/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>sauce using a few 20 cent cans of cheap tomato paste, and then add a bunch of fat too it. Whatever was on hand. Olive oil was common but so was a fuck load of butter. From there she would add salt, pepper, dry oregano and whatever other herbs. Sometimes garlic too
This sounds great, actually

>The spaghetti was always overcooked
nope now it's trash. Still, good effort

>>14047017
Growing up my family was rich, so as a kid my mom called Mondays "Macaroni and cheese Monday" and usually it would consist of a big bowl of organic macaroni pasta. She would make a sauce, a sort of roux, with aged cheddar, gruyere, smoked gouda and black truffles, and then she would also garnish it with lobster pieces, caviar and gold sprinkles. From there she would sprinkle just a touch of Himalayan sea salt and Saffron just to make it pretty and taste better.
The macaroni was always overcooked and sometimes if I behaved she would serve me A5 Waygu steak cooked well done with the lobster caviar macaroni (which were grass fed and slaughtered in the Shiga prefecture region of Japan, fyi).

>>14047017
my mom poisoned my family with cheap, garbage processed food
I will never forgive her.

>>14047017
I just remember eating loads of mexican food

>>14047066
Dad made me hot dog paella with saffron and the expensive rice from the imported section of the store
Right now all I can afford of hot dog paella are the hot dogs kek, what the fuck was he thinking? Jesus

>>14047140
lmao

Every fall we would go to this orchard owned and managed by a Cistercian abbey to pick apples. There were big ladders and you could climb the trees too. We'd probably get around 15-20 lbs. My parents prefer cortlands so that's what we got. They're best at the end of the season so it was definitely sweater weather. You know the type, there's a slight breeze but the sun warms you up.They also had a shop where you could buy the products of neighboring abbeys. They all specialize in different things. So we usually went home with cheese, chocolate covered blueberries, honey filled hard candies, cider and hard cider. It was pretty great.

>>14047174
pic related

>>14047174
Sounds lovely anon, the good ol days. What's life like for you now?

>>14047196
Gorgeous. Autumn really is the best season.

>>14047199
It's alright, can't complain. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fat underachieving retarded loser, but all in all things are good.

>>14047216
Well those are all things that can be changed, don't worry about it too much.

Several.
>My grandma every Christmas would buy a shit ton of vanilla and cherry cake mixes and make tree shaped cakes with green frosting and gumdrops and give them to friends and family. Used to get one every year until she stopped making them due to poor health.
>My mom could not cook very well, but she has always been excellent at pies and cobblers and would make several for 4th of July, Christmas, etc. Typically Apple, Pumpkin, Mince, and Lemon for pies and peach or blackberry for cobbler.
>Back when my mom did not make a lot of money, she would wait around the deli at Albertsons late at night around closing and get reduced meat and make it the next day.

My family on my mom's side never tried instilling food traditions in me. She wa a welfare queen that just sat around churning out kids. Folks divorced when I was 2 so half the time I went to my dad's place. It's there I learned food traditions. Once it started getting a chill in the air dad and I would go out to the shore and take his skiff out and reel in the shrimp at a spot he rented from the harbormaster. Fresh shrimp for soups and paella and all sorts of dishes. I paid rapt attention to everything he did from the sorting to the peeling and steaming and everything. Sometimes he'd let me fish off his boat on the sly for striped bass. Sometimes I caught keepers and we'd bake those in steaks. I loved hanging with my dad. Mom was jut a wash on life.

>>14047066
Japenese Wagyu isn't grass fed

>>14047134
I blame my mom for why I am obese nowadays. Literally never cooked. When she did it would be as simple as something like pasta and jarred sauce but somehow she would screw up the sauce by adding brown sugar (arguing that the sweetness of the sugar will balance out the acidity of the sauce and compliment the sweetness of the tomatoes, it didn't). I could eat anything I wanted whenever I wanted. Boxes of oreos, rice kirspies, and bags of doritos and other chips were constantly stockpiled in the house cause she would practically only shop at costco. Ate huge amounts of cheese and processed meats/processed bread too. I remember the day when I had freshly baked slightly warm sourdough bread with a bit of butter at a friend's house and it was like heaven. It took me 17 years of my life to finally taste real bread because the only shit my mom would feed me was white wonder bread. Don't even get me started on cheese. it was a Kraft Singles household, and sometimes if I was lucky she would buy tex mex cheddar mix for quesadillas. Today I weight 380lbs. Just shoot me.

>>14047017
Here's some food I've never eaten since I was a child.
Lemon curd sandwiches.
Billy ham slices.
Campbells meatballs.
Alphabet spaghetti.
Findus crispy pancakes.

>>14047254
Ayyy I was an alphabet spaghetti slut

>>14047240
that entire post was a meme

>>14047254
what are billy ham sandwiches

>>14047275
Ultra processed meat made from industrial waste and sweepings off the slaughterhouse floor made into shapes that would appeal to kids

>>14047286
looks like some soylent green shit man

>>14047273
Obviously the mother instilled a deep appreciation and understand for all the components involved in what she was preparing, so I had to correct that one small inaccuracy.

>>14047297
Meat is murder.

>>14047017
>when your family of rednecks has nothing but the food they bond over
>everyone is morbidly obese except me
>comparing their auto-immune diseases that otherwise would not have existed
>sobbing over X family member who just died of colon cancer after a life of eating nothing but garbage while stuffing face with ambrosia salad
>morbidly obese 32 year old cousin calls me out for being skinny
>the whole family starts deciding what my future holds because I'm not fat like them
>"so-and-so died of cancer and they lived on salad"
>meanwhile takes them 5 minutes to prepare, get up, and recover from leaving a seated position before sitting down somewhere else
when my family says cancer runs in the family, I'm sure they mean cancer is running away while the members chase it down with the most effort they've ever put in their lives in order to get the most pity

>>14047327
You sound like you were emotionally scarred because of obese culinary horror you witnessed so now you're a skinny super hot girl or an anorexic gay dude. Which one is it out of curiosity?

>>14047345
don't reply to me or my posts again, you degenerate coomer

>>14047352
I'm a total degenerate but not a coomer just curious, fag.

>>14047364
there's a board dedicated to thirsty simps, go there if you want pictures of trannies

>>14047379
Don't get all defensive you cowgirl hick, I have your estrogen prescription in my wallet I'll swing by the shart mart to pick it up for ya.

>>14047393
>willing to do something for someone with the hopes that they are a girl even before confirmation
once a simp always a simp, go get catfished

>>14047246
Bullshit. My best friend is a fatty too, grew up eating a lot of fast food due to his parents being lazy or tired from long days at work. At one point, that changed, and their food choices changed. It didn't get necessarily better, but at one point in our late teens he had enough and began to make his own dinners. It took a while for his parents to accept it without getting half-offended, but the changed led to the better.
Oh yeah, and since your metabolism has been so fucked, portion control and not eating processed foods/sugars won't help after a while. You'll have to actually exercise to really see differences, but since you want to put all the blame on your parents even to this day, no wonder you're almost 400lbs.

>>14047397
Look Look, I've been a union contractor for over 20 years now and I have the experience to say just by reading your posts, without a doubt, in my expert professional opinion that, you was constructed in such a way that you conform to the rigorous set of building codes and standards that make you not only legally but also judiciously, built for BBC.

>>14047406
fucking kek based

Grew up in Pittsburgh so there were always holiday traditions

>Pork and sauerkraut on new years
>Would go to cook out for any holidays such as memorial day
>Tons of weddings with cookie tables
>Dad would make random concoctions of food

My parents mostly got restaurant food instead of cooking for us, but I truly enjoyed it when they did

>>14047017
Gnocchi on the 29th of every month - I still follow it

>>14047427
Curious: is there a reason or is it arbitrary

>>14047017
Was raised Jewish, so we would have a special meal for Kiddush every Friday. sometimes it was a brisket or pot roast, but typically it was roast chicken, with crispy roast potatoes on the side, and a simple gravy made with the pan drippings and some wine. On Saturday, my brothers and I would make sandwiches with the leftover chicken and challah too, those were the best

>>14047488
but thats halal

>>14047488
Challah is amazing

>>14047017
When I was living together with my mother after my parents were divorced, it was almost a tradition that she would put the food on the table and that I made the joke "I guess today's theme is black?" because she burned the meat again.
Or opening the pan or pasta/rice and asking who else was coming over for dinner because it was just the two of us and she had made close to a fucking kilo

>>14047436
There are two origins, one dealing with a poor wanderer was was fed gnocchi on the 29 and then became a Saint, bringing luck to the family that fed him, and the other says that the tradition began because at the end of the month money is tight and you could only put a meal together with a few things.

Either way many people follow that in parts of Italy, in Argentina, parts of Brazil, probably Uruguay as well.

I miss my mom so much, this thread has bought tears to my eyes.

>>14047547
why don't you call her, anon

>>14047322
Yeah, so?

>>14047548
She died a couple of years ago

>>14047562
use a weegee board

>>14047563
RIP

We ate pretty regular food, mom would make the same general things over and over but we had funny names for everything.

"Roast beast"
"Shicken"
Meals consisting of soup, she would introduce it "Soup, there it is" (a parody of ,whoop there it is )

is chad on the right brutalmoose pls help lole

>>14047327
>>"so-and-so died of cancer and they lived on salad"
HAHAHAHAHAHA

typical

>>14047017
We had "noodles" basically baked potato size dumplings filled with cottage cheese and breadcrumbs served with melted butter and pepper. It was always Grandma or an aunt that would make a huge batch for a family get together to celebrate an older relative birthday. My family also has a tradition of dying just before their birthday or ON someone else's birthday. So the joke became are we having noodles for a birthday or a wake.

WHO IS CHAD ON THE RIGHT PLS I WANNA WATCH

>>14048309
hello newfag

>>14048309
Steve1989mreinfo on youtube, newfriend. I hope you enjoy the new discoveries you're about to make.

We didn't have much money growing up either, and my dad was busy a lot, so when he cooked it had to be something quick and easy. Sometimes he would make rice-a-roni and toss in some ground beef, a can of sweet corn, and a can of green beans. Serve with soy sauce, wa la.

Thing is, it's still comfort food for me, and my brother and I get together sometimes and make it on occasion. It's bad in a good way.

We also used to have "snack night" toward the end of the month, which was a fun way of getting us to eat up the little bits of leftovers in the fridge. I didn't notice til I was older that sometimes my dad just wouldn't eat. He had a good job, but my mom took him for everything in the divorce, so times were tough, and women don't pay child support.

>>14047066
You forgot the word 'pink'.

>>14047017
>Traditional
Traditional indian food gave me food poisoning several times.

did anyone else eat breakfast for dinner? my dad would make a waffle breakfast for dinner a couple of times a year, I still do it a decade later.

My mom used to make me "egg noodle pudding", which was basically just mac and cheese except made with two
Eggs mixed with milk, ham and rotini pasta usually. The eggs would bind it all together so that it was more of a casserole really. Sometimes the eggs weren't completely cooked so it was like a quasi baked carbonara. Was really good. :(

>>14048595
My dad used to do that for my step siblings except that the bacon was always microwaved and shitty and the pancakes were never made from scratch.

>>14048609
yikerrrrrs

>>14047017
I used to walk with my mom, sister, grandma and more people to the church on sunday, my grandma used to buy canned peach and we ate the remains of our Lunch with bread and tea, the rest of our family joined us in her house.
God I have to gather my family again but I'm not a fucking leader just a good right hand man

>>14047322
Go into the loin exhibit and attempt to pour pig's blood on them in an attempt shame the lion for its sins of predation, nigger.

Ausfag
>sunday roast
>bbq on people's birthday
>cold lunch on christmas

>>14048123
that's really corny but I like it. Might have to steal roast beast in the future

>>14047017
Nothing of real note. My family would usually have bagels with cream cheese, capers and smoked salmon on Sunday morning after church service, though. That was nice.

When my mom didn't feel like cooking, we got a hot dog or 2 sandwiched between regular white bread. There was also ketchup and sometimes mustard. This became more common of a meal as my parents shouting matches gradually got louder. Sometimes i'd take my hot dog to my room to it eat alone when this happened. I remember many hot dog nights alone, chewing and staring out of my window. Listening their muffled angry noises and insults. I would try to drown it out with a scratched Styx CD on a shitty stereo which never really worked. These nights gradually began to tear our family apart bit by bit until a violent divorce and premature death ruined everything forever.
I still like hot dogs though, just prefer them on a bun.

>>14048333
Nice Hiss

>>14047017
>"Mom's Special Saturday Spaghetti" and usually it would consist of a big bowl of spaghetti and she would make a sauce using a few 20 cent cans of cheap tomato paste, and then add a bunch of fat too it. Whatever was on hand. Olive oil was common but so was a fuck load of butter. From there she would add salt, pepper, dry oregano and whatever other herbs. Sometimes garlic too


fuck you this is how my family has been eating noodles forever, it's the only way we know how to cook noodles and pasta, why are you wording it like it's the most degrading piece of good to ever be made? wtf? what other way is there to eat noodles if not for herbs, tomato paste and meat with fat? fuck you


also as for family traditions: my grandma owned a farm with her relatives and whenever they had to kill a cow my grandma would travel to get her cut and bring a giant refrigerator worth of meat and she used to share all the meat between her children, including the bastards, equally parts I think. That was nice, I ate so much meat as a kid that I grew up tired of it but now my grandma isn't here anymore and I can't afford to eat those pieces of meat that were so abundant back then

some not so good memory: Me and my sister used to drink tea and eat mortadella sausage sandwiches at school all provided by the state to schools, sometimes we would not eat at school and bring the sandwiches home to eat later in the day

>>14051312
Haha relax

>>14047488
kike

Dad didn't like tomato soup so we'd have grilled cheese sandwiches with chocolate milk

>dad would make “hobo skillet” with corn beef hash, eggs, potatoes, cheese, and garnished with ketchup
>mom would make chicken and dumplings
>no matter how hard I try, I can’t replicate the flavors these dishes had
just kill me

We used to go fish blue crab when it was on season. We would take some folding chairs, a big pot, tables and whatnot, and clean / eat the crabs on the spot. If we also happened to caught some fish, it would also be cleaned up and eaten there. My uncles would sometimes make a mixed seafood soup, some other times they'd make ceviche, and other times we'd take a bunch of fish with us and fry it there. Good times.

Despite being ethnically german, every christmas my mom would make an english christmas dinner, complete with a fiery plum pudding. then we'd retire to a bowl of flaming wine punch and eat spritz, springerle, lebkuchen and stollen.

we've been eating pizza more or less weekly for decades. almost always on a friday. if not pizza then some other fast food type meal like takeout BBQ, deli style sandwiches, or sausages. but usually pizza. onion pizza is our favorite.

after i grew up and moved out we adopted a new tradition- whenever us kids went back home, breakfast was always a leisurely pot of artisanal mom-made coffee with a rustic loaf of bread and a pot of homemade, often homegrown, jam or jelly.

i've moved out of state, but for holidays I still get to go home and immerse myself in our culinary traditions

>>14047563

>>14047246
Your parents stop being responsible for your weight as soon as you turn 18, Anon.

>>14048179
Nope, it's Steve1989MRE

>>14053244
I didn't consent to this feel.

where to begin....we were poorish...so shipwreck for dinner (an everything casserole we described as a "dog's breakfast") and pickle dogs for lunch (a pickle wrapped in bologna, held together with a toothpick).

>>14047246
get over yourself and change your diet

>>14051098
>real nigga shit
Hah. Yeah, the good old days. Best is when they forget to feed you because of their bullshit, and there is nothing in the fridge but margarine. Then there are those nights where they don't fight, and you know you are not going to eat anyways but somehow in the delusional child brain you think you are going to get food. Like, you get off the schoolbus and your families possessions are all stacked in the common area lawn at your apartment complex, because lol evicted. So we go for a walk as a family. Me and my sister just elementary kids and mom and dad are talking and walking slightly ahead of us. through the sodium lamp lit night. They mention something, some sort of name and I misheard it as the name for a restaurant and stupidly pipe up and say I don't want to eat there. It's ok, it wasn't a place to eat they mentioned. Turns out we just went to get cigarettes, turn back, break into the sealed apartment now that the manager has left so we have a place for the night.

Let's just say hunger has a way of helping you develop a shoplifting habit.

>>14055778
THank you anon. Makes me really appreciate not being a shitskin.

>>14047412
Based burgh yinzer.

>>14056175
Why do you have to bring your racism to a blue board about food and cooking? Just because you're not a shit skin doesn't mean you're not a failure.

>>14056310
Racism?

There's no racism here. That's not allowed outside of /b/ you know.

>>14047246
Why shoot you, that's a waste of bullet and your gelatinous folds wouldn't even let the bullet penetrate a vital organ. Use those two meat hammers you call legs to walk your fat ass to your mom's house, and slap her with some of that brown sugar pasta sauce for raising such a whining bitch of a mega sized 400 pound baby. Then walk home and eat a fucking stalk of broccoli you greasy fingered sweaty monster. Imagine being so large that a normal sized grave couldn't fit you. You disgust me not because of your size. But because you blame it on mommy. Make a change chunko

>>14047562
I'm sorry man. If you're still thinking about her, I'm sure you treated her well

>>14055778
>>14056175
White, black, yellow, doesn't fuckin' matter. You will learn how to steal when you feel it's necessary. Just be thankful for the times in life where that isn't necessary.

>>14047246
She may not have help instill good dietary habits in you as a kid, but it's your responsibility now. There is no one to blame but yourself for shoving excess calories down your gullet. My mom was a terrible cook, and I've learned to make all kinds of things that it never occured to me you can make yourself because she bought everything prepackaged. I didn't even know there were pans that weren't teflon until I worked in a kitchen in college. But I still didn't over eat as a kid and still don't now.

The only thing my mom knew how to cook was tuna casserole and meat pie that she learned in home ec in the 50s. My dad was good at cooking but we did a lot of extra curriculars so he didn't make big meals often. So basically 3/7 days of food a week was disgusting tuna caserole, tasty meat pie and shake n' bake. We also all ate in different rooms because my mom was a hoarder.

>>14047017
My mum used to make toasted sandwiches with heinz baked beans and cheese, and it as the kind of sandwich press which seals the sandwich so it was really cool. She used to make spaghetti bolognese and japanese curry too and every time she made these I would have like 3 servings.

>>14056937
Sounds delicious

>>14057262
Thanks dude it was. I still sometimes make the toasted sandwiches now.

>>14051098
>>14055778
hope life is treating you better boys, had similar experiences as a kid as well

>>14048179
>Chad
>Brutalmoose

that word doesn't mean what you think it does anon

>>14056310
If youre white youre by definition better than all shitskins regardless of life choices and success.
Simple as.

>>14047174
>cistercan abbey
>usa
do americans really?

>>14057565
Oh yes so much better!

>>14047017
My dad used to always make fresh squeezed orange juice and go to the bakery on Sundays so we'd have fresh bread and maybe a croissant. I always remember waking up to the sound of this little orange juicer thing whirring away. Sometimes he'd buy me a phantom comic and he'd get Mum the paper. It's a pretty nice memory.

>>14047134

She probably didn't know any better and was just trying to feed her children using the resources and skills she had available.

>>14057615

Cozy memory, 9/10 would read again

>>14047196
isnt that the undercover secret government building from stranger things?

>>14047196

Minecraft-ass landscape

>>14050341
I think I have a bbq for just about every non religious event. Birthdays are 50% chance of it while mothers/fathers day is always one.

>>14047322
The caveman didn't shop well.

>>14047017
> review brah is lame and weird

>>14048309

>>14047488
>Was raised jewish
were you adopted by jews?

>>14047017
Well growing it was food but thinking back we always ate a lot of fish in my family like smoked, grilled, dug, fried and whatsnot.

Also moose, i still love moose stew in chantarelles. And forest birds like capercaillie and grouse but they had a wild taste bit liked by all.

Also we gre potatoes and root fruits.

All in all i like potatoes, carrots, fish, and moose and prolly some stuff i have forgotten.

>>14059551
No idea if we were poor or not, maybe we were. The north is so scarcely populated and all live or lived under the same conditions.

>>14059566
Got my gf from the south to eat fish, it took 5 years but i tried everything, grilled, smoked, cooked and fried.

Now she likes it whatever, she also lost 12 pounds in weight, like all the weight she gained when we met.

>>14059551
What is dug fish?

>>14047246

Breh, you can leave this shit behind. Change your diet and go to /fit/. Visit "fat people hate thread" if you need some inspiration, because you will never want to be *that*.

I used to be a skinnyfat/borderline fat cunt myself. And if my weak willed sickly ass is capable of changing than so is you.

You are going to make it.

>>14059551
>>14059600
>>14060011
What is this retarded way of formatting text?

>>14060020

The fuck exactly are you talking about?

>>14057605
Imagine looking like this and thinking you're human.

>>14060685
kek

>>14053244
Hobo skillet more like homo skillet lmaooo

>>14047017
My biggest food tradition is a five service meal every December 24th.

We're always the one hosting it, it's amazing and I'll make sure it continues.

Sunday mornings my sister and i would eat graham crackers in milk, like it's a cereal, with some sugar spooned on top.

you have to be kindof quick because the graham crackers don't last long in milk

>>14062050
awe. Are you still close with your sister?

>>14057615
my grandpa was like that. his breakfast every day would be a bowl of cheerios with black rasberries he picked off of the fence, a cup of black coffee, a glass of squeezed orange juice, and a piece of bacon. he'd eat the cereal and then light a cigarette, and spend the next hour or so doing the crossword puzzle and finishing his breakfast. any time i came to visit, he'd make me the same, but with grapefruit juice, which he called 'pamplemousse juice' to make me laugh when i was a kid.

my breakfast for the last 4 years has always been a sandwich with varying contents.
contents included:
homemade patty
sausage
salami
omelette
potatoes
and i still havent stopped

>>14062094
Yeah kinda. we live pretty far away now but still talk