For the past few weeks, I’ve been making a large pot of soup early in the week, then enjoying the convenience of warming it up for a quick meal. So far, I’ve made chicken soup, vegetable beef and currently in the fridge, corn chowder. In trying to decide what type of soup I’ll eat next week, I got thinking about some of Mom’s recipes. Well, this started a long walk down a culinary memory lane.
It turns out that I’m not the only one of the children who sometimes think about Mom’s cooking and their favorite foods. Here are the mouth-watering memories from we four Miller kids.
Marianne
- Barbecue ribs
- Tuna melt sandwich
- Lemon delicacy
- Popcorn balls
- Best gravy ever!!
- Bread pudding
- Banana bread
- Date bread
- Chocolate cake with white frosting (Dad’s favorite)
- One of Dad’s favorite meals: steak, canned cream corn, and fried potatoes
Dana
- Jubilee Jumble cookies
- Trifle
- Cowboy Delight (deer hunting favorite)
- Riced potatoes (Dad liked them better than mashed potatoes)
- Snickerdoodle cookies
- Jell-o (orange with carrots, red with fruit cocktail)
- Porcupine meatballs (Mom pronounced it “parky-pine”)
- Baked halibut in milk
- Sour dough pancakes
- Baked chicken (breaded in egg and flour, fried then baked)
- Tapioca pudding
Rinda
- Huckleberry pie
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Banana bread
- Zucchini bread and everything imaginable made from zucchini
- Lemon delicacy
- Fresh trout
- Swedish meatballs
- German pancakes
- Rice pudding
Matt
- Baked beans with Spam and bacon
- Red Jell-o with fruit, layered with sour cream
- Pressure-cooked “herbed” pot roast
- Cream puffs
- Rice pudding made on the coal stove at Blue Creek
- Pink popcorn
- Pork roast
- Hamburger soup
- Creamed tuna on toast (affectionaly known as “shit on a shingle”
- Double breaded (by Dad) chicken, browned, then steamed in an electric frying pan
Mother and Dad also enjoyed eating out. A few of their favorite places:
- Maddox
- Sizzler
- Chuck-o-Rama
- Angie’s
- Glausers – owned by the Jay Auman family
- Tropical Café (Brigham City) – early days, this may later have been renamed “The Idle Isle”
Dana Miller, February 2016