What do you miss?

A restaurant where you used to live. Food that a relative used to make for family gatherings. Things you can't get anymore. (I must be feeling nostalgic today)

I miss my mom's french fries. She only ever made them when we had steak (which was actually a lot because my dad was a butcher), and she fried them in Crisco and bacon grease. I have NEVER been able to get my fries to taste like hers.

I miss going to Beth's Cafe in Seattle after the bars closed. Not that I did it often, but it was sure fun when I did.

My mother's cousin's hot dill pickles.

*sigh*

I miss my grandmother's pot roast and her lentil soup. I also miss a dish she used to make called potato and carrot puff.
Unfortunately only my sister and mom knew how to make it and they are gone too.

I also miss my mom's ziti, stuffed peppers and mac and cheese. While these things I have been able to pretty much duplicate- they still do not taste how I want them to-only my mom could do that. She did not make gourmet meals, just good hearty food and I miss her cooking it for me.
I never payed attention to these things in my youth-just ate and enjoyed. In a manner of the past few years they are all gone and I don't have the recipies and never learned from them exactly what they did to make these otherwise average foods absolutely delicious.

Nicolem

Philadelphia soft pretzels...can't get them anywhere else.

I miss New Orleans and all it has to offer.
I've been stuck back in Milwaukee since Katrina, with only a few short trips back, and that's not nearly enough.
I miss Red Beans and Rice on Mondays.
I miss New Orleans style BBQ Shrimp from Pascal's Manale
I miss Charbroiled Oysters
I miss crawfish boils
I miss fresh oysters on the half
I miss decent Jambalaya
I miss Muffulettas
I miss Slice Pizzeria
I miss proper Andouille, Tasso and Boudin
I miss Po'boys
I miss stuffed Sno-Balls


I miss being surrounded by music and heat and laughter when dining.
I miss 24/7/365 taverns
I miss Lucky's and Buffa's and Checkpoint Charlie and being able to take a United or a streetcar anywhere I wanted to go.
I miss Creole Tomatoes and Creole Cream Cheese and Strawberries from Hammond and the French Market and Beignets from the Cafe du Monde and Chicory Coffee and Cafe au lait.
I miss grits.
I miss pecan-praline syrup.
I miss pralines.

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Originally posted by fabulousoyster

"I miss my mom's french fries and my cousin's hot dill pickles".
I think you are spending too much time on the board. Time to get another hobby.

I think that was quite rude.

I miss my Grandma's apple butter and my Aunt's chicken and dumplin's, my Great Aunt's fried chicken. Although I can cook pretty much any thing I'd like, there are some items that can't be duplicated.

I miss my Moms cornflake coated pork chops(cooked with milk or cream)Just cant duplicate them.She also made great chili in her pressure cooker, and the best scalloped potatoes.While others like my cooking, its not the same to me.And well said, Rusty246-I thought that comment was uncalled for.

Good thread. I miss seeing my Mom slicing garlic into hot olive oil as she made her wonderful "old school" Neapolitan "gravy" and meatballs. Nobody made meatballs like hers.

I miss my Dad's pancakes on Sunday mornings before he discovered golf and Sunday morning breakfasts were never the same.

Ditto from me too- uncalled for remarks "fabulousoyster".

I miss my aunt's tomato aspic, and her green beans- both were spicy and peppery and delicious and for special occassions only. The aspic I have never been able to even discover a recipe for, but the green beans were done in her pressure cooker, and then butter and pepper and seasoned just right. I think there was magic in the pressure cooker- cause I've never even come close to these either, and I have tried!

And back home, there was a small, hole in the wall, hamburger joint, called Uncle Chic's- with the best burger and cole slaw ! You called in your order, picked it up and brought it home to eat! To die for! Gone the way of all good things- only a memory now!

Great grandmother made hot cake donuts with cinnamon sugar topping. She's passed.

My mother made great fried chicken. She's well, TG, but just doesn't cook it. Or, doesn't do it when I visit.

My Aunt canned EVERYTHING, stored it on shelves in the basement. Would sneek down there with a spoon and then hide the empty Mason Jars behind everything on the shelves.

"And back home, there was a small, hole in the wall, hamburger joint..."

Mland520, I also remember a small, hole in the wall place that's gone now. In Manchester, CT where I grew up, there was such a place--a little lunch counter place--locally known for its great hot dogs with chili and onions. I can still smell the place when I walked in...hot dogs on the griddle (split, flat side down), toasted rolls, and big bowls of chili and chopped onions. Ohhhh! I can't even recall the name of the place.

My mothers cooking.(Too many dishes to name here) even the ones I know how to make just aren`t the same and there are some that are lost forever, sigh. Just one more Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner would be a dream come true.

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Originally posted by fabulousoyster

"I miss my mom's french fries and my cousin's hot dill pickles".
I think you are spending too much time on the board. Time to get another hobby.

Nothing fabulous about your outlook!!!

As far as what I miss. I miss BOTH my Mom AND her cooking...

Stan...

I miss the original hair color God gave me!

chewingthefat-I agree!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Rusty246

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Originally posted by fabulousoyster

"I miss my mom's french fries and my cousin's hot dill pickles".
I think you are spending too much time on the board. Time to get another hobby.

I think that was quite rude.

Yeah, it was.
Too much time on the board? With 47 posts to my name? lol

I miss Eichardts pub in Sandpoint, ID too.

The Corbin Burger House in Corbin, KY.

Pizza from Napoli or Mineo's Pizza in Sq. Hill on Murray Ave. There is none better. Who's been there?

The now departed Jerry's Diner in Kent, OH. About 12 stools, no tables. A great place for breakfast & coffee after the bars closed;

Friday night appetizer feasts with friends ... before we all drifted apart;

Broiled Lawson's chip-chop ham sandwiches that may grandma "made";

The quirky birthday cakes my mom used to make me that were straight out of the Angel Flake coconut book.

Most of all, I miss my Mom.

She could make a meal for Royalty out of left overs.

Most of all I miss my Parents and GrandParents.
My Mother could make a cherry cobbler that she never measure the ingredients and turned out sooooo yummy.
My Father was the candy maker and I missed the silky fudge he used to make.
Pamela

I miss my mom and dad and sister's sitting around the table every night,eating and talking as we always did,eating a fresh made meal. Mom never made the same meal twice in a month.A great chef,she thought it a sin to make the same thing often....except evry sunday,the house was full of the aroma of our Italian "gravy" being made for sunday pasta!

Mom and dad are still here, thankfully, but I have been out of the nest for quite awhile and I miss mom's and dad's:

Spaetzle with brown gravy
Atlanta pork chops
City chicken
Cucumber salad
The baked potato with shrimp and fish mixed in
Dad's hamburgers from the grill
Spaghetti

I have their recipes for all these things but you know they never taste as good and are not quite as right as when mom or dad made them.

I also miss an Italian restaurant called Lexitalia that we went to when I was a child.

Andrea

I miss cranking the old fashioned meat grinder
while making stuffing on Thanksgiving morning
with my Meme'.
I miss a Maygold burger with my best friend Mike, after a long night of
debauchery.

My grandmother's chili
My mamaw's Parkerhouse rolls at Thanksgiving
My mom's tuna casserole, chipped beef on toast, spaghetti and meatballs, grilled cheese sandwiches, honey-wheat bear bread, cowboy cookies, etc, etc... of course, all tempered by memory and time.

Grandma is in a nursing home with severe Alzheimer's, and Mamaw passed on when I was still young. My mother is still very much alive and well, but I moved out 7 years ago and rarely eat a home-cooked meal with her anymore. I need to get some of her recipes...

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Originally posted by AndreaB



I also miss an Italian restaurant called Lexitalia that we went to when I was a child.

Andrea

You're so right about Lexitalia. Great food! Didn't the owner get caught up in a major drug bust of some sort?

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Originally posted by jman

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Originally posted by AndreaB



I also miss an Italian restaurant called Lexitalia that we went to when I was a child.

Andrea

You're so right about Lexitalia. Great food! Didn't the owner get caught up in a major drug bust of some sort?

I think that's what it was --- maybe drugs and money laundering. I tell you though, that was the departure of great Italian food from Lexington --- and there are many of us who miss it. I think the owner took the fall for others and nobody has anything but fond memories of the restaurant and him as a gentleman.

Andrea

I miss my dad's wonderful, gloppy, spicy spaghetti sauce. He usually makes it with sausage, and it's served on spaghetti with lots of shredded cheddar on top--sort of an Italian gravy/chili hybrid, I guess, and his own creation. We'd eat platefuls of it while watching the Muppet Show. Now we have the Muppet Show on DVD, and I could go to my parents' house and request a plateful of the sauce, but it wouldn't be quite the same.

I guess mostly I miss being a kid.

I miss the America we had when Howdy Doody was on TV.

I do not miss Howdy Doody.

Creepy little wooden &^#&$#