When my brother & I were growing up my Mom would make stuffed bologna. I think it was something her Mom and Grandma made during the depression. Its slices of bologna rolled around a bread, sage, and onion stuffing, covered with canned tomato soup & baked. I know it sounds gross but I really like it! I still make it for myself when I'm alone & nobody will find out. My brother does the same thing. It's not something we tell a lot of people about. They all think its too weird.
2006-11-04 16:05:23 · 26 answers · asked by Squirrel 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
sounds interesting to me.. dont worry about it.. I think everyone has their secret comfort food that MOm or Grandma used to make when they were little.. I know I sure do... and when Im down, it always brings me back up... Nice to have a family tradition only you and your brother can share.. goodluck!
2006-11-04 16:09:01 · answer #1 · answered by Mintee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not gross at all. There were many really tasty and nutritious recipes concocted during the Depression years that people have forgotten about because there are other, easier foods more readily available. Also, likely, because people associated them with the difficult days of the depression. These are the sorts of recipes that should be collected and put into a recipe book for people who are on welfare or trying to get by on minimal incomes.
One of my friends in Mexico did that -- she spent a year gathering and testing recipes that had easily available ingredients and were cheap to make. And that tasted good. Her family laughed at her (and her cook couldn't quite figure out what was going on) when she served seven different kinds of polenta in a row because she said if it didn't taste good enough for her family to eat, it wasn't going in the book. She finished it, had it printed and distributed to the needy families in her parish.
2006-11-05 00:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's weird at all. I'd like to try it, actually. How long and at what temperature do you bake it? I'd make it to get a taste of what it was like back then, to try and make that connection. Both my parents grew up in the Depression but neither talks about it and my grandparents have passed on. A dish I heard of but haven't tried is peas and mayonnaise. One of my cousins told me about it. Their mom used to make it all the time growing up. I can't imagine why (maybe to keep the peas together?).
Try this for some other off the wall recipes, although the reasons behind them are far different from yours:
http://www.lavamind.com/food3.html
Don't worry about it -- I agree with other answerers that it's great that you can connect with the past in that way. Bon Appetit!
2006-11-05 01:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by cboni2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never had it that way. My mom used to fix a bologna casserole though with noodles and cheese. That tasted pretty good. But these days, people tend to turn their noses up at stuff like that. Man, they just don't know what good eating is.
2006-11-05 00:16:47 · answer #4 · answered by Miss G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like comfort food to me.
I know what you mean. My mom used to make macaroni with a can of tomato soup for the sauce and if we had meat, and onions. The meat was different - either bologna, ham, hamburger or pork, whatever was available. And we'd sprinkle lots of pepper on top. I wouldn't serve it to anyone else but me. My sister still makes it, too.
I bet I'd like your recipe and you'd like mine!
2006-11-05 00:09:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I have not eatten it. But I bet it is good. We eat something kindif simmular, called Bologna Boats. cooked bologna with mashed potatoes and in the center of the curled up sides. Topped with cheese. Yummy.
Keep eatting what you like.
2006-11-05 00:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a huge fan of bologna but if you like it don't feel bad about eating it! I eat ramen noodles all the time!
2006-11-05 01:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by courtneyc2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We always called bologna "Tennessee Round Steak" because we couldn't afford it in Alabama when I was growing up.
2006-11-05 00:17:49 · answer #8 · answered by classic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mother did the same only she layered it lick lasagna sauce bologna stuffing sauce Bologna
2006-11-05 00:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by y269tino 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BOLOGNA IS ONE OF THE FEW THINGS ON MY PERSONAL DIO NOT EAT LIST, BUT I LIKE THE SOUND OT THIS. I CAN SEE WHERE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LUXURY UNDER DEPRESSION CIRCUMSTANCES.
GOD BLESS
2006-11-05 00:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by thewindowman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋