I baked a ham over the weekend. I mashed some potatoes, too. And I ate them.
I remember one day long, long ago, my brother and I made breakfast of green eggs and ham for our ma. She flat wouldn't eat them. She wouldn't even reject them in rhyme.
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mom was actually mad at us for that. All the really dumb and dangerous stuff we did and she gets mad about wasting a little food! Moms? Can't live with 'em, can't feed 'em Green Eggs and Ham!
Yeah. She was never big on wasting anything, was she? Saved twist-ties and bread bags. Sheesh.
Funny, our Mom made green mashed potatoes on St. Patty's Day one year. And I think it was our Dad who wasn't happy.
I was 28 years old before I ever purchased a garbage bag! I always thought it was like a law that one use brown paper grocery sacks for the garbage!
Er, yeah.. but as I age I become more "mom-like" I haven't bought garbage bags in years. I save salsa jars and use them for vases and even drinking glasses, but I won't save twist ties, that's just wronG!
Green Smashed taters, Star? Yeah, Ida et 'em. I'd'a ate 'em in a moat; Ida ate em in a boat...
(I save twist-ties, Ange, but I do buy garbage bags.)
My grandma used to save bread bags for two reasons:
1). To store old bread that we used to feed the ducks at the local zoo, and
2). As homemade rain boots (and yes, I wore them).
I'm sure mom used the bread bags for something, but I'll be danged if I can remember for what.
My mom used a bread bag to put over my cast (I broke my arm, twice, when I was six years old.) It worked great when I bathed, kept the cast dry.
Dave, our parents are probably from "the greatest generation" and went without during the hard times. My dad saved everything, I mean everything and used it again for something.
Oh, and the ham looks delicious, it's sodium free right? :)
Dave, Dave, you are repressing! Mom used bread bags for our lunches! Oh, we never had those fancy brown bags you decorate for the boys, it was bread bags, and yall don't EVEN want to know what she put in there! The woman could squeeze the Eagle till it screamed like a panther!
Great, Tam. Great, and cheap. Yeah, yeah, I know: it's a virtue. Still YOU probably never had sardine sandwiches and Lipton Cup-a-Soup that you had to heat up in the teacher's lounge.
Ange, some memories are better left suppressed.
(and the ham was good, Tam. I rubbed brown sugar and hot sauce on it, and poured a Coke over it in the last half hour it was baking. Yum.)
I used to eat sardines and crackers with my dad when I was really little.
Lipton cup of soup...ate that too...but not in the teachers lounge. LOL
At first glance I assumed the protein was nicely cooked tuna.
My bad. And the peas...don't overcook those little guys, they taste way better when they're still green. Guess it's time for me to offer up another meal so you can take home some crib notes.
I'll bet sardines are better on crackers than on bread, Tam. I don't even want to think what my breath musta smell like.
Amy, you are a fine cook, to be sure, but I think the meal was pretty good (The peas were canned, so they weren't excellent, but, well... they were canned). I think Missy E enjoyed the meal, too.
Uhh, personally that ham pic is starting to gross me out.
And since we're talking about childhood memories, it reminds me of chewing meat and secretly spitting it into my napkin. I hope mom didn't re-use those napkins...
K. I'll move along.
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