Flashback Friday

This week Linda has asked us about meals from our childhood. What a great topic!

My Flashback:

We ate together as a family for supper for as long as I can remember. Mom would typically cook the meals. And she was a great cook. She always made wonderful meals for us as well as for church fellowships.

My favorite meal was goulash. I still ask for it when we go to visit. My Mom made some wonderful dishes also with squash from our garden---fried, boiled, mashed, and a casserole. I remember when she made a certain kind of Hamburger Helper and I'd eat it on bread with creamed corn mixed with it. I'm not sure why that was so good to me but I liked it! My least favorite was hamburger gravy. I make a face when she tells me in an email that she made that for supper.

We ate at our kitchen table and I remember when I was older we sat in the living room with tray tables.

We went out to eat some. At different times I remember going out for Sunday lunch after church or in the evenings on Sunday nights we'd often go with a group from church to Dairy Queen or Taco Bell. When my Dad worked shift work, Mom and I often ordered a pizza when he was working evenings. Or we would pick something up and take it to him.

I don't feel I am anywhere near as good a cook as my Mom. She is so good at "just knowing" recipes or making them up. I always call her to ask how to prepare certain dishes. I was proud the first time I fixed a roast in the crock pot without getting directions from her. haha She taught me a lot of things in the kitchen when I was making sweets for 4-H our county fair or the food show. In the summers we also did some canning with things from the garden. She always told me it was so easy, just cut it up and add water. This makes me laugh because it was never that easy to me!

Have a day of blessings!