Childhood food pleasures

rosehips60

I grew up in Minnesota and we all fished ALOT. We would catch and clean many many many sunfish (bluegills to the the rest of the world). My dad would fillet them and mom would deep fry them rolled in cornmeal and pancake flour and make homemade tartar sauce. That would be the whole meal, no sides, just fish. I haven't had a sunfish since my dad passed away 17 years ago but my mouth still waters when I think of that meal

WinoGelato

Some of these stories are making me wistful thinking of my own mom, who died 2 years ago. A single mother, who provided tasty but frugal meals for us. She loved hamburgers and hotdogs "cooked outside". The black edges on the hot dogs were her favorite part, she called them "chocolate hot dogs".