Flavors of Childhood?
bear2303
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Got this idea from looking at the "if it didn't have calories post" but it seems like a lot of the things that people post about are things that they had growing up! I know that for me when I'm craving things I crave stuff that i ate growing up. One of my biggest cravings right now is a GIANT Loco Moco picture below. I grew up in Hawaii and ate this all the time!
I recognize that this looks like a giant pile of dog food but i promise it's delish!
I recognize that this looks like a giant pile of dog food but i promise it's delish!
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ooooh and Hawaiian style fried rice.
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Kool Aid, Mom's homemade macaroni and cheese, Mom's homemade ice pops, Dad's Indian bread (he would get up at 3 or 4 a.m. to make/knead the dough), Mom's baked apples and apple crisp, Dairy Queen's small vanilla cone with cherry dip, Hamburger Helper beef stroganoff and skillet lasagna, Lakshmi's dahi vadas...
I could go on for ages! Great topic although it's making me a bit sad.
P.S. Red L cheese puffs, The Paris Bake Shop's pistachio tarts...9 -
Your loco moco looks good, and I could easily be happy with that.
I loved cheese dreams. Half a toasted hamburger bun with a little butter, a slice of crispy bacon, cut in half, a slice of cheese, and a slice of tomato on top. Under the broiler, but not right under, until the cheese melts and the tomato gets juicy and the tomato juice runs all down your chin when you take a bite.8 -
Anything my Dad made. I was such an unappreciative certifiable brat. He would make gelato, chocolates, chippies, you name it ... He made them for us. I would love just one of those treats or dishes now.24
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corinasue1143 wrote: »Your loco moco looks good, and I could easily be happy with that.
I loved cheese dreams. Half a toasted hamburger bun with a little butter, a slice of crispy bacon, cut in half, a slice of cheese, and a slice of tomato on top. Under the broiler, but not right under, until the cheese melts and the tomato gets juicy and the tomato juice runs all down your chin when you take a bite.
That sounds amazing, and I love the name of your food! Cheese dreams!2 -
Got this idea from looking at the "if it didn't have calories post" but it seems like a lot of the things that people post about are things that they had growing up! I know that for me when I'm craving things I crave stuff that i ate growing up. One of my biggest cravings right now is a GIANT Loco Moco picture below. I grew up in Hawaii and ate this all the time!
I recognize that this looks like a giant pile of dog food but i promise it's delish!
This reminds me of that dish that @joemac shared called "the garbage plate."1 -
My mom' s chocolate chip cookies 💚🍘🥛she made them sooo good and with a special sweetness literally and figuratively. I would love to pick at the raw dough then scrape the bowl. Then when she baked them the crispy edges and gooey middle
..gosh I can truly taste them even now.
I would use my calorie knowledge powers, forget about severe gluten, flour- wheat and egg sensitivity- Stomach condition and alot for that, maybe as 80 percent for a day with vanilla chocolate coconut milk as the only other item! 🍘🥛
Gosh I miss her so much 🙏💚🦋🏵😢11 -
My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
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Hot buttered Cheerios.
Fried bologna sandwiches.
English muffin pizzas in the toaster oven.
Also, the cinnamon toast...YES.11 -
YUM! Loco Moco is one of my favorite meals right now, even my husband's healthier version (Morningstar griller, egg, brown rice & vegetarian "beef" broth gravy)!
I never heard of it as a kid though...I grew up in the Midwest where some of my biggest childhood favorites are Pizza Hut personal pan pepperoni pizzas (Book It! anyone?) and brown beans served with buttered cornbread and a squirt of ketchup on the beans.5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
my mom made this for me...even when I was like 28, she would send me home with them in a Rubbermaid container and I'd polish those bad boys off with milk. Delish.4 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
my mom made this for me...even when I was like 28, she would send me home with them in a Rubbermaid container and I'd polish those bad boys off with milk. Delish.
Guess what I'm craving now? :laugh:
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quiksylver296 wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
my mom made this for me...even when I was like 28, she would send me home with them in a Rubbermaid container and I'd polish those bad boys off with milk. Delish.
Guess what I'm craving now? :laugh:
Full disclosure: just last weekend I made exactly 2 of these (mixed up a crazy-tiny bowl of frosting and everything). It felt so sad LMAO3 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
my mom made this for me...even when I was like 28, she would send me home with them in a Rubbermaid container and I'd polish those bad boys off with milk. Delish.
Guess what I'm craving now? :laugh:
Full disclosure: just last weekend I made exactly 2 of these (mixed up a crazy-tiny bowl of frosting and everything). It felt so sad LMAO
This was a childhood staple! And same with the cinnamon toast! (and milk toast...)3 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »YUM! Loco Moco is one of my favorite meals right now, even my husband's healthier version (Morningstar griller, egg, brown rice & vegetarian "beef" broth gravy)!
I never heard of it as a kid though...I grew up in the Midwest where some of my biggest childhood favorites are Pizza Hut personal pan pepperoni pizzas (Book It! anyone?) and brown beans served with buttered cornbread and a squirt of ketchup on the beans.
Bless Book It! and the pizza that came. I didn't have to share a pizza with my brother, it was MINE. I also loved being able to sit and read half the day at school. I liked books more than people.11 -
My moms crepes, raspberry cream cheese bars and my dads pancakes. He used club soda and milk instead of water to make them super fluffy
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Super random, but does anyone who was a kid in the 2000s remember those yogurt-covered cluster-like snacks that came in pouches?? They were like crunchy... chocolaty and strawberry. I'm searching but can't find any pictures!0
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pancakerunner wrote: »Super random, but does anyone who was a kid in the 2000s remember those yogurt-covered cluster-like snacks that came in pouches?? They were like crunchy... chocolaty and strawberry. I'm searching but can't find any pictures!
You have me thinking of nougat clusters.1 -
Concord grapes picked off the vine and squirted out of their skins right into my mouth.
Ripe tomatoes still warm from the sun, sliced and salted.
My mom's fried chicken. Nobody else's comes close.
My mom's homemade bread. I can make it, but it doesn't taste quite as good without mom around. 8 -
cinnamon toast!!! I'd forgotten those! And I agree who needs a recipe for that? LOL!!!
We also would eat bread with condensed milk. And sometimes, to make it even yummier, add some Nesquick on top.
Or just condensed milk straight out of the can - especially after keeping it in the fridge for a while - open - and you get a hard kind of consistency. OMG.
Too sweet now, can't handle it so well anymore!
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Hot chocolate was sold for 75 cents, on cold morning, outside my middle school cafeteria. I would buy a cup just before my first class at 7:45 a.m.
I have never had any hot chocolate as good since then.7 -
Hot chocolate was sold for 75 cents, on cold morning, outside my middle school cafeteria. I would buy a cup just before my first class at 7:45 a.m.
I have never had any hot chocolate as good since then.
At my middle school they sold hamburgers that were really thin and only came with mustard. It was rumored they had soybean content and a lot of kids wouldn't eat them because of this (1988-1989 so that was a weird new thing). They were so delicious to me. Braum's fast food/ice cream chain (local to me now) is the only place that comes close with their junior burgers, little pathetic burgers but so delicious!7 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Hot buttered Cheerios.
Fried bologna sandwiches.
English muffin pizzas in the toaster oven.
Also, the cinnamon toast...YES.
Hot buttered Cheerios? Do tell9 -
Ripe tomatoes, right off the vine! (I am with you @lynn_glenmont !)
Also blackberries and muscadines, right off the vine, so warm and sweet!
Cold milk, drunk after you first shook the jar to mix the cream back in.
Homemade rum ice cream!
Thin pancakes (not crepes, but not fluffy American standard pancakes) with a bit of powdered sugar and some lemon juice.
Homemade fudge.
My dad's homemade black-bottom pie!4 -
I've been thinking of a few, other threads have helped me remember.
Cheddar n' Bacon Easy Cheese on top of Ritz Crackers
Ritz cracker cheese sandwiches (the baby ones)
Squeeze It drinks
Brown sugar poptarts with butter on top
Lunchables pizza
Butter pecan ice cream (which I honestly didn't care for, but we always had it)
Fruit roll-ups
Vienna hot dogs, fried to a crisp on the grill
Those flat, square pizza slices you got at school. I loved those, idc.
Also, the milk cartons you got at school, or the juice cartons where you stabbed a straw through the foil top
That's all I can remember right now.
This was like, regular stuff too, not treats. We ate a lot of fast food too. Chicken nuggets from burger king was definitely a common meal. Same with roast beef sandwiches from arbys.
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My grandma made the best homemade egg noodles and real mashed potatoes!
And chocolate pie with meringue!! I don't have much of a sweet tooth but I loved my grandma's chocolate pie!
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Hot buttered Cheerios.
Fried bologna sandwiches.
English muffin pizzas in the toaster oven.
Also, the cinnamon toast...YES.
Hot buttered Cheerios? Do tell
I think it's one of those things that was a suggestion on the box of Cheerios...
Melt butter in a pan.
Add Cheerios and stir until hot and crispy.
Add salt.
You have to eat them while they are hot.
The key was to have the right ratio of butter to Cheerios so that they didn't get soggy.8
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