[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Doesn't this thread make you feel good, remembering family times around the table.......and hungry too?

Yes, I could easily get into that frame of mind, but is it productive? Imagine a group of ex-alcholics geting together to think and talk about how great it was to go to parties and get drunk when they were young. How does that kind of talk lead to anything productive?

I don't think old people can maintain good health for very long if they try to eat the way they did when they were young.

[Villages PL]

Originally Posted by Halibut

Whose mother didn't have one of these to carefully save all the bacon grease and other drippings? That is, if she hadn't already used it to make gravy.

Spaghetti and meatballs is one of my top three for sure.

I had one aunt who did that at home and she died of cancer. Not to mention the fact that my aunt an uncle ran a hotdog and hamburger stand and ate these items for lunch.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by dbussone

My dad was one of 12 kids. I have 50 first cousins (the Italian side of the family). After church on Sunday as many as could make would go to Nana's for a homemade meal....pasta, roast potatoes, peppers, veal, etc. On the other hand my Mom's family is old Yankee from Maine. I loved summer on the rock beaches with clambake of freshly caught lobsters, mussels, corn from the garden, etc. I'm making myself hungry just thinking about it!

dbussone: you received the best of two worlds. In my OP I mentioned that there were too many favorite meals. I mean how can one choose? Hence the reason for the title Pure Pleasure Of...... and wonderful meals do not have to be expensive or take long to prepare.

Again God was most generous here and many of us are eternally grateful

[dbussone]

Absolutely

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Yes, I could easily get into that frame of mind, but is it productive? Imagine a group of ex-alcholics geting together to think and talk about how great it was to go to parties and get drunk when they were young. How does that kind of talk lead to anything productive?

I don't think old people can maintain good health for very long if they try to eat the way they did when they were young.

VillagesPL: you may not always be right but you are always VillagesPL. God bless your heart.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

This type of thread, (what's your favorite candy bar etc.) has been beat to death and is beginning to look like an unhealthy obsession. If it's unhealthy to be interested in living a healthy lifestyle, then this preoccupation is the flip side of the coin.

Originally Posted by Villages PL

I don't think old people can maintain good health for very long if they try to eat the way they did when they were young.

Originally Posted by Villages PL

I had one aunt who did that at home and she died of cancer. Not to mention the fact that my aunt an uncle ran a hotdog and hamburger stand and ate these items for lunch.

Please don't try to turn this thread into another lecture on unhealthy eating.
People are merely reminiscing about happy childhood memories, not mapping out food plans for the future.

[Loudoll]

We had squirrel, venison, rabbit, pheasant, frog legs, trout, etc. whatever was in season. Delicious gravy/biscuits......Great memories and good food.

[graciegirl]

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Please don't try to turn this thread into another lecture on unhealthy eating.
People are merely reminiscing about happy childhood memories, not mapping out food plans for the future.

Well said Bare.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Please don't try to turn this thread into another lecture on unhealthy eating.
People are merely reminiscing about happy childhood memories, not mapping out food plans for the future.

Someone has a very big obsession with eating only something, that will make them live forever!!!

That's not going to happen, as we all will die, a physical death!

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Loudoll

We had squirrel, venison, rabbit, pheasant, frog legs, trout, etc. whatever was in season. Delicious gravy/biscuits......Great memories and good food.

Loudoll: Those were the days when many more people hunted and fished. Today the deer population is over run in many states.

do you recall the outcry when Sarah Palin on her series special killed a moose and was dressing it.

The hunters in our town ate what they killed from squirrel to turtle to bear elk you name it. it all taste like chicken when downed with a brewski.

[Loudoll]

Originally Posted by rubicon

Loudoll: Those were the days when many more people hunted and fished. Today the deer population is over run in many states.

do you recall the outcry when Sarah Palin on her series special killed a moose and was dressing it.

The hunters in our town ate what they killed from squirrel to turtle to bear elk you name it. it all taste like chicken when downed with a brewski.

One thing I missed out on was the brewski. I'm sorry to say my people abstained. lol...yes, it's true that deer are over populating and yes, I sure do remember Sarah Palin getting that ridiculous press over the moose.

[Loudoll]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

This is a beautiful family. do you realize there are ten people around that small table? Really nice.

[2BNTV]

I had the best of both worlds with my Italian mother and Portugese father. IMHO. I'm sure others will disagree.

Love my pasta, and "Paella", in my favorite seafood dish. Mom could not cook seafood, (butchered it), so we went to the Portugese restaurant, in Newark, NJ, (a very large Portugese community). Most of the chefs were from Portugal and serve their fare, in large cast iron pots. The portions were humongous and everyone would overeat. A lot of my family loved the bacala, and Mariscada, (seafood in a brandy sauce).

I don't agree with VPL much, but he is right, in that as we age, we can't continue to eat, as if we are young, and expect to enjoy optimal health.

BTW - Homemade pasta made from stratch, is the best. I could never stop eating it, once I started.

[graciegirl]

Found this picture of one of our good times. We never think to take a picture BEFORE, we are all too hungry!