[louisbear]

Sweet and sour chopped pork steak on a bed of rice or mashed potatoes.
Fried Bologna with tomato and onion bread pudding
Venison pot roast with onions and gravy, on mashed potatoes with baby carrots and peas.
Cod and pork scarps and boiled potatoes, peas and carrots
Homemade pea soup and salted crackers
One of my favourite meals is fresh fried mackerel with new potatoes in late August.
Boiled picnic ham with scalloped potatoes.

 

[3macs1]

Yes ... after reading Kevin's post ... I eat all of that stuff as well. He lost me at the liver and onions. Just can't do it. I have tried it a few different ways, but just can't do it.

That shocks me and I am nice today so won't say why . So I guess heart ,tongue and testicles are out of the question also
I will be honest calf is my favorite which seems impossible to buy any more followed by beef and lamb
my bud keeps offering me goat and no way will I eat that nor will I eat chicken or turkey livers or deer

 

[Buckmark]

Don't do goat. I love beef tongue. We pickle them first. Also beef heart. Stuff with onions and bake. Don't do the Prarie oysters. No goat, or pig or chicken offalls. I am not a chicken lover either. Turkey dinner ... ham scalloped potatoes is made during holidays. I love "house banking" (cod fish and potatoes with pork scraps an onions for the city slickers)

 

[Striper66]

Striper66, ask and ye shall receive!

On another thread 3Macs posted a pic of his goo lash as he calls it, with apparently way too many onions and garlic, lol. Striper66 suggested we have a winter supper topic so let’s do just that.

let’s try not to let this get hijacked too badly like every other thing we talk about. Let’s try keep it to “winter” meals I guess. Those suppers you make or ate growing up when the weather is miserable. Classic comfort food for a stormy winter.

I will be making a Dutch dish here soon, possibly supper tonight, called boerenkool. I will take some photos of it as I go.

Well done my friend☺Think this is something everyone can postively relate to.FOOD😋

 

[David G]

"One of my favourite meals is fresh fried mackerel with new potatoes in late August."

Louisbear, when I was in my early 20's I worked as a cook on the MV Bluenose. The ship had its own butcher so sides of beef would be brought in as well as whole Halibut and fresh whole fish and the butcher would prepare all of this for the galley.

Over the Summer, the crew would always have several meals of mackerel. The butcher would butterfly them and we would bread them up and deep fry them. Man were they ever good...!! The minute that they would touch the hot fat they would curl up and brown. It only took seconds to cook them. They were succulent on the inside and nice and crisp on the outside. It was my favorite meal of the Summer...and I could slice up and cook all the beef tenderloin that I wanted...but still, this didn't compare to that mackerel.!!

 

[Striper66]

I don't like to cook but sure like to eat so I cook

this has to be one of the best posts ive read

 

[3macs1]

this has to be one of the best posts ive read

My mrs cooks but everything is plain and I am the total opposite she hates mayo, ketchup, BBQ sauce mustard any sauces period won't eat any veggies except yellow beans and no fruit except oranges drives me crazy when we eat out and get burgers a cheese burger to her is the burger bun and the cheeze nothing else and a pizza is the crust and cheese that is it

 

[Striper66]

I guess the word comfort food goes a long way with me.Something about being outside in the cold during a time of year when activity seems to slow down for most of us.Coming inside to smell that roast slow cooking in the oven or stew in the slow cooker just brings me happiness and seems to lower stress as well.Relaxing.Its really the only thing i enjoy about this time of year☺Oh and the heat of the woodstove and a couch with a comforter

 

[TonyM]

I have a lot of comfort meals throughout the winter. These were a normal staple for our household growing up. I call them The Big Three, corned beef and cabbage, sauerkraut and pickled pork, and pickled beans with pickled pork. We still make everything ourselves as far as pork and beef and sauerkraut and pickled beans. I do buy the vegetables. Goulash is another favorite as is roast beef and roast pork. Something as simple as hamburger patties smothered in gravy and onions and mashed potatoes makes me happy. Reminds me of my childhood days. My grandmother's and mother were excellent Cooks and I sure do miss them. Nothing I make ever taste as good as what they could do.

Hamburger patties in gravy with onions and mashed potatoes with peas or carrots. Ummm good! Now there is a meal I haven't had in probably 50 years. That was a meal my mother used to make at home. Hadn't even thought if it in years.

 

[1NSH Dave]

Hamburger patties in gravy with onions and mashed potatoes with peas or carrots. Ummm good! Now there is a meal I haven't had in probably 50 years. That was a meal my mother used to make at home. Hadn't even thought if it in years.

Oh man I have to make that sometime soon. So simple but can’t believe I never really considered it.

 

[TonyM]

That shocks me and I am nice today so won't say why . So I guess heart ,tongue and testicles are out of the question also
I will be honest calf is my favorite which seems impossible to buy any more followed by beef and lamb
my bud keeps offering me goat and no way will I eat that nor will I eat chicken or turkey livers or deer

I'm with Buckmark! Have never even tried any of those and unless the apocalypse comes and there is nothing else left to eat I never will!!
I did try roast beaver once many years ago though. And no not the kind your dirty minds are thinking! The kind that chews down trees and makes dams! Tasted like duck to me.

 

[1NSH Dave]

Here’s supper tonight. This is from a Dutch family who I grew up with and spent most of my childhood biking up to their dairy farm to spend the days helping their oldest son, my best friend, do the chores or ride along in the tractor all day. Ended up working as a farmhand there for years when I got older as well.

It is called boerenkool which basically translates as “farmers cabbage” and is their name for kale anyway I believe.

It begins with a pot of diced potatoes and chopped up kale, fill with water and dash of salt like everything that’s boiled. Set this to start boiling like any other mashed potatoe pot. The kale will wilt and soften as it all boils.

Reading about it online I believe the “proper” method is to cook a smoked sausage, a bigger one, in the pot with the potatoes essentially steaming it. I just fry them in a pan, some nice smokies are perfect but fresh sausage is good to. I fry them and then add a couple cups of stock to braise them at the end. Remove sausages and make a gravy from the stock. Mash the potatoes and kale with some butter and milk.

Now to serve, according to my friend the proper way (his at least lol) is as follows:

Lay a big bed of mash, flatten it out and make a hollow in middle. Spread mayo on it. MAYO, not the miracle crap. The Dutch love mayo.

Lastly fill the well up with gravy and add a sausage. I like to slice the sausage and use the slice to scoop a big bite of mash and gravy.

Im no fan of kale, but in this you don’t even notice it besides the Color. I tell you this is one plate that will absolutely stick to your ribs on the way down and stay there for a while!

 

[1NSH Dave]

I'm with Buckmark! Have never even tried any of those and unless the apocalypse comes and there is nothing else left to eat I never will!!
I did try roast beaver once many years ago though. And no not the kind your dirty minds are thinking! The kind that chews down trees and makes dams! Tasted like duck to me.

I dunno, beaver can be pretty hairy…… oh you mean the animal cooked!

 

[louisbear]

Hamburger patties in gravy with onions and mashed potatoes with peas or carrots. Ummm good! Now there is a meal I haven't had in probably 50 years. That was a meal my mother used to make at home. Hadn't even thought if it in years.

My mom would do a similar meal only no Patties. She would just fry lean ground beef in a pan until redness was all gone from meat, then pour off any unwanted fat if any. In a separate pan she would sauté some finely chopped onions and maybe some mushrooms in butter. Now add onions and mushrooms to hamburger and brown. Once browned, add a bit of boiling water and scrap the bottom of hamburger pan to get all the browned meat flavour. Slowly add a bit more water until you have some nice juice for gravy. Remove hamburger and onions to the side and use same pan to make your gravy. Slowly add water as needed, corn starch and your favourite gravy spices and whisk until you are happy with thickness. Dump hamburger, mushrooms and onions back in gravy and on a low heat, stir until it is all evenly heated and covered with gravy. Serve up with mashed potatoes and cooked veggies. Personally, I love to mix this all together and enjoy! Yes, I know there are some people who cannot have one type of food touching another!

 

[Striper66]

Here’s supper tonight. This is from a Dutch family who I grew up with and spent most of my childhood biking up to their dairy farm to spend the days helping their oldest son, my best friend, do the chores or ride along in the tractor all day. Ended up working as a farmhand there for years when I got older as well.

It is called boerenkool which basically translates as “farmers cabbage” and is their name for kale anyway I believe.

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It begins with a pot of diced potatoes and chopped up kale, fill with water and dash of salt like everything that’s boiled. Set this to start boiling like any other mashed potatoe pot. The kale will wilt and soften as it all boils.

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Reading about it online I believe the “proper” method is to cook a smoked sausage, a bigger one, in the pot with the potatoes essentially steaming it. I just fry them in a pan, some nice smokies are perfect but fresh sausage is good to. I fry them and then add a couple cups of stock to braise them at the end. Remove sausages and make a gravy from the stock. Mash the potatoes and kale with some butter and milk.

Now to serve, according to my friend the proper way (his at least lol) is as follows:
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Lay a big bed of mash, flatten it out and make a hollow in middle. Spread mayo on it. MAYO, not the miracle crap. The Dutch love mayo.

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Lastly fill the well up with gravy and add a sausage. I like to slice the sausage and use the slice to scoop a big bite of mash and gravy.

Im no fan of kale, but in this you don’t even notice it besides the Color. I tell you this is one plate that will absolutely stick to your ribs on the way down and stay there for a while!

That looks fantastic

 

[Striper66]

Not really winter comfort food but dam tasty supper again tonite with the smelts

 

[1NSH Dave]

Thinking on the burger and gravy trend, another meal I’ve done but not for quite a while and I will have to change that. The classic Shit on a Shingle!

 

[Tripple D]

Growing up Sunday was always a big meal. My favourite was roast with lots of gravy and mashed potatoes plus several other veggies and home made bread or rolls. And of course dessert usually poor man’s pudding or aunt Viny’s squares.
When my wife says roast ( deer ) tonite I will peel the potatoes.
I can’t bake either but can and do make cookies from an old recipe of Mom’s she just called them 100 good cookies,lol.

 

[Tripple D]

Little story of my attempt to cook a nice supper.
My son shot a couple of pheasants one day and I shot one so decided to cook them up for supper the next day which was Sunday. Found a recipe book and even a recipe for roast pheasant! Man I was all set. Recipe said to pour lemon juice over the pheasant so I did.
When it was cooking it didn’t smell the best,lol. Took it out of oven and sliced it up. It tasted terrible! Found out that lemon juice and lemon extract are two different things, yep I used extract!!! Could not eat anything lemon flavoured for yrs afterwards. Wasn’t as upset about the no meat type food for supper as I was about wasting Wild game, which really really bothers me.
So now ya’all know why I don’t cook!!!!!

Great thread Dave!

 

[3macs1]

Kind of disappointed that the beaver man has not shared some of his favorite winter meals