5.) Last week we talking about mom’s WORST homemade meals. This week describe a meal your Mom cooked that you LOVED eating growing up.
I remember a lot of hideous meals growing up. Rice pudding, tacos, cabbage rolls, and kernels of corn (not to be confused with corn on the cob) topped the list. If Mom made any kind of meat..steak, ribs, pork chops…I’d toss bits of it under the table to keep from actually having to swallow it.
When Mom found the food under my chair I’d get in trouble so I started tossing the bits of meat across the table under the chairs of my siblings. When my siblings started being all, “Something hit my foot! KATHY are you throwing your MEAT again!?!” I had to change tactics once again. I resorted to stuffing my mouth full of meat and then would excuse my to use the bathroom and spit the food out in the toilet. Until one of my siblings was all, “MOM! Kathy spit potatoes out in the toilet!!” and I was all red faced and, “uh uh!!! No I didn’t!! It was MEAT!”
It may as well have been potatoes. I hated those too.
But my Mom DID do one thing right, and that was spaghetti. You would never catch me passing on a bowl of spaghetti. My brothers and sisters developed a nasty habit of grunting like pigs every time I asked for more. And while hearing all five of them grunt in unison hurt my feelings just a smidge…I didn’t let that stop me from filling my plate.
It was that good.