QotD: 27 Apr 2015: What's in it?

[danger_dan]

[Shwa Girl]

My mother cooked fish at least once per week. She said it was brain food. Steamed with tomatoes, onions and garlic. Now, I like fish. Then, hated it. She bought the Highliner frozen brand that we kids called brick fish.

I am glad that she stuck to her guns because I think I have a few more brain cells because of her.

[Shwa Girl]

The same mother that made us eat brick fish also hid veggies in our food before this was cool. Our meatloaf contained about half meat and half veggies. The carrots, for example, were shredded finely, grated lovingly by hand, and added to the meat. I think there was some oat bran in it too. But she flavoured it well so we could not tell--> only if we happened to pass by the kitchen as she was preparing the raw ingredients.

[Shwa Girl]

Nobody traded lunch with me at school. I had peanut butter and alfalfa sandwiches. The peanut butter was freshly ground at Bulk Barn. She didn't want the store stuff because of additives.

[dededi]

Hot dogs, I ate them up until I was in high school then a teacher told us what they are made of and I haven't had a meat Hot dog since.

[Lynn49]

We ate everything our Mom made for us...she was an excellent Ukrainian cook and baker, so no..no problems. With our kids, when they were young, I hid things like ground liver in the meatloaf, so they never knew, and cauliflower was "clouds", and broccoli were "trees" so they ate them. They were great at eating anything that was put before them...I'm a pretty good cook and baker, too...seems to run in the family, since our DD is, too. When she has time, that is!

[SunandMoon]

Back then, I didn't like veggies. Mom had to sneak veggies into meals like adding mushrooms to sloppy joes, pureed cauliflower and broccoli to cheese sauces, shredded zucchini to chocolate cake etc.

[Natalka]

When I was a kid, kishka - blood sausage. Because. Name. They didn't make us eat it, though.

-and, of course, there's a polka for that...

[Hondamanic]

^^ Me too. We had blood sausages when I was kid which I thought tasted pretty good until I found out what it was made from I stopped eating it lol.

[Lynn49]

When I was a kid, kishka - blood sausage. Because. Name. They didn't make us eat it, though.

-and, of course, there's a polka for that...

LOL...yes, I remember that, Nat! Actually I did eat it and enjoyed it. I don't think I could get it down, now, though...

[TooCouponCrazy]

Spider cookies. Nobody really explained to me why they were called that. I was afraid and assumed there were spiders in them.

[Shwa Girl]

Hey Natalka, is this polka king Yankovic related to Weird Al Yankovic?

[Shwa Girl]

We ate everything our Mom made for us...she was an excellent Ukrainian cook and baker, so no..no problems. With our kids, when they were young, I hid things like ground liver in the meatloaf, so they never knew, and cauliflower was "clouds", and broccoli were "trees" so they ate them. They were great at eating anything that was put before them...I'm a pretty good cook and baker, too...seems to run in the family, since our DD is, too. When she has time, that is!

Lynn49 I like the idea of cauliflower clouds and broccoli trees.

Just remembered that we ate kasha (buckwheat) before kasha was cool. I don't eat it today. But I will eat quinoa.

[Natalka]

Frankie and Weird Al aren't related, but they have collaborated.

Shwa Girl, I grew up eating kasha in the '60s, and still love it now.
But my bugaboo is since it's become 'trendy', prices are really high for it now - makes me nuts!

[Candini]

I didn`t like meat. I would chew and chew and leave it in my cheek until someone wasn`t looking and spit it out in a napkin.
Might have had something to do with the whole chicken (animal) chicken (dinner) realization

Today, I prefer fish over meat. But on occasion will eat steak, chicken etc