Tomato soup cake, chocolate covered potato chips, carrot cake ...

[Saffron]

pickled watermelon rind, zucchini bread .........

Do you know any family recipes or food combinations that don't sound very appetizing but actually taste pretty good? Just wondering.

 

[Beauty]

Well the first one sounds YUCK....the second two are both wonderful!!

Humm Bourbon Cake.....Apple Pie w/cheese (YUCK but my mom loves it!) BUTTER-MILK (just for Shannon...lol)......Peanut Butter and Banana (YUCK again but my mom loves this.)

 

[ASFCurly]

they talk about Tomato soup cake all the time on Passions,

I love Peanut Butter and Banana or apple (not both at the same time) sandwiches. My Mom used to make Lentil Loaf all the time when I was younger (she ate macrobiotics), like meat loaf but with lentils, I liked it until I knew better and tried real meat loaf.

 

[maleficent1959]

ASFCurly, try a peanut butter and apple sandwich on banana bread -- YUM! My childhood favorite was a bologna, mustard, and potato chip sandwich.

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by Beauty
BUTTER-MILK (just for Shannon...lol

LOL! Buttermilk is GOOD. It's also good for you. It's got lots of calcium, and does the same thing for you that yogurt does. I like yogurt too though.

My dad loves to pour homemade sausage gravy over his canteloupe. I don't like canteloupe, and I'm not much of a sausage gravy eater though.

My dd and I love to pour soy sauce and drizzle A1 steak sauce on our french fries. Tasty.

Maleficent1959, we all love to put chips on our sandwiches. Ham for me, bologna for my SO and my dd. Sometimes my dd will make her a chip sandwich (chips, mustard and bread).

My SO puts mayonaisse in his pinto beans too. That used to gross me out, but I'm over the shock now.

Reece's Cup and Campbell's Tomato Juice is a good combination together too (sweetness versus tangy).

 

[Sonya]

Honey on french fries is always good to me! So is ranch dressing on them too.
I LOVE peanut butter and apples or banannas. And good for you! Sometimes I add honey to that mix as well. Can you tell I'm a honey freak?
BBQ sauce on mac and cheese os really very good.

 

[maleficent1959]

A can of tuna is good in mac and cheese too.

 

[KCritter]

I have an awesome recipe for Black Bean Brownies. Yes, they really have pureed black beans in them. They taste almost like fudge! And, they are low in fat.

 

[Micca]

Mayonnaise cake sounds gross, but it's really chocolate cake with mayo substituted for eggs (mayo of course is eggs and oil which go in a cake anyway).

 

[The Mystery Machine]

My dad will eat a sour cream sandwich.

As far as chips on a sandwich yep, I did that forever. In grade school the plain ole sandwich was just boring, so put a little crunch in it. Still do it.

My mom would make us peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. She explained they had to do it when she was little because they rationed sugar during the war. When grandma had no sugar that meant no jelly.

My brother would make baloney, mustard, peanut butter and a cracker sandwich.

 

[Saffron]

KCritter! Can we have the recipe! I would like to try them! Can't hurt to have a low-fat brownie recipe!

I have a friend who makes grilled cheese and grape jelly sandwiches. I just can't bring myself to try a bite, but she says they're great!

 

[Gail T AGAIN]

I have been eating tomato soup cake since I could eat. my mom baked it because her mom always baked it. Now they you mentioned it I have to go through my mothers recpipes and find it and bake one, my brother will die when i do that. thanks for the memories

 

[Princess_Aurora]

From what I hear, the Tomatoe Soup Cake is just spice cake with tomatoe paste or sauce...can't remember which.

I did the chip sandwich too. Ham, cheese LOTS of mayo and TONS of Lays potatoe chips

My dad use to break up a few slices of bread and mix it in a glass of milk and drink it...I always thought that was gross. My dad did a lot of stuff that I considered gross but that's because mom said they didn't have much when he was little so they had to scrape by on whatever they had. He use to make this stuff called Poke Salad (I think that's what it was) but basicly all it was was some grass growing in our back yard that he would boil and make a soup out of it. NASTY! It smelled really bad too.

In high school a few of my friends LOVED eating pickles with nacho cheese. That was like one of the nastiest things I've ever seen but they said it was really good...I'll just take their word for it.

Then there's the ranch dressing on Pizza. Again, that's something kids use to do in school. Kinda nasty to me. I at least tried this one though. It doesn't really taste awful but it doesn't really taste that good either.

 

[sha_lyn]

My dad use to break up a few slices of bread and mix it in a glass of milk and drink it...I always thought that was gross. My dad did a lot of stuff that I considered gross but that's because mom said they didn't have much when he was little so they had to scrape by on whatever they had. He use to make this stuff called Poke Salad (I think that's what it was) but basicly all it was was some grass growing in our back yard that he would boil and make a soup out of it. NASTY! It smelled really bad too.

What type of bread? A typical "supper" at my grandparents home on Sunday nights (after Sunday Dinner with the preacher) was corn bread in a glass of butter milk with fresh spring onions cut up in it. Of course the Corn bread was left over from the dinner which in the spring would have included Polk (I'm pretty certain it is polk and not poke, at least that's how they said it) Salad. It isn't grass, but the leaf of a "weed" that has a large stalk and purple berries. Can't eat the berries, they are poisonious. The leaves taste a lot like spinache.

 

[WillyJ]

Tomato soup cake, chocolate covered potato chips, carrot cake ...

Uhhhhh. . honey, have you been in the Ganja again????

 

[Saffron]

*sigh* That's NOT why I want the brownie recipe Will.

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by sha_lyn
What type of bread? A typical "supper" at my grandparents home on Sunday nights (after Sunday Dinner with the preacher) was corn bread in a glass of butter milk with fresh spring onions cut up in it. Of course the Corn bread was left over from the dinner which in the spring would have included Polk (I'm pretty certain it is polk and not poke, at least that's how they said it) Salad. It isn't grass, but the leaf of a "weed" that has a large stalk and purple berries. Can't eat the berries, they are poisonious. The leaves taste a lot like spinache.

My mom makes wilted lettuce salad using polk. I don't touch that stuff. It's too bitter. You'd love the dressing she uses to wilt the lettuce. Hot bacon grease.

 

[sha_lyn]

I've had wilted salad with spinach or loose leaf lettuce but not polk. Polk we always had "cooked down" with a little bacon grease, and either an egg scrambled in it (yuck) or with deviled eggs. Don't know why we "had" to have it with eggs.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

What about French Fries dipped in mayo instead of ketsup?

There used to be a recipe printed on the side of the Macaroni and Cheese box for a casserole -- you basically put a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, a can of peas and a can of drained tuna into the macaroni and cheese after you cooked it. It was a quick casserole. We used to make it a lot in college. We would leave out the peas though.

Chocolate covered Pringles are really yummy!

 

[sha_lyn]

when I worked at wendy's my favorite "snacks" were fresh hot fries dipped in mayo then in the shredded cheese. The salad bar bread sticks dipped in their bleu chees dressing and a frosty mixed with a little of the hot carmel sauce for their apple dumplings (oh how I miss those apple dumplings)
The tomato spice cake is usually called a thunder cake. My DD has the story book with the recipe

Thunder Cake