QOTD #50

What was your Mom’s go-to dish?

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Meatloaf... she taught me to make it at an early age. I seem to remember that ketchup and egg and garlic salt went into a blender and then got kneaded into the ground beef.

Kyle_Swanbeck_13795

I think my Mom's go-to dish would be her Mac and Cheese. It is super simple and delicious. To this day I still make it for myself and think about it whenever I smell melting cheddar or cheese in the oven.

anthony_34093

pasta e fagioli

FrankM_3301

spaghetti and meatballs

Johan_Edstrom_5586

Chicken - roasted.

https://plus.google.com/+JohanEdstrom/posts/FZgsydmu3k9

Ben_Johnson_34605

Anything with hamburger. I ate a lot of hamburgers and tacos growing up. Sometimes we would do something crazy like sloppy joes.

Gaeton_62014

Dead baby - 500gms of beef mince just blended with 250ml of tomato sauce, baked in a loaf tin. No seasoning. When you cut it it would ooze tomato sauce like a dead/dying baby. Tasted awful and was the inspiration for me becoming a chef. You can do better than that

Brandon_Byrd_40557

I don't think she really had a go-to dish, but rather a set of go-to dishes that made up her regular rotation... spaghetti with meat sauce, meatloaf, pork chops, salmon loaf, the occasional boneless/skinless chicken breast prepared in various ways. On the weekend, my dad would grill steaks and burgers... for a time there, he would break out a wok for Chinese stir fry. Velveeta/Rotel dip was a standard accompaniment to burgers. Sometimes my mom would mix it into grits. Now I do an upscale version with good cheese and sodium citrate. Takes me back.

tshewman

more of a basic meal....meat (any kind), mashed potatoes and iceberg lettuce salad with bottled french or catalina dressing with bread and sugar with milk for desert.

Davide_Tassinari_86770

Oh man. There's more than one, but probably fried chicken, although it's not the fried chicken you're thinking of.

A classic main course beloved by Italian children is cotoletta alla milanese: when my brother and I were young, it being the '90s, my mother used chicken breast instead of the traditional (and more expensive) veal rib. Being picky kids, we insisted that the meat be sliced impossibly thin, so that we got more of the tasty breading and less of the bland flavourless meat.

I'm well into my 30s, my brother is in his late 20s, but whenever we both are at my mum's we insist (nay, demand) that she fries at least a breast's worth of paper-thin "cutlets". To date, not a single one was ever left on the centre plate, no matter how many were fried.

(The only other dishes we make a point of honour to always polish off are pizza and uccelletti scappati, that in my family means tiny beef carpaccio rolls stuffed with prosciutto and cheese, in tomato sauce. Incidentally, that's what I cooked for myself tonight.)

Johan_Edstrom_5586

That sounds pretty epic

HammeredChef_DEFINITELY_does_NOT_work_at_22134

Oh yea, those "Sloppy Joes" were living on the edge, an adventurous culinary experience at my house.

jordan_poudrier_74905

Spagehetti and red sauce, frozen lasagna, anything with the minimal amount of work really =/

DiggingDogFarm_65362

Steak and taters.

Kristina_27062

In the winter, my mom would make chili for days. In the summer, everything that could go on the grill went on the grill.

e_lancaster2002

Hamburger rice-a-roni, which was a grosser, mushier version of hamburger helper.

"Brown" the hamburger, dump the rice-a-roni in the pan with the season packet, then pour the necessary water over. Cook for 20 minutes, and feed to your unsuspecting children.

The worst thing is, I recently had picadillo criollo at a nearby Cuban restaurant. It was so good I made it at home, with the requisite yellow rice. When I looked at my plate I realized I had, essentially, made hamburger rice-a-roni. Now I don't think I can ever eat it again. 😞

e_lancaster2002

Bread and sugar with milk? Is that like a bread and butter and sugar sandwich?

tshewman

Not at all. Think bread cereal. Tear up a piece of bread and put it in a bowl, sprinkle some sugar on it and pour milk over it. Thinking back I ask myself WTF? :-)

e_lancaster2002

Wow...