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Skriven 2014-10-26 21:31:34 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 18486 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Sunday dinners                                           [1]
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Hi Nancy,


 RH> We usually went to my grandparents for Thanksgiving, and had to eat
 RH> things we didn't like, like sweet potatoes, turnips, lima beans,......

 NB> We usually were living too far away from grandparents to be going
 NB> there for any of the holidays, so it was just us...  And Daddy was

We were about 4 hours from Mom's family so went there for Thanksgiving,
they came up to our house for Christmas. After my grandmother had her
first stroke, we went down there for Christmas (usually a day or 2
later) too.

 NB> much more
 NB> generous with turkey than with the other meats...  :)  We had more to
 NB> eat, and all stuff we liked, so it made for a better meal.  :)  No
 NB> turnips, and if there were sweet potatoes, that was a treat for us.
 NB> We had lima beans every so often, anyway... generally mixed with corn,
 NB> for succotash...  :)   When we did happen to visit grandparents, I
 NB> don't
 NB> remember ever being given something to eat that we didn't like, and
 NB> certainly never forced to eat large quantities of disliked food.  :)

We'd visit grandparents (grandfathe passed away when I was 4) and
aunts/uncle several times a year.

 RH> I don't think any of us 5 kids likes sweet potatoes to this day. I
 RH> like turnips now, but still don't like sweet potatoes or lima beans.
 RH> Yes, we got full, but it wasn't what we'd like to have been full on.
 RH> (G)

 NB> Guess you lost more than you gained there... :)

Seems that way, looking back. Plus side was having the pickles and
olives.


 RH> The rare times my mom cooked Thanksgiving dinner, and her Christmas
 RH> dinner, she'd set pickles, olives, cranberry sauce and celery sticks
 RH> (left over celery from making stuffing). We'd have a bit of stuffing
 RH> too, but otherwise it was the same old mashed potatoes & gravy, a
 RH> vegetable and the bird (turkey or goose). But, we did have food on
 RH> the table.

 NB> Celery sticks and carrot sticks were often on our table, not just at
 NB> holidays... and since Daddy liked pickles, it was often part of Sunday
 NB> night suppers...  Olives were uncommon, though... I think we only had
 NB> those elsewhere...  Nowadays, they are usually part of the family
 NB> buffet when we get together, though...  :)

I don't think my parents bought either pickles or olives the last few
years. My sister might bring some up, but I can't say for sure--we've
not been there for holidays much, even since we moved back east. anyway,
it would be the regular black olives, unless I brought some kalamatas.
(G)

 NB>  RH>> We could trade a bit of candy at Easter time but that was about
 NB> it.  RH>> Other times, if we didn't like a sweet, we just asked to
 NB> skip it.  NB>> Lesesne would skip chocolate, but there were plenty of
 NB> the rest of  NB>> us to gladly take her share...  ;)

 RH> I'm sure there were more takers than chocolate available. (G)

 NB> Sadly true...  :)   One had to scramble to be the first...  ;)

Right place, at the right time, with the right trade.

 NB>  RH>> Dad still keeps a good amount of ice cream on hand. (G)
 NB>  NB>> I think Mommy does, too...  but it may be mixed in now with my
 NB>  NB>> sister's stock...  ;)

 RH> Similar tastes or not?

 NB> Mostly similar tastes, although Lydia and her kids go for some that
 NB> Mommy doesn't care so much about...  :)

She may have tastes the others don't, as well. (G)

 NB>  RH>> wasn't as great.
 NB>  NB>> Unless she wanted to eat them all... or pass them to others...
 NB> ;)

 RH> It was just her and Dad, plus whoever was there for Christmas, only as
 RH> long as they were there. IOW, no cookie distribution outside the home.

 NB> I was kinda thinking sending cookies home with the kids that were home
 NB> for Christmas...  :)   Except for years when cookies WERE the present,

No, not really. Usually a coffee can of chex mix tho.


 NB> there wasn't cookie distribution outside the home for us, either...
 NB> and it was mostly some variety of oatmeal cookie...  Usually with
 NB> candied
 NB> fruit at Christmas to make them a bit more special... Daddy usually
 NB> baked those, and he also made a pretty good PB candy.   :)

My mom used the candied fruit in fruit cake. Candy was boughten, usually
a big box of assorted chocolates.


 NB>  RH>> calorie/carb cookies we made, ignoring the lower sugar ones.
 NB>  NB>> I remember that... but probably her brain was already starting
 NB>  NB>> to slip, and what connected was, this is special time so
 NB>  NB>> special cookies are called for..   ;)

 RH> Yes, she had begun to slip by then but we weren't picking up on it
 RH> that much. A bit later, looking back, we'd realise the cues we'd missed
 RH> or attributed to other reasons. With the cookies, it was more of a case
 RH> of availability, as with any sweets, "they're availble, I'm going to
 RH> eat them" sort of reasoning.

 NB> Possibly, but that doesn't explain her passing over the lower
 NB> sugar/carb ones....

They weren't as sweet as the higher sugar ones. One was a molasses
cookie; I think the other lower carb/sugar one was pizelles. One of the
higher carb cookies was a pumpkin/mincemeat bar--she ate a lot of those.

 NB>  RH>> Very much so--we have a "butler" (island on wheels) in the
 NB> storage is that  RH>> it's below the pot rack so we don't klonk our
 NB> heads--too often.
 NB>  NB>> And an extra counter space...  ;)

 RH> That too, to a limited extent. Usually I keep a towel on the top to
 RH> protect the surface from my knife block, napkin basket, paper towel
 RH> holder and whatever happens to land on it. It has a fold up shelf that
 RH> runs the length of the back for small jobs but the other night Steve
 RH> cleared it off completely and made a batch of bazlama bread on it.

 NB> Just because you use it as a storing surface doesn't negate that it is
 NB> counter space...  <G>  As Steve's use of it indicates, as well...  :)

It'll be used in the new kitchen as well.

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Ruth
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