Question: Favourite homemade meal?

[madhen]

What is your absolutely most favourite HOMEMADE meal (whether you still eat it or not)?

Is it something you make, or is it something that someone else makes (or has made) for you?

If the latter, do you have the recipe?

Does nostalgia play any part in your decision? (In other words, is your decision based on taste alone, or on memories associated with the meal?)

Does your favourite homemade meal correspond to each of your family's homemade meals? For example, would your spouse/partner and children choose the same meal as their favourites?

If not, what is their favourite meal(s)?

Would you consider your favourite meal as indicative of the local cuisine in your area?

If not, how does it differ?

[MomToTwoBoys]

I'd have to say that my favorite meal of all time would be easy cheesy chicken enchiladas. It 'might' be in my recipes section, but if not then I'll add it in today. It's both our junk food meal and our non-frugal meal, but it's definitely not as pricy as eating out at fast food restaurants.

It's warm, comforting, creamy, spicy and full of delicious goodness. I can eat lots of veggies on it (green onions and tomatoes), enjoy some sour creme, chicken and other things that make my little tummy overjoyed.

My husband's favorite meal is probably cabbage rolls. My DS10's favorite meal is anything without veggies, while DS5's favorite meal is pizza.

I would have to say that if I lived in a more Mexican-heavy part of Calgary then sure, it'd be part of the local flavor. I actually lived in the Pakistani/East Indian/Middle East part of Calgary.

[Laurie in Bradenton]

For me its pork chops in milk gravy, lumpy mashed potatoes, green beans in cream suace and dirty knee salad.
Gee wonder why I'm over weight with blood pressure issues??? haha
This meal was made by my mom for my birthday and other special occasions. The memories of us all sitting down at Dad's homemade octogon table and eating as a family are foremost in my mind. My little sister Shelly (now 40) named salad with hot bacon dressing dirty knee salad when she was a small kid and in our family it stuck. She said the dressing smelled like dirty knees. Didn't know they had a smell?!
When my husband came over for the first boyfriend dinner Mom made this meal. Mom always purchased cheap pork cjops and pork steaks so there were alwasy plenty. As Dh took platter from her piled high she said, "Take plenty there are five a piece." He learned at that meal that girls can eat alot. lol

Laurie in Bradenton

[Maine Girl]

My mothers spaghetti sauce is my favorite homemade meal.

[gapeach]

Mine is cube steak with gravy, mashed potatoes and green beans. My grandmother used to cook this for me and everytime I make it I think of her!

[lisaflex]

oh so many. homemade beef/veg soup in winter, beef stew in crockpot in winter.

shrimp kabobs w/ veg - grld of course, in summer.

so many!

LOVE to make homemade sauce and mtbls in winter on a cold day. pork roast in sauce w/ pasta when there is a blizzard outside!

could go on and on and on

[Contrary Housewife]

Many favorite meals here, chicken pot pie, a good steak with potatoes, a big salad with apples and blue cheese and a vinegar dressing, crispy chicken fried steak with cream gravy over french fries.... but my ultimate comfort food is Japanese. I love the taste of white rice, soy sauce, seaweed, raw fish, sesame, and all the other flavors. I know it sounds strange but we lived in asia until I was 7 and I grew up eating weird food. (military family)

[madhen]

Doesn't sound weird to me, Contrary Housewife. I grew up in California, but my mother is Asian, so I grew up on Japanese/Korean foods. I haven't decided on my absolute favourite dish yet, but it is definitely Korean!

[Persimmon Lace]

My favorite meal is my mom's homemade, from scratch chicken and noodles. She makes the noodles and they are yummy. She's gotten to old to really make them now so my dsis, dniece, sil and I learned to make them a few years ago. But honestly, I know they ARE just like her's they just don't taste the same. KWIM.

Anyway, she would fix the chicken and noodles, plus, get this, mashed potatoes, rice and dressing. Mashed potatoes for dsis, dressing for me and rice for my mom. Daddy thought is was over kill but we only got all that maybe once in awhile or on our birthdays. It was delish!

[craftypam]

Persimmon lace you reminded me that I love my mil homemade vegetable soup. I also love my taco salad recipe; don't remember who gave it to me and dh likes my BC goulash recipe.

[FrugalWitch]

My Ninny's chicken and dumplings, or fried chicken mashed taters, gravy, green beans and biscuits. I also love DH's spaghetti, and anything he grills.

My Momma's favorite is tomato gravy and biscuits, or chicken dressing.

DH has too many favorites to list, but it would include my chili, my veggie soup, or baked tilapia with broccoli and rice as sides.

My faves are things that remind me most strongly of my grandmother. I connect good home-cooking with love.

[frugalfranny]

My absolute favorite is: Chicken Fried Steak, mashed potatoes that have been cooked with the skins on, gravy (of course!), and a veggie......anything but peas and lima beans here. I am mainly after the steak and spuds!

All of my family is a huge potatoe eating family but we don't do the gravy and CFS much any more.

I have a few friends where that is their favorite meal too but I wouldn't call it the local cuisine. We have to hit Denney's once in awhile and have what we call "the heart attack on a plate" meal but it just isn't like what my mom could make. She used round steak and hammered it to death...Denney's uses just a burger type pattie.

[HisDaisy]

My favorite would have to be my mom's split pea soup served with her homemade sour dough bread. My mom still makes it for me when I come visit.
I can make split pea soup and sour dough bread, but my mom's is better.

[Dutchie]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this thread because it got me thinking about things that my mother used to make and which I haven't eaten for years (she lives in Scotland and we live in Holland).

Now I'm not saying that these things are all my favorites but some of them are and when she dies (which I hope will not be for a LONG time) then I wouldn't have the recipes/instructions for them and when you consider that they are all very tasty things then the recipes would die with her.

She got the recipes from her mother and she got them from her mother. They never wrote down recipes they just showed how they were made.

Well I just called my mom and she will start to write down the recipes for me.
So the recipes for my great grandmother's potato soup, scotch broth, lentil soup and dough balls (her name for dumplings - sounds disgusting but they are such a great thing to eat in the winter with stew) will be coming my way quite soon.

I will also get the recipe for my great grandmother's 'clootie' dumpling (Scottish dialect coming through here). I am actually really looking forward to trying this one. It is a type of cake which is boiled and is SO DELICIOUS. Now I can hardly wait!!!

I already had the instructions on how to make granny's sherry trifle and chicken soup with rice along with some other things, so now I'll have the rest.

Thank you, thank you for reminding me (((HUGS))))).

[Grainlady]

My mother made wonderful homemade noodles and her chicken noodle soup was sooooooooooo good, and this only came in second to her roast pork dinner.