Oh, so many.....

My moms "cooked until they are good and dead" pork chops. The recipe
began, like nearly all her recipes, with the cast iron skillet and 1/4
inch of wesson oil. Heat it up and cook the pork chops for at least a
half and hour until they are crispy and dry (well, except for the wesson
oil dripping off them). There was no cutting these things.

Fried eggs were done the same way.

Oh, and bacon. Until it shattered.

The worst dinner though was cabbage night. Chop up a head or two of
cabbage and let it cook covered in the electric skillet for at least an
hour. Add in a few kielbasa for the adults and 1/2 hot dog per child.
Now, all us kids could eat a whole hot dog (and were served them) but on
cabbage night she only gave us half. Bizarre. It was a disgusting
dinner, slimy, smelly, horrid.

But those dinners were better than when dad was out of town. Then we
were treated to Lamb chops and told they were pork chops and rabbit and
told it was chicken and liver and onions. Gag. She served everything
our father hated. It was dreadful. And as dad worked for IBM, sadly,
he traveled often.

And I don't know how she did it, but she could make runny, watery Cream
of Wheat that had dry lumps in it. gag.

She always lamented that we were so skinny. ;-)

marcella