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Lou Decruss[_2_]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:23:34 -0700, wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:59:11 -0500, Lou Decruss >
>wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:51:51 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>According to the NASCAR folks, fried bologna (baloney) is a Virginia
>>>thing. Is that right?
>>
>>We had fried bologna all the time growing up. (Chicago) I like to
>>slice it thick, nip the edges so it doesn't cup, fry it up and make a
>>BLT. I actually like it just as much as bacon this way. Louise grew
>>up in a South side Polish home and they'd fry a bunch of thinner
>>slices with onions and serve it over bread. She made it once that way
>>and I didn't like it because the bologna doesn't brown enough.
>>
>>Lou
>
>When I was a kid we had fried bologna. My folks were from St Lous MO.
>Mom would nip the edges so it wouldn't curl up and she'd serve it with
>fried onions.
>
>Darn, this thread is bringing up all kinds of childhood food memories.
>koko

I'm reminded of a simple meal my mom would make when she was rushed on
a Saturday night while getting ready to out on the town with my dad.
She warmed campbells tomato soup and put a piece of processed cheese
on wonderbread and broiled it until it just started to brown. It was
so fascinating to watch them brown. She's have to make about 20 to
feed all of us. She called them "open faced cheese." I guess it
sounded fancy and we thought we were getting a treat. Today I'd
consider that a 2AM drunks meal, but back them we all loved it.

Another thing we loved was my mom's clone of Howard Johnsons oven
fries. They were just very large potato slices oven baked. HJ's
called them HoJo's. We begged her to make them all the time.

Even though my mom was not much of a cook, none of us knew it. The
simple things made us happy.

Lou