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Lynn from Fargo > wrote:

> The thread about the abundance of olives got me thinking about what I
> used to eat mumble mumble years ago when I was a poor student (instead
> of a poor retired person),
>
> I would make fried potatoes and carrots. Thinly sliced raw potatoes,
> carrots and onions fried in bacon fat or butter. If there was actual
> bacon that was even better.
>
> How about you?
> Lynn in Fargo


I've always maintained a pantry with stuff that I could use for a meal
so I've never been exactly in that situation. Guess I got that from my
mom. One of my sisters and I were talking about life when she was a kid
and my dad was alive‹depression years, WWII years, and she said she
remembers lots of meals of oatmeal. That doesn't jibe with farm life
with animals to provide meat, milk, eggs; and a huge vegetable garden.
Her comment was interesting to me because in *my* youth (I'm 14 years
her junior) I don't ever remember a lack of food and never felt like we
were poor. We had food, clothing, shelter. I need to crosscheck her
memory with a couple other older sisters. A curiosity.

Always having milk, eggs, and flour on hand, I'd probably make pancakes
(filling) if money was tight. I do it now if I don't feel like
cooking or am not inspired.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.mac.com/barbschaller, and here's the link to my appearance
on "A Prairie Home Companion," <http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
programs/2008/08/30/>