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What are some of the weird shit you or your family or would cook growing up? I remember my grandma used to make boiled hamburger patties, peas, and potatoes for me every time I came to visit.

Come to think of it, she boiled the majority of her meat. Porkchops, chicken, fucking boiled steak. And she'd always boil it with canned peas or spinach and potatoes.

>> No.17081258

>>17080645
that's disgusting. my dad eats a lot of bacon and cabbage, without draining off the fat from the bacon.

>> No.17081268

>>17080645
My family made a lot of mac and cheese with peas and carrots. Nasty

>> No.17081274

my mom would boil macaroni, drain it and mix a can of diced tomatoes in it.

>> No.17081758

My mother hated cooking, but also idealized the trad-wife lifestyle, so she tried to cook without cooking. A compromise...of sorts.

Her go-to fancy dish was a bag of frozen broccoli. She would put two sticks of butter on top, and then nuke the broccoli in the microwave for five minutes. There was always a layer of melted butter about one inch thick at the bottom of the ceramic dish. She also did this with peas.

She usually made this with a can of meat, nuggets, or if we were really lucky, some meatloaf. Admittedly, her meatloaf wasn't that bad, and it wasn't that dry. However, her chicken was awful. Dry, hard to chew, impossible to taste. She almost never seasoned it, but she always added about half a stick of butter to the top of each chicken breast. There was usually a layer of butter in the bottom of that pan as well.

>> No.17081766

>>17081758
We usually ate the butter abomination about five times a week. If you didn't finish the butter plate, she would send you to your room without anything else. This was usually a relief. Generally the chicken was so bad that the dog had to be convinced to eat it.

She always cooked her steaks medium well. Aka, completely burned. If you wanted something without a coal-like texture, she would tell you to pay the bills or go without food. Always a fun argument.

She also liked to cook something called 'cream'.

It was essentially a huge thing of sour cream. She would dice tomatoes and add a can of beans. It tastes mostly like cream, and then she would add butter to it. I still don't understand to this day.

The whole family struggled with weight problems. I did as well, until moving out, and not eating like butter addict.

>> No.17081930

>>17081258
Is animal fat bad?

>> No.17081934

>>17081766
>Family of mental illness
>Weight issues
>Blames butter

>> No.17081975
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17081975

My mom didn't cook shit.

I will admit, I have a lot of nostalgia for those rotisserie chickens from Walmart.

>> No.17082557

My dad is American, so he's made many culinary atrocities, like hot dogs stir-fried with onions and a jar of banana pepper rings, dressed with the pepper bine, black pepper and soy sauce made into a sauce by thickening it with cornstarch.

Speaking of cornstarch, Thanksgiving just passed and I've mentioned this before, but being the American in the family, TG was my dad's job when I was growing up. This meant dry-ass turkey and a "gravy" made from defatted turkey stock thickened with cornstarch.
His one saving grace is potato salad. He makes a damn good potato salad.

>> No.17082567

>>17081930
just gives a nasty texture

>> No.17082600

>>17080645
My mom used to make poor man pizzas. It was english muffins with pizza sauce and cheese cooked under a broiler. Ive got a brother that was super picky. Somehow mom came up with putting strawberry cream cheese and bacon on crousants to feed him

>> No.17082607

>>17082557
Whats wrong with cornstarch gravy?

>> No.17082623

>>17082600
The poor man pizza doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world. Reminds me of my mom's "chicken parmesan" which was a microwaved chicken patty with spaghetti sauce and mozzarella cheese on top

>> No.17082673
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>>17082600
That's a ja/ck/ recipe. He did the exact same thing.

>> No.17082675

I had a "trad" mom who was bad at cooking. She would make "Asian Hotdish" which was just Minute rice, chopped celery, and ground beef. It would all go into a roasting pan and she would get cheap, imitation soy sauce and shake it over food until her arm got tired. Then she used her other arm until that got tired. If she was feeling extra spiteful she would give her arms a little rest and then shake out more disgusting soy-flavored salt water over the meal.

>> No.17082688

>>17082673
Its deadbeat but it doesnt taste that bad. I had a friend in college that would buy premade pizza crusts and litedally throw whatever he had on it. I once watched him put bbq sauce and corn on crust and eat it

>> No.17082732

>>17080645
When i was a kid, my parents did spaghetti with wurstel a lot, like, chopping the wurstel and putting 4 spaghetti in there, looked cool, tasted alright

>> No.17082759

>>17080645
Your grandma made bullshit stew too? I had it at least once a week when someone dropped me off a freezerful of shitty buger patties during my year of physio. They were terrible hamburgers, but with a bit of beef bouillon, frozen mixed veggies (or just peas) and some potatoes, 'twer'n't not half bad.

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>>17081766
>If you wanted something without a coal-like texture, she would tell you to pay the bills or go without food. Always a fun argument
Kek

>> No.17082763

My dad would blend tofu into the pancake batter when I went to visit him.

>> No.17082773

>>17082732
Oh, we used to make those weird recipes you could find in tv show a lot, like spaghetti tacos from icarly, pretty cool, my parents were good at cooking

>> No.17082776

>>17081766
>>17081758
I'm impressed anyone in your family managed to stay alive on a diet of fat fat and more fat. Jesus.

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>>17082673
Why did he move his whole body forward? Why didn't he bring the food to his mouth Like a normal person? Oh wait...

>> No.17082795

My dad would just stir fry some onions with dried anchovies as a dish to serve with rice sometimes. So sometimes we'd have
>some curry
>some proper veggie stir fry
>some steamed eggs
>and then there's that plate of just lightly fried onions with anchovies
to go with our rice. It was edible, but come on, that's not really a dish dad. Just serve some cold cut vegetables if you dont really feel like cooking another dish

>> No.17082809

>>17082607
Bad texture and taste. Being defatted didn't help. It was just awful, trust me.

>> No.17082847

My mom used to make hash brown sandwiches. It was just 2 pieces of bread a microwaved, hash brown patty in between. I ate them every day after school and gained 50lbs in high school