Unusual?

There's been a change in what is being cooked around here since the weather got colder. It started with scalloped potatoes and ham made with heavy cream. (I got a bit of a stomach ache from that one!) Then there were a couple soups, some baked beans with hamburger and a batch of smothered meatballs served with boiled potatoes. The kind of food that puts on a layer of, dare I say it, fat! to help keep you warm during the long winter. Every season brings different foods to go with it. But occasionally there are things that you've always done and are good whatever time of year it is....

Today I was rummaging through the cupboards trying to satisfy a craving and realized I had regular plain potato chips on hand. Now this isn't a cold weather food....just a crazy thing that I used to do when I was a kid. Potato chip sandwiches. Ah, pure heaven.

I used to eat them on white bread but now I'm so healthy that I use whole grain bread. ;) You gotta use lots of butter/margarine and really smash the potato chips so you can fit in lots of them. You eat them standing over the sink to catch all the crumbs that are sure to drop.

My dad also had a sandwich that he ate any old time that the mood stuck. That was an onion sandwich. Raw onion sliced on white bread. He sure liked it. I've never tried that one.

When we had fresh bread, which was every Saturday since we baked bread every Saturday morning, Daddy would eat it with fresh cream (we had milk cows so it was always available) and sugar. Rip the bread in pieces. Put it all in a bowl and eat it. For supper. Just that. Nothing else. I'm always a bit amazed he lived to be almost 91 considering some of the things that he ate.

I don't remember Mom having any unusual food that she ate, although some of the Norwegian specialty food is rather unusual. And she really like those things.

There is a mush made of cream, butter, sugar and flour and simmered 'til the butter floats to the top. It's served in a bowl and topped with sugar and for those that like it, cinnamon. This is called rommegrot.

There's fish called lutefisk. It's cod soaked in lye. The story I heard is that the Swedes were trying to poison the Norsks and put lye in the fish to kill them. Well it didn't kill them but they liked it so they kept making it and it's become a tradition. It's served with melted butter. Even our little local grocery store carries it during the holidays.

There are wonderful sweets that are just to many to tell all about but if you can see the trend here, they have butter in them!

So it seems I've rambled on too much but food is on my mind. I need to start something for supper. It won't be any of these things I've mentioned though...DH is from a mainly German background and isn't fond of any of these things!

BTW, I really enjoyed that potato chip sandwich. :)