Does your family make a certain dish and call it by the totally wrong name?

[mmouse37]

Our family makes a casserole with cut up hot dogs, baked beans, ketchup, mustard, dried onion, garlic powder and brown sugar with a topping of those Durkee fried onions (put on during the last 5 minutes of baking). We call it Weenie Beanie Casserole! Don't know if it has an official name but we have always called it that. I got the recipe from my MIL as they always had in their family growing up. Probably a depression era recipe. Its quite good!

 

[BrianL]

Our family makes a casserole with cut up hot dogs, baked beans, ketchup, mustard, dried onion, garlic powder and brown sugar with a topping of those Durkee fried onions (put on during the last 5 minutes of baking). We call it Weenie Beanie Casserole! Don't know if it has an official name but we have always called it that. I got the recipe from my MIL as they always had in their family growing up. Probably a depression era recipe. Its quite good!

That sounds like a recipe made up by a 10-year-old. It also sounds pretty good!

 

[princesscinderella]

It's pistachio salad in my family that said that is an actual alternative name for watergate salad (I've seen it referred to as delight vs salad with pistachio but never IRL).

I have never heard of this and looked it up. Its a nope from me I would not eat that as I dislike marshmallows and pineapple mixed into things. I do however love pistachios and discovered pistachio cream on our Mediterranean cruise this summer, its creamy like nutella.

 

[mmouse37]

That sounds like a recipe made up by a 10-year-old. It also sounds pretty good!

It absolutely sounds like a 10 year old made it up! And it is good!!!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I have never heard of this and looked it up. Its a nope from me I would not eat that as I dislike marshmallows and pineapple mixed into things. I do however love pistachios and discovered pistachio cream on our Mediterranean cruise this summer, its creamy like nutella.

It's an acquired taste IMO. My mother-in-law does try to make it for me for the holidays but I'm the only one who eats it lol, she'll have some in solidarity and she does like it but not love it like I do. She makes it close but not quite to what my aunt makes and growing up as well as currently it wasn't/isn't the holidays unless we had pistachio salad made by my aunt I'm usually the one taking the rest of what is leftover though

 

[disney212]

Growing up my family ate stuffed mango which in reality is stuffed bell peppers. I was 19 before I tried an actual mango.

 

[mjkacmom]

growing up we called-

pasta with pesto 'green spagetti'
minestrone was 'leftover' or 'clean out the fridge' soup (cuz my Italian 'auntie' made it weekly using whatever dibs and dabs of leftover veggies were in her fridge).

now-i can't think of anything we make but ranch dressing will forever be called 'yummy sauce' thanks to my kid's decades ago daycare that introduced them to it.

I will make “soup of good intentions” from fresh vegetables I didn’t use.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

My MIL makes macaroni and calls it macaronis.... I don't know why it bothers me so much when I hear that.

 

[Kailani6]

I have never heard of this and looked it up. Its a nope from me I would not eat that as I dislike marshmallows and pineapple mixed into things. I do however love pistachios and discovered pistachio cream on our Mediterranean cruise this summer, its creamy like nutella.

What do you do with the pistachio cream? I've been seeing it and it looks interesting but not sure what to spread it on

 

[princesscinderella]

What do you do with the pistachio cream? I've been seeing it and it looks interesting but not sure what to spread it on

We sometimes will just eat a spoonful.
I also get these coconut roll wafers that are hollow at Costco and we will dip them in the crème. It make a little bit like a pirouline, we will also dip those in Nutella too. I have to eat GF so they are a delicious alternative to a wheat wafer. You can spread it on a waffle, toast, crepe, etc. My daughter also likes it on rice cakes. A toast with the pistachio crème and cut up strawberries is delicious.

 

[goofyernmost]

Just had a good natured disagreement on the name of the cabbage dish that I brought for Thanksgiving. I had come into a rather large amount of cabbage and remembered a dish that my mother made quite often. It was called Cabbage Salad. It does resemble Coleslaw and, of course, has the same basic ingredient of cabbage. Everyone that saw it said, it was Coleslaw. Not really a problem, they can call it by whatever they want. Everyone tried it and everyone liked it but said it was Coleslaw. I just said, no, it's Cabbage Salad.

When asked what the difference was I just said Coleslaw has vinegar and sugar added, Cabbage Salad does not have either of those. It is just made of chopped cabbage a sprinkle of finely shredded carrot for color (like KFC) and a sauce made separately of combined Mayo (Hellmans), salt, pepper and a small amount of onion powder blended in with the cabbage. Simple, tasty and NO sugar. That seemed to be a winning point.

It's sort of a play it by ear recipe the amounts of usage depends on the quantity of cabbage used. The sauce just lightly covers the cabbage so sufficient blending is needed so it really doesn't show what it is blended with.

 

[gmi3804]

One Christmas Eve my mom made Julia Child's Boeuf Bourguignon, which took a few days what with all the marinating, braising, chilling, reheating, and whatnot. During dinner (which was delicious), my grandpa jokingly quipped, "I never thought I'd be eating beef stew on Christmas Eve!"

 

[disneyseniors]

Just had a good natured disagreement on the name of the cabbage dish that I brought for Thanksgiving. I had come into a rather large amount of cabbage and remembered a dish that my mother made quite often. It was called Cabbage Salad. It does resemble Coleslaw and, of course, has the same basic ingredient of cabbage. Everyone that saw it said, it was Coleslaw. Not really a problem, they can call it by whatever they want. Everyone tried it and everyone liked it but said it was Coleslaw. I just said, no, it's Cabbage Salad.

When asked what the difference was I just said Coleslaw has vinegar and sugar added, Cabbage Salad does not have either of those. It is just made of chopped cabbage a sprinkle of finely shredded carrot for color (like KFC) and a sauce made separately of combined Mayo (Hellmans), salt, pepper and a small amount of onion powder blended in with the cabbage. Simple, tasty and NO sugar. That seemed to be a winning point.

It's sort of a play it by ear recipe the amounts of usage depends on the quantity of cabbage used. The sauce just lightly covers the cabbage so sufficient blending is needed so it really doesn't show what it is blended with.

That sounds interesting. I love cabbage so will give this a try. (Hellman's is the Only Mayo that I use)

 

[goofyernmost]

That sounds interesting. I love cabbage so will give this a try. (Hellman's is the Only Mayo that I use)

I wish I had exact quantities to tell you. I think I had about what would have been a medium size cabbage (guess) with that I used a cup of mayo, 1/4 tsp of salt, same of pepper and about 1/2 tsp of onion powder beat to a sauce. I added a few splashes of olive oil just to thin the sauce mixture. Poured the sauce into a appropriate size bowl containing the cabbage and carrot and mixed together until nothing could be seen except the cabbage and flakes of carrot. Each of these measurement will vary with the amount of cabbage that is used. I'm afraid the my Mother never left behind a written recipe. Between my sister and myself, I had just attempted to duplicate it. I actually think we came real close. Good luck.

 

[disneyseniors]

I wish I had exact quantities to tell you. I think I had about what would have been a medium size cabbage (guess) with that I used a cup of mayo, 1/4 tsp of salt, same of pepper and about 1/2 tsp of onion powder beat to a sauce. I added a few splashes of olive oil just to thin the sauce mixture. Poured the sauce into a appropriate size bowl containing the cabbage and carrot and mixed together until nothing could be seen except the cabbage and flakes of carrot. Each of these measurement will vary with the amount of cabbage that is used. I'm afraid the my Mother never left behind a written recipe. Between my sister and myself, I had just attempted to duplicate it. I actually think we came real close. Good luck.

Thanks so much ! I will definitely try this. Our family has a lot of recipes that aren't written down, just passed along,, so I know what you mean.

 

[RedAngie]

Over 30 years ago I made a casserole with chicken breast chunks, sausage pieces, peppers, onions, mushrooms, kidney beans, and diced tomatoes.

ExH said “Looks like slop but tastes good.”

Since then I’ve proudly called it slop, or when I’m in a hi-falutin’ mood, sla-pay. Sloppé.

 

[goofyernmost]

Thanks so much ! I will definitely try this. Our family has a lot of recipes that aren't written down, just passed along,, so I know what you mean.

I forgot to tell you about my Mothers way of presentation. She would serve it in a medium sized oval shaped serving dish, meticulously level into a flat surface and sprinkled with Paprika. If she ran out of Paprika she considered it a failure.

 

[SirDuff]

Just had a good natured disagreement on the name of the cabbage dish that I brought for Thanksgiving. I had come into a rather large amount of cabbage and remembered a dish that my mother made quite often. It was called Cabbage Salad. It does resemble Coleslaw and, of course, has the same basic ingredient of cabbage. Everyone that saw it said, it was Coleslaw. Not really a problem, they can call it by whatever they want. Everyone tried it and everyone liked it but said it was Coleslaw. I just said, no, it's Cabbage Salad.

When asked what the difference was I just said Coleslaw has vinegar and sugar added, Cabbage Salad does not have either of those. It is just made of chopped cabbage a sprinkle of finely shredded carrot for color (like KFC) and a sauce made separately of combined Mayo (Hellmans), salt, pepper and a small amount of onion powder blended in with the cabbage. Simple, tasty and NO sugar. That seemed to be a winning point.

It's sort of a play it by ear recipe the amounts of usage depends on the quantity of cabbage used. The sauce just lightly covers the cabbage so sufficient blending is needed so it really doesn't show what it is blended with.

I’ve never put sugar in coleslaw.