What was your favorite dish that your Mother made?

[VoteDemocratic2004]

My Mom made the best southern fried chicken with white gravy and homemade mashed potatoes and homemade creamed corn. Of course she severed it with plenty of white wonder bread.

I miss her cooking and I still can't make her fried chicken like she did.

[liberalmuse]

1. Meatloaf...

mashed potatoes, gravy and corn. I'm a vegetarian now, but can make a meatless loaf that is almost as good as the real thing.

On edit: My mom is a wicked cook and she's not into meat so much anymore. She makes the best vegetarian fare I've ever tasted.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. I must have eaten more than 5,000 of these:

http://www.taunton.com/finecooking/pages/c00146_rec01.asp

CARBS CARBS CARBS YEAH

[VoteDemocratic2004]

11. That looks good!

I marked the website thanks.

[Piperay]

3. Cheese enchiladas...

I have tried to make them like my mother but I just can't get the sauce quit right, I miss my mother. :-(

[VoteDemocratic2004]

5. I also miss my Mom

:-(

[trof]

4. Liver and onions.

She cooked it pink in the middle back before that was cool.

[2Design]

6. paprika chicken

[salinen]

7. Potato Pancakes

Yum

[VoteDemocratic2004]

8. My Mom made great Potato Pancakes

She would use leftover mashed potatoes and she would add onion to them.

[jackieforthedems]

37. Mine Too

Gee, that sounds good! My mom's been gone since 1996. :cry:

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. Shepard's pie...

I still have yet to duplicate the goodness that is my mom's Shepard's pie. I think the secret ingredient is crack or a mother's love...something like that!

[eleny]

10. Roast leg of lamb

She'd put the garlic slivers inside cut pockets - oh, man! And she'd bake potatoes and big onions all around it.

The only thing I do different is to also add fresh rosemary springs in with the garlic and sometimes lots of dry summer savory gets sprinkled all over the top like a green fur coat. And lash more rosemary all over it.

[Padraig18]

12. Beef short ribs.

They were to DIE for! *drool*

:)

[starroute]

13. None. My mother never learned how to cook

My grandmother, who lived with us, did cook, but her repertoire mostly ran to pot roast and stewed chicken with lots of garlic and paprika.

When my mother did cook, it tended to be things like scorched lamb chops. I remember being told not to mind the black bits but to eat them up because they were good for my kidneys. Or salmon croquettes. I don't even want to *think* about salmon croquettes. Or stuff out of packages.

The best food I got was on hot summer evenings when nobody wanted to cook, so they'd send me and my father down to the rotisserie chicken place with all the chickens turning round and round on spits. Boy, that smell would get my mouth watering.

If you can't tell, I *really* envy all the rest of you.

[sleepyhead]

17. my mom was a crappy cook

but her salmon croquettes were to die for. I have never been able to duplicate them. Strangely enough, I also miss her tuna noodle casserole.

[RebelYell]

29. My Mom never cooked either

We lived across the street from my Slovak grandmother, and her cooking was perfection.

I don't know what she did to pork chops, but they were so tender and golden. Sigh.

Stuffed peppers. Pierogi. Haluski.

[nemo137]

14. Potato-Pea curry

Potatoes and peas in a hot, tumericy curry sauce. From my mom's psycho vegetarian phase. We'd always have it with yogurt and pita bread.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

16. Do you know how to make that dish?

It sounds so good.

[Lefty48197]

15. Wow. Really tough choice. Probably the spaghetti

she's a great cook.

[warrior1]

19. May my mom and dad rest in peace

Dad did most of the cooking, but mom made the best corn bread dressing for Thanksgiving that there ever was. Plus chocolate meringue pie, pinto bean's and corn bread with fried potatoes and gravy, and fried cat fish.

Dad made the best fried chicken, goulash and fried pork chops.

I couldn't possibly eat like that now or I'd be big as a house, but boy was it good growing up.

They used to have really good BBQ's too.

[Skittles]

18. scalloped potatoes

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good

[zeemike]

22. Me too

And I have never been able to duplicate it for myself.

[AlCzervik]

20. My Mom was a waitress and a cook for 30 years

and she made us great stuff growing up but my all time fav was chicken parmigiana, she even had those individual dishes that you baked it in.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. Chicken beer/wine bake

and beef consume rice.

I've made it myself, but no one cooks it like my mama.

I love going home and eatin'.

What's so cool about having a step-mom as well is that I get spoiled twice!

[marigold20]

23. Roast Pork with gravy, mashed potatoes

& chocolate pie for dessert. She was a pretty good cook and was quite annoyed with the seven of us because we were always raving about the cafeteria food at school. We did love her cooking too - I guess we were just enthusiastic about ALL food.

[eyesroll]

24. My mom is, shall we say, not a cook

My dad's a good one, though -- I've inherited his knack for chicken soup (he still does it better, though).

[peekaloo]

25. Homemade Vegetable Soup or

Chicken and Rice. (sounds simple but man it was delicious). :9

She also canned and prepackaged a lot of vegetables.....her homemade creamed corn was excellent!

[Obamarama]

26. Brioche....fresh out of the oven...every Sunday morning....

She is French and learned from her grandmother how to make it. I am now the expert brioche baker in our family.

[curse10]

27. Rouladen

It's a German dish. Her lasagne also kicks ass. Unfortunately, I cannot eat either anymore. They both are meat laden. :-)

[Logansquare]

31. I loved my mom's rouladen! Sauerbrauten with ginger gravy, as well.

I'm not vegetarian, but I can't eat meat like that any more.

[Mizmoon]

28. My mom was a terrrrible cook

Once she gave me ziti pasta with swiss cheese melted on it for dinner. It was disgusting, and this is back when I though spaghetti-Os were the bomb.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

30. My Mom made the best potato soup

I just remembered that my mom use to make the best potato soup.

[Baja Margie]

32. For a farm girl from Nebraska,

she made the best tacos in town !



This is making me hungry you guys.


xxxooo

[bearfan454]

33. Carne de oya

A delcious dish from Spain.

[cally]

34. Stuffed Bell Peppers

Sort of a rice/hamburger/chili spice mixture. It's my comfort food taste to this day. They were good.

My Mom sews, knits, paints but she was not a great cook. I can name more things I hated then I liked.

On edit: My Mom might kill me if I forget this. Sorry Mom I forget the stuff I didn't see at home. My Mom's a chemist. At 76 years old she is helping my college student daughter with Chemistry.

[aQuArius]

35. Baked Carrots!

Boil some carrots in salt water, drain water, mash carrots, add crushed saltines, cheese, onion and pepper; put in caserole, top with cheese and bake! YUMMM!!! Old family recipe, You would have no idea how great they are unless you've ever tasted them. A family favorite for EVERY holiday... even Arbor Day!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

36. Fried chicken,

white rice, and peanut butter gravy. It didn't have peanut butter in it, it was just as THICK as peanut butter and made from scratch from the pan drippings, flour, whole milk and salt and pepper.

My GOD. The gravy was thick enough to slather on the fried chicken and it'd stay there. Then you'd just roll it in the salty white rice.

Served with ice tea and greens. Jello for dessert (hey it was the 70s).

[jackieforthedems]

38. My Favorite Was Chili

Which I can duplicate pretty well.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

39. chipped beef casserole and pumpkin bars