foodie

I was making lunch today, when suddenly it’s aroma’s took me back to childhood. Specifically, I recalled lunches at my grandparents house (where my family lived for a year when I was 5). I remember that there was always soup (usually vegetable or tomato) and all the necessary ingredients to make yourself a nice sandwich (cheese, tomato, lettuce, meat, mayo and mustard). On top of this there was usually some cottage cheese, and many saltines. Certainly nothing special, and yet I remember those lunches as being just that.
This got me thinking about the food’s I loved as I child.
What follows is my top ten most loved, and my bottom five most hated foods as a child, and some associated memories. It should be noted that pretty much anything cheese related kept me happy, which explains a large percentage of this list.

Most loved:

1. Turkey dinner… with stuffing!.
2. Perogies with sour cream (I lived in Alberta for a year - many Albertans are of Ukrainian descent).
3. Sour dill pickles (especially home-made).
4. Fresh picked raspberries (especially from my grandparents backyard).
5. Rainbow chip cake (which was the cake of choice for the majority of my birthdays).
6. Lo mein or pretty much anything Asian and noodley (there was a place near my grandparents house called Noodle Delite - I always begged to go there).
7. French onion soup (it’s on the menu in pretty much every restaurant ever, so it was always a safe bet).
8. Spaghetti with parmesan.
9. Rice with soy sauce (or fried rice accompanied by broccoli beef if I was in a chinese restaurant).
10. McDonald’s cheeseburger (which I always got with root-beer in a happy-meal - although they didn’t have them in Canada until I was around ten).

Most hated:

1. Processed cheese (it made me sick).
2. Hot dogs especially… and meat in general (I also wasn’t a fan of pizza which altogether made me dread birthday parties).
3. Zucchini (which always grows in abundance and was foisted on me in large quantities).
4. Squash, turnip or sweet potato (they all taste the same).
5. Sweet pickles (there’s nothing as awful as biting into a pickle only to find it’s not dill).