are.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 30, 2016 18:19:31 GMT -6
You have never had Haluski? Oh man, you gotta try it, Streator has some of the BEST Haluski! Last week, a couple who I have known since high school spent a couple of days with us on the way further south. We got talking about food, and I mentioned that I had never eaten Haluski. They are both Slovak, and couldn't believe that I had never eaten Haluski. I explained that the Methodist Church didn't have any food with funny names at its get togethers. I had never had it until I got to Streator, the first woman I dated here made it and I was hooked........ Everyone makes it just a touch different, but by far, no matter where I try it, the stuff made here is the best.
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Jan 30, 2016 18:24:40 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 18:24:40 GMT -6
Although we have been in Mexico many times, I have not been foolish enough to buy food from a street vendor. LOL, That's just about the only place we did eat when we were down there. Man, some GREAT eating, and very cheap. But then, I have a cast iron gut...... The only caution I took was to make sure I carefully wiped the bottle of beer or coke, that will get you no matter who you are. We took at least 15 trips to Mexico. Most of those trips were to places near the ocean, and I ate seafood most meals: fresh and cheap.
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Post by greekgod on Jan 30, 2016 18:53:57 GMT -6
On occasion I eat crow. It's an acquired taste. g
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Jan 30, 2016 20:29:58 GMT -6
Post by capncrunch on Jan 30, 2016 20:29:58 GMT -6
On occasion I eat crow. It's an acquired taste. g Never tried crow. I have tried goose, and will not eat it again.
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Post by antamaleen on Jan 31, 2016 9:08:53 GMT -6
I've noticed that it doesn't matter what region you're from. Each home fixes different meals. Even though my parents were from here, I had not tried haluski until years later after moving here. With no pork tenderloin sandwiches out there, we made homemade.
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Post by helencrump on Jan 31, 2016 9:42:06 GMT -6
On occasion I eat crow. It's an acquired taste. g Never tried crow. I have tried goose, and will not eat it again. I thought greekgods comment was the funniest I'd read here in awhile. Until i read this one! Great one! Lol
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Post by dumdave on Jan 31, 2016 11:58:08 GMT -6
My wife is Tex-Mex, born and raised. Her great grandmother raised her & her mother. What a cook! When we were first dating, I went there for supper. The food was fantastic! I asked my wife what I had. She said "if you like it that much....don't ask." LOL I found out later that she used a lot of "sweet meats" & for the holiday tamales, a pig's head was required. She made everything from scratch, including the tortillas. One of her grand daughters had the best Tex-Mex restaurant in Dallas!
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