Mom-food week

[serenecooking]

So here's what we ended up having/buying, foodwise, while mom was here:



Dinners:

Wednesday: Kneidlach (matzoh ball) soup

Thursday: Pot roast with potatoes, carrots, and onions, and a big salad

Friday: Prime rib, mashed potatoes, corn, pasta salad

Saturday: Ribs (someotherguy made those), cole slaw (our friend berkeleyfarm brought that over), pasta salad, chips/dip

Sunday: Mom was gone, so we had a leftovers meal (ribs, prime rib, potatoes, corn, veggies/dip, chicken soup...)

Non-dinner foods I remember sharing and enjoying with mom:

Pickled herring on crackers
Mushroom and provolone omelets
Black jellybeans and Aussie black licorice
Fijian cheesy poofs
Breakfasts: Pancakes and sausage and eggs and home fries with onions/mushrooms/peppers and chorizo-and-eggs

Mom is fun to eat with, and fun to explore grocery stores with. I probably can't even list all the foods we bought (well, we shopped for, she bought), but I'll try, and we had a blast. Among our other scores:

All that stuff from NZ/Aus/Fiji
Mango applesauce for the kid
Eggplants two for a dollar
Condensed mushroom soup to make chicken and rice with
Chorizo
Milk
Olives
TONS of chips, crackers, and other snack foods
Sauerkraut
Soymilk
Lots of dip mixes
Lots and LOTS of cheese: provolone; aged cheddar; cheddar with peppadew; cheddar with bacon and onion; swiss; buffalo-wing cheddar; goat chevre; bleu
Liquid smoke
Gourmet mustards

And this is what she brought from home, with the cold stuff packed in a cooler:

A pork loin so big, it has to turn a corner to fit in my freezer
11 pounds of pork spareribs
2 large corned beef tips
3 pounds of bacon
500+ little packets of crystal light singles
3 flats of bottled water (we don't use it, so I sent her back with some of it)
20+ pounds of steaks and London Broil
A grocery bag stuffed full of hard candies
5 pounds of the biggest hot dogs I've ever seen (Bar-S Jumbos)



So, I ask this of you: Whenever you walk in my front door and I offer to feed you before I even ask how you are, please be gentle with me, because these, my friends, are my roots.

Comments

[firecat]

Reading about moms eating food makes me happy right now.

[serene]

*hughug*