I'm going to do a mini-series about food this month because work is dumb right now and I'm exhausted and out of things to blog about. Surely everyone likes to chat about food. I'll do one food post a week for the next few weeks.
Breakfast: Greek yogurt with homemade granola, grapes, tea
Lunch: A "salad" made of tomatoes, mini peppers, cucumbers, and carrots; tuna; guacamole; pretzels; a LaCroix
Dinner: Indian Butter Chickpeas with rice
Do you usually cook at home, eat out, or get food delivery? Or a mix of all three?
We cook at home the vast majority of the time. I think I have had lunch/dinner out maybe half a dozen times this year? Because of my husband's food restrictions, eating out just doesn't make sense for us.
What was your favorite food as a kid?
Ice cream! I mean, if I'm completely honest, it still is.
Do you share your food with others? Why or why not?
No. Get your own.
Do you like to cook? Why or why not?
It's fine. I can listen to a podcast while I cook, so it's not so bad.
Have you ever had an accident while cooking or baking?
I have burned myself a number of times and have cut myself with knives more times than I can count. But I've never set the house on fire or anything like that.
Which foods are you allergic to?
KNOCK ON WOOD I am not allergic to any food. There cannot be another person in the house with food weirdnesses.
Do you have a gluten, lactose, or other intolerance?
No, but my husband does and it makes a big difference in what I can and cannot eat at home.
What food reminds you of family?
Are you familiar with green bean casserole? Canned green beans (shudder), cream of mushroom soup (double shudder), and crispy fried onions. If you're not familiar with it, let me assure that it is as revolting as it sounds and it was served at every family holiday I ever went to with my family of origin.
But I could pound some mandarin orange Jell-O salad, so I'm not judging your family's favorite disgusting side dish.
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What was your favorite food as a child?
Well, I'm sorry that work is stupid but very happy to get this series! My childhood ice cream memories are centered around walking to Baskin Robbins, and Pralines n'cream is still my favorite to this day.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind sharing as long as there's something in it for me.
I didn't grow up with green bean casserole, but there is something about the way my SIL makes it that has me obsessed. I've tried to make my own and it's just not the same. Now look, mandarin orange jello salad is not on the list of things that I am craving right now, but all the same if I came across it I'm not saying that I wouldn't have some.
[EDIT]: I just looked at the recipe and I will need to forget what the ingredients are to be able to have some. But once I forget I will not be opposed.
I don't know if I have ever been to a Baskin Robbins. Maybe, but it didn't leave a big impression.
DeleteNo, say it ain't so, Birchie. You dare to DEFEND green bean casserole?
I loved and love apple pie. Roasted potatoes were good, especially the way that my granny made them. Of course, I still like both. I no longer eat breakfast, It’s mostly how I keep the weight off now.
ReplyDeleteOh, apple pie. Did someone in your family make them? Our family just buys pies. My family of origin buys frozen pies and my in-laws buy pies from a restaurant called Village Inn.
DeleteI've never had green bean casserole OR sweet potato casserole OR Jello Salad. I feel so deprived :)
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Favourite food as a kid. Probably my mom's sweet and sour meatballs. My own kids continue to love her recipe and it's a go-to fav in my own household, served over rice and with peas and a salad on the side.
Your Midwestern eating experiences are quite limited. I guess that's to be expected geographically.
DeleteI AM HERE FOR FOOD TALK!!!! It's like our own personal food news. I loved mint chocolate ice cream as a child and I would eat some right now if it didn't give me massive stomach pain. I also loved ketchup chips, Old Dutch brand, and I would probably mow down a box (they came in a box) right now and I would suffer the inevitable food-chemical headache and extreme bloating that would cause. IT WOULD BE WORTH IT.
ReplyDeleteI've never had green bean casserole but I had so many casseroles growing up. The smell of ground beef and onions makes me want to barf but it reminds me of my family of origin. I also had many jello salads in my childhood. Oh, and for Christmas we had a side dish that was whipped cream, chopped apples, and maraschino cherries and honestly, I could go for some of that right now (except I guess non-dairy whipped cream). I know everyone thinks maraschino cherries are gross and sweet, and they are, but I kind of like them. Red only, obviously. But what a weird side dish. That was served among, like, turkey.
MARASCHINO CHERRIES 4 LIFE!!! Not something that I have often but when I do I've been known to eat them straight from the jar.
DeleteI'm with Birchie! Maraschino cherries are NOT gross in my world. Whipped cream, chopped apples, maraschino cherries AND chopped up Snickers (the chocolate, peanut, and caramel candy bar) are a Midwest staple - we call it apple salad. LOLOL. And it's good. I'm not ashamed of this opinion. It goes right next to the "green salad" at turkey and ham dinners. Your family could hang in the Midwest of the U.S.
DeleteMy friend just came back from Canada yesterday and he brought me a COSTCO SIZED bag of all-dressed chips. I am so excited to eat them. I thought the ketchup chips were pretty good, but the all-dressed were AMAZING.
Hey, I was eating a version of your breakfast for my lunch when I read your post - small world! I felt I couldn't answer the question, but then realised that my favourite food as a child was one I also associate with family: creamed corn. Not the mushy soupy crushed corn, but a dish with corn, cream cheese, onion and some spices. It was a side dish at Thanksgiving, so a once a year thing, and I really loved it. I'm not a great cook, so things that mainly require assembling and heat like soup are okay. Things that require careful thinking about ingredient blends or techniques, not okay.
ReplyDeleteYou know what? That creamed corn dish sounds delicious, Tamara. Sign me up for some.
DeleteOne of my husband's aunts used to bring this cornbread to holidays, but it was a cornbread unlike any I've had before or since. It involved Jif mix, cream corn, and magic? I cannot replicate it, but I think about it a lot. Super moist and it tasted like corn on the cob.
I think I’ve had that cornbread and liked it a lot. It was brought into the family. My very particular about cornbread family so my appreciation was secret ;-)
DeleteFavorite food growing up? Dinner: roast beef with roasted potatoes. Lunch: fluffernutter sandwich. Treat: Friendly's chocolate chip ice cream cone with chocolate jimmies. I would not eat either casserole or salad, but to each their own!
ReplyDeleteI had to look up fluffernutter sandwich. I'm not saying that's gross because I've never tried it, but it doesn't SOUND great. However, since I know we add things to Jell-O that other people think doesn't sound great, that doesn't mean it couldn't be great!
DeleteMy favorite food as a child, and to this day, is tacos. We had a fast food taco place that offered free tacos in exchange for As on your report card, and I think my love for getting good grades AND my love for tacos originate there.
ReplyDelete"JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD." That is also my motto. I am happy to allow someone a bite, but that's really it.
I would say I love to cook, but I have been in such an anti-cooking mode lately maybe it's no longer true.
Hm. Tacos. We need to bring tacos back into our rotation. I'm going to look for a good vegetarian GF taco recipe. This was an excellent reminder to me to do so.
DeleteOof, I am a hard pass on Jello salad. I can't eat green bean casserole since it has gluten and it's not a good enough dish to go to the trouble of making it GF. It is also a staple in my family of origin but we don't use canned green beans - we make it with fresh green beans which elevates it a bit (I assume but can't say for certain since it was made with canned beans when I last ate it 20+ years ago).
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food as a child was my mom's spaghetti. I also loved any sort of slushes drink, freezee, or popsicle. And my favorite popsicle flavors were rootbeer, banana, and blue raspberry - you could get a box w/ those 3 flavors back in the day. I have never seen them as an adult, though. Phil is appalled that I like the flavor of articial banana but the heart wants what the heart wants.
Taco takes after me and prefers those fruity types of frozen desserts. My mom made cookies while we were there last week and he chose a freezee over a cookie at every meal.
Look, even with fresh green beans, that casserole is nasty. There. I said it. You can try to elevate it, but the combo is just gross.
DeleteI sort of agree that I don't like artificial banana flavor, but then I remember banana runts and those things are glorious. I don't know if I'd enjoy it in a cold frozen treat, though.
Nicole makes an amazing vegetarian taco, so if you can find GF tortillas, you’re set. I saw them first on Birchie’s blog, when she visited Nicole (Nicole’s family calls them enchiladas, but they are tacos), and then I made them and put a recipe on my blog. They consist of: sweet potatoes, diced and roasted with whatever spices you want, black beans, salsa of your choice, and guacamole. SO GOOD.
ReplyDeleteI have only had green bean casserole once, and it was vile. It was a potluck, and everyone else was treating it like it was this amazing thing, like really good Mac & cheese or something. SO GROSS.
I just had an amazing egg, cheese, and chive sandwich on an english muffin from a local bakery, and it was delicious. I will try to balance this out by eating fruits and veggies for lunch. Dinner may be chili.
I have a food question for you - do you and your husband eat much fake meat, or is it not safe with his allergies? Or do you not like it? My daughter is pescatarian, and she likes fake meat, but I do not care for it. Of course, maybe if I didn’t eat the real thing I might feel differently.
Favorite foods are potato chips and ice cream, though I do love a really good salad, and raspberries are amazing. When I was a kid I might have said chocolate cake, but I’m not as big a fan now as I was then. I mean, if it’s someone’s birthday and they’re having chocolate cake, I will eat some, but it’s not something I crave or dream about.
I'm going to look into those tacos because it sounds great. Corn tortillas are usually GF, so it's a nice naturally GF meal. If we bulk it up with sweet potatoes, maybe it won't be as bean-heavy, which is not something my husband is a fan of.
DeleteWe don't eat fake meat. A lot of it is soy-based and we try to avoid soy. Also, frankly, it's expensive. One reason we turned away from meat is because of the expense. Fake meat doesn't save much money.
Also I LOVE SHARING FOOD. If we can get two dishes and share them so we get more variety, I am thrilled. Of course that only works if the other person orders something I like, and if they are of the same mindset.
ReplyDeleteYeah, if you agree ahead of time, it's fine. But my husband is so weird about food that we don't ever share. It's mostly not for me.
DeleteICK, green bean casserole. Thankfully, this was not on our holiday menu ever. But I had it once at a friends house. I ate it to be polite, but NEVER AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteNEVER AGAIN is the right attitude. No, thank you is a great response if someone ever tries to give it to you again!
DeleteI am for sure a food sharer - that way we can order two things and try both!
ReplyDeleteYou know, I can't remember what I loved to eat as a child - I think food life was funny as a child because my mother - and it was almost exclusively our mother - would cook Asian/Taiwanese food, but also interspersed with Western food - partly, I think, because she thought we should eat spaghetti and ribs and Taco Bell and stuff like that too. She also ran a bakery when I was growing up, so bread was a big part of our life for a while.
BREAD!! I didn't even realize I was so lucky when there was regularly bread in the house. I'm jealous that your mom ran a bakery. The baked goods must have been divine.
DeleteWe never had green bean casserole when I was a kid, and I am pretty sure I have never tried it. It doesn’t appeal to me at all. But what we DID have, which I think might be even more disgusting than green bean casserole, was creamed carrots. So gross. Kind of a white sauce over mushy cooked carrots. Yuk. This was when we went for holiday meals at an elderly relative’s house. Thankfully my mom never served it. Not sure if I had a favorite food as a kid. Maybe pizza?
ReplyDelete*Dulcie
Creamed carrots doesn't sound too bad to me. I like carrot soup. Is it similarish?
DeleteI love green beans, but green bean casserole is a definite no for me! What a way to ruin some perfectly good green beans! My favorite food as a kid was cereal. I ate cereal for breakfast and as an after school snack. I loved Kix, Capn’ Crunch, Cheerios, Rice Chex, Rice Crispies, Count Chocula, Frankenberry, BooBerry, Cookie Crisp, Corn Bran, Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Lucky Charms, Twix, Fruit Loops, Coco Puffs…have I named every cereal? Gee, no wonder I ended up with Diabetes!
ReplyDeleteHa! And yet you didn't mention Cinnamon Toast Crunch, which is the GOAT in my cereal list. You have some solid sugar cereals in your line-up, though.
DeleteMy favourite foods as a child were pretty much all of them. I adored corn on the cob and tomatoes right from the garden. I even loved liver and onions--my mother made that so, so good.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, I was treated to SO MANY Jello "salads" at huge family potlucks. Some were terribly weird and contained shredded carrots and raisins or celery and nuts. I did like a few, however, but do I make them at home? NO.
Your breakfast is very similar to mine: Greek nonfat yoghurt, raw rolled oats, and a fresh fruit all in the same bowl/cup. I don't eat lunch.
Nicole's tacos sound awesome to me, too.
I'm surprised by the number of people who skip breakfast and/or lunch. I would 100% rather give up dinner (and the prep/discussion about what to have) than either breakfast or lunch. I mean, I'd prefer NOT to skip any, but if forced to choose, that's what I'd do.
DeleteAh, the jello salads of my childhood! We always had them at my grandparent's house. I might be getting confused, but I vaguely remember them with mandarin oranges and mini marshmallows. Yes, what a healthy "salad!"
ReplyDeleteSo... my mom wasn't a great cook. She wasn't bad, but our meals were pretty mundane. I don't blame her one bit, since she also worked full time. And my dad didn't cook at all- he didn't even know where we kept the pots and pans. I don't have any big memories of home-cooked meals, but sometimes we would go out for pizza, which I LOVED. I also ate a lot of candy- way, way too much. I'm not even going to try to count that as food.
My mom made the mandarin orange salad with a bar of Philadelphia cream cheese. It was so good! Maybe not healthy, but sometimes you deserve a trashy Midwest Jell-O treat.
DeleteMy parents didn't really cook much. I was hungry a lot. Ha! We did eat out at least once a week, though, so that is something from my childhood I remember. There was this vegetarian lasagna I would get at this hole in the wall family restaurant that I loved. I wonder if that restaurant is still there.