Send Me Back Saturday - Favorite Foods

The question for this prompt, if the title didn't give it away is:

What was one of your favorite foods/meals growing up?

This was a big hit with the FB crowd. I had 66 comments.

My response:

My most favorite meal growing up was my Mammy's BBQ brisket. She almost always only made this on Sunday's for our after church dinner. Oh, how I wish I knew just how she prepared it. The one thing I do remember is that it was cooked in her electric skillet while we were at church. It was so tender and I loved the BBQ sauce she used. Maybe even more than the brisket, I loved dipping my "light bread" in the sauce to clean my plate. I also remember how Bampy's shirt would get a little tight in the button area around his belly after dinner. And while all other days were spent working in some form, Sunday's were a no work day - aside from cleaning the kitchen and checking/feeding/watering cattle.

Mammy's electric skillet was brown on the bottom with a cream lid. I don't know if it was this exact model but it was very close to it. Also, an electric skillet is one kitchen gadget I don't own but would really LOVE. When I was first married to Gaylan, we didn't have propane to hook up to our single wide trailer so the oven was and stove top was never used. I had an electric skillet then and I would use it near daily. I also used the microwave, and a steamer quite often. And I had a little table top toaster oven. 

After further online investigation of vintage electric skillets, this one also seems familiar. I just can't be certain. I've also searched online for some electric skillet bbq brisket recipes and have come up short. If you ever come across one, please let me know! I'd love to try and recreate this meal.




This was my mom's response:

I love food so much that I am not sure I can name a “favorite”. Foods I remember were moms homemade donuts. And pot roast on Sundays. My granny Bondell made wonderful fried chicken. And when we stayed at Granny and Papas house we always asked for Spaghetti O’s. And Grandma Zula’s biscuits and gravy.

The hubs:

I know you're going to find this hard to believe, knowing me as well as you do, but: Sonic. We didn't eat out a whole lot when I was growing up but we lived right across the highway from Sonic and when I finally got a job, I ate there all the time. I either had a cheeseburger dry, a cheeseburger with mustard and ketchup only or a hickory burger. The burgers were bigger back then and I remember the fries being better, too. 

Grandma Marilyn commented that her favorite food growing up was Mexican and that it still is. And there were so many cousins and friends that commented as well. But I'll only blog direct ancestors to the kids.

I hope you're enjoying these. It's been a really nice change of pace over on Facebook and I am more than thrilled people are participating.

Until next time,
Becky