Everyone remember's Mom's great cooking, but was was her one flop of a meal?

Question

My mom made this stuff with hamburger suspended in some kinda gelatinous, clear tapioca-ey substance. We used to say Awww GAWD! She made "suspended!" I still have no idea what it was...and wouldn't have the heart to ask, because Dad seemed to like it...

Answer 1

One time my Mom was going to make hamburger buns for supper from some of the dough you by in the store. Well it must have been old dough that had been frozen to long,because they didn't rise. There was nothing she could do but bake them and see what happened. They came out of the oven round and brown and as flat as a pancake. what to do, what to do oh my. she told my dad that they were pita bread rolls and he loved them and told her to make them again sometime

lol

Answer 2

OMG! What a good question!

My moms was this thing she called Roosevelt Dinner (NO ONE KNOWS WHY AND WE ARE AFRAID TO ASK). She would take the big black roasting pan and cover the bottom with oil then add a layer of bone-in pork chops and cover that with Veg-All and cover the whole mess with tomato soup mixed with water and bake for an hour. We have no idea why she chose to torture us with this. And the weird part, she hasn't made it since we grew up. I honestly believe it was a form of torture and the reason I do not each pork chops to this day! Lord knows I love that woman, but she tortured us at the dinner table once a week.

Answer 3

In my , no remember if that ought to correctly be a amassing at my daughter's, we inventory themes for a huge buffet. My daughter is amazingly of a "Martha Stewart" form and ought to create 2 pastas with a sauce for the vegetarians and yet another with shrimp or meat interior the sauce, baked or bbq salmon or rooster on account that she & her husband do no longer eat pork, some variety of starch(both mashed potatoes, yams or couscous, and so on.), freshed cooked vegs that are in season. We others supplement with Salads (many times 2 or 3), ethnic takeout (someone presented some Cuban baked "tasties"), breads and brownies. we many times have the customary relations members 14 plus whom ever else we allure to to have a good time. From the time of my little ones, My mom's area had celebrations month-to-month at my Grandmother's. My Grandmother had 9 little ones. each person's Birthdays, wedding ceremony ceremony anniversaries and vacation journeys were celebrated at my Grandma's position - it replaced into continually a astounding ingredient alongside with my cousins, aunts, uncles & grandma. I persisted the custom on a smaller scale over the yrs and now my daughter appears to be like continuing it as right now as lower back.

Answer 4

My mom is a great cook, but her favorite meal and the one we all detest in my family is some godforsaken concoction that we refer to as Pasty White Chicken. Just a whole chicken covered in flour and maybe a little bit of pepper and baked in the oven. It's the plainest, grossest thing ever. She likes it because she can't tolerate too much spicy or heavy stuff.

Answer 5

We had a ton, literally a ton of hard boiled eggs left over from easter and my mom searched out a recipe that used them as an ingredient so she could get rid of them faster. I can't remember what was in it but we called it egg surprise, and sadly a friend of mine was over for the nasty meal. It was gross, and I for sure knew it because my mom wouldn't even eat the leftovers and she also had trouble eating it just as the rest of us struggled to eat that night. I think it was a bad recipe because my mom is a great cook.

Answer 6

OK, she is a very good cook and I'm sure that these things were cooked to perfection, but I'll never know because she is the only one who would eat these things.
Her family was German. She would sometimes make Sauerkraut. Ugh! My dad banned her from making it in the house, so she had a little makeshift 'kitchen' set up in the utility room. It stunk like a skunk!
The other 'specialty' was Liver'N'Onions! No Thanks, Ma!

Answer 7

Mom was (and still is) an outstanding cook. The two things I DETESTED growing up:

Steak...Mom is Southern and would cook a steak beyond well done. We would cut it into tiny pieces just to swallow it whole. I went into adulthood thinking that I hated steak. When I moved to Kansas, where eating a steak is a must, my coworkers ordered a steak for me, cooked medium. I was pleasantly surprised, and I eat steak to this day (just not Mom's).

Red Kool-Aid. Not Cherry or Strawberry, but Red.

Answer 8

Meatloaf and goulash. I hate goulash!! Just macaroni, hamburger and some left over spaghetti sauce. Her meatloaf wouldn't have been bad but she NEVER would drain oil from such dishes and would use the cheapest grind of hamburger she could get so it would FLOAT literally in about 2" of grease. It was repulsive!

Answer 9

my mom is an awesome cook, my parents have retired with the money they made from their restaurant! but, sadly the woman cant make dumplings to save her life! funny, now i have this terrible need to try to make perfect dumplings! ( still workin' on it lol )

Answer 10

She could make the BEST peach cobbler or biscuits & gravy in the world, but I didn't think her spaghetti (too runny) was exactly her specialty.