[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

I always made saurbraten when the kids were home.......it takes days and days to marinate but well worth it. I had a wonderful elderly German neighbor who gave me the recipe......originally.

Our son in law is German and he has been making saurbraten for his family for almost twenty years now, learned from his German mom.
Ditto for our daughter in law.........so I'm sure she's also had it.

My mom and dad cooked American style, as well as Italian and Ukrainian/Polish type foods while I was growing up in the 50s.

While raising our family in the 70s and 80s I cooked ALL ETHNICTY OF FOODS.......and my kids ate it all. I even made my own won ton soup.
I loved cooking Chinese foods in a wok, etc.

To this day, they love to experience different foods from different cultures. On the other hand, most Vermonters were the plain meat and potatoes type folks, but that's also changed nowadays.

I can see just from reading your posts that your family was VERY lucky to have you in the kitchen.