Tuesday 4

Meals Past and Present

Hosted by Annie!!

This week let's talk about food and menus past and present....

1. What was your favorite meal as a child? As a teen?  As a young adult and what is it be now?  As a child  I loved  my mother's  fried chicken and mashed potatoes, well I always did,  but as a teen daddy's grilled  hamburgers or his shisk kabobs  were such a treat.  He had a real flair for grilling.. As a young adult, I suppose it would be all kinds of Italian food, especially lasagne and, of course, spaghetti. Now it would have to be Chinese.  I  could eat it every day!!

2. What did Mom make for breakfast? Lunch?   Dinner?    Do you recall the menus?  Mom made wonderful  breakfasts.  She liked to make fritters with apple butter,  and fried apple pies. For lunch ,  it would   have to be on Sunday after church and was most usually Fried chicken with all the trimmings.  She always  made a dessert.. My favorite was her upside down cake.  ON Saturday  it was usually a sandwich  We ate  a lot of bologna,  liver worst,  brat wurst,  and pizza.  For dinner mother  liked to  be inventive sometimes. She would create a wonderful Italian dish  of her own design. It was always  yummy,  but  rarely had  a semblance of anything we really know of.   

3. How was dinner time as a young newly wed? Plain.. fancy? As a young  newly wed, we were living in Germany   and  I bought our  groceries at the PX.  I remember making  boxed meals, and canned meals,,  roast beef from a can,  pizza from a  box,  stroganoff from a box,  etc.    Rarely did I buy fresh meat.  But  a baker  came around  a couple of times a week selling fresh  bread.  We usually had fresh baked rolls!  So  good!! Set the table of just catch as catch can?   I always set the table.  Keeping house gave me something to do.  Living in a foreign country not knowing  anyone  you  made the most of every opportunity to  set a nice table   or what ever it was. If I wasn't married, how was dinner living on your own? If I were living alone,  I would   most definitely  try to eat without making a mess. I  hate clean up! Both.  We love to  go with friends out after church on Sunday. This is  our main social time of the week.  But  we do have friends over once in a while,  just like mY charcuterie party.  I know I can expect to be at Gerri and David's on Memorial Day for a cook out.  One  day   this summer  Dot and Bill will invite everyone over!  It just sort of goes  once a year each of us  will  have a dinner party.  

4. Is it important for family to eat together at the table.When  Amanda was growing up  absolutely,  But  in these retirement years  we  eat  where we  like.    During the week I usually eat  in the den  by the tv and Lynn usually  stands up at the kitchen counter.On weekends  we either go out to eat or  I will cook and we will eat at the dining room table!

Thanks for coming by and joining in.  You help make this more fun for everyone.