Posted on 06/14/2017 5:54:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
My husband and I no longer have anyone in our families to celebrate on Fathers Day; but I got to thinking of things that our Dads liked to eat.
My father-in-law, being Pennsylvania born-and-bred, was very fond of Chicken Corn Soup. We used to make big batches of it, and take it up to stock his gigantic freezer. It was at least a small comfort to us that when he was dying of cancer but still able to eat, he could enjoy this soup.
We never made rivels, the traditional tiny dumpling that goes into this soup; but the following recipe from Taste of Home is very like the one we have always made, and includes instructions for rivels:
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/chicken-corn-soup-with-rivels
One of my favorite writers on the history of food and eating - and Pennsylvania Dutch cooking in particular - is William Woys Weaver:
https://www.amazon.com/William-Woys-Weaver/e/B000APZL4A/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1497487363&sr=1-2-ent
My own father was very fond of Chinese (or American-Chinese :-) foods, which he learned to like while living for a time in the San Francisco Bay Area right after his WWII service as a Marine in the Pacific. He especially liked Egg Foo Yung, which was my own introduction to Chinese food when we began to have Chinese restaurants in our community in the late 1950s. Its easy to make this at home, almost as fast and a lot less expensive than calling up for delivery ;-) Here's a good recipe from Food.com:
http://www.food.com/recipe/egg-foo-yung-24687
-JT
This week: Some foods our fathers liked! And a very Happy Fathers Day, to all the FR Dads!
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-JT
My Dad loved fried bologna sangwiches.
Tomato soup and grilled cheese.
I like them too.
Nd Dad was the original Cookie monster! LOL
That’s easy. Put a jar of peanut butter in front of him and he’d be pleased as punch.
My father always wanted German chocolate cake for his birthday.
I may have mentioned this before, I kinda invented an icebreaker game asking people to tell me what thier favorite childhood comfort food is.
Gets the memory’s flowing.
For me its tomato soup and grilled cheese.
Me and the old man used to make that on a coal fired Benjamin Franklin stove.
Liked Mom’s Chile too :)
I’m 65, single, but have 2 grown boys and 2 grown girls. The boys will get me tools, tech or maybe something gun related.
The girls will get together and make me whatever I want for dinner. Still thinking on my choice.
I have agree with the Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese - I loved it as a kid in school, and it’s still one of my favorite comfort meals.
We always have bread, butter, and cheese; and when I don’t want to really cook on a still-drowsy weekend morning, that’s my food :-)
Made another 15 bean soup. Guy’s will love it.
It was the height of fathers culinary expertise! LOL
And it was good.
My husband’s dad always wanted Lemon Meringue Pie, for his birthday. My MIL makes a great one :-)
Well, hurry up and choose! They need some time to plan :-)
My Dad also loved Ham and Lima beans which I despised.
We had it once a week on Wednesday.
How he fell in love with that was a mystery to me, he picked up the habit from C Rat cans in the Army.
No Sir it aint working for me.
Musta been poor as a Church mouse.
LOL! I like Lima Beans. My grandmother made them often, and somewhere I have a great Lima Bean Casserole recipe. My husband also does ‘Barbecue Lima Beans’.
I’ll dig those recipes up and post them soon.
(Thanks for the idea for another thread: Lima Beans!)
Gakkk! LOL
My next thread may be about ‘Foods People Hate, and Great Ways to Cook Them, Featuring: Lima Beans!’
Any other hateful foods to suggest?
LOL :-)
I can agree with that! A couple spoonfuls of peanut butter is a satisfying snack, especially on a low-carb diet. I keep a jar at work all the time.
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