Disappearing foodways.

[pepperhead212]

Tomato, olive oil, garlic, herbs (different from time to time, but always some fresh basil towards the end), and sometimes onion. Not much else, though sometimes some leftover red wine. And it always tastes good, otherwise, I wouldn't put it on the pizza! One version had everything mixed together, then baked for an hour, which was delicious. This is something I do on the gas grill, as I don't turn the oven on much in the summer, when getting the fresh tomatoes, and I have a pizza stone that I use on that, too.

[JRinPA]

nice try tormato

I'm sure one big thing is to use slicers and cook them down. paste tomatoes...yeah people say they are better tasting after being cooked. Well, so are slicers.

[worth1]

Not that you can't find them cleverly disguised as dried plums but prunes.
Growing up there always seemed to be an endless supply of cooked and cooled prunes on the table.
Didn't bother me I love the things.

[GoDawgs]

@worth1, my Dad grew up with cooked prunes on the breakfast table a lot. So my mom would make them for him if she had the time during the day. I like them too but haven't had any in ages due to loosely low-carbing and have forgotten about them. I might have to cheat.

Mince meat pie. That's one thing I've never had but I'm not a fan of anything heavily spiced with cloves or nutmeg.

[Tormato]

Not that you can't find them cleverly disguised as dried plums but prunes.
Growing up there always seemed to be an endless supply of cooked and cooled prunes on the table.
Didn't bother me I love the things.

The California Dried Plum Board put out a new marketing campaign about 5 years ago, going back to calling them prunes. Likely the same organization, decades earlier that started calling prunes ...dried plums.

I've wondered what percentage of Americans have tried a prune. I'd guess that they do not know that they are as sweet as candy.

[karstopography]

Been a long time since I knowingly consumed a prune. Prunes are sweet, but there’s a lot of things I’d rather eat including a fresh plum. I’m not a huge fan of raisins either or most dried fruits.

[worth1]

Growing up on the table there was what seemed to be an endless supply of rutabagas cooked prunes turnips and various greens.
Also freshly caught fish including bass pan fish catfish and so on.
Rabbit squirrel venison chicken pork and beef.
We raised our on meat rabbits as well.
Naturally I didn't list everything.

[Seven Bends]

I love these particular prunes, which are cooked as part of the canning process: https://www.sunsweet.com/store/premium-prunes
Apparently Sunsweet still makes them, but I haven't seen them in the stores in a long time.

The "D'Noir" prunes are delicious also, but not as good as the canned ones: https://www.sunsweet.com/store/dnoir-prunes

I try not to buy any of them anymore because they're a pretty big sugar hit, and sugar seems to make me feel weird now in a way that it didn't when I was younger. Guess my body's trying to tell me something.

[bower]

People grew damson plums here. I think jam was most common way to keep them though.
Prunes are delicious, if rarely seen.
There are a lot of berries growing wild here. Blueberries, a staple for households. Everyone picked. Even when I was a child it was standard for our family to go and pick gallons and gallons of berries for winter.

[Tormato]

Growing up on the table there was what seemed to be an endless supply of rutabagas cooked prunes turnips and various greens.
Also freshly caught fish including bass pan fish catfish and so on.
Rabbit squirrel venison chicken pork and beef.
We raised our on meat rabbits as well.
Naturally I didn't list everything.

Armadillo - Please, just DON'T go there.

[Tormato]

People grew damson plums here. I think jam was most common way to keep them though.
Prunes are delicious, if rarely seen.
There are a lot of berries growing wild here. Blueberries, a staple for households. Everyone picked. Even when I was a child it was standard for our family to go and pick gallons and gallons of berries for winter.

Are there any native high bush blueberries, there? If I remember correctly, Canada has it's own sub-species of low bush blueberry, the Latin name long forgotten, here.

When I tell people that I know, about a spot out in the nearby wilds, where a moose sleeps under a blueberry bush, they're ready to call the people with the straight jackets. They never heard of high bush blueberries, because a 30 second walk into undeveloped property around here will likely find one among low bush blueberries. This high bush blueberry, in the moose's bedroom, is about 16 feet tall, with a 6" diameter trunk.

[worth1]

Growing up on the table there was what seemed to be an endless supply of rutabagas cooked prunes turnips and various greens.
Also freshly caught fish including bass pan fish catfish and so on.
Rabbit squirrel venison chicken pork and beef.
We raised our on meat rabbits as well.
Naturally I didn't list everything.

Armadillo - Please, just DON'T go there.

Chipmunk poppers an old family favorite.

[bower]

People grew damson plums here. I think jam was most common way to keep them though.
Prunes are delicious, if rarely seen.
There are a lot of berries growing wild here. Blueberries, a staple for households. Everyone picked. Even when I was a child it was standard for our family to go and pick gallons and gallons of berries for winter.

Are there any native high bush blueberries, there? If I remember correctly, Canada has it's own sub-species of low bush blueberry, the Latin name long forgotten, here.

When I tell people that I know, about a spot out in the nearby wilds, where a moose sleeps under a blueberry bush, they're ready to call the people with the straight jackets. They never heard of high bush blueberries, because a 30 second walk into undeveloped property around here will likely find one among low bush blueberries. This high bush blueberry, in the moose's bedroom, is about 16 feet tall, with a 6" diameter trunk.

Strictly lowbush here... knee high at best!
There's a lot of rocky post-glacial type land here where they grow wild, along with partridgeberries and a few others. Partridgeberry aka lingonberry is even lower. Kneel for your fruit....

[karstopography]

Cape Cod in the Chatham/Brewster area had high bush blueberries. I used to pick them with my children. I don’t remember exactly how tall these were, six feet, something like that. There might have been some high bush types around Dedham or Westwood too. I’m trying to remember.

Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada had the most blueberries in the highest density I have ever seen. The islands there had low bush type blueberries in numbers and quality as if it were well run orchard or farm. I guess there weren’t enough bears or other critters to eat them up.

The single best wild berries I have yet to eat are the Alpine strawberries found at elevation in Colorado. Imagine the best cultivated strawberry and then condense and concentrate every positive flavor from that into a tiny one gram if even package and that’s an alpine strawberry from 10,000’ asl in Colorado.

[worth1]

The black berries grown in the right soil are to die for.
They're like sugar
We use to go huckleberry picking as well up in the hills.
One place in particular was the mountain side above wait for it......
The Heavener runestone in Oklahoma were it was thought the Vikings were at.
Not likely but it's fun to think about.
Anywho this is my old stomping grounds
Absolutely beautiful.

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[worth1]

Disappearing restaurants.
It's absolutely heartbreaking to constantly see hear or read about these old establishments closing down.
I heard about one the other day but for the life of me can't remember who or what it was.
One that isn't gone yet is the Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls.
It's been around since 1929.
I can remember eating there back when I was a wee little thing.
They serve great food too.

A double cheeseburger costs close to 12 dollars according to their minue but it's a pound of beef.
A regular is 1/2 pound.
I had to stay s week at a hotel there for work one time.
The guys wanted to go to some fancy steakhouse in town.
We looked at the prices paid for our tea and walked out.
Something like 30 dollars for an 8 ounce steak and it wasn't even a fillet.
We went to the Bluebonnet where I wanted to go in the first place.
If anyone here is even close to Marble Falls stop by the place.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... X22jCXgxBb

[Tormato]

Disappearing restaurants.
It's absolutely heartbreaking to constantly see hear or read about these old establishments closing down.
I heard about one the other day but for the life of me can't remember who or what it was.
One that isn't gone yet is the Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls.
It's been around since 1929.
I can remember eating there back when I was a wee little thing.
They serve great food too.

A double cheeseburger costs close to 12 dollars according to their minue but it's a pound of beef.
A regular is 1/2 pound.
I had to stay s week at a hotel there for work one time.
The guys wanted to go to some fancy steakhouse in town.
We looked at the prices paid for our tea and walked out.
Something like 30 dollars for an 8 ounce steak and it wasn't even a fillet.
We went to the Bluebonnet where I wanted to go in the first place.
If anyone here is even close to Marble Falls stop by the place.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... X22jCXgxBb

There's a Bluebonnet Diner a few towns to the north of me, been around for about 75 years.Their specialty is "broasted" chicken, deep fried in a pressure cooker. I don't know how healthy it is, but it tastes fantastic. They've been broasting for over 50 years.

[worth1]

Disappearing restaurants.
It's absolutely heartbreaking to constantly see hear or read about these old establishments closing down.
I heard about one the other day but for the life of me can't remember who or what it was.
One that isn't gone yet is the Bluebonnet Cafe in Marble Falls.
It's been around since 1929.
I can remember eating there back when I was a wee little thing.
They serve great food too.

A double cheeseburger costs close to 12 dollars according to their minue but it's a pound of beef.
A regular is 1/2 pound.
I had to stay s week at a hotel there for work one time.
The guys wanted to go to some fancy steakhouse in town.
We looked at the prices paid for our tea and walked out.
Something like 30 dollars for an 8 ounce steak and it wasn't even a fillet.
We went to the Bluebonnet where I wanted to go in the first place.
If anyone here is even close to Marble Falls stop by the place.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... X22jCXgxBb

There's a Bluebonnet Diner a few towns to the north of me, been around for about 75 years.Their specialty is "broasted" chicken, deep fried in a pressure cooker. I don't know how healthy it is, but it tastes fantastic. They've been broasting for over 50 years.

They had broasted chicken at the Town and country convenience stores in West Texas when I lived out there.
I ate a ton of it when it was relatively cheap.
Got sick of it as a matter of fact.
The place has changed a bunch now.
At the time there was zero fast food chain restaurants there but they had good places to eat.
Not anymore.
They even have a crappy Rudy's BBQ.
I think broasted chicken is some sort of franchise like Krispy Krunchy is her in the south.
Yep it's called genuine broaster chicken it seems to be all over the country.
Nearest one to me is in Kyle Texas.

[JRinPA]

Huh, I never knew what "broasted" meant. I may or may not have ever had any fresh...did Kenny Roger's Roasters do that? There was one in State College when I was there, well, it was north on atherton in the sprawl. I never like any of that chicken, KFC original recipe was so much better. Broasted was just meant a "dried up roasted" to me.

I have never been one for eating out, other than pizza and hoagies, and I never found the same quality or variety away from home.

[worth1]

Huh, I never knew what "broasted" meant. I may or may not have ever had any fresh...did Kenny Roger's Roasters do that? There was one in State College when I was there, well, it was north on atherton in the sprawl. I never like any of that chicken, KFC original recipe was so much better. Broasted was just meant a "dried up roasted" to me.

I have never been one for eating out, other than pizza and hoagies, and I never found the same quality or variety away from home.

When I first started working in the oil fields in Crane Texas I would get up around 5 in the morning and get home around 8 or so.
All the stores were closed by then.
I worked 7 days a week and only got off for Christmas and Thanksgiving weekend.
No paid holidays and no double time for working a holiday.
My main meal of the day was lunch so I would get the chicken and sometimes take the leftovers home to my apartment.
Then the other mens wives found out about me and I would give them money to buy my groceries.
They never would accept anything in return.
I would come home and everything was put up that needed to be put up.
Another gal my age that was the daughter of the richest people in town would clean house for me and do my laundry.
I would pay her.
We also went out several times and we hung out a lot.
Her family came from a very wealthy family of ranchers in central Texas where my family came from.
She was as pretty as any girl could be but mean as a rattlesnake.
Her older brother hired a lot of our female friends to drive dump trucks for his construction well pad company including her.
She was tiny too.
When I got married my wife was flabbergasted that we were really good friends.
Why didn't yo marry her she would ask.
She's too mean and she uses her family name to stay out of trouble.
That family ran that town.
The girl hit a cop with his own flashlight and didn't get in trouble.
I didn't need any of that.
My wife's family was also really well off too.
Huge 4000 square foot house with a big swimming pool in the back.
People thought I married her for the money but I never took one dime from them.
They tried to buy me and I wouldn't bite and it ticked them off big time.
Well anyway I'm reliving my past and sharing with y'all.