How vain are you?

I've seen and smelled haggis. The scotch that accompanies is much better. 

White trash cooking to gourmet. I love it all.

Blessings, we were fancy. We had the grease cans that had the strainer in the top and a lid with a knob. 

Nothing finer than bacon grease cream gravy over homemade biscuits.

Yes, ariom, I have heard kishka called Jewish haggis. Meine bubbe (my grandmother) also made stuffed chicken neck. I can still see her sitting at the kitchen table, sewing it up.

Caryn

Caryn, I thought it was similar. I loved to be invited to my Jewish friends homes, the food was great and the traditions always fascinated me too.

Oh yes Momine, I can almost smell that delicatessen from here! I know there was a fine line between the dishes from countries that were fairly close together. I loved the Knishes and Blintzes and I don't remember the name, but a sweet apple dessert that has no dairy, but a kind of cake with apple chunks...yum! 

I had friends who had a French restaurant, their back gate opened into the same lane way behind my house. On Friday and Saturday night, their daughter would come into my house through the back gate, to babysit my Daughter and I would go in and help them out, in the restaurant. That was so much fun, and the food was amazing, I learned so much about food from that family, but the Father, who was the Chef, was volatile, a great man, but mad in the heat of the kitchen! Occasionally, if provoked he'd raise a cleaver to get his point across! LOL He cooked Paul Bocuse style French. More than once, I took the lid off a simmering pot to find the head of a calf boiling away in there! He was so proud of his Truffles and always let me try the sauce he made, when he bought those expensive fungi.

Only French was spoken in that kitchen, so I had a baptism of fire, remembering my High School French, for the 2 nights a week I worked there. On Sundays, the restaurant was closed and all the friends and family were invited to a meal that started at about 11am and went all day. It was sensational, we made the bread and usually a couple of huge pots of stew or Coq-Au-vin and my favorite desserts,  Mille Fielle (Sp). and the smoothest creme caramel ever.

Barbe, no not a sit-down buffet. The classic delicatessen has regular tables with waiters etc, but you can also go straight to the counter and order stuff to take home with you.

Spookie, A typical Sunday lunch at my grannie's would be chicken fried in a cast iron skillet, collard greens, mashed potatoes, fried okra or squash, blackeyed peas, relish tray, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and onion slices that you put vinegar & ice cubes in & refrigerate for an hour or two,  homemade rolls or cornbread, and the best-ever blackberry cobbler (made with pie dough-not biscuits).

With ice cream Caryn!

I should add, she went and picked her own blackberries & they were vastly different from the blowsy fat flavorless commercially grown ones. I think they were actually dewberries.

Call me anything but late for dinner!!!

Let's have some home churned ice cream on those blackberries with milk from the cows down yonder!

Kay, I still miss my "Nanny" all the time. She was not the most sophisticated soul, as opposed to my granndmother on the other side, but she was certainly kind and generous.

Melissa, was that cast iron skillet passed down in the family like an inheritance?  There are several items from my granny's (great grandmother) kitchen that are currently in use in grandmas kitchen and have my moms name on it next. 

Delirium, I'm sure my aunt has the skillets. 

Talking about making ice cream, who remembers sitting on the churn while your Dad or someone cranked it?

Headeast, we just recently got a Trader Joe's. It is lots of fun. My favorite things there are the truffled mousse pate, ready-to-heat fondue, baguettes & cheap champagne.

And I bet all those grannies didn`t have an OUNCE of extra weight on them!!! Cheers to REAL food!!!!!!

...I just have to tell you guys, i love this thread! i have met some of you on other threads, and this is fantastically smart and hip! i visited it once, on a day i was full of myself and had a greater than thou feeling about me me me that day, and scoffed at the idea that i was vain... well I AM! ...i have been buying so much make up, before chemo, i had given up on foundation, powder, etc, 10 years or so ago. Well, since chemo-, i am a desert as far as skin is concerned, and have learned to love moisturizer! and hand creme! you guys have been everywhere from castoreum, and marriane faithful's skirt! i love it. i love escada perfumes, and i found this one perfume oil at whole foods that smells like wood! i was working at a museum as a preparator at dx, and dont know if i am able to do that for a living anymore, as it takes a strong back and arms, thanks LE.  and helped BF with cabinetry, and remodeling houses. i am a silversmith and enjoy making jewelry, and plan on opening an etsy store maybe by sept... just now getting around to tending the yard and house and stuff i ignored and let go during treatment. i did lighten my hair, i will post pictures one of these days, if you will let me in on this wonderful smart amazing gang of did i say, SMART women? this one lipstick i found at Sephora, i was overjoyed! matte, red, AND, it smells good! have you ever noticed that some of em smell really bad? i found this book, put out by a perfume house many years ago, and it talked about indoles. look up that word if you dare. any way, it took me days and days to finish up and get to the point where i could tell you all, tHANK YOU!!! for this amazing thread, amuzing, enjoyable, and made me laugh out loud several times.....i savored them, and had to hold myself to 10 a day or so. so thanks.

Thanks,Bronx! i know we talked like six mos ago on another thread, and you showed me a couple.( i tried to start a collections thread, and it was pathetic....i think i did something like...xmas ornaments! i am somewhat of a pagan, myself, always have been, so you can see how the tree was always my favorite part.) i have so many pictures on my genius fone, that i shudder to think about loading them on my computer, so i never came back to that to show what i REALLY collect(boxes and rocks) but you did show a couple, beautiful and unusual collection choice! ok, i will stop flattering now, and learn to use proper punctuation. Plus, now i am sad because i am all caught up here....sniff....