Food your parents fed you

I use ground beef/venison, sausage, bacon, 3 kinds of beans, tomato paste, ketchup, spices, brown sugar and a splash of bourbon.

 

1/4 cup Sorghum syrup
1 tablespoon butter

Mix together

Dip “cat head” biscuits in the mix.

Healthy? No.
Tasty? Yes.

 

That's pretty much how I make my meat sauce for pasta (with different spices, obviously). Chili would be boring if it were the same.

 

I do tomato sauce instead of tomato paste and ketchup and a half bottle of beer instead of bourbon.

 

My dad worked for Kellogg's for almost 30 years, we ate a laaaaaaaaaaht of cereal.

Show me your age.....
Who also remembers growing up with
Kellogg's SUGAR Frosted Flakes!?

 

I grew up being told real chili has neither beans nor tomatoes...though I like all versions. My family recipe has origins in TX....ymmv of course...

 

So yours is just ground venison and spices?

 

Ours was cubed steak, spices, onions, beef stock and chiles....I don't remember the exact recipe. I really do need to get it from my mom. I never had a venison recipe until I was young adult when a co-worker brought some in. His was delicious too, no tomatoes or beans though. Chili is one of those foods where I've liked nearly every one I've ever tried....just some more than others. I don't consider vegetarian chili to be chili...even though some of them taste ok as a side dish, but not as a meal.

 

That sounds pretty good. I'd take that recipe if you get your hands on it and it's not a family secret.

I also love pretty much any chili so it sucks that my wife is both vegetarian and hates it. The only time vegetarian chili is better is at our church chili lunch every year. The "regular" chili is just a watery mix of ground beef and tomatoes while the vegetarian stuff has onions, mushrooms, peppers, spices and some other good stuff like that. I usually sneak half a bowl of vegetarian stuff if I can swing it and mix it with the regular chili.

 

They used to try and force us to eat beets, like EVERY dinner, and I am not sure if they couldn't afford anything else or what, but it was seriously every night. Not having to eat those anymore was the best part of the divorce....

I used to wait until they were not looking and stuff them in my napkin!

 

Whats funny is I have been thinking about my childhood food lately as well. I remember my Dad cracking an egg over about a cup of rice, just straight up mixing it together and serving it to me as yellow rice. Yup, rice with a raw egg is what I spent several years eating as a kid. Im 34 now and I think I turned out fine .

 

it depended heavily on the day... LOL.. frosted flakes was usually the stuff, because there was never enough time to do anything else... unless the neighbors got raided... then we had some eggs and bacon as we had to wait for over an hour for them to clear with the occasional INS excuse note as to why were late to school that day.

 

I think we're about the same age, lots of space based food stuff. I remember something else coming in a tube but can't remember what it was. Of course there was Tang. Do they even still make it?

 

I do add stewed chili tomatoes, onions, and sometimes throw in a fresh jalapeño. NO BEANS

 

In the north, chili has to have beans. It’s built in gas heating!
Seriously though, as a northerner with midwest heritage, chili always has beans, and usually multiple kinds.

 

That is why we call it Yankee chili down here. If you were to put beans in chili and enter a chili contest they would dump it out on the ground

 

You can take an arse whooping in Texas for putting beans in chili...

 

And jalapeno's...

 

My mom and dad worked in a factory, there were days dad would make over cooked eggs but turned sour in the stomach, makes me wonder how old the eggs were. If not that I mostly had cold cereal in the morning. Stuff like Quisp, Capt Crunch and Vitamin King (those pics brought back memories). On weekends we would now and then have scrapple. Which is a PA Dutch meal with pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. Still like that today but it is high in salt/fat.

 

Sugar is inflammatory. And we eat sugar all day every day. The inflammation is in your veins, arteries, organs. Heart disease, vascular disease, DM, Parkinson, dementia, cancer, etc. Salt should be monitored but the issue is mass inflammation from sugar (a carb is a carb).
Obvious we should avoid as many processed foods. But there's a reason why we are not educated on side effects of sugar, only salt. Docs and nurses pass out coca cola to patients getting chemotherapy like they're helping them.
The sugar increases oxidative stress

 

Don't get me wrong, I hate sugar as much as I hate salt. I'm just saying you don't need to add salt to food; the food itself has plenty of flavour.

 

Yep, I will throw in some fresh jalapeño when I have some. When I make venison backstrap I always top with fresh (not pickled) jalapeños and then wrap with bacon. My brother fussed at me once for bringing fresh ones to deer lease. I told him pickled are only good for some quickie nachos.

 

Some things are just best left forgotten. This crap was like eating soft Tootsie rolls.

 

I like liver and onions, especially the way my wife makes it. OTH, when my mom cooked any kind of liver, it was like eating clay. She always overcooked it.

 

I grew up with pretty poor in the back woods on a river in my home town and a lot of what we ate was what we caught or hunted. I made better for myself and if someone try’s to make me eat another freshwater fish, we will fight.

 

Chicken, chicken and more chicken....Guess what I eat today almost every night? Chicken

 

powdered milk here.
One time at the dinner table we all got into an argument about the taste, and how real milk tastes a lot better. My parents challenged me that I could not taste the difference. i.e. an 8 year old wasn't worth the extra coin for real milk.
A few days later, they brought home some real milk, served it at dinner time and didn't tell anyone. I was the only one at the table that said... wait a minute, this milk tastes great!
We went to real milk from that day forward.

 

I'm watching George Carlin right now:
"Sauteed raccoon assholes on a stick"

 

Most mornings it was cereal, capt crunch, fruity pebbles, frosted flakes to name a few, As we got older those changes some to wheaties, rasian bran etc.
Sometimes in the cold new england winter mom would make us pan cakes before school.

There for a few years after we moved to CA we were on our own for breakfast, which I started to skip. On the weekends before my paper route I would hit a donut shop and get hyped up LOL.

When we moved here to okie land, it was still a on your own type thing but mom started cooking more eggs and bacon in the mornings, she always cooked dinner and she could cook.
When I started hauling hay she would normally send me off for the day with a big meal of eggs, bacon sausage toast, or biscuits and gravy.
That only lasted a few years and then everyone was pretty much on their own.

To this day I rarely eat breakfast, I did today, pancakes and bacon, but thats rare, Normally I grab a coke and get to work.