Grandma's cooking

[Anonymous No.19510230]

Don't be disrespectful, we all know our grandmas made some delicious meals, it may not be trendy but it still slapped. What was your favorite dishes your grandma made growing up? Meatloaf, pot roast, smothered chicken, pan fried chicken, pork chops, homemade fruit and custard pies from scratch. Home made cakes from scratch

[Anonymous No.19510247]

Or how about fresh made cgocolate chip cookies not from a frozen lump of dough in the freezer aisle? Modern women just can't cook anything anymore

[Anonymous No.19510335]

>>19510230
My grandma used to be a chef and I liked basically everything she cooked. She also sourced most of her ingredients locally, either from her garden or from neighbors. I think my favorite thing she made was probably doughnuts, might literally just be because they were so fresh, but they had a very slightly crunchy crust which was fantastic.

[Anonymous No.19510362]

>>19510335
Are those polish donuts? i think they're called paczki they make them on good friday

[Anonymous No.19510367]

>>19510230
Hamburger steak and chicken and dumplings were some of my favorite, southern so strip dumplings not the biscuits.

[Anonymous No.19510379]

Its trendy on /ck/ to hate the foods you grew up with, because it's not ethnic and exotic enough for the NWO globohomo palette

[Anonymous No.19510395]

>>19510362
Thank you for your interest in our culture, anon. Yes, they're called pączki (pawn-chkee) and they're traditionally made on the last Thursday before Ash Wednesday in the Roman Catholic Church. They're available all year round commercially, a very popular coffee snack. Also, we stereotypically say policemen eat them instead of doing their job.

[Anonymous No.19510396]

>>19510230
barley stew
some kind of Polish cookies. I don't what the name was.
They were soft, covered with chopped nuts, and had an indentation in the middle with jam filling

[Anonymous No.19510405]

>>19510230
>mfw no one on either side of my family cooks and every time we'd visit we'd go out to eat or order something

[Anonymous No.19510409]

>>19510396
I just remembered, she made another cookie called kolaczki

[Anonymous No.19510415]

>>19510362
They're Berlin style pancakes.

[Anonymous No.19510424]

>>19510230
My grandma has always been a terrible cook but her buttermilk pies are delicious

[Anonymous No.19510426]

>>19510230
My grandma was not a good cook. I used to watch her try to cook eggs and there was always some weird shit under her fingernails that really turned me off and either I'd make my own stuff or just go out and get stuff for myself. Sure I loved my grandparents but they kind of lost it, I think it was from WW II or something.

[Anonymous No.19510431]

>>19510230
My grandma would make gorditas real quick and easy with some simple picadillo and beans. I can make most of the things she'd cook and watched her cook a lot to learn but I've never figured out how to make the gorditas dough like her.

She never wrote a recipe down, she had a stroke and forgot how to explain recipes she did know. But if she was standing in a kitchen it was like muscle memory for her and she'd just start whipping something up and if you asked her how she cooked something she'd be like "I don't know the recipe since the stroke just watch me and do it this way...no not that way like this".

But she did tell me most of her homemade cookies and baking recipes came from the back of a bag of flour or sugar. So whenever I make oatmeal cookies I use the recipe on the back of the oatmeal box and my mom's all amazed I can bake just like her mom. It's a funny secret my grandma told me not to bother telling others cause no one believes her that it's that simple.

[Anonymous No.19510458]

>>19510230
she would put sliced beets in vinegar. kinda weird but tastes good

[Anonymous No.19510461]

>>19510426
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The sad thing was watching my grandfather just go to sleep whatching my grandma try to cook stuff. I would just go to the beach and have a swim in the Atlantic.

[Anonymous No.19510464]

>>19510458
I beeted your momma last night

[Anonymous No.19510504]

>>19510362
I'm not polish but that's what ours are like. I always assumed all traditional europeans doughnuts looked like that and the holes were a burger invention.

[Anonymous No.19510527]

>>19510395
Oh, we have polish bakeries all over the midwest that serves these donuts as well as peirogi

[Anonymous No.19510599]

Which one? I, like most of you, had two but I also had an old nun my family kind of adopted as a grandmother.

Dad's mum: Durkastani food. She was ChristLeb so falafel and Leb-style pilaf and maqluba and chicken with large-leaf oregano and hummus bil-tahine and baba ghanouz (she claimed to actually know the priest the dish was named after, lol) and some lesser known things I'll get into if asked.

Mum's mum: Northeast Italian IE Slovenian. She was 183cm tall when she died because that area is full of enormous fucking people. Anyway, lots of polenta, stews, North Italian style goulash (which, like other goulash not from Hungary, is more like pörkölt), cabbage stuffed with polenta or semolina or mashed potato, egg dumplings/spätzle/chnöpfli/csipetke, some Hungarian dishes (chicken in carrot sauce with bread dumplings is a favourite) and other similar shit that's some combination of meat +gravy of some kind +carb of some kind.
She also learned stuff from my granddad's mum, her M-i-L, who was Neapolitan so things like genovese di Napoli, ragù alla napoletana, polipo in umido, x with pasta (where x is almost literally any vegetable) and so on. She did not like or make sweets.
Nun gran: Swiss shit. Mostly similar to mum's mum but without the southern stuff + LOTS more sweets. This old lady baked cakes and biscuits all damn day, lol. Carrot cake, obviously (she WAS Swiss, after all) but also Swiss cheesecake, chocolate torts and fruit tarts. So. Many. Fruit tarts.

[Anonymous No.19510617]

>>19510504
>I always assumed all traditional europeans doughnuts looked like that
Neapolitan ones are neither. They have a hole, but they're not the same shape as Ameridonuts. Also, the dough is made with potatoes and flavoured with lemon.

[Anonymous No.19510628]

>>19510599
>3 grandmas
He's too powerful!

[Anonymous No.19510641]

>>19510628
I have a white Amerifriend with the grandmas, one of which is Black (grandpa and white grandma got divorced and he got remarried to a nice Black lady).
Never had any of their cooking but if friend's mother was any indication, they could cook.

[Anonymous No.19510646]

>>19510641
>with the grandmas
with THREE grandmas
Fucking autocorrect

[Anonymous No.19510651]

>>19510230
Im midwest and grandparents were very plain. They would do "salads" that were basically desert. Homemade egg noodles were good. Also a grandfather made an excellent ham. He would cook it for hours until it had a shredded type texture and then he would make a gravy

[Anonymous No.19510748]

>>19510651
You've been psyoped into believing "plain food" you grew up with is inferior to the globohomo exotic food trends

[Anonymous No.19510790]

>>19510230
>What was your favorite dishes your grandma made growing up?

Paternal Grandma was raised in Tex/Mex cooking and was trained in French cooking while stationed in France. Her cooking was phenomenal.

Maternal Grandma was a southern gal who married a midwest man (grand dad) and was phenomenal at cooking everything southern and midwestern.

Mother didn't learn shit and her cooking was ass. She directly inspired me to learn how to cook for myself.

[Anonymous No.19510832]

My mom and grandmother are both white trash who can't cook. Both are also substance abusing narcissists. Not reddit "mom told me to clean my room and then deadnamed me" but actual diagnosed NPD cunts from hell.

[Anonymous No.19510973]

>>19510230

[Anonymous No.19511111]

>>19510973
Thats not mayo thats cream cheese

[Anonymous No.19511271]

>>19511111
Checked.

[Anonymous No.19511286]

>>19510651
>>19510748
From the midwest one can make praire chicken salad.

[Anonymous No.19511326]

>>19510230
banana bread, hands down

[Anonymous No.19511594]

You guys had way more interesting grandma food. Both my grandmothers cooked like WWII was still going on, very basic food. Mashed potatoes with everything, steamed vegetables cooked way too long and proteins were pretty much just pot roast, whole roasted chicken or pork chops, all under salted because salt is bad for you. My dad's mom made great pies though.

[Anonymous No.19511628]

My grandmother died in 1949. Do you really expect me to remember what I ate all those years ago?

[Anonymous No.19511631]

>>19511594
Salt is bad for you. You don't need seasoning if the food is quality and fresh.

[Anonymous No.19511717]

>>19510230
>grandmas made some delicious meals
[citation needed]
my grandma on my mothers side made some concoction that was wide egg noodles, every little morsel of leftover chicken picked off the bone and pace picante sauce.

[Anonymous No.19511727]

>>19511717
my other grandmother never cooked anything for us. she just gave us bags of candy, and cookies when we visited. best grandma.

[Anonymous No.19511807]

My grandfather told me that if you diddled little girls you would go to hell but it'd feel like heaven. This was the 80s mind you.

[Anonymous No.19511821]

I know what you people needs and that's chick-fil-a sauce

[Anonymous No.19512500]

>>19511821
>>goyslop hf corn syrup
No thx, my grandma used to make her own honey mustard when she made us homemade tendies

[Anonymous No.19512547]

For me it's steamed fish with spring onions and ginger, steamed mince pork with salted fish, steamed pork ribs with black bean and deep fried dim sims from the restaurant

[Anonymous No.19512808]

>>19510230
My grandma was from Liverpool. Every time I went to visit her as a kid she would make corned beef with broccoli and mashed potato. Normally I didn't like that as a meal but grandma took it to the next level and I craved only that dish every time I went there.
Yeah, okay the beef was pumped full of nitrates so it was bright pink but it didn't matter, it tasted like magic and Grandma used to positively jump for joy when the plate came back to the sink clean.

[Anonymous No.19513298]

>>19510230
My grandmother on my dad's side did not like my mom, so by default she didn't like me either. When I was seven I was told the reason why I wasn't allowed to go to the Christmas party with my cousins at grandma's house was because grandma didn't like that my dad married mom, and I didn't understand why.
My grandmother on my mom's side was apparently a good cook and baker, but she died when I was a baby so I never got to try her pastries.

[Anonymous No.19513390]

>>19510230
My granny made some really nice jam tarts which I still think about to this day.

[Anonymous No.19513796]

>>19511628
Mine died in 1997 and I remember

[Anonymous No.19513822]

>>19510230
my grandma was pretty bad at cooking. She was competent, raised two kids and looked after her husband, but it was never a passion and she'd do the needful to cook a meal, nothing more. In her later years she went the microwave meal path.

my dad is a similarly practical cook but with more skill and knowledge of what works together. he keeps it simple, follows recipes, but has a good knack for knowing what works together and I've literally never known him to fuck something up. I don't know where he learned that.

mum is an infuriating natural cook. Everything she makes turns out fantastic, however basic or complicated. If you ask her for a recipe, she'll show you something from a book she bought in 1975 that is completely different to what she makes, because she changes so many things on the fly without realising. The only way is to sit there and watch her make something and ask 'why did you do that' when she does anything, and wait 10 seconds while she tries to figure out why she's doing it. she starts cooking eggs and ends up doing 'a couple of extra things' and half an hour later there's four dishes out that are all delicious

fuck that woman. but grandma did an acceptable generic bolognese.

[Anonymous No.19513826]

>>19510230
My gran on my mum’s side wasn’t a very good cook. She would boil chicken drumsticks and it made the kitchen smell like Satan’s farts. She did make excellent chocolate truffles though, I’d spend the eight hour journey as a kid excited about the thought of her chocolate truffles.

My gran on my dad’s side was a shit cook too but she knew it and would treat me to Marks and Spencer’s when I visited. I loved the chicken in white wine sauce with tarragon and potato croquettes.

I miss both of them. :(

[Anonymous No.19513906]

ITT: even the grandmas who can't cook are able to bake exceptionally well. Baking is a lost art, these modern females don't know how to bake anything from scratch.

[Anonymous No.19513932]

>>19510230
My one grandma never cooked anything worth a damn(she was a garbage cook) and my French grandmother died more than half my lifetime ago and I can't remember anything she cooked.

[Anonymous No.19513946]

>>19510458
Pickled beets are kino

[Anonymous No.19513965]

>>19510599
>So. Many. Fruit tarts.
Like that's a bad thing.

[Anonymous No.19514090]

>>19513906
Their mothers rarely teach them either

[Anonymous No.19514126]

only thing of note that survived from my grandparents cooking is "the green stuff". I think its most commonly known as watergate salad, but its a pretty basic desert from pistachio pudding mix, coolwhip, and canned fruit.

[Anonymous No.19514141]

Granny made a nice jug of XXX.

[Anonymous No.19514168]

>>19510230
my grandmother would buy hotdogs and then slowly eat them over several weeks. I always wondered why the hot dogs in here house had such a unique and sour flavor.

it was because they were 2 or 3 weeks old.

[Anonymous No.19514196]

>>19510230
Kalops. it will be very mean of me but it's the only thing she can cook that is good.

[Anonymous No.19514435]

>>19514141
Izzat sum Beverly Hillbillies?

[Anonymous No.19515012]

>>19514126
You mean the recipe that's literally on the back of the jello pudding box. Is this an episode of Friends

[Anonymous No.19515023]

>>19510379
I hate the foods I grew up with because my grandma practically invented living on goyslop
>boxed
>canned
>frozen
If it's not one of these things she's not interested.

[Anonymous No.19515029]

>>19515012
No. Boomers are actually like this. If half the posters ITT actually asked their grandma for her recipes they would find out that it was "i just made it like it says on the box"

[Anonymous No.19515055]

>>19515029
lol
Neither of my grandmothers had that option. The only thing either of them would have bought prepackaged were coffee, tea, sugar, flour, dried beans etc
Things like that.
Though the one Gran, in her far later years began enjoying evaporated milk in her tea and coffee and switched to buying frozen broadbeans but that's mostly because she was having difficulty finding them fresh.

[Anonymous No.19515070]

>>19515055
Thirdie or from a line of decrepit old maid mothers? My only grandma I ever knew was born in 1946. Peak Atomic Era "wow so modern" microwave and freezer lifestyler.

[Anonymous No.19515080]

>>19515029
What a zoomie take, must suck to have trailer trash Walmart grandma's on both sides

[Anonymous No.19515095]

>>19515080
My grandmas were just white american boomers. Middle class from back when that still existed. The majority of white american culinary tradition got completely eradicated over the course of a few generations from the great depression, ww2, and the post-war industrialized slop age. I'm 30. Keep coping.

[Anonymous No.19515103]

>>19515070
>Thirdie or from a line of decrepit old maid mothers?
Both lol.
>1946
That's when my now very dead mum was born. She had me REAL late. Didn't think she could have kids anymore by then but out I popped. Other than my twin, my next oldest brother is 16 years our senior.

[Anonymous No.19515229]

>>19515029
My mom wasn't. We didn't too much from boxes.

[Anonymous No.19515236]

>>19510230
pasties, and pork pie (tourtiere, but we called it pork pie)