Farm Aid 2012: A Recap

[reverend1]

To this day my Mom is the most frugal person I know. She spends $20 a week on herself. That's it. That would last me an hour or so.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

In my case, my parents were both school teachers and during the mid-70's my mom didn't have a full time job (long story, but old PA law about not letting pregnant women teach took her out from 1969 until the early 70's, by which time Home Economics teaching jobs had dried up), so we had several creative meals...one of my favorites as a kid but which by the time I hit high school I never wanted again was the homemade pizza. There was some sort of premix dough from chef boyardee or some such that you mixed up and put in a pan and -- voila! -- you had pizza crust. Sort of.

We ate a lot of spaghetti and for a good time I didn't want to make pasta because of that. Of course, it was always spaghetti, never penne or farfalle or any other exotic shape...not even linguine.

I remember that alleged pizza dough; it sucked big time.

I have developed a huge dislike of any type of tomato-based sauce in the past 15-20 years, so rarely do pasta dishes. (Alfredo sauce is way too fattening, and few places have pesto sauce.) On those rare occasions when I have pasta with sauce, I get the sauce on the side and put about two spoonsfull on the pasta. And I usually get anything but spaghetti.

 

[shoeless]

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: hot chick, great set of pipes, music didn't really do it for me but did perform a ballad with Willie Nelson which was kinda cool. Chick can sing, and can also use my face as a seat any day. B-

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[2manband]

Ione of my favorites as a kid but which by the time I hit high school I never wanted again was the homemade pizza. There was some sort of premix dough from chef boyardee or some such that you mixed up and put in a pan and -- voila! -- you had pizza crust. Sort of.
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I remember that stuff. My mom used to use it too. It just came out like a big, dry biscuit.

You just can't make quick rise/no yeast pizza dough. It no workey.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

There seemed to be a generation of women who had a regular rotation of meals. We tended to have Meatloaf Mondays, Spaghetti Tuesdays, and Fish Stick Fridays. I don't remember what was served the other days, but it was served on a regular schedule. I wonder why that was, and what happened to change it?

I think it was the Home Ec teachers (sorry cuff!). And now they don't teach Home Ec. so much anymore. Maybe it was Betty Crocker's fault.

 

[tstrahle]

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Thanks for doing the research.