My parents were generally good cooks but: dry shoe leather pork chops, crispy black bacon, and dad basically braised a brisket on the grill in a pan rather than smoked it. It was good, and tender, but no where near as good as the Central Texas briskets I make now.
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My Mother was a southern cook and could make almost everything taste great. However my Dad owned the local butcher shop and we ate all the close to and expired meat products they produced. Souse meat, chitterling loaf and the like were not my favorites, but we ate them often.Comment
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I can get Boston Butt pork steak sliced thick. I do them the same way I do ribs and the shoulder, dry brine and MMD And smoked @ 225. They stay very moist and tender.Comment
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This will center around my in-laws. My wife did not like steak when I met her. I’ve remedied that, but the reason she disliked it was her family only ate sirloin(on sale) and it was cooked well done. Her father did not cook, trust me you don’t want him to, so it fell on her mom. That woman can’t cook. It baffled my mind when I would eat dinner with them and they served me steak....it was like cardboard and her sisters ate it with ketchup.
Lastly, my MIL, makes chili with pork and beans......☹ï¸Comment
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Parents never owned a home. Apartment dwellers until I bought my own house. So grilling was non existent. So was cooking. I lived off of frozen and canned food. Swanson's TV dinners, soups, coldcuts or whatever else my mother could get that was processed.Comment
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My Mom was a great cook. Dad only grilled - and did it well (don’t think he knew where the stove was LOL).
Only food I hated was liver, well, OK and peas, too. But since Dad hated liver, I think we only had it once. Whew!
Good childhood food memories, esp Mom’s chicken and dumplings on a cold night!
Have always been lucky!Comment
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Giving a few pork steaks a go, and a bacon explosion.Attached FilesComment
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My mom and dad were pretty good cooks. Dad could grill some mean chicken and pork chops and steak. Mom did great on everything but asparagus. She never trimmed it and I would gag on the tough parts. I still won't eat asparagus to this day.Comment
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My wife grew up on a farm they raised their own beef, they ate a lot of beef. Her mother cooked everything well done and to this day she is not fond of steak. When you have 1/2 beef in the freezer there is a lot of round steak and her mother used to roll it and stuff it and then cook it well done. I was lucky my mother did not over cook beef she had a meat thermometer. My Dad always did the carving and he would sharpen the knife before hand and that is what I do today.Comment
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Hamburger Helper and Tuna Helper. The written word cannot even describe how bad they were. Even my Pop who grew up dirt floor poor with never enough food, who never, ever wasted or complained about any food, took them off the family menu.Comment
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Please remember, the General Discussion channel is for anything off the topic of food, cookers, cooking, etc. Thanks!Comment
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Growing up, I hated steak. The rest of the family would eat it, while I scarfed down a couple of hot dogs from the back of the grill. I found t too hard to chew and too time consuming. I ate my hot dogs in about about 2 minutes, and asked to be excused, and ran back outside into the great outdoors.
I first had good steaks in college probably, at restaurants, and know now that I didn’t like it because my parents only bought cheap sirloin on sale, and my dad cooked it very well done. Plus I literally lived to play outside as a kid, and didn’t want to sit there chewing that well done leather for 30 minutes. Thank goodness I bought my dad a Thermapop a while back and he at least pulls steaks at a specific temperature now and not going by look or cutting into it on the grill.Comment
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My mom's roast beef needed A1 to be edible, it was so miserably dry. In retrospect I don't think she used chuck, I think she bought eye of round. Same with her pork chops, seasoned nicely and smelled wonderful but they were cardboard. Cooked into oblivion. Bless her heart, she thought she was being safe. So growing up I HATED roast beef and pork chops, thinking that's just how they were, never understood how anyone would order that crap in a restaurant when I was a kid! I've wowed her with some of the most tender grilled pork loin chops and pot roast she's ever had and then I bought her a ThermoPop a and gave her a temp magnet.Comment
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Mom hated to cook, so it was heat and eat stuff, TV dinners, pot pies, ect. the worst was fried spam. Yuck!Comment
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My mom was a Spam master. At times we needed a little help to get by growing up and the three proteins readily available at the food pantry were Spam, liver and cheap hot dogs / cheap bologna. She had probably 20 different recipes for Spam.
When I visit her and my sister in Florida to this day I ask her to cook me a Spam dish.
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My Mom was a very good meat and potatoes cook and a wonderful baker! Meat loaf and potato salad---not so much.Comment
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