Old school ethic food .... you remember

• Belly35

  

  On Sunday wife and went to the Ohio City Fest and the Westside Market was open.
  When I was a kid my Aunt would prepare Blood Sausage which we found and bought, I will be fixing it this week.
  But our big find was Kolozsvari szalonna double smoke Bacon w/ garlic that needs no refrigeration, can eaten raw or fried up in a skillet. When I was a kid we would cut off a thick piece, few cracker or hard bread and eat it raw. It is nothing like a jerky. Great for camping and concert snack .
  
  Here is more information if you care to try some.... Not sold at your local Giant Eagle store.
  http://davescupboard.blogspot.com/2008/03/kolozsvri-szalonna-hungarian-smoked.html
  
  What old school type food did your grandparents or parents introduce to you as a kid? What the name and can you still find it? Where?
• BR1986FB

  Always a fan of perogies as a youth.
  
  I dodged a bullet, having 5 older brothers & sisters, when my grandma (from Poland) would have us down for soup & sandwiches. She always made "chocolate" soup. Siblings gave me the 411 that the "chocolate" was actually duck blood. No thanks!
• BRF

  

  A couple of old German ones for me are:
  
  Egg in a hole: cut out a circle in the middle of a piece of bread, crack the egg in the hole, grill, including the circular piece you cut outlook mop up with
  
  Cottage cheese mixed with apple butter: you can still find this on the salad bars of Amish style restaurants (there will be a bowl of apple butter next to the cottage cheese for you to mix yourself)
• sleeper

  

  Ramen Noodles.
• Belly35

  

  BRF;1753882 wrote:A couple of old German ones for me are:
  
  Egg in a hole: cut out a circle in the middle of a piece of bread, crack the egg in the hole, grill, including the circular piece you cut outlook mop up with
  
  Cottage cheese mixed with apple butter: you can still find this on the salad bars of Amish style restaurants (there will be a bowl of apple butter next to the cottage cheese for you to mix yourself)

  The first one with the egg: My aunt would make like a egg omelet mixture and do that ... somewhere it end up being call egg in a toilet seat
  
  Hey! does a memeber of your family have a apple orchard?
• Automatik

  

  I'm Greek/Italian but my family leans way towards the Italian side regarding food.
  
  I actually prefer Greek, but we don't get it much. Greek stuffing during Thanksgiving, baklava, pastitsio, spannikopita. Love it.
• BRF

  

  ^^^^^^ Speaking of Greek: About a month ago, I had one of those great gyros at Steve's inside West Side Market.
  

  Belly35;1753892 wrote: Hey! does a memeber of your family have a apple orchard?

  Yes, many many years ago!
• Old Rider

  

  My mother still makes beef tongue and beef heart...probably more hillbilly than ethnic, but still VERY GOOD!!
  
  Pickled Herring from the U.P. Michigan...tried it as a kid and hated it. I now enjoy the tasty treat as an adult!
• Belly35

  

  Old Rider;1753899 wrote:My mother still makes beef tongue and beef heart...probably more hillbilly than ethnic, but still VERY GOOD!!
  
  Pickled Herring from the U.P. Michigan...tried it as a kid and hated it. I now enjoy the tasty treat as an adult!

  Pickled Herring in wine sauce .... my Monday Night NFL go to food with Ritz Cracker and Beer
• Belly35

  

  Automatik;1753893 wrote:I'm Greek/Italian but my family leans way towards the Italian side regarding food.
  
  I actually prefer Greek, but we don't get it much. Greek stuffing during Thanksgiving, baklava, pastitsio, spannikopita. Love it.

  I make the best Moussaka ... love cooking with egg plant ... if it got egg plant in it it good.
  
  I just got hummus made with egg plant ... so good
• BRF

  

  sleeper;1753886 wrote:Ramen Noodles.

  Pretty fucking funny. How long did it take you to come up with that hilarity?
• 4cards

  

  ...my wife is Lebanese and cooks ethnic food a couple times a month (kibbeh, tabbouleh, kofta, etc...all taste great!
• Belly35

  

  sleeper;1753886 wrote:Ramen Noodles.

  poor people remember ramen noodles
• Belly35

  

  4cards;1753934 wrote:...my wife is Lebanese and cooks ethnic food a couple times a month (kibbeh, tabbouleh, kofta, etc...all taste great!

  I love (raw hamburger) kibbeh .... One luck man.... Mofo
• 4cards

  

  Belly35;1753938 wrote:poor people remember ramen noodles

  ...I was one poor mother fucker when I was in college & ramen noodles kept me from starving.
• 4cards

  

  Belly35;1753939 wrote:I love (raw hamburger) kibbeh .... One luck man.... Mofo

  ...She bakes the kibbeh usually but maybe once or twice a year she'll make it raw with just olive oil over the top of it.
• Automatik

  

  Belly35;1753938 wrote:poor people remember ramen noodles

  Legit ramen is the shit though.
  
  
  Another fav of mine. Hommade gnocchi, but with potato. Not that half ass ricotta gnocchi
• Rotinaj

  

  Belly35;1753856 wrote:On Sunday wife and went to the Ohio City Fest and the Westside Market was open.
  When I was a kid my Aunt would prepare Blood Sausage which we found and bought, I will be fixing it this week.
  But our big find was Kolozsvari szalonna double smoke Bacon w/ garlic that needs no refrigeration, can eaten raw or fried up in a skillet.

  Do you prefer heating it in a skillet or eating it cold?
• Belly35

  

  Rotinaj;1753960 wrote:Do you prefer heating it in a skillet or eating it cold?

  as a kid we ate it cold
  I prefer it cold because of the thick smokey bark, when I grill it I keep the bark on but in a skillet bark is cut off
• Tiernan

  Is "ethic food" food that has integrity?
• BRF

  

  I remember "integrity" from JJ.
  
  He was a good guy.
• adog

  German heritage and grandparents also had blood pudding when I was a kid, would not try it. Loved Twebuck(sp?) which was homemade bread that was dried in oven until it was hard as a rock. a little butter, dip in coffee...very good. Grandmother also used to make a stew from pork, don't remember what it was called but she had cabbage, pork, taters etc in it and it was awesome
• Con_Alma

  BRF;1753980 wrote:I remember "integrity" from JJ.
  
  He was a good guy.

  Very good guy.
• OSH

  

  My paternal granddad was Slovakian. So, my grandma made some nice meals -- the family's favorite was a dish similar to pierogis (different name though).
  
  She also made GREAT potato pancakes. Had some backbone that wasn't bad. I wasn't a big fan of cabbage, but the seasoning and noodles in my grandma's "cabbage and noodles" dish was good.
• Belly35

  

  OSH;1754159 wrote:My paternal granddad was Slovakian. So, my grandma made some nice meals -- the family's favorite was a dish similar to pierogis (different name though).
  
  She also made GREAT potato pancakes. Had some backbone that wasn't bad. I wasn't a big fan of cabbage, but the seasoning and noodles in my grandma's "cabbage and noodles" dish was good.

  haluski (sp?) in Croation is fried cabbage and noddles..... Simple dish but a great comfort food type dish...
  
  Potato pancakes is a art ... I've been cooking ( self taught ) 40 years an can't make a potato pancake worth eating.