/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5198884]

What are some non-junk-food favorites of your childhood?

Pic related. I used to love the fried rice my mom made, she'd put in diced spam or diced hot dogs, anything, it was delicious.

[Anonymous No.5198894]

Didn't really like junk foods as a kid and only really developed a fondness for them in adulthood.
Probably pasta with peas, though.

[Anonymous No.5198909]

Potato salad. Sometimes with fish sticks.

Or when my mum made chicken soup she'd cook a whole chicken for an hour or two until the meat just comes off. She'd remove the bones and all the meat that you can easily remove. The water would be used for the soup and the chicken meat for a rice salad. Both were delicious.

[Anonymous No.5198951]

my mom used to make a casserole with potatoes, kielbasa, cheddar and cream cheese, and onions. shit's fucking tasty, i still make it to this day myself.

[Anonymous No.5199182]

>>5198884

Chicken a la king. Total comfort food. I used to hollow out French bread and fill it with that stuff.

[Anonymous No.5199264]

>fried rice
>not junk food
okay then.
Always loved my dad's spaghetti, it's still a traditional meal for every Saturday. Can't miss it wehen I'm home for the weekend.

[Anonymous No.5199275]

>>5199264
>i love my dad's spaghetti
>he gives it to me every saturday
That's called "incest" and "child molestation," Anon, and the fact that you look forward to it is called "Stockholm syndrome."

[Anonymous No.5199320]

damn close to a junk food but I was a picky child and this was one of the only things that I would gladly eat. I wouldn't even eat other mac n cheese just pic related

I don't know how my parents dealt with my lame ass and didn't just beat me until I ate

[Anonymous No.5199423]

>>5199275
Anon: Anon, your sides! T-they're gone!

"It seems so..."

Anon: How? Where did they go? Tell me, now!

"Beyond. Much more beyond that which is called a horizon. To places beyond those known to man".

Anon: ....

"To say they even exist within the confines of our reality is the greatest understatement of the century"

[Anonymous No.5199845]

"Oaty Pancakes"
in my grown years I can see that this was not actually all that healthy, but god damn are they delicious.
ilu mum

[Anonymous No.5199857]

I FEEL LIKE CHICKEN TONIGHT
LIKE CHICKEN TONIGHT

Did you even grow up in the 90's?!

[Anonymous No.5200909]

>>5198884
My grandma used to make fried rice almost exactly like that when I was a kid. Delicious every time. To this day I've yet to make my rice taste anything quite like it.

Miss you gramma

[Anonymous No.5200923]

>>5198909
>rice salad
Did this happen to include curry powder and green olives?

[Anonymous No.5200933]

>>5199857
>that dance

[Anonymous No.5200972]

>>5200923
No, it was a very German/Polish one. Mushrooms, peas and carrots. Can't even find similar pictures, everyone else just makes it way fancier.

[Anonymous No.5200990]

>spam
>hot dogs
>cheap fried rice

Sounds like junk food to me son. Sustenance yes, but mostly junk food.

Anyway for me its probably fruit.

>inb4 muh sugars, muh carbs, muh tree candy

It isn't processed "junk" food. It grows. Too much is bad, because sugar content. Eating too much isn't good but you can't call fruit a junk food.

[Anonymous No.5201237]

>>5200990

I think OP was looking for more along the lines of recipes.

My mom used to make a beef stew with a red wine sauce that was fan fucking tastic.

[Anonymous No.5201239]

what's with all the idiots in this thread claiming fried rice is junk food? maybe if you get it at the mall, but you can certainly make a nutritionally good fried rice with some nice long-grain brown rice, eggs, and plenty of vegetables. heck you've already got protein with the eggs so it doesn't matter much what the meat is, it's not like you're using sirloin steak in it

[Anonymous No.5201275]

People eat fried rice in america?

[Anonymous No.5201281]

>>5201275

People eat burgers in Japan?

[Anonymous No.5201283]

chicken ala king

just fuckin toast
canned cream of mushroom soup
chicken and veggies cooked in the soup

i have no idea why i loved it

[Anonymous No.5201285]

>>5201281
People eat burgers in fried rice?

[Anonymous No.5201520]

My grandmother made the best stuffing I've ever had. It included oysters and chestnuts and Andouille sausage. Her turkey was always dry and stringy but the stuffing was A-number-1. I think my mom might have the recipe buried away somewhere.

[Anonymous No.5201523]

ginger chicken stir fry my mom made. dank as fuck

also white rice with parmesan cheese as a snack

[Anonymous No.5201578]

>>5198884
>eats slam and hot dogs
>calls it not junk food

[Anonymous No.5201595]

>>5201578

Who fucking cares? Stay on topic.

[Anonymous No.5201609]

There were no healthy things in my childhood. Not exaggerating. My diet, until the day I moved out, was comprised exclusively of things that a 6 year old could prepare on their own because that's how old I was when my mom stopped making sure we had dinner. I'd always just assumed that it was because cooking was some massive undertaking that took a lot of time, energy, and skill. There were years when all I ate was Stouffer's TV dinners and cereal.

Ugh... thank god for /ck/ for rescuing me from ignorance. I cook every single night, now.

[Anonymous No.5201628]

>>5200972
1 bag frozen peas and carrots, chopped pickles (~2-3, really up to you), diced hard boiled eggs (3-6, again up to you), boiled white potatoes (2-3), mayonnaise (1/2 cup, if it needs more, add it), salt and pepper to taste are your ingredients.

Wait for potatoes to dry and cool, dice into smallish cubes
add peas and carrots (no need to defrost, adds texture)
Add egg
Fold in mayonnaise
Add pickles
Fold
Salt/pepper
Fridge for ~30 mins.
Serve.

[Anonymous No.5201693]

>>5201285
BRB retirement.g this

[Anonymous No.5201704]

Meatloaf. Honestly this dish is just so simply god tier. No matter how much of a foodsnob I become, I will always love mom's meatloaf.