Like Mama Used to Make
 

Funny, there are certain meals and dishes that just HAVE to be made a certain way--the way my Mom made them when I was growing up.

Meat loaf is made with oatmeal (not crackers or bread crumbs). It has onions in it, and it does not have tomatoes dumped on it. It's baked in a bowl. And it's served with baked potatoes.

Cole Slaw doesn't have carrots, raisins, or other alien life forms. It is cabbage, sugar, vinegar, mayonnaise (not miracle whip) and pepper.

Creamed tuna goes on toast, not crackers. Same with dried beef gravy.

Pie crust is made with lard.

The only sandwich you put margarine on is an onion sandwich. White bread, margarine, slices of onion, and salt. Not butter, margarine. We called it butter, of course. There was butter (margarine) and "real butter" (butter) which we had on special occasions, such as when my grandmother brought homemade rolls.

Those are just a few to get you started. I'll probably think of more, since Bob is watching the Diners and Dives guy, and food is in the air. So, what did your Mama used to make?

Oh how true!!

My Mom is 84 now and in very good health (better than me!) but each day is precious and you are so right about how some foods just have to be prepared a certain way because that's how Mama did it!

Men are really that way and I don't know how many times I have heard "that's not how Mom made it". It used to bug me until I overheard my son tell my DIL the same thing when we visited them awhile back.

Mom made cole slaw same as yours!! It is the bestest!! :D

My Mom used to make the best spaghetti sauce. Try as I may I cannot duplicate it.

I believe that 35-40 years ago there were not so many preservatives in our food - the livestock was raised differently and our food just tasted better. I don't know - maybe it was just because "mamma made it".

I have learned over the years that just about anything I don't have to cook myself seems to taste better to me!!

I try not to make anything my mom used to make! :eek: Don't tell her, but her food was pretty bad!....except for her English muffin bread.:)

I'll never eat canned ham, salmon loaf, or "western" omelets again. Now where's that throwing up icon??:D:p

Well, B2, first, my mom would have made bruises on me for calling her "mama", she hated that for some odd reason. She never minded "mommy" and "mom".

I digress.

Roast beef HAS to be made in the specific roaster of my entire life with red wine, halved potatoes, halved onions, and carrots. No foreign parts accepted.

Thanksgiving stuffing must be waaaaaaaaay overspiced.

Real butter is the rule, not the exception. "Bad muffins need butter, good muffins deserve butter."

We still use a fork to poke my mom's signature into top pie crusts. She's been dead for 8 years, but we just have to do it.

Poached eggs are to be poached in milk! Those were awesome.

No one has been able to reproduce my mom's spaghetti sauce either. We can't figure out why. Kelly, you may have a point on the additives. We just can't do it. :(

We used to have our milk and butter and eggs delivered to the house. Milk came in bottles and I don't think I ever tasted margarine until I was a teenager!

We had potato chips delivered to the house, too. Charles Chips -in a big brown and gold metal tin.

Meat was from the butcher shop around the corner from our house.

I think the only thing my Mom went to the grocery store for was cleaning supplies, paper products and bread.

My dh had a chip man deliver too. Also he said a farmer would drive a
tractor and wagon thru the neighborhood selling veggies. I wish
we had a veggie deliverer.

Sox

Ha, I remember those Charles's Chips too! We always wanted to keep the cans but weren't allowed.

We have a large farm across the street and can get most anything we need fresh at Al's little stand. He still uses an "honor box" and refuses to attach or secure it in any way. He said that the first time it is disturbed, he will close his stand for good.

My mom's only garden was comprised of six kids, so she gladly accepted fresh produce from the neighbors in exchange for being the Kool-Aid mom. :rolleyes:

My Mom was the best cook. She's gone now, but everyone has tried for yrs to duplicate her Potato Salad and even tho we use the exact same ingredients, it's just not the same. She only used red potatoes for it.

My Dad would make real meatloaf too, B2~ and he'd put baked bean w/real sorghum molasses in them, plus baked potatoes all in the oven. One meal, one oven... Those were some great meals. No shortcuts for them.

Your'e right AMN.... Lots of sage in the stuffing!.. Yummo!