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 Father’s 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 1950’s. It’s 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
Don’t put Ketchup in that BBQ sauce!
Dad could not abide the stuff.
I said “Why not”?
He said it had onions in it.
I said “its made with tomato not onion”
He went to the fridge, pulled out a bottle of Kerrys finest, poked me in the chest and then poked the label of the bottle... tap tap tap tap tap... “it says right here O-N-I-O_N LOL!
Comical old gentleman, He could always say somethin that would make you split yer sides a laffin!
I love Lima beans. Can’t wait for the recipes!
I’ll remember you!
You people are sick ;)
Just tolerate and ‘abide’, dear :-)
Hateful foods: one MUST include calf’s liver. Honestly, have attempted to eat it on more than one occasion and find it virtually impossible to do so.
Grandparents, Mom & Dad ate it (liver and onions) at least once a month (Mom would make an alternative for the young-uns.
Dad, being 100 percent German liked his sauerkraut and pork, hot dill pickles and homemade wine. Remember the air escaping the wine bottles making gurgling sounds in the dark places where it fermented (the closet).
Being southern, gravy was always cream gravy - he always preferred brown gravy and never touched grits or hominy. Though he did like corn.
No problem when you soak then overnight .....
No exploded Sauerkraut in the basement?
I am a freak of nature but, I was my mother’s favorite child because I would eat (and sincerely compliment) whatever she served. As a kid I loved buttered bread with lima beans. Now, I’ve outgrown that delicacy, as my palate has evolved but, what kid loves a lima bean sandwich?
This thread is great for the memories if not for the recipes!
My dad loved a salt cod stew that he had as a boy in Spain. Horrid stuff that he made for us as kids wanting to share his joyous, comforting memory which only starving, feral street cats might share. Oh my! Yech! But, for him, it was love in a bowl and I wish I could share a spoonful with him this weekend.
If you still have your dad, go and eat something gross that he loves while you still can!
I have to agree with you on the liver thing. I’ve never been able to eat it.
Many years ago, when the East wing of the National Gallery first opened, they had a little restaurant on an upper level, overlooking that giant Calder mobile. I ate something there called ‘Country Pate’ that I really liked, and which I’ve assumed contained liver; but it wasn’t offensive.
I’ve always wanted to find a good recipe for something like that, but the one time I tried, the chicken livers still made it too ‘livery’ for me.
Pate is something I really like in theory, but haven’t found a recipe that is mild enough, yet.
(Husband is looking over my shoulder, saying, “Liver and Onions is Wonderful!” He claims that with baby beef liver, it’s great. We’re going to disagree on this, as we disagree on Rabbit: Whenever he starts talking about Rabbit, which he grew up eating in the wilds of Pennsylvania, I just say that I can’t eat anything that’s been a friend of mine :-)
People love to hate Brussels sprouts. I love them though. I think it is the smell of them cooking that gives them the bad rap.
Liver and onions is something my mom Hated but made for me because I loved it. The things we do for our kids!
I’m never sure they even notice. I didn’t when I was their age...
I wish I had my folks here now to thank them.
No kid adores Lima bread sangwiches, even slathered with butter LOL.
Mom loves Tomater sangwiches slathered with mayo and salt and pepper.
I’ll say let me take you to dinner Ma, and she says “Oh no I’ll just have a tomato sangwich” LOL
I take her all the same and we have sangwiches later :)
[My father always wanted German chocolate cake for his birthday.]
That’s because it is the best!
Dad is long gone but AMEN!
He had the palate of a billy goat, but I love him.
Pate is Goose liver although, liverwurst is sort of close. (I have no idea what that is.)
My dad was an amateur boxer in his youth, and one day when I was horribly ill with some bug, he made me a concoction of raw eggs, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce - God only know what was in it, but it was apparently something that boxers in his day used for strength.
It was obnoxious; but he was my Daddy, and trying to help me. So I gulped it down.
R.I.P, Daddy, and God Bless you in Heaven!
Pork, Goose, Duck, Chicken Pate is wonderful in tiny doses. its so rich.
Vietnamese use it like a sandwich spread on Ban Mi
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