/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Canned beans in a tortilla as the most generic burrito in the world.

>>13568682
holy shit. Were they at least refried beans?

My mom could cook just fine, but she did make some typically "trashy" meals from time to time for ease and comfort

Namely, this shit with some sliced hot dogs mixed in. Kraft macaroni and cheese with canned peas mixed in. And of course, Manwich brand sloppy joe mix for Sloppy Joes. Those were the big three "fuck it" dinners we had, I loved it all as a kid though so I'd be lying if I were to pretend otherwise. What I really hated was all the pasta she made, she's very proud of her pasta sauce that she always spent hours cooking and made wayyyy to much of so that we'd be eating it for the whole week to finish it, too much of anything will turn you against it

>>13568674
Ground beef with macaroni noodle in soy sauce. It was decent

>>13568674
>She would brown ground hamburger in a pan and mix it into a tub of sour cream and just plate it up. She called it "cream of beef".

At least put it on some egg noodles or something.

>>13568704
I gagged a little desu

Goulash. Macaroni noodles mixed with cooked ground beef and ketchup.

This weird mac and cheese concoction, the combination of ingredients makes no sense but he's really proud of it for some reason. I don't have the heart to tell him we all fucking hate it and he can't cook.

"chicken parm" which consisted of chicken nuggets, spaghetti sauce and shredded cheese. I really need to make it to see how bad it actually tasted.

my parents can cook, they just dont cook the shit i like. i havent boiled a vegetable since i left home, never will again. also, ill never cook rice/pilaf in chicken broth ever again.

>>13568824
they should have at least sprung for the mix that also has lima beans. that would make it more palatable

>>13568824
desu looks perfectly serviceable. It;s just mac and cheese and veggies how could that be bad?

>>13568702
I see the beans, but where's the pork?

>>13569042
It mystified me through my entire youth....

Truth is, those cans of beans actually come with like a hunk of pork fat in the can and are flavored with like...pork juice or some shit. As a kid I didn't get it, my mom called it "pork and beans" and I always throught the "pork" must have been the hot dogs, but then the can said pork and beans....and it was just beans and sauce

But yeah, basically they have pork flavor and have a small hunk of pork in the can just marinating

>>13569095
Ahh

>>13568674
Both my parents can cook and all of my grandparents. The weirdest thing was something my maternal grandmother called "shit on a shingle". or SOS but hey at least it was an actual recipe. Wasn't that bad I guess.

https://www.nutmegnanny.com/sos-creamed-beef-recipe/

I also miss raisin biscuits. granny called them squashed ant cookies..

My dad could only kind of cook five things, so for most of my childhood, I ate the same five things every week. The weird thing is, I don't even remember this, but my sister and brother both remember it, and even showed me the old note on my fridge where my dad wrote down the days of the week and what meal we would have for dinner on that day. I guess it was just so common it was entirely unmemorable to me. I do remember the handful of times he tried something different and it didn't work because he burnt the food or he made fried fish and right before dinner my brother and I watched an episode of Batman where Joker made Joker fish and neither of us wanted to eat fish. But anyways, I'm grateful for my dad and those five things he could kind of cook.
Oh, and I remember my grandma once put green beans in lime jello, and my sister and I were like that doesn't go in lime jello grandma what are you doing.

Good ol bread'n'gravy. Literally just white bread and brown gravy. We weren't even poor or anything, my dad just had the taste of a college freshman.

rice ground beef potato and tomato in one pan with some water

>>13568674
My mother knew how to cook but before I became the second cook in the house my father would always make some soup concoction

>>13568682
just add a squirt of sour cream and its bomb. squirtable sour cream has been the best thing my wife discovered.

>>13568702
>too much of anything will turn you against it
the never ending beef and eggs from my moms cooking (meatloaf, hamburger helper and scrambled eggs, not at the same time) in one form or another turned me vegetarian for 4 1/2 years. I'd said the thing that did me in was when she started making souffle's made with egg. 2 decades later and I love scrambled eggs I'm thinkin' I need to start cooking meatloaf more often. you cu/cks even got me cooking fisherman's egg's; never would thought I'd be eating sardines.

>>13568704
shoulda had hamburger helper cheeseburger macaroni. cheese is yummy. you can keep the soy.

>>13568674
cream of beef sounds fuckin' bomb. wrapped it up in a tortilla, add a lil' green yucateca hotsauce and you're good to go. thank your mom for me!

>>13568824
next time tell 'em to put some tuna. mac'n'cheese, tuna and peas.

>>13570029
poor/lazy man's bisuit and gravy? my parents would server hot turkey slices on break covered in brown gravey. You can get the hot turkey slices and brown gravey in a box in the freeze section. I guess most folks might call that shit on a shingle, but my parents don't curse so I never heard that one till I got married to my wife (her parents are degenerates)

>>13570066
this sounds good. nice double dubs.

>>13568824

>>13568674
My dad would make these and add breakfast sausage and canned mushrooms. Sounds disgusting but it seemed good when you were a kid.

>>13570767
>https://www.nutmegnanny.com/sos-creamed-beef-recipe/
They still sell them. Tried one a couple of years ago just to see what it tastes like. Disappointment.

My mom would make chicken thighs 3-5 nights a week, just a bunch of thighs on a baking sheet covered with paprika. Made me really hate chicken since I never realized it could be made any other way. Well, she also used to make breaded chicken tenderloins but I had no idea that was the same animal as the thighs because the breaded chicken (she only called them cutlets) was pretty good and the thighs were just fucking awful.

For the guy who had frank and beans all the time.. I had that too but it was only by special request lol, since I was a kid I loved it

Dad food examples: Bush's baked beans with Oscar Meyer hotdogs, Heinz barbecue sauce and Kraft macaroni and cheese.
Hilshire Farms Li'l Smokies stirfried with onions and Mt Olive pickled banana peppers then served with instant rice (this one is actually good af, 2bh).
Chicken Rice a Roni with cut up Perdue grilled chicken strips and Birdseye pearl onions with a side of Green Giant spinach nuked with butter and onion salt.
Kraft bacon ranch Suddenly Pasta Salad with Perdue grilled chicken strips and Green Giant frozen peas.

My mother's Euro, so she actually cooked.

>>13568710
>When newfaggots use greentext wrong it is jarring. Notice how weird this is?

>>13570828
>unironically getting assmad about meme arrows

>tfw when some other guy used greentext correctly but >>13570828 didn't

A cup of ketchup and a cold hot dog.

>>13570138
yet you will never make it

>>13568824
It's like a pasta-cheesy macédoine.

Pan-fried chicken breast pieces. No spices except salt. Sometimes she'd add onions but she never caramelized them enough.

>>13570828
The ironing

>>13568824
add some capers and onion to that bitch

>>13570953
>The ironing
>cant tell the guy intentionally mimicked the shitty greentexter

>>13571107
But he didn't mimic anyone. He (you) is (are) simply wrong.

Meat pie sandwiches

>>13571121
he >>13570828 is mimicking >>13568710 to show how bad >>13568710 's use of greentext is
and you have to be a peanut brain third world nigger to not see that

>>13571144
Dear me, you're both halfs of a whole idiot, aren't ya buddy? He (you) should really read the OP then realise how fucking retarded he (you) truly fucking are.

>>13568674

>>13570828
>>13571107
>>13571144
>being this wrong
picrel lol

You should be grateful.

>white trash sushi
Sliced deli ham smeared with cream cheese and then rolled over a pickle and sliced
>chinese chicken salad
finely minced cabbage and carrot, either crushed garlic or minced green onion, throw in large chunks of cooked chicken breast, crush a package or two of instant ramen and put them in, dress with soy sauce sesame oil pepper and salt
>kraft with little bits of hot dog
>pig in blankets that were just hot dogs or lil smokies in crescent rolls
>mexican casserole
leftover rice covered in canned green chilies, canned black beans, canned tomatoes, occassionally a can of corn, whatever leftover meat can be shredded, sauteed onions, and shredded cheddar on top
>german dinner
Kielbasa baked in a pan with a can of saurkraut served with boiled potatoes
>bubble and squeak
all of the leftovers from st. patties dinner- corned beef, cabbage, potatoes- fried together until crispy

And I loved all of it!

My family definitely struggled and my parents weren't good cooks. We had a lot of your typical bland, cheap dinners.

>Microwaved salisbury steaks, instant mashed potatoes, and a canned vegetable
>Meatloaf also with instant mashed potatoes, and a canned vegetable
>"Hamburger Helper" which was a concoction of ground beef and whatever pasta/sauce was on sale
>"Beef soup" which was grounded beef and canned potatoes, peas, corn, and green beans. The broth was the water from the cans
>Occasionally, chicken tenderloins or pork chops with pic related but the grocery store's brand
>When on sale, Spaghettios and Chef Boyardee Ravioli

Not gonna lie. I still get Spaghettios every now and again when I have a terrible cold only because of the nostalgia of eating a can while watching The Price is Right while home sick from school.

>>13568824
Not bad desu. Looks like the beginning so of a casserole or something you'd whip together with "this and that" that is laying around your fridge and pantry.

>>>13568847
My mom made something like that, too. It wasn't uncommon for her to mix chicken nuggets into pasta or boxed rice

>>13568702
>macaroni and cheese with canned peas mixed in
i had a roommate who did this and i cant figure out why
youre adding salt on top of salt

>>13568674
If you didn't get food poisoning they could cook. So fucking sick of you entitled brats expecting every home meal to be on par with Denny's or some shit. Grow up.

>>13571929
>Implying shit parenting doesn't exist
Well I am fucking sick of entitled boomers who LARP as if they survived war when their biggest problem in their lifetime was paying a second house.

>>13571213
That was gross. You're gross.

>>13570828
retard

>>13570760
ths is comically retarded

>>13572679
>still chomping the bait after he uses fucking Denny's as the comparison for good cooking

>>13571213
sauce/more?

>>13569183
Lold

>>13571929
Jesus I hope to god it's at least on par with Denny's. Denny's is the worst trash I've ever eaten, worse than microwave meals or instant ramen for three days.

>>13570816
Your brand loyalty is an advertisers dream.

>>13573230
>she can't afford name brands
You're so poor, it's disgusting. You oughtta be ashamed.

>>13569183
Dead fly biscuits

chipped ham bbqs

i used to hate them as a kid, but now i make them once a month. you take chopped ham, which is deli ham shaved super thin. you throw it in a pot with a little butter and let it heat through.

sauce is 1/2 cup ketchup, 1 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tsp sweet pickle relish, 1 tbsp worchestire sauce, 1 tsp mustard, and shake of onion and garlic powder. it’s a sweet bbq sauce but it’s good.

Both of my parents were ok cooks. They'd make some of the stuff posted itt from time to time (sloppy joes, hamburger helper, beans and Weiner's). The only thing that bothered me was my mom had tendency to over cool meat and my dad would always put way too much garlic in certain foods

>>13573301
>chipped ham bbqs
never heard of this one...sounds like a salt bomb

>>13573316
it’s popular in western pennsylvania, the sweet bbq sauce tones down the salt

>>13573301
that actually sounds pretty comfy for a slop meal

>>13573252
>she
tf is wrong with you

>>13573301

You from Pittsburgh too? Not too many people outside western PA have ever seen chipped ham. My old man would make this shit when my mom wasn't around.

Another dad food was fried egg sandwiches. Egg, two pieces of toast, a piece of cheese, and some Italian dressing to taste. Was actually pretty fucking good.

>>13568702
>Manwich brand sloppy joe mix for Sloppy Joes

This stuff is tasty and its Sloppy Joes, ya fucking cunt, not Kobe beef. Oops, too soon?

>>13572737
>>13572929
duality of man

>>13569831
I cracked a smile at the green beans in jello

>>13568674
My parents never cooked a single thing for me as far as i can remember. They just let me pick out whatever i wanted from the store and cook it myself.

>>13570114
>wife discovered squirtable cream
>wife squirtable cream
>squirtable

>>13568674
Literally nothing. Everything I consumed as a child was a processed meal in a box or bag warmed in the microwave or toaster. The most parental input on the food was paying for it. I fucking wish I had the luxury of even canned goods. I got so fucking sick of microwave crap that I don't even own a microwave and my kids don't know how to use one either.

>>13573341
nothing. i just wanted her to know that her poverty disgusts me. is that so wrong?

>>13571929
Denny's is dogshit

>>13573252
Idiot, I mean that everything you listed has a specific brand name attached to it. No one fucking cares, just list the food you autistic. Marketers love you.

>>13573415
yeah, monroeville here

my fried egg sandwiches are a bit different. mancini’s bread, egg, mayo, bacon and tomato

>>13568824
How do you hate this? This is perfectly serviceable poor people quick food. Peas in mac n cheese is delicious.

>>13568674
Non-meaty boi here. My fucking dad threw out the ramen powder and just boiled the instant noodles in soy sauce water. We were kind of poor and ate it often. I've since become a decent cook but I'll still make it from time to time simply because of nostalgia/stockholm. Also called it "roman" noodles for at least 13 years. Pasta came from Italy, after all.

Funny thing is he owns 3 vegan restaurants now and is a great cook. Whenever I tell him about the retarded shit he used to make me as a child (a mayonnaise bagel with green olives on top for breakfast was another one) he denies ever making it. It's hilarious how self conscious he is about how terrible a culinary goof he used to be.

>>13571318
These all sound great anon, wish I was you

>>13571318
Pigs in a blanket are so damn bomb

>>13573636
>she's still mad
All these flavors and you choose to be Morton's salty. Must be that time of the month, eh? Sorry you've got pussy problems on top of your crippling destitution, sweetheart, but some people like nice things. :^)

>>13568674
Marina sauce on grilled chicken and 5 min rice

>>13568674
its not that they couldnt cook but they had babby palates and never wanted to try anything new

>steak
>ground beef ortega tacos
>london broil
>spaghetti with meat sauce
>pizza hut thin crust with pepperoni
>dinty moore beef stew
>publix chicken
>broiled pork chops until they were shoe leather
>charcoal'd burgers
>pasta with butter and parmesan cheese
>always creamed corn, corn, canned peas or mashed potatoes on side

literally every single week, without fail. when i was in middle school they worked longer hours so stuffed the freezer with mini tacos, frozen pizza and hot pockets. i started cooking myself when i was like 11 or 12 so id make pasta or fried rice and uncomplicated shit like that to eat real food whenever they were gone so i didnt have to microwave shit.

>some chicken korma, i think

>>13568710
Add some onions and mushrooms to that, maybe a squirt of mustard, and you've got a basic Stroganoff.

>>13570114
Seriously. I fucking hate that it took humanity as long as it did to create this product. Squeeze sour cream has changed my life.

>>13568674
if your parents can only offer you microwave meals every night, you didn't have parents

>>13568674
Chicken with Broccoli and cheese is fucking awful

Canned spaghetti on toast was a staple of my father's.

>>13573415
In ohio we call it chip chop. Pretty sure its a rust belt thing.

>>13570816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXrFKksZeRo

>>13568702
it's called beenie weenies cunt

>>13568824
Holy fuck, my dad would make this exact dish every single weekend of my entire childhood. Every Saturday I knew it was coming and it just good enough to avoid being too bland. I hadn't seen him through my late teens, but when I was hanging out with him a couple years ago , I asked what how he actually made it. He had no fucking clue what I was talking about no matter how I described it. This fucking thing I've had hundreds and hundreds of time just slipped through my hands and it's the simplest looking thing in the world. I can just never get it right.

Lmfao! Cream of beef.

>>13573505
I chucked my microwave last year. It made no fucking sense and used up counter space. No sense in that everything tastes like shit out of those things and any favorable consistency in food gets murdered.

>shitty bagged rice
>ground beef
>cream of mushroom soup

my mom used to call it catfood because it was entirely grey.

My adoptive mother could "could" just not very well.
We had "staple" foods or "instant foods".
Pasta, no frills.
Tacos, mashed-meat kind, no frills.
Steak and potatoes, no frills.
Salad.
Out of box mac and cheese.
That sort of thing.
I didn't know things could be delicious and fun until I was in my late 20s.

>>13575467
haha you're adopted

>>13575498
And?

>>13575507
haha

>>13568674
My mom hates cooking and thinks it's not worth doing while my dad "likes" cooking but it always ends up tasting like shit. I didn't even know you could fry food, my dad always said grilling was only for special occasions because it's too hard and complicated. Worse of it all, the chicken was either boiled until it was dry or baked and raw. Even things like egg salads, tuna salads, etc. were drenched in mayo.