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My mother grew up on Guam post-WWII ... so there was a lot of Spam in her repertoire. It certainly wasn't all she cooked, but it's one of the things I remember we had prepared a number of different ways. I actually like the stuff, but my body doesn't tolerate the high salt and fat content well anymore.
Blueberries. As a kid I loved anything with blueberries, Pie,strudel,cup cakes, pancake syrup. And one day,about 10 years ago I bought a pack of sweet rolls filled with blueberries. After eating one I noticed it left a terrible after taste and I discovered the next one was covered in a gray fuzzy mold. I got sick to my stomach and have lost all desire for blueberries.
I NEVER had that sort of stuff! And, I never fed my kids that sort of food!
My kid's friends were amazed that we would have mashed potatoes for dinner when it wasn't a holiday!!! My mom cooked meals from scratch, and so do I! And now, my daughter's BFF does the same for her own family, despite being raised on Taco Bell and McDonalds!
Food from my mother's kitchen wasn't anything to write home about, imo, nor anything to emulate now. Basic meat-and-potatoes with 1 green vegetable. I remember a lot of red meat. Occasionally, baked mac-and-cheese, instead of potatoes, or rice. Not very imaginative. I think I'd have enjoyed Rice-a-Roni, but we never got that.
I became a vegetarian as soon as I left home for college, and really got into global cuisine on the vegetarian side. The change to such a diverse menu was liberating. And a lot more healthy. Though I'm back to eating meat now, my mom is still convinced that "health food" is going to kill me. She thinks it's an unhealthy diet, lol. She thinks people who are concerned with a healthy diet are fanatics.
My mother cooked from scratch back in the 50's, but I remember a treat sitting on the front
porch for lunch...baloney sandwich and Kool Aid...don't care much for either now but back then
I thought it was great.
Dessert was rare, sometimes Jello or better yet chocolate pudding that was cooked, not instant.
When I was growing up in the late '40s-the '60s, my mother's food wasn't fancy, and it sometimes wasn't even very tasty, but at least it was nutritious.
Apparently Mom never forgot what she had learned in her college classes dealing with nutrition, because every dinner had to begin with either a green salad, or half a grapefruit, or a glass of juice. And, she rarely used Iceberg lettuce, opting instead for Romaine, as a result of its higher vitamin content.
After the salad/grapefruit/juice, we had a protein source, plus a green vegetable, and either potatoes or rice. The protein source could have been lean beef, or perhaps lamb, or chicken, and we had fish once a week. And, we had dessert only on very rare occasions.
On very hot summer days, as a result of not having air-conditioning, dinner would be a salad platter of tuna, hard-boiled eggs, potato salad, tomato slices, and either cole slaw or cucumber salad, all served on a bed of lettuce.
Although I pride myself on being--overall--a better cook than my mother was, I definitely emulate her approach to serving well-balanced meals.
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