My Mom was a good cook

37chief · Jul 5, 2017

Growing up I didn't realize my Mom was a good cook, until a friend stayed over night. He told me your Mom is a good cook. Dad raised lima beans. Mom could really make them taste good. We ate a lot of Lima's. That's probably why I was always a little puggy, and still am. My wife is also a great cook. Stan

1Plowboy · Jul 5, 2017

Yes! Mom was a good cook, we are German decent and Mom made a lot of traditional foods, She's gone now and boy do I wish I had paid more attention when she was cooking. I can make a few things but there are so many I would love to have again. After a lot of trial and error I did however come up with some good Kuchen. (Pronounced coo-gen for those that don't Know.

1Plowboy · Jul 5, 2017

Yes! Mom was a good cook, we are German decent and Mom made a lot of traditional foods, She's gone now and boy do I wish I had paid more attention when she was cooking. I can make a few things but there are so many I would love to have again. After a lot of trial and error I did however come up with some good Kuchen. (Pronounced coo-gen for those that don't Know).

1Plowboy · Jul 5, 2017

Sorry for the double post!

rrlund · Jul 5, 2017

My wife's a great cook,but my mother wasn't all that great. She boiled way too many things. I remember boiled chicken with the heart on the platter. I guess she tried,but she could have taken a few lessons somewhere. Salt and pepper were about the only spices she knew.

Ande · Jul 5, 2017

Geez that looks good! For me, either ice cold milk, or very hot cup of coffee with it!

SweetFeet · Jul 5, 2017

37 Chief,

At my FIL's funeral, an old woman from the neighborhood where my husband grew up, rubbed my husband's stomach and commented, "I see your wife is a very good cook."

We both laughed... but I couldn't believe she said that to him.

David G · Jul 5, 2017

I love baby lima beans.

Larry EC-OH · Jul 5, 2017

Well, I learned something tonight! I'm half German and I've never heard of this before.
Google says it the official state desert of South Dakota.

Who knew? I'll have to make some. Do you have fruit in yours?

Larry

Mike(NEOhio) · Jul 5, 2017

I'm Italian, the wife is German. Both our mothers were good cooks. She grew up on a farm and was cooking since about 12. When we were first married my mom and grandma taught her all the Italian dishes so I get both. When I was a kid I thought we were poor because I had home made bread and to other kids had that nice fluffy wonder bread in their sandwiches.

Eldon (WA) · Jul 5, 2017

My mother is a good cook, but even she will not cook lima beans!

Eldon (WA) · Jul 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 15:25:58 07/05/17) Yes! Mom was a good cook, we are German decent and Mom made a lot of traditional foods, She's gone now and boy do I wish I had paid more attention when she was cooking. I can make a few things but there are so many I would love to have again. After a lot of trial and error I did however come up with some good Kuchen. (Pronounced coo-gen for those that don't Know.

My dad's side of the family was German, but I never had Kuchen until I went to college in Aberdeen. We had a young girl at work that would make any flavor you wanted...so I would buy them from her. Also learned what tiger meat was. I would guess you are from northern SD??

Goose · Jul 5, 2017

My mother was a great cook. Pies, cakes, main dishes, she made everything from scratch without bothering to look at a recipe. She had it all in her head.

My wife is not that bad of a cook, but I'll have to admit she's not in the same league as my mother.

Paul from MI · Jul 5, 2017

Mom was a great cook, nothing fancy, just meat and potatoes type stuff. my wife's family were horrible cooks, just didn't have the feel for it. Fortunately she took after Mom and is a wonderful cook. Being out of something doesn't phase her a bit, she'll find a substitute and keep on going. She makes potato salad just like Mom's, no recipe just does it. Granddaughters have tried to follow her with limited success. Her specialty was coming home from work and having a good, not fancy, meal on the table in 15 minutes. Good thing I'm 6'3" cause 270# wouldn't look good on a shorter guy.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 5, 2017

My grandmother was a very good cook,my mother pretty good but my wife beats them all hands down.

Dell (WA) · Jul 5, 2017

Stan........my Mom was a so-so cook, infact my Dad tought her how to cook. ...BUT... she could put together a chocolate sheet cake fer Dad's Boy Scouts meeting in nothing flat while she was serving whatever fer supper. One fall, Dad brought home 1/2 gunnysack of pinto beans. (the ones with freckles) Boy did we live well that winter. (toot-toot, eh?) My job growing up was the garden. I hadda row of rhubarb plants anna hook-bill linoleum knife. The deer didn't/wouldn't eat the leaves 'cuz they was posionious, so my job was to harvest the stems and bring'em in fer mom to boil down like applesauce. She called it rhubarb compote...whatever...it was DELICIOUS on vanilla icecream. I was brought up, eat whatever been cooked and served on the dinner table. Dad LOVED lima beans; me? gotta choke'em down. Altho sometimes a ham-hock inna the beans kinda made it eazier........hummmn, now WHY am I hungry? Dell

dzc3 · Jul 5, 2017

I enjoyed good cooks on both sides of the family. My wife is an excellent cook, I am walking proof. When we were dating, I called it Wife Apprenticeship. She was going to cook while I was working in the field. I came in at supper and was told "you ran out of propane" I took it as code word that we were eating at a restaurant. Nope she had cooked everything in two different electric skillets she found. It was roast beef baked potatoes and green beans. She even baked an apple pie in the other one from apples she picked while checking to farm out. Needless to say she was why ahead of any competition. 39 years and still going strong.

dlbuck · Jul 5, 2017

My Mom was a great cook , except for roast beef. Always dry, she was afraid rare beef would kill you, it would drive her crazy when I would cut a piece of raw beef and eat it. Now if had my Grandma's recipe for pickled beef heart and tongue I would be a happy man. She just made it, nothing written down. That and her cole slaw. Sadly Alziemers took the recipe.

olgentdc · Jul 5, 2017

no doubt chief ,, I bet My MOM was a Better cook LOL ,, the neighbor kids always liket to get a plate at our table ,when we needed extra helpers ,. ,,.day after day , especially summertime .many a meal we could look at the fine full bounty of good food fixin , and except for the salt and pepper ,,..we raised it all, rite down to the jelly and butter from the cream of our own milk cows,. even the flour in our homemade bread came from the Lanesville Milling Co .who Dad sold our wheat to for the double market rate , OUR WHEAT WAS GARLIC FREE ,unlike most of the neighborhood wheat fields. the whole family handpikt the garlic out of the wheat starting 1st week in june . dad and mom provided well ,and i consider myself lucky and truely Blessed . they taught us to give it all we had ,, not to complain unless there was a injustice,, and by damcomedown hard then to make it rite

olgentdc · Jul 5, 2017

hot dawgs , you got it made,. man

OldFarmall450 · Jul 6, 2017

I didn't think my mom was that good a cook until I had supper at a friend's house...I learned why he hung around come supper time.
We lived off fresh garden veggies and meat, mostly. But plenty of meatless meals: beans, fried tators, cornbread, sliced tomatoes always a hit.
Mom chickenfried a deer from its nose to its toes!
My favorite was chickenfried backstrap, scratch biscuits dad called "catheads ", fried eggs, homemade gravy, Folgers coffee.
Damm I miss them

Bruce from Can. · Jul 6, 2017

My mother started to enter things into the county fair in her early 60's . Pies, cakes, rolls, cupcakes, bread , rolls, chelsea buns , Christmas cake , as well as preserves , such as canned fruit , jams , and pickles , relish . You can only imagine how thrilled she was when on her second year she took the over all champion prize in Domestic arts. We where so proud and happy for her. She entered things into the fair up until her death at 84 . Mother loved to cook , bake garden , and doing flower arranging .
My wife is also a very good cook and felt much pressure to measure up to my mothers cooking , but she does just fine . Sometimes I tease her that the pie she make taste almost as good as my mom's pie did, maybe make another , and get some more practice , lol. I should be as big as a barn , with all of the good food I have been given, but I must work it off . Bruce

PaGlenn · Jul 6, 2017

My mother was a good cook until my grandmother died. Then I knew where most of the dinners came from. I hated lima beans until I got a recipe from my MIL. She cooked baby limas and added butter and raw dinner rolls in the tube to the water after boiling. Comers out a white sauce with the dough balls floating in it with the limas. taste better the next day when the sauce coagulates. I always thought plain limas on the plate tasted dry.

Crazy Horse · Jul 6, 2017

My dad was a naval cook on a Canadian corvette (HMCS Hepatica) in WWII. He used to do a lot of cooking at home when I grew up after the war , my mom was a good cook too. Dad was a master at bacon and eggs ....... and he always said, "There's only one thing better than a prime rib and that's two prime ribs." Ha, I always thought that was pretty funny.

fixerupper · Jul 6, 2017

When my parents were married my mother didn't know how to cook. Her mother didn't like kids or anyone else in the kitchen so mom was never taught. She did become a very good cook after she and dad married. Her first meals were cooked on a cob fired kitchen range.

Marilyn is a different story. She is the oldest girl in a family of 17 so she learned early. The only problem she has is she doesn't seem to know how to cook in small portions. When she makes a pot of stew it lasts us a week! Having Celiac disease she has become a very good gluten free cook. Her gluten free pie crusts are to die for!

db4600 · Jul 6, 2017

Fet Kuchen, Date Kuchen, Poppyseed Kuchen. Made with sweet cream from farm milk. The poppyseed would probably throw a red flag on todays drug tests!

Fleischkiegel, Blaukraut, ham hocks, German potato salad.....

Darn, I getting hungry!

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