Favorite meal as a kid?

I was just thinking back to being a kid and meals that meant comfort or special times. 

On Saturdays, I loved grilled cheese and tomato soup. 

In the summer it was fresh garden greens with Mom's homemade Thousand Island dressing, baked chicken, and mashed potatoes plus fresh slices of tomato still warm from the sun.

Winter was bean soup and cornbread...so good when coming in from playing in the cold all day.

We used to get milk fresh from a friend's farm and it had the cream on top.  Nothing could beat that.

If you could have any meal from your childhood, calories do not matter here, what would it be?

while i dont remeber many meals from my childhood, there are a few comfort foods that mean alot to me.

1) my grandmas hotdogs, nothing special, but she would boil them first, then toast them in the toaster oven, they would be perfect!

my Grandmas pasta was great, she would slow cook a homeade meat sauce with cheese and smuther pasta, it was great.

Another comfort food for me was enjoying a bowl of golden grahams at my grannys house, i have alot of good memories from her.

Also nutellla on toast is another thing i used to love as a child, my germany nanny would make this for me, yes i rellise i can make this now, and i have... but the simple fact that good memories come with it make it special.

pot roast with veggies was a good meal when I was little. But now I can only eat the veggie part because I don't eat meat anymore. :]]

Yeah, I know what you mean about making these things for yourself. It isn't the food so much as the people that made the food. I could make these foods myself, but it just would not taste the same.

Same things i love now (i haven't long left childhood hehe)

Roast beef dinner
Tuna pasta bake

And my nan's lardy chips! (but i dont eat those now!)

Had tea at my mums the last time i saw her, before xmas :(, and it was lovely. Can't remember what it was but it was so great to eat with her.

A portion of egg fried rice from the Chinese every Saturday... mmm!

My mum's home made Norwegian cakes and biscuits at Christmas

My grandmother's honey roast ham sandwiches she used to make when we visitied

These chips my mum used to cook once in a blue moon - there was something sooooo nice about them! I don't remember what they were called but they were breaded chips and absolutely gorgeous!

Mac & Cheese one of my all time favorites!

Grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Spagetti, one thing my mom could actually cook!

We didnt go often, but plain cheeseburger from McDonalds

Plain hotdogs.

I dont eat meat anymore, but the mac & cheese is still a comfort food!  I even pack boxes of Annies Mac & Cheese in my luggage when I go home for visits!  (I'm down to my last box now!)

Home made fried rice.  We lived in Okinawa and Guam when my parents were first married and I was very little (dad was in the Navy).  Mom had several oriental friends that taught her to cook fried rice.  We had it almost weekly when I was growing up, and I loved it!  

She used a big skillet and lightly sauteed vegetables, garlic, black pepper, etc.  Then she added the cooked rice, and finished by cracking a few eggs over it and turning it with a spatula until the eggs were cooked.  It was an entire meal.  She usually added some type of meat, typically a leftover.  We ate it with or without soy sauce.  YUM!!!

Kelly

Homemade hamburgers and chocolate shakes.  Every Friday night the whole family would sit in the living room and watch Little House on the Prairie with our burgers and shakes.  It was so momentous since we never allowed to eat in the living room except for then.

There is not one particular meal for me. My grandma quit her job as a lunch lady to care for us after our mother died.

Every dinner had a salad, a fresh that day baked bread of some sort, a dessert, a meat, a green and a starch.  My grandma cooked everything from scratch and most of what we ate we "put up" ourselves.  It was all so good!!!

I will say that thanks to my grandma there isn't a veggie I can think of that I don't like.  My kids are now the same way which makes eating healtier a whole lot easier.

Boy yeah, veal cutlets and mashed taters! And ok green beans with cheese melted over them.

Either that or peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwiches on Roman meal with really THICK peanut butter (1/4" to 3/8").

i loved lasagna and still do!

with my indian background, i also used to LOVE this indian dish called keema. its basically ground beef/pork with tonnes of indian spices - now im more into the veg dishes rather than meat for some reason

Macaroni Cheese heh.

French toast, spaghette-0's, cheeseburgers, pizza bites, regular pizza, chips, candy bars, swiss-miss chocolate cakes, banana flips, carrot cake, anything with bbq sauce, fish sticks, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, p&j sandwichs, and much more........Now you know why I have been overweight ever since I was about seven or eight.

heinz beans in molasses mixed with Kraft dinner and pieces of hotdogs in it comes to mind. Mom made it alot on snow days and weekends cause we loved it. The msg is enough to keep me away form it now though...

and blue-berry blue bonnet cake. It was a white/spice (umm mostly white.. but kinda spicey?) cake with cinnimon stuff in it with blueberry filling in the middle.... then drowned in brown sugar sauce.. it was sooo good!

I used to love my dad's recipe for macaroni and cheese. I always asked him to make it and we'd go to the store together to buy the ingredients. It brings back a lot of memories actually. I remember him teaching me how to make it and that was big deal because we didn't really do a whole lot together. I don't eat cheese anymore, though. But I do remember the whole recipe. It was soooo good!

Mmmmm my mom made homemade baked mac n' cheese, enchilada's, pizza casserole, fresh baked bread, mashed potatoes & gravy.  These were some of my faves. :)

Could never go wrong with PB & J.  I also LOVED any icecream with peanut buttter cups in it... and the homemade icecream my Dad would churn.  Put a few scoops on a sugar cone... post-swim summer delight!

I enjoyed reading these - isn't it funny how it's more the memories attached to things than the actual food?.  I don't want any of the particular foods or meals per se, but I'd love to be 10 years old again and come in from playing in the snow to know Mom would have a hot meal waiting. 

Hope you're all having a good week so far!

My grandmother's home made ravioli with her tomato gravy and meatballs.  She made them fresh almost every Sunday, using fresh ricotta cheese from the dairy.  The cheese was in curds and she'd let it drain in a colander overnight to remove the whey.  Her "gravy" was made with a piece of pork (Abruzzo style) and her meatballs were tender and juicy.  She didn't use a lot of spices other than garlic and fresh parsley - the natural flavors are what we tasted.  I can approximate her recipe, but the cheese isn't available any more, and that whipped stuff in the plastic container doesn't even come close.

I have to say that mine is skillet ham, lesuer green peas, and macaroni and cheese :)

Chicken nuggets and soft serve ice cream.  :P  My grandparents were health nuts, too.  Fast food was a treat maybe once a month.