Fun with Mom's Recipes - Page 2

Gn2Dlnd · 11-05-2007, 02:56 PM

Prickly Mountain Oysters?

katiesue · 11-05-2007, 03:38 PM

Those might have been better. It was a varation on another of her favorites - Texas Hash. Basically it's rice, tomato sauce and hamburger. If you just fry the hamburger it's Hash otherwise you make it into the aforementioned balls. Neither one was tasty.

Snowflake · 11-05-2007, 05:45 PM

My roomie's late mother made the best deviled eggs, ever. The recipe died with her, dammit.

Not to mention the lady on my Dad's mail route who gave him jars of the best bread and butter pickles she canned every year. Mine have never been quite as good.

Gemini Cricket · 11-05-2007, 06:08 PM

My mom was devastated when she found out that I can make her Portuguese Bean Soup. I think she expected me to call her for the rest of her life and ask her how to do it.

And my grandmother made the best stuffing at Thanksgiving. It had the grossest things in it (gizzards and that little package of extra parts that comes in a turkey) but it tasted sooooo good.

Morrigoon · 11-05-2007, 06:32 PM

Snowflake: The trick is often in the mustard. I recommend using Honeybaked's mustard in your deviled eggs. Mmm... I haven't made those in ages. I love deviled eggs!

Kevy Baby · 11-05-2007, 07:25 PM

Since Morri mentioned a restaurant source for ingredients, Cinnabon cinnamon is very good. You can buy jars of the cinnamon the next time you are at the mall.

Prudence · 11-05-2007, 09:31 PM

Oh man - if you're going out of your way to get cinnamon, get the real stuff! (Not cassia) Lots of places sell it now.

GusGus · 11-05-2007, 11:19 PM

I haven't used Cinnabon for years.

I'm a Watkin's girl now.

(Their vanilla is also excellent.)

cirquelover · 11-09-2007, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by katiesue

May my Mothers recipe for Porcupine Balls go with her to the grave

I had never heard of such a thing until I married Gary and now I must agree with you! I absolutely refuse to make them for him, he can go visit his Mom if he really wants them!

~MS~ · 11-09-2007, 01:19 PM

Top ten "moms favs' that will never ever in my lifetime make an appearance on any menu I prepare: in no particular order..

1) liver & onions
2) porcupine meatballs
3) My MOMS recipe for meatload (take porcupine meatballs and squish into loaf shape blech)
4) long grain rice boiled with raisins and considered a hot breakfast
5) my mothers version of enchiladas ....good thing I married the right guy and learned what REAL food tastes like

6) my moms/grandmas 'hamburger soup
7) powdered milk pudding - don't ask, really
8) green jello with shredded carrots and raisins
9) salmon patties = made with canned salmon
10) buckwheat pancakes

11-05-2007, 02:56 PM	#11
Gn2Dlnd Parmmadore Jim Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Casita del Queso Posts: 3,810	Prickly Mountain Oysters? __________________ Does anyone still wear a hat?
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11-05-2007, 03:38 PM	#12
katiesue Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,678	Those might have been better. It was a varation on another of her favorites - Texas Hash. Basically it's rice, tomato sauce and hamburger. If you just fry the hamburger it's Hash otherwise you make it into the aforementioned balls. Neither one was tasty. __________________ My life is so exciting I can hardly stand it.
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Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	My roomie's late mother made the best deviled eggs, ever. The recipe died with her, dammit. Not to mention the lady on my Dad's mail route who gave him jars of the best bread and butter pickles she canned every year. Mine have never been quite as good. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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11-05-2007, 06:08 PM	#14
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	My mom was devastated when she found out that I can make her Portuguese Bean Soup. I think she expected me to call her for the rest of her life and ask her how to do it. And my grandmother made the best stuffing at Thanksgiving. It had the grossest things in it (gizzards and that little package of extra parts that comes in a turkey) but it tasted sooooo good.
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Snowflake: The trick is often in the mustard. I recommend using Honeybaked's mustard in your deviled eggs. Mmm... I haven't made those in ages. I love deviled eggs! __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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11-05-2007, 07:25 PM	#16
Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	Since Morri mentioned a restaurant source for ingredients, Cinnabon cinnamon is very good. You can buy jars of the cinnamon the next time you are at the mall. __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	Oh man - if you're going out of your way to get cinnamon, get the real stuff! (Not cassia) Lots of places sell it now. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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11-05-2007, 11:19 PM	#18
GusGus DrunkenSeamstress Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Is it hot in here? Posts: 311	I haven't used Cinnabon for years. I'm a Watkin's girl now. (Their vanilla is also excellent.) __________________ . . . . "Mythology is psychology misread as biography." - Joseph Campbell
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11-09-2007, 01:19 PM	#20
~MS~ One Happy little Missy! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 658	Top ten "moms favs' that will never ever in my lifetime make an appearance on any menu I prepare: in no particular order.. 1) liver & onions 2) porcupine meatballs 3) My MOMS recipe for meatload (take porcupine meatballs and squish into loaf shape blech) 4) long grain rice boiled with raisins and considered a hot breakfast 5) my mothers version of enchiladas ....good thing I married the right guy and learned what REAL food tastes like 6) my moms/grandmas 'hamburger soup 7) powdered milk pudding - don't ask, really 8) green jello with shredded carrots and raisins 9) salmon patties = made with canned salmon 10) buckwheat pancakes __________________ "Sometimes Miracles Hide"
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