Tag: nostalgia
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Meatloaf
My mom makes the best meatloaf. It was a treat growing up so maybe it’s just the nostalgia. It’s got protein and grain. Today I added a little sour cream to increase the dairy. She makes it with milk so it already has some of that. She makes a meatloaf sauce with ketchup, mustard, and…
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Grandma’s Sugar Cream Pies
Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? I love a good sugar cream pie mostly out of the sake of nostalgia. They remind me of my grandma’s love. The family has the recipe and a few people have even tried to make one for me. There was just something about my…
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Magic Pancakes
What’s your favorite thing to cook? Many years ago my wife and children were in the Women, Infant, and Children Program (WIC). At the time the program gave vouchers for specific healthy food: milk, peanut butter, cereal and the like. We also got an allotment of eggs. A WHOLE LOT OF EGGS! We struggled to…
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The Commodore 64
Write about your first computer. I wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons and heard about a Commodore 64 game called Pool of Radiance. I needed the game of course which came on 5&1/4 inch floppy disks. I believe there were a total of 8 in the set. To play it I needed a Commodore 64…
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Remembering Dodge Street
What makes you feel nostalgic? The most nostalgia I have in my life is living on my own in the center of town on the edge of society. The house on Dodge Street was divided into three rental units and I had the one on the ground floor to the front. I was very free…
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Magic Pancakes
What food would you say is your specialty? When the children were all young, they and my wife were eligible (all at once) for WIC. That is the Women, Infant, and Children food program. We got, among other things, 18 eggs every week. That was way more than we could eat fried or scrambled. Since…
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Hostages
What major historical events do you remember? The first major event in the world that I remember was the crisis where US citizens were held hostage in Iran. I like Jimmy Carter. He’s a good man. But I don’t think he was a good president. Those hostages sat for over a year and he didn’t…
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