Comments on: But I don’t want to eat that

By: Liana

Liana — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:07 +0000

I honestly can’t recall anything my mom made for dinners, although she is a good cook. Her ambrosia is great, though. My dad was the main cook in the house, and passed along many of the family recipes to me. My favorites of his were sourdough pancakes, fried zucchini, and scrambled zucchini.

By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:05 +0000

I loved my mom’s tuna casserole. My dad didn’t keep the recipe she used, and I’ve never found another one that tastes the same, so now I hate tuna casserole.

What I remember most though is the cookies – especially at Christmas. I swear there was a new batch every night in December, and most of them I haven’t had since I was a teenager. My favorite was fatigmand (I have no idea how to spell it), which was some sort of Norwegian cookie deep fried and covered in powdered sugar. I finally got ahold of her candy cane cookie recipe a couple of years ago, which was another favorite. It’s those memories that cause me to bake an average of 30 dozen cookies in December.

By: Kathy Lein

Kathy Lein — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:25:20 +0000

Of course I have had a Runza! You are right, the cheeseburgers are better than the Runza’s but you gotta give beef with cheese in pastry its’ due even if it does have cabbage in it!
Sooo, a couple of my favorites of my mom’s were chicken and rice, sloppy joe’s, and barbecued chicken. The way my parents grilled chicken was a whole chicken or two grilled over charcoal, with butter as the basting. Simple but soooo good! Another favorite was Sunday night homemade pizza night, which was really a Chef Boyardee pizza mix. She served Shepard’s pie, but it wasn’t necessarily a big favorite!

You can tell we are both from the midwest!
I love reading your blog!