My mom was a stay-at-home mom. Her job every day of her married life, it seems, was to clean the house, do laundry, feed us lunch when we came home from school for lunch (no school lunch program in the 60s), plan and make dinners. She cooked with a lot of beef: hamburger, steaks, roasts and stews, also ham on Sundays, turkey on holidays. Every birthday we could choose what we wanted for dinner and I always said “Steak and creamy corn”. I was such a weird kid. Anyway, these are random foods I remember my mom serving:
hamburger casserole
sausage casserole
salmon burgers
homemade mac & cheese — lots of cheese
cowboy eggs (scrambled eggs with real bacon mixed in)
white rice with cinnamon and sugar on it
mashed potatoes and gravy, the gravy served in a little pitcher-like dish we called “the gravy boat”
“TV dinners”! (Frozen dinners cooked in the oven)
no microwaves or crockpots in those days either!
Doing the dishes after dinner, washing, DRYING them with a towel, and putting them away, was part of the routine every night. (no dishwashers!)
All of this was just the era we lived in, but makes it hard to cook healthy today, with all the awareness about red meat and the need for fresher foods.
Doctor Grandma 