A first for me - Friday Five
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Doing this one because it's food and the content is sorta appropriately nostalgic for me right now.
1. What foods did you eat growing up that you later found out were regional items? (specific brands or recipes that you thought everyone could buy or make)
City chicken and ham bbq (Pittsburgh-style) with chipped ham. (FTR - we never used this sort of recipe for our ham bbq sandwiches.)
2. Ham or turkey at Christmas and Easter? Or was there some other main course not typical for your area or religion?
Both. My mom started doing it, as she told it to me, because of hanging out with Polish families. Ham and turkey for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. (My sister now almost never serves turkey or ham because she got so sick of it.)
3. What was your favorite meal served at your elementary school?
No such thing. Small parochial school - we all brought our own lunches.
4. What family recipes have been handed down to you, and have you tweaked any of them a little bit to make them more yours?
Lasagna is one. No meat in my version though. Plus, while Mom doled out each cheese on the layer separately, I mix mine all together with an egg.
One interesting twist to "handing down a recipe" was sort of reversed. Mom had a recipe she liked to make for Irish Soda bread, but it was always *very* dry and I never found it very appetizing. A friend with Irish relatives gave me her family's recipe which I tried soon after. Mom was a little put out when the bread I made was gobbled up and hers was ignored. She switched recipes immediately and within a short time all her friends started referring to it as *her* Irish Soda bread recipe. *g*
5. Are there foods/recipes you wouldn't eat as a child that you now regularly enjoy?
Tomatoes are probably the biggest thing - at least that I can think of right now.
Doing this one because it's food and the content is sorta appropriately nostalgic for me right now.
1. What foods did you eat growing up that you later found out were regional items? (specific brands or recipes that you thought everyone could buy or make)
City chicken and ham bbq (Pittsburgh-style) with chipped ham. (FTR - we never used this sort of recipe for our ham bbq sandwiches.)
2. Ham or turkey at Christmas and Easter? Or was there some other main course not typical for your area or religion?
Both. My mom started doing it, as she told it to me, because of hanging out with Polish families. Ham and turkey for Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter. (My sister now almost never serves turkey or ham because she got so sick of it.)
3. What was your favorite meal served at your elementary school?
No such thing. Small parochial school - we all brought our own lunches.
4. What family recipes have been handed down to you, and have you tweaked any of them a little bit to make them more yours?
Lasagna is one. No meat in my version though. Plus, while Mom doled out each cheese on the layer separately, I mix mine all together with an egg.
One interesting twist to "handing down a recipe" was sort of reversed. Mom had a recipe she liked to make for Irish Soda bread, but it was always *very* dry and I never found it very appetizing. A friend with Irish relatives gave me her family's recipe which I tried soon after. Mom was a little put out when the bread I made was gobbled up and hers was ignored. She switched recipes immediately and within a short time all her friends started referring to it as *her* Irish Soda bread recipe. *g*
5. Are there foods/recipes you wouldn't eat as a child that you now regularly enjoy?
Tomatoes are probably the biggest thing - at least that I can think of right now.