Alright we have our favorite dish, how about the worst one?
I remember one day my mom served fried chicken & we later found out it wasn't. All day I was searching for my favorite rabbit (I had over 60 rabbits) & couldn't find her, well come to find out my mom butchered it & passed it off as the fried chicken. From then on I would only believe her if I saw the chicken come out of a package.
For one of my husband's family get-togethers, we fixed Sweet and Sour meatballs made out of venison. My MIL loved them and just kept helping herself to more. She asked for the recipe and when told they were venison, she about choked, almost throwing up. We lied and told her we were just kidding, that they were really hamburger. Never made them again for his family. (We love them!)
I never ate this, but mom told this story on herself:
She had been married previous to marrying my dad for 3 yrs. and was a widow. So she KNEW how to cook and bake, etc. But she said the very first cake she ever baked my dad came out of the oven so pretty and she iced it. Well, it came time to cut it and it was SO HARD that she couldn't get the knife into it. So she threw it out...the dog comes along, dumps over the garbage can and ate everything...except her cake! She never did know what caused that to happen!
Bill & Linda
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The wife made Peach-Chicken many years ago. It was so bad we couldn't even scrape the coating off to get rid of the taste. Had to get an emergency pizza to keep from starving.
Scott, Grace and Wesly
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My parents went through a "poor" period while I was growing up and mom would try to sneak dried milk into a regular milk carton and mix artificial hamburger into our hamburgers. Neither one was palletable to me. And lest I forget, canned asparagus boiled until it was mush because al dente wasn't known about in the 60's.
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My BIL quit smoking after about 10 years of marriage. Bought my sister a cookbook for Christmas that year, because he finally started tasting her cooking!
They became huge pizza eaters right after that --so much so that they got a couple of Christmas cards from pizza joints the next year!
They are divorced now. He's putting on some weight. LOL
Chuck, Heidi, Jessica, Nicholas & Tan Puppy
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Historically, my two sisters never liked each other and constantly fought about trivial things.
Visiting mom was always a cat fight and difficult for mom, until one sister decided to make "brownies" and take them to moms upon their next visit.
As you might expect, after coffee & brownies, they all seemed to have such a good time laughing and getting along just fine.
Mom later said how happy they all were and finally her girls were fast becoming such good friends.
Yes, you guessed it. One of my sisters was a pot head.
This reminds me of a time way back in the dark ages. My sister and I both were just repulsed over the thought of eating liver. Well our dear mother found a recipe someplace and she secretly fixed us all a big batch of liver. I really have no idea how she fixed it or what little secret she must have used, but she told us that it was some kind of steak meat and it was cooked in some kind of a gravey.
We were so darned dirt poor that we should have known that it wasn't really any kind of beef steak.
Must say that she succeeded and we never knew the difference. I think that it must have been 15 years later before she told us about it. She had passed it off to us many times after that and we would actually ask that she fix us some real often.
I am not sure but kind of think that all of the previous editions had been smothered in onions and that may have been what turned us off.
That became an old family joke after we were grown up. To this day I still am not sure how she fixed it or if there was something special added that threw us off, but we never knew the difference.
Sorry for the off topic rambling, but this sure reminded me of our special steak surprise.
Larry
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Super_Dave wrote: My parents went through a "poor" period while I was growing up and mom would try to sneak dried milk into a regular milk carton and mix artificial hamburger into our hamburgers. Neither one was palletable to me. And lest I forget, canned asparagus boiled until it was mush because al dente wasn't known about in the 60's.
I think we had the same mom
The worst was my mom making Eggplant parmesan.
She took the eggplant, sliced it, put it in a baking dish, covered it with tomato sauce straight from the can (no seasoning) and sprinkled some shreaded parmesan on it. Baked it.
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