“As a child our family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” (Buddy Hackett) My mom was a good cook, so I looked forward to mealtime…even liver and onions. We seldom went out for meals (money was scarce). A friend of mine has created an “online” cookbook of favorite family recipes that she has shared with her children and family friends. I’m honored that “Jack’s Salad Dressing” is included. Do you have a memorable childhood dish? ;-) Jack
FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL: my Mom had pernicious anemia for about 2 years and we ate a LOT of liver because it was good for her condition. thank goodness for ketchup! i buried the liver taste with that beautiful, red condiment! ===JACK: Liver and onions...one of my all-time favorites! A No-No with my present diet...along with red meat, potatoes, ice cream.
FROM AMcC: Our food plan was like yours. We did not fuss. No one was forced.I still like liver and onions. ===JACK: How about city chicken legs?
FRO JE AT WCCSD: My mom made her mom’s favorite recipes – amazing German potato salad, chocolate ice box cake and an amazing mustard that goes on the ham served with the potato salad. My grandmother made baked spaghetti with homemade meatballs that was to die for. Everything at the home was punctuated with fresh salads and vegetables since Grandpa worked at the Eastern Market and lots of cousins had produce businesses at the Eastern Market.===JACK: Since my mom had German parents, we, too, had those tasty German foods.
FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Roast beef sandwiches were my favorite kids item, with real mashed potatoes. I never have them now. But they were my favorite.===JACK: When our children were being raised, they liked beef pot roast, They called it, "sticky meat."
FROM HUNGRY HOWIE: Do you notice that No one cooks liver and onions anymore===JACK: Do you remember The Family Buggy Restaurant ion Orchard Lake Road near 13 Mile? They served great liver and onions...and other good stuff, too!
FROM FACEBOOK LIZ: ♥️ liver and onions! what is your salad dressing?
liz’s garlic parmesan dressing
duke’s mayo (southern, the best)
enuf ketchup to make it pink
garlic galore
shredded parm galore
salt/pepper
dad’s meatloaf (grandma ann’s) is still a fav... w/gisela,
too
===JACK: Jack's Salad Dressing...
1/2 c salad oil 1/4 c vinegar 1/2 c catsup 1/3 c sugar small onion (minced)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce Put in blender until mixed up
FROM TAMPA SHIRL: I do not remember any special. It was all great and Swedish! Nothing fried! ===JACK: No Belgian stuff? Moline had many Swedes and Belgians and good restaurants that served ethnic foods.
FROM NORM'S BLOG: You bring back a flood of memories from my own childhood and the meals that we used to get back then. On today’s restaurant menus, what passed for a salad in our house would be called a Wedge Salad; although when my mom was served it back then, it only came with a spoonful of mayonnaise as a dressing. Chopping a wedge out of a head of lettuce was a quick and easy way to have a salad. Most of the time the salad might have consisted of orange Jell-O with shredded carrot in it or perhaps the always-popular canned mixed fruit (one always hoped to get the cherry slices). You mentioned liver and onions and that was big at our house, too; although as a child I hated it. My dad was a hunter and during rabbit and bird seasons, there was sometimes game on the table - mostly rabbit. It was always a joke that whoever got a piece of bird shot in their portion won the prize for the night. If we had chicken, it was always a whole bird and there was always a “wishbone” to be pulled. My sister and I would each take an end and pull until it broke. I have discovered later in life that there are two different interpretations of who wins when the wishbone breaks. At our house, it was the short piece that the rules declared was the winner and the loser could hang their piece on a doorknob. In other houses it was apparently the longer piece that won. Vegetables that were served with meals were most often canned – corn, peas, green beans, mixed peas and carrots, black-eyed peas, butter beans and the ever popular creamed corn. During the summer, we might actually have some fresh vegetables, especially snap beans or butter beans, and corm on the cob was a favorite. Occasionally, mom might cook up some greens (collard greens or spinach with bacon grease) as a nod to her southern heritage.
Desserts were rare, with Jell-O cubes again being a favored go-to for mom or occasionally ice cream – it seemed almost always to be Neapolitan. Of course there was the occasional pie or cake (angel food or pineapple upside down cake seemed to be the favorites at our house. In the summer months, a watermelon often served as dessert and we had fun spitting seeds to see who could launch them the furthest. The fall usually meant pumpkin pies and the occasional mincemeat pie or a shoofly pie (my dad was Pennsylvania Dutch, so that was a favorite of his). If all else failed, mom would just shift the canned fruit salad from the salad course to the dessert course.===JACK: You bring back memories to me, too.
FROM TAMPA SHIRL: I do not remember any special. It was all great and Swedish! Nothing fried! ===JACK: No Belgian stuff? Moline had many Swedes and Belgians and good restaurants that served ethnic foods.
FROM NORM'S BLOG: You bring back a flood of memories from my own childhood and the meals that we used to get back then. On today’s restaurant menus, what passed for a salad in our house would be called a Wedge Salad; although when my mom was served it back then, it only came with a spoonful of mayonnaise as a dressing. Chopping a wedge out of a head of lettuce was a quick and easy way to have a salad. Most of the time the salad might have consisted of orange Jell-O with shredded carrot in it or perhaps the always-popular canned mixed fruit (one always hoped to get the cherry slices). You mentioned liver and onions and that was big at our house, too; although as a child I hated it. My dad was a hunter and during rabbit and bird seasons, there was sometimes game on the table - mostly rabbit. It was always a joke that whoever got a piece of bird shot in their portion won the prize for the night. If we had chicken, it was always a whole bird and there was always a “wishbone” to be pulled. My sister and I would each take an end and pull until it broke. I have discovered later in life that there are two different interpretations of who wins when the wishbone breaks. At our house, it was the short piece that the rules declared was the winner and the loser could hang their piece on a doorknob. In other houses it was apparently the longer piece that won. Vegetables that were served with meals were most often canned – corn, peas, green beans, mixed peas and carrots, black-eyed peas, butter beans and the ever popular creamed corn. During the summer, we might actually have some fresh vegetables, especially snap beans or butter beans, and corm on the cob was a favorite. Occasionally, mom might cook up some greens (collard greens or spinach with bacon grease) as a nod to her southern heritage.
Desserts were rare, with Jell-O cubes again being a favored go-to for mom or occasionally ice cream – it seemed almost always to be Neapolitan. Of course there was the occasional pie or cake (angel food or pineapple upside down cake seemed to be the favorites at our house. In the summer months, a watermelon often served as dessert and we had fun spitting seeds to see who could launch them the furthest. The fall usually meant pumpkin pies and the occasional mincemeat pie or a shoofly pie (my dad was Pennsylvania Dutch, so that was a favorite of his). If all else failed, mom would just shift the canned fruit salad from the salad course to the dessert course.===JACK: You bring back memories to me, too.
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