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the ancient mariner 13 years, 1 month ago.
Bakersboy,with the exception of Yorkshire pudding,your English mother’s Sunday dinner sounds like my southeast Alabama mother’s Sunday dinner…Absolutely delicious ! Mama would have had rutabagas instead of parsnips,though…..
Roast Beef w/ Yorkshire puddin’ and gravy w/roast potatoes and onions.
Ok, Here is what we always had for Sunday Dinner. You have to remember that I was not raised in the South and that my Grandfather was born in Littleport,Cambridgeshire, England. He lived to be 104 and my Sainted Mother would cook him this meal every Sunday.
Roast Beef and Gravy. (Generally a rolled roast that we obtained from the butcher.)
Mashed Potatoes.
Parsnips, carrots, turnips, any kind of root vegatables. He loved them.
Peas and/or corn.
Yorkshire Pudding. My personal favorite and is today.
Homemade yeast rolls and butter.
Desert: Butter Pecan Ice Cream or Strawberry Shortcake in season.
Coffee and Tea.
Although they are all gone now I still remember those Sunday meals and try to duplicate them as best as I can.
[:)] BB
Allyck’s description of Sunday dinners sounds like Sunday dinners in Southeast Alabama !
You may have miss titled this thread it sould have read
The Late Great American Sunday Dinner!
It’s a shame but most Sunday dinners have gone by the boards.
And boy do I miss those Sundays. Chow Jim
It looks like a photo finish—-chicken and roast beef coming
down to the wire neck and neck. As kids we too had both but I
gotta admit the leftover roast beef made into Sheppard’s Pie
was like another 1st class dinner on Monday. Nothing wrong
with cold chicken breast sandwichs on homemade white bread
with mayo and cranberry sauce though, with a bowl of chicken
soup made from the bones and giblets. Lordy, lordy !!!!!
Mothers that cook sure are special !!!!!!!!!!!!!
My one grandmother made the exact same dinner every single Sunday until she died – roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, cooked dried lima beans, carrot salad and lemon sponge pie.
It was chicken and dumplings in a pot every Sunday like clockwork. Corn on the cob in the summertime otherwise green beans.
Sunday dinner: the ultimate would be late summer when fresh veggies are still to be had. Growing up we might have had:
Fried Chicken, fresh green beans cooked with a small ham hock, fresh summer squash sauted with onions and seasonings until crisp-tender(in the south we don’t cook ALL veggies to death), homemade creamed corn, fried corn bread, a platter with sliced fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and if we had dessert, peach cobbler made with a very rich pastry from homegrown fresh peaches. Winter would be pork roast, boiled potatoes dressed with a cream sauce (similar to scalloped), fresh collard greens, and crackling corn bread. Dessert? If we had it (not often), fresh apple cake. Oh gosh! I am so hungry now!
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Originally posted by Kiowa1
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Originally posted by the ancient mariner
I vote for Roast Chicken, with mashed potatoes and gravy—–add any vegetable and a bottle of wine and dinner could not be finer (From Maine to Carolina). Is this just my thinking???I had company today—a total of 5 adults and 34 boys. We had two Purdue Oven Stuffers and they were great. Every one had two plates full and we still have some left for sandwichs.
Sounds kinda like the "loaves and fishes" story… 2 chickens and plenty for all and leftovers to boot!!!… what next???… water into budweiser???…
The poster replied again, above, and said that she meant to type three, but remembered that a fourth boy came but didn’t eat, and it came out "34". It should really be 4. 😉
–Jessica
Thanks for the update… see you in another 3 weeks…
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Originally posted by Kiowa1
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Originally posted by the ancient mariner
I vote for Roast Chicken, with mashed potatoes and gravy—–add any vegetable and a bottle of wine and dinner could not be finer (From Maine to Carolina). Is this just my thinking???I had company today—a total of 5 adults and 34 boys. We had two Purdue Oven Stuffers and they were great. Every one had two plates full and we still have some left for sandwichs.
Sounds kinda like the "loaves and fishes" story… 2 chickens and plenty for all and leftovers to boot!!!… what next???… water into budweiser???…
The poster replied again, above, and said that she meant to type three, but remembered that a fourth boy came but didn’t eat, and it came out "34". It should really be 4. 😉
–Jessica
When we had a place in Welfleet, Cape Cod, steamers were a Mom can’t bother, Dad and the kids are doing dinner Summer weekday dish. Of course, they had their place in all-day Saturday clambakes with lobster and all the fixings, for company.
Lobster was a special treat, except for that one year that my Dad got them for free. Wednesday or Thursday was lobster night, then. [;)]
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Sunday dinner in my neck of the woods consisted of fried chicken, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, peas and biscuits… and of course I can’t fry chicken to save my life!
Strike the peas & biscuits in favor of yeast rolls and green beans, and probably add mustard or turnip greens and you’ve got my grandmother’s menu.
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Originally posted by the ancient mariner
I vote for Roast Chicken, with mashed potatoes and gravy—–add any vegetable and a bottle of wine and dinner could not be finer (From Maine to Carolina). Is this just my thinking???I had company today—a total of 5 adults and 34 boys. We had two Purdue Oven Stuffers and they were great. Every one had two plates full and we still have some left for sandwichs.
Sounds kinda like the "loaves and fishes" story… 2 chickens and plenty for all and leftovers to boot!!!… what next???… water into budweiser???…
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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman
Growing up, Sunday always meant steamed clams and broiled, stuffed lobsters.Michael, what a tough life growing up[:D]
Mamaw Smith usually had fried chicken and garden veggies. Sometimes we had roast beef.
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN
Um, Paul, I ran the lobster traps and dug the clams.
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