What food does your Mama make better than anyone?

[maynard]

 

[DrEntropy]

Anything Italian, but particularly ravioli and lasagna.

My mum is gone now, but she made horrible, watery, soupy chili and overcooked any & all rice. I didn't know what either one ~should~ be like until I was on my own.

 

[maynard]

Potato kugel and other traditional Jewish dishes.

 

[Gliderman8]

Latkes

 

[Basil]

Babies who grow up to be brilliant, handsome devils

 

[GregW]

Sadly nothing.

 

[GregW]

Babies who grow up to be brilliant, handsome devils

Babies as food?

 

[waltesefalcon]

Babies as food?

That might just solve the problem of children of poor people being a burden on society.

 

[waltesefalcon]

My mom makes the best meatloaf.

 

[Basil]

That might just solve the problem of children of poor people being a burden on society.

Oops! I misread it!

 

[pdplot]

My mother was a terrible cook but she did make good leg of lamb with homemade mint jelly.

 

[mikephillips]

Mine's gone now too, but when I was young, great fried chicken.

 

[Bayless]

Somehow it just seemed like everything was better.

 

[JPSmit]

Boterkoek

 

[NutmegCT]

When she was alive, she made the best chicken fried steak in the world!

And her donuts were fantastic. Simple cake donuts flavored with nutmeg and mace, deep fat fried. Drool ...

 

[HealeyRick]

Babies as food?

 

[Basil]

 

[HealeyRick]

Mom made a hot breakfast for me every morning before I went to school. Then she went to work. That's dedication. Her potato pancakes with sour cream (bleenies for you Skook county folks) and homemade pork sausages with horseradish were special treats.

 

[GregW]

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Looks like I got out of Virginia before they went all cannibal like. There are parts there where the family tree looks like a bamboo shoot.

 

[DrEntropy]

Seeing the foods you guys have mentioned I can remember having many different types of food growing up, including all of the above (not counting the cannibalism thing, gotta draw th' line someplace!). Had friends from many different backgrounds, usually with first or second gen American born parents. The area's steel mills attracted 'em from everyplace. Often got invited to have a meal with them, learned early I was fairly much omnivorous! Try anything once. Never found anything I'd refuse a second time, back then. The ethnic staples were always favorites; "peasant fare", the foods that kept people going. Potato kugel, latke, potato pancakes, pierogie, strudle, scrapple, collard greens...

...gotta clean th' drool offin the keys now!