Sylvia a écrit :

Sounds like my mother's cooking. I was 16 before I found out that roast
beef wasn't necessarily grey cardboard, over 20 before I found out what
vegetables tasted like before they had been boiled into submission, and
past 25 before I discovered fish wasn't necessarily white cardboard.

Hey, are you my aunt? That's what my (beloved) grandmother's cooking was
like....

Nathalie in Switzerland

"Sylvia" wrote in message
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My in-laws like ordinary, tasteless food.

Sounds like my mother's cooking. I was 16 before I found out that roast
beef wasn't necessarily grey cardboard, over 20 before I found out what
vegetables tasted like before they had been boiled into submission, and
past 25 before I discovered fish wasn't necessarily white cardboard.

I was in university before I found out steak wasn't supposed to be crisp
like bacon. Round steak, pounded to within an eighth of an inch of its life
then fried 'til crisp.

Gabby

Gabby wrote:

"Sylvia" wrote in message
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My in-laws like ordinary, tasteless food.

Sounds like my mother's cooking. I was 16 before I found out that roast
beef wasn't necessarily grey cardboard, over 20 before I found out what
vegetables tasted like before they had been boiled into submission, and
past 25 before I discovered fish wasn't necessarily white cardboard.

I was in university before I found out steak wasn't supposed to be crisp
like bacon. Round steak, pounded to within an eighth of an inch of its life
then fried 'til crisp.

Gabby

Think I had the opposite experience. We have/had a lot of great cooks in
our family, including a couple of professional chefs. However, when I
got to university (in the US midwest), I discovered things like
vegetables boiled to death, greyish-brown 'meat' and similarly-coloured
'gravy'. The first inkling was when I went down to breakfast that first
morning in the residence hall; the toast was being 'buttered' with some
sort of oil and the coffee had a colour I still couldn't describe. It
never got any better and I moved out after that year.

Hey, are you my aunt? That's what my (beloved) grandmother's cooking
was like....

Probably not, but you never know! g I hope my mom, looking down from
heaven, isn't hurt by my comments on her cooking -- but they are true.

She did have two delicious specialties that I prepare for my family.
One was Ruby Chicken, which is chicken pieces cooked in cranberries and
orange juice. The other she called Beef Stroganoff, although it was
tomato-based and nothing like any other stroganoff recipe I've ever read
or tasted.

Other than that, her cooking all tasted the same -- grey, white, green,
orange, or yellow cardboard.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com
Cheyenne WY, USDA zone 5a, Sunset zone 1a
Home of the Wyoming Wind Festival, January 1-December 31
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However, when I got to university (in the US midwest), I discovered
things like vegetables boiled to death, greyish-brown 'meat'

Oh dear. I hadn't thought about what my poor kids are going to face
when they move out! College food is notoriously bad everywhere.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com
Cheyenne WY, USDA zone 5a, Sunset zone 1a
Home of the Wyoming Wind Festival, January 1-December 31
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"Sylvia" wrote in message
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Hey, are you my aunt? That's what my (beloved) grandmother's cooking
was like....

Probably not, but you never know! g I hope my mom, looking down from
heaven, isn't hurt by my comments on her cooking -- but they are true.

She did have two delicious specialties that I prepare for my family.
One was Ruby Chicken, which is chicken pieces cooked in cranberries and
orange juice. The other she called Beef Stroganoff, although it was
tomato-based and nothing like any other stroganoff recipe I've ever read
or tasted.

Other than that, her cooking all tasted the same -- grey, white, green,
orange, or yellow cardboard.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com
Cheyenne WY, USDA zone 5a, Sunset zone 1a
Home of the Wyoming Wind Festival, January 1-December 31
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Your mother's two "good" recipes sound fascinating. Any chance you would be
willing to share them with us?


Ron

Sylvia wrote:

However, when I got to university (in the US midwest), I discovered
things like vegetables boiled to death, greyish-brown 'meat'

Oh dear. I hadn't thought about what my poor kids are going to face
when they move out! College food is notoriously bad everywhere.



Teach them to cook well and do it now! Our university had a stupid rule
that first-years *must* live in dorms. They tried to make me live in the
dorm for the succeeding years, but I wrangled my way out.

Oh, we've already started having them cook. But they may not be able to
cook in the dorms.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com
Cheyenne WY, USDA zone 5a, Sunset zone 1a
Home of the Wyoming Wind Festival, January 1-December 31
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On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 06:09:12 GMT, Sylvia
wrote:

Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com

I enjoyed "Peter's guide to Junkmail Evasion for Dummies" on your
site.

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Sylvia wrote:

Oh, we've already started having them cook. But they may not be able to
cook in the dorms.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995


You'd be amazed at how much can be accomplished with an electric coffee
pot (the wide sort) and a toaster oven (microwave ovens were too large
and too expensive way back then). We weren't allowed to cook in our
student housing, not even during holidays when no food service was
offered.
Both were easy to hide in the closet, but no one really came round to
check anyway.

I certainly lost a lot of weight that first year. Most of what we were
served in the dining room was inedible to me and it took time to learn
to prepare alternatives without a kitchen. But it paid off. When I
travel or go camping, no trouble with eating what I want no matter how
tight the budget.

"Arri London" wrote in message
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Sylvia wrote:

Oh, we've already started having them cook. But they may not be able to
cook in the dorms.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995


You'd be amazed at how much can be accomplished with an electric coffee
pot (the wide sort) and a toaster oven (microwave ovens were too large
and too expensive way back then). We weren't allowed to cook in our
student housing, not even during holidays when no food service was
offered.
Both were easy to hide in the closet, but no one really came round to
check anyway.

My son's residence allows a microwave oven and an electric kettle with
automatic shut off, nothing else in the line of cooking apparatus in the
rooms. But their meal plan allows them to eat at several food places on
campus -- the pub, the regular cafeteria, the Tim Horton's donut shop
(soups/sandwiches/chili), the student union building snack bar -- so he can
get food from 7 am to 12 midnight.

Gabby

Gabby wrote:

"Arri London" wrote in message
...
Sylvia wrote:

Oh, we've already started having them cook. But they may not be able to
cook in the dorms.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995


You'd be amazed at how much can be accomplished with an electric coffee
pot (the wide sort) and a toaster oven (microwave ovens were too large
and too expensive way back then). We weren't allowed to cook in our
student housing, not even during holidays when no food service was
offered.
Both were easy to hide in the closet, but no one really came round to
check anyway.

My son's residence allows a microwave oven and an electric kettle with
automatic shut off, nothing else in the line of cooking apparatus in the
rooms. But their meal plan allows them to eat at several food places on
campus -- the pub, the regular cafeteria, the Tim Horton's donut shop
(soups/sandwiches/chili), the student union building snack bar -- so he can
get food from 7 am to 12 midnight.

Gabby

We didn't have that many places on campus to eat. Also in terms of the
value of the meal plan, the cheapest meals were in the dining room. The
other places used up more of the value per meal.

I didn't *really* mind the weight loss that first year...

I enjoyed "Peter's guide to Junkmail Evasion for Dummies" on your site.

On Peter's behalf, thank you very much. I'm so spoiled having a
programmer in the house! Whenever I want new hardware or software on my
computer and can't get it to work, I just throw it at him and tell him
to make it work.

--
Sylvia Steiger RN, homeschooling mom since Nov 1995
http://www.SteigerFamily.com
Cheyenne WY, USDA zone 5a, Sunset zone 1a
Home of the Wyoming Wind Festival, January 1-December 31
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,---- [ Tom R. Rastell posted: ]
|
| What is the worst food possible ?
|
| I want to cook soemthing really bad as a special surprise for
| my friends - as a joke.
|
| It has to be just bad, nothing poisonous.
|
`----

I was going to suggest running out to McDonald's for Big Macs, but you
said you didn't want it to be poisonous.

,---- [ Gary posted: ]
|
| Yeah, I'm not a big Ketchup fan, either. But, there are
| certain things that it's okay on. A meat loaf wouldn't seem
| right without it. It's okay on fries and fish sticks, too.
|
`----

I don't really like ketchup on meatloaf. I prefer a brown gravy on
meatloaf with a side of steamed dill potatoes and fresh string beans.
If I'm going to have a tomato product on my meatloaf, then hold the
ketchup, hold the gravy, and just put something like a hot marinara
sauce on it.