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
Ate loads of rabbit on submarines
Oh My Goodness! You’ve reminded me that I’ve got a ‘pickled’ Brussels Sprout recipe to add to my upcoming ‘despised foods’ thread :-)
Thank You!
Are your G and D keys crosswired?
“If momma ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!”
It’s hard to find a good ‘mater these days unless it’s summer and you are on a back country road.
Your tag line is apropos for this thread!
Grab a frying pan. Fry up 6 slices of bacon until crisp. Place on paper towel on a dinner plate, pat off oil, Set aside.
Melt a tablespoon of butter into bacon fat in pan, Place brussel sprouts in pan with bacon grease and fry until seared brown and crispy. Once this is done add a product called "Very, Very Teriyaki" to the brussel sprout stir and allow the Teriyaki to cook down till thick and gooey. Crumble the bacon and add into the brussel sprouts mix in. Pull off heat and serve.
They're the best damn brussel sprouts you'll ever eat.... guaranteed!
That’s a hangover cure, I think...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_oyster_%28cocktail%29
Let’s call it a cure-all in honor of your dad.
Amen. We children were never forced to eat liver and we never went hungry because we disliked it. My S/O loves liver and will have it for dinner on occasion. I’ll have a sandwich, something other than. Sadly, not only is it not eaten, to smell it cooking tends to gag me. Minus liver, it’s iron pills or me. Easier to swallow.
I honor them both.
That works. Daddy was also a big drinker, And a gamblin’ man:-)
Sounds interesting. I’ll have to try that. One way I like them is when I have some leftover I dice them up and put in an omelet with some grated cheese. Great breakfast.
Neither the wine nor the kraut proved volatile. It only emitted fumes.
Thanks for the thread, I do think it is important.
When I was a kid I idolized him, as a teen I hated him, as an adult I miss him dearly.
I think that ‘Country Pate; is usually a kind of watered-down version, usually using chicken livers.
I’ve just got to find a recipe that’s milder than the ones I’ve tried.
Yes it does!
I have seen them both blow their stack LOL
My Mrs. is fond of a wager on occasion. Any chance she gets!
We both got laid off at the same time half a generation ago. There was a trade meeting in New Orleans so we thought we would go and mingle; enjoy the food, network... We spent the afternoon at Harrah's instead, enjoying each others company, and won a daughter nine month later!
All the boys I’ve dated have said that ‘fat’ is very good for hangovers - they usually go for greasy hamburgers, or fast Mexican food :-)
Thanks for the diversion from the BS and the path to what is important in our lives.
Gnight Dear
LOL! Congratulations! And what did you name her?
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