What can you NOT do?

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Margies3

I'm sorry, folks, but I seriously have to disagree with you on this. I don't know who has cooked for you from the north, but you must have just come across from bad cooks. If you want to taste GREAT food - seasoned well, sauced well, VERY flavorful! - you need to come up here to eat at one of our church potlucks. We are not Apostolics. But we could make any Apostolic cooks I know seem like rank amateurs When we have a potluck, my dishes are always the first ones emptied. I say that but am not bragging.

Well, it's not just one place or church that we've eaten out at. It is most of the home cooking style restaurants, and general cooking wherever you go, unless you find a chain-style restaurant like Chili's or KFC or whatever that is the same no matter where you go in the world.

Your style of cooking sounds wonderful, and I know there are always exceptions to every rule!!!!!!

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

My mother used to open up can green beans and just warm them up with no salt and pepper. Blah. I would choke on them..daddy would make me eat them.

Now, I take a little real butter cut up an onion and sauté the onion. Then put the beans in them, (fresh preferred) cook and salt and pepper them.

I also like grilled green beans with bacon wrapped around them. I love grilled asparagus, mozzarella stuffed bell peppers or pablo peppers.

Your story reminds me of my mother who thought that mashed potatoes were exactly that... mashed potatoes - no salt, or pepper or butter or milk... it was awful! So dry the potatoes would stick to your mouth. Thankfully she mostly made gravy with the meals, so that helped some. But when I was old enough to do it differently, you can be sure the potatoes had some real stuff in them like salt, pepper, lots of butter and milk... yumm!!

[Margies3]

one of my daycare kids declared over and over that he did NOT like green beans. One day I had made them for the kids for lunch - yes, with butter, salt and pepper - and told him he had to at least taste them. He picked one up, but into it and declared, "hey, these are hot! My mom makes them cold". huh? So I asked the mom and she told me that she made green beans by opening the cans and pouring them into a bowl. ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jay]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Amen!

I will also add mushrooms to that short list. My wife is deathly allergic to them anyways so we never (purposefully) see them in our house.

I do not like those either. Mom was frustrated sometimes because Dad and I have very selective tastes (I believe that came from Grandpa). The rest of the family would eat nearly anything. It made dinner very interesting.

Originally Posted by Margies3

one of my daycare kids declared over and over that he did NOT like green beans. One day I had made them for the kids for lunch - yes, with butter, salt and pepper - and told him he had to at least taste them. He picked one up, but into it and declared, "hey, these are hot! My mom makes them cold". huh? So I asked the mom and she told me that she made green beans by opening the cans and pouring them into a bowl. ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is just nasty. Some things were meant to be eaten cold, however while I utterly detest those things, I would never serve them cold from the can. Even I know better than that, they would be slimy cold and nasty.

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Margies3

one of my daycare kids declared over and over that he did NOT like green beans. One day I had made them for the kids for lunch - yes, with butter, salt and pepper - and told him he had to at least taste them. He picked one up, but into it and declared, "hey, these are hot! My mom makes them cold". huh? So I asked the mom and she told me that she made green beans by opening the cans and pouring them into a bowl. ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EWW !!!! Poor kid!! Glad you got that straightened out from him... perhaps his mom needs some cooking lessons from you....

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord

EWW !!!! Poor kid!! Glad you got that straightened out from him... perhaps his mom needs some cooking lessons from you....

I told her that he had said that and she said he was right. She doesn't like green beans, so that's how she serves them. No wonder she doesn't like them! I told her how to make them next time for her family. She tried it my way and decided that they all ate them much better now. duh!

[Margies3]

We used to have a neighbor who would cook spaghetti noodles and then pour sauce straight out of the jar over the noodles. She called that nasty mess "spaghetti". My kids about gagged when they heard that.

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by Margies3

one of my daycare kids declared over and over that he did NOT like green beans. One day I had made them for the kids for lunch - yes, with butter, salt and pepper - and told him he had to at least taste them. He picked one up, but into it and declared, "hey, these are hot! My mom makes them cold". huh? So I asked the mom and she told me that she made green beans by opening the cans and pouring them into a bowl. ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh. The green beans don't taste any better when warmed either.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Margies3

We used to have a neighbor who would cook spaghetti noodles and then pour sauce straight out of the jar over the noodles. She called that nasty mess "spaghetti". My kids about gagged when they heard that.

I once ate "spaghetti" at an aunts house. While making it she described it as "Pasta noodles with a thick tomato sauce". Well it turned out to be a small handful of macaroni noodles "swimming" in a bowl of Cambles tomato soup. One of the most disgusting things I ever had in front of me that I actually took a bite of.

Another miserable example of Wisconsin cooking.

[AreYouReady?]

Mom used to make that for us too.

Something about stretching the dollar....to fill up 4 kids.