NEW YEAR 2019. Whats cooking January?

bethk wrote:When I was in elementary school the cooks (yes, we had REAL women who cooked our food fresh every day.....) would use government surplus products (bologna, rice, cheese, butter, etc.) to make sandwiches and cookies and stuff to pass out to all the students during the afternoon recess.  I'm sure it was because most of the children probably wouldn't have much to eat when they got home at night.

They would make ground bologna, ground ham and ground chicken, all spread on excess bread and cut into triangles.  Sometimes there would be white bread and wheat bread on the same sandwich.  Funny how I can still picture standing in line to get a snack....

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:

bethk wrote:When I was in elementary school the cooks (yes, we had REAL women who cooked our food fresh every day.....) would use government surplus products (bologna, rice, cheese, butter, etc.) to make sandwiches and cookies and stuff to pass out to all the students during the afternoon recess.  I'm sure it was because most of the children probably wouldn't have much to eat when they got home at night.

They would make ground bologna, ground ham and ground chicken, all spread on excess bread and cut into triangles.  Sometimes there would be white bread and wheat bread on the same sandwich.  Funny how I can still picture standing in line to get a snack....

The thing that turned me away from the school cafeteria food, was that jello, with tuna and carrot shreds in it, and a dollop of mayonnaise on top. yuck! Anyone remember that?

bethk wrote:I hear you about the foil.....but I'm a lazy cleaner.....that and when I last bought the aluminum sheet pans I vowed they wouldn't get crusted with grease.

Niagara Visitor wrote:

bethk wrote:I hear you about the foil.....but I'm a lazy cleaner.....that and when I last bought the aluminum sheet pans I vowed they wouldn't get crusted with grease.

Regarding the foil, I don't cook on foil.  EVER. All I use it for occasionally is to cover stuff.  And as for saving stuff..............do any of you remember saving the waxed paper that was in cereal boxes? Is it still in the boxes?  I don't eat cereal. That paper always had to be saved at our house.  And, regarding the aluminum pans, I had a very large pan in which I only made chicken wings.  Well, I think it took about 20 years for that pan to get to the point where the wings didn't stick any more.  So, I said to myself, "Self, this pan looks disgusting"  And I threw it away and bought a new one.  I am now about into year 6, and the wings still stick to the new one.  Sigh.  Shoulda kept the old one and decide that the baked on grease crust is beautiful.

Bugster2 wrote:This has nothing to do with cooking but I got a good laugh out of it. Scroll down to watch the video.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/are-we-supposed-to-pick-up-the-phone-and-then-do-it-hilarious-footage-shows-two-teenagers-completely-baffled-by-a-rotary-telephone-when-given-four-minutes-to-make-one-call/ar-BBS3IkS?ocid=spartandhp

Bugster2 wrote:I read somewhere that cursive writing was no longer being taught in schools.