CarolPa
Executive Chef
Harrisburg, and his mom is of PA Dutch stock. Lots of Lebanon baloney and scrapple action going on!
Oh yes, I think we've discussed scrapple before.
Harrisburg, and his mom is of PA Dutch stock. Lots of Lebanon baloney and scrapple action going on!
Hands down, far and away, the absolute best school cafeteria food I ever had was a dish called "pork and gravy". It was served over mashed potatoes and was so sinfully good I couldn't get enough. I can still taste it and I still miss it.
Oh yes, I think we've discussed scrapple before.
The first fish I ever ate was fish sticks from the cafeteria in 6th grade
We had just moved from a walk-home-for-lunch state. A restaurant at school seemed cool and exotic!
Btw... I have trader joes fish sticks in the toaster oven as I type.
I've never understood the affinity for mac & cheese, to me it tastes like glue. School scalloped potatoes have always been really good, though, in elementary school and in all the schools I've worked at. The hot dogs were always boiled, and kind of rubbery. I don't recall Indian pudding or salmon croquettes.
Indian Pudding is a New England dish. Nasty stuff made with molasses, corn meal and raisins. A Julia Child favorite dish. They serve it at one of the restaurants , Durgin's Park at Fanuiel Hall. A tourist trap in Boston.
The first fish I ever ate was fish sticks from the cafeteria in 6th grade
We had just moved from a walk-home-for-lunch state. A restaurant at school seemed cool and exotic!
Btw... I have trader joes fish sticks in the toaster oven as I type.
Sounds disgusting, Addie! Our lunch ladies made a decent rice pudding with raisins, and a nice crust if you were lucky. Think I'd rather have that.
Some of us like it Addie. Properly done, it can be very flavorful and the texture is right. Haven't eaten at Durgin Park since the 1970s, so maybe they do a shortcut version from their original, not that I remember what it was like. But there is a restaurant in West Brookfield that had an amazing Indian Pudding. Haven't been there recently, but when we went soon after we moved here it was every bit as yummy as when we first discovered the restaurant back in the 1970s when we went camping in Sturbridge. Now we live near there! Hmm, might have to plan the budget for a trip out to Salem Cross sometime this summer.Indian Pudding is a New England dish. Nasty stuff made with molasses, corn meal and raisins. A Julia Child favorite dish. They serve it at one of the restaurants , Durgin's Park at Fanuiel Hall. A tourist trap in Boston.
Some of us like it Addie. Properly done, it can be very flavorful and the texture is right. Haven't eaten at Durgin Park since the 1970s, so maybe they do a shortcut version from their original, not that I remember what it was like. But there is a restaurant in West Brookfield that had an amazing Indian Pudding. Haven't been there recently, but when we went soon after we moved here it was every bit as yummy as when we first discovered the restaurant back in the 1970s when we went camping in Sturbridge. Now we live near there! Hmm, might have to plan the budget for a trip out to Salem Cross sometime this summer.
I had forgotten slumgullion was another name for this dish or a version of it. Amazing it took until the 92nd post for it to come up.
That explains it. I never had anything like that except at camp. My parents were fairly FOB from Scandinavia when I was born. I got pyttipanna and biksemad.Ha! That's the one CG! Mom said grandma probably used tomato soup too, but mom usually used tomatoes or sauce. I guess most of our generation probably ate a lot of the same fare.except maybe those with strong ethnic backgrounds. (I'm a Heinz 57)lol!
Slummuligan! Oh, my! That is a great name for the American Chop Suey. I think it's a good name.
Don't get me wrong, I lke it (ACS), I just hate that it seems to malign real chop suey which I like and that I think deserves to keep it's own name.