What is your All Time Favorite Home-Cooked Meal?

[butterscotch]

My mom's chicken soup. I would say the recipe has been passed down for generations, but it's more of a "recipe". The trick is homemade egg noodles.

Also, my mom's apple crisp. Finally learned to make it this fall.

[grrrr]

That's a hard choice.

Dad's linguine with clams comes to mind first off.

[GiBo]

Grandma's beirocks. Roast beef, cabbage, onions mixed together in a homemade dough and smothered in gravy. The key is the gravy- she saves drippings from various animal fat producing meals over time in the freezer. Then on Christmas eve the gloop comes out and is made into the best gravy ever. Sounds kinda gross, but it's awesome. The beirocks kinda look like these, but more dry looking inside:

[sidewall]

This hamburger/cornbread casserole my mom makes. I can't get enough cornbread.

[TBS]

Paella, made by an old girlfriend of mine. Her mama was 1st generation Portugese. Damn it was good. Alas, GF was excessively high maintenance and her mother wouldn't give me the recipe after we split up.

[72Twenty]

My late grandfather used to make THE-BEST tuna fish sandwiches when we got home after a day of fly fishing on the river. I know these were simple and made from canned tuna, but for some reason I have just never been able to replicate those sandwiches.

[rideit]

Pot roast.

Still tweaking the recipe after 25 years, but the basis of my favorite recipe is in Nora Ephraim's book 'heartburn'.

(just add three times the garlic, carrots and onion, and twice the wine, some tobasco and worcsteshire, and finish with sherry...)

[Skipig25]

Mom's pot roast, masked potatoes, sauerkraut, gravy, corn, flaky biscuits with honey, apple pie, and milk in a frosty mug.

same. we always did the "birthday dinner" thing as well, and I always had my dad make pot roast. and it was, and still is, amazing

[wicked_sick]

Grandma's Chicken Pot Pie. I wish she still remembered how to make it.

[BeanDip4All]

everyone is braying about wonderful family meals, but no one is sharing how to make them! it's like pow stashes

[montanaskier]

my moms dressing is not a recipe that is written...a dash here, a sprinkle here...blahblahblah. My wife learned how to do it and it is damn good. Sage, eggs, chicken, cornbread, celery, other yummy stuff.

[MakersTeleMark]

my moms dressing is not a recipe that is written...a dash here, a sprinkle here...blahblahblah. My wife learned how to do it and it is damn good. Sage, eggs, chicken, cornbread, celery, other yummy stuff.

A bit of gravel too?

[hitek79]

My great grandparents(they died before I was born) owned a diner way back when and my grandma worked there when she was a kid. Her chicken fried steak and her chicken and noodles were off the hook. I don't know the recipe, but my aunt makes the chicken and noodles every Christmas, and they just aren't the same.

My favorite would have to be the chicken fried steak though. 50% meat, 50% breading, fucking amazing. Mashed potatoes, gravy made in the CFS grease, and buttered corn and pepper. Big ass glass of sweet tea. How my grandma is still alive at 87, I have no idea.

[hafilax]

Chicken Marbella from the Silver Palate. Easy and delicious.
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_marbella/

[butterscotch]

This hamburger/cornbread casserole my mom makes. I can't get enough cornbread.

would that be tamale pie? because tamale pie fucking rocks. Random fact: Richard Nixon loved tamale pie. Do with that what you will.

Grandma's Chicken Pot Pie. I wish she still remembered how to make it.

Sadness. Gotta get my grandmother's stuffing recipe before it's too late.

everyone is braying about wonderful family meals, but no one is sharing how to make them! it's like pow stashes

Yeah, there's that, but these "word of mouth / traditional recipes" are hard to quantify, for example:
Mom's Apple Crisp -
- Apples, peeled and sliced, enough to fill a 9 x 13 baking dish. Add cinnamon and brown sugar to taste. A little butter if you want. Lemon juice if the apples are too sweet. Use a good baking apple if you can find them.
- Topping: 1c. oats; 1/2 stick butter, softened; and some flour - 1/2 c., and 3/4 c. brown sugar. Use pastry cutter or fork until crumbly. Oh, add walnuts or pecans if you want.
- Put topping on apples. Bake until apples are soft, 25 mins or so.
- Serve warm. Preferably with vanilla ice cream.

Damn. Now I want apple crisp.

[montanaskier]

A bit of gravel too?

I get it once a year and when the Texan dropped it I almost cried. The the three legged dog came out of nowhere to eat my grub. GRRRR

[MakersTeleMark]

I get it once a year and when the Texan dropped it I almost cried. The the three legged dog came out of nowhere to eat my grub. GRRRR

Diego quiero corn bread dressin'!

[milton]

Mom's Tater Tot casserole..

1. layer deep baking dish with browned ground beef + onions mixed with can of cream of mushroom soup
2. add layer of sliced velveta cheese
3. Top off with Tater tots

bake at 3something until tater tots are done. Eat with ketchup. Thanks Mom!

[mr_gyptian]

my mom's lasagna. more than one of my male relatives can recount eating that lasagna to the point of physical exhaustion.

can't throw out the recipe, but can drop a hint: no ricotta.

[DaveTV]

Ma's roasted-till-the-outside's-crispy leg of lamb. Haven't had it for ages.

[Tippster]

Roasted Pancetta-wrapped Venison Backstrap with Spaetzle, pan sauce, and grilled Asparagus.

[rideit]

Mom's Tater Tot casserole..

1. layer deep baking dish with browned ground beef + onions mixed with can of cream of mushroom soup
2. add layer of sliced velveta cheese
3. Top off with Tater tots

bake at 3something until tater tots are done. Eat with ketchup. Thanks Mom!

That's called a 'Hot Dish', eh?

You Betchya!

[iscariot]

My Baba's homemade from scratch borscht with ooshka (tiny perogies just big enough to fit one garlic sautéed mushroom), perogies (potato and cheese, cabbage) with butter caramelized onions garlic and plain yogurt. Also blueberry desert perogies with a butter and graham cracker sauce. Some of my Mom's cheesecake too...

[tensile]

Fresh rabbit, quickly pan seared in bacon drippings and then roasted over red potatoes and onions with rosemary and garlic

[allTandA]

Thick cut, bone in, bread chops with gratin red onion potatoes, applesauce, green beans, fresh and fat midwest sliced tomatoes with blue cheese and oil n vinegar.