Food Memories

I'm posting about food today.

I've been trying to lose weight this week and I have been very good. I haven't ate any Dove chocolate or Hershey's kisses. I do have York Peppermint Patties, tho. I love those! I find if I can include them, or some other low fat/low calorie chocolate in my diet, it's easier for me to stay on it.

I feel like I'm a spokesperson for Hersheys.

Anyway, since I can't eat much food, I find I think a lot about food. When my friend and I walk when we're trying to lose weight, about 90% of what we talk about is food.

My willpower is going to be tested tonight, tho. We're having our fist church dinner of the year. There is always a lot of desert at our dinners. I love deserts! I usually take a tiny piece of each one. But, I'm going to fight the urge tonight, maybe someone will bring Jell-O.

I'm taking my blackberry cobbler. It wouldn't be a church dinner without it.

When I was a child I remember my Mom making a lot of chocolate pies, lemon meringue pies, pineapple upside down cakes and what I call bread pudding. It wasn't the baked kind, tho. She cooked home made vanilla pudding in a pot on the stove and then she would tear up pieces of light bread and put in it. That was it, no baking required. It was so good, I can still taste it. Sometimes I make it with the instant cooked vanilla pudding, but it's just not the same.

My grandmother was known for her applesauce stack cake. It was her specialty. It was an old fashioned cake with lots of thin layers stacked on top of each other. Applesauce was spread between each thin layer and on top of the cake. The cake is best after it has set for a few days in the fridge. The applesauce then has a chance to soak into it. I remember many times walking in her kitchen door and seeing the cake on the table. She always gave me a piece.

We were a pinto beans and fried potato family. . . and of course, cornbread. Cornbread sliced down the middle with butter spread inside. The only time we had chicken was on Sunday. Seems like we always had fried chicken on Sunday.

Left over cornbread would be crumbled up in a glass and milk poured over it. I would sprinkle pepper on it and eat it with a spoon. My husband likes to do this with buttermilk, but I don't like buttermilk.

I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I remember when I was a child, Mom would take a piece of folded over light bread and dunk it in the coffee and give me a bite. I liked that.

School lunches bring back many memories. The principal wouldn't excuse a table until everyone there had tasted everything on their plate. The only thing I wouldn't eat was this stuff that looked like the green Easter grass that you fill your Easter basket with. To this day, I still don't know what that was. It tasted awful.

Other than that, I loved our school lunch food. We had rolls that were so soft. The cooks always asked if you wanted one or two when you went through the line. And their cornbread ooozed with butter. And my favorite desert was the peanut butter chews. The recipe I have for these is the recipe they used, only the ingredients are cut down a lot to make a small batch.


Here is the recipe for the peanut butter chews for those of you who aren't on a diet and want to give it a try.

Peanut Butter Chews

2 1/2 cups corn flakes
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup sugar

Bring sugar and syrup to boil.
Take off heat and stir in peanut butter and cornflakes.

Press into a pan.
Cool . Slice. Eat.

They are very good!
If you want a big batch, double the recipe.

What food memories do you have from when you were a child?

Did you have the weird green grass on your school lunch plates?