My fancy peasant’s gruel. Semolina gruel that turned into porridge like consistency (see I can afford the wheat, no need to water it down) with cut up wiener pieces in it. I’m sometimes fancy like this.
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I grew up eating stuff like this
Mom would boil a whole pot of wieners until they were splitting open … then boil another pot of boxed mashed potatoes (because we didn’t have access to fresh produce) … mix it all together for a hot whatever and I used to love it.
It was more a winter/autumn time thing for us because we didn’t have enough food, no fresh food and no summer time wild food and not in time yet for winter harvested wild food either. We’re indigenous in northern Ontario and back then mom and dad supplemented our diet with about 60% to 70% with wild food. It meant we had to go through periods of the year when food supplies ran low … then we’d eat stuff like boxed potatoes and boiled wieners.
A variation of this mom used to make was boxed mashed potatoes with canned corned beef.
I remember I used to love it as a dumb kid. I’m almost 50 now and about a year ago, I tried wieners with potatoes and corned beef with potatoes for the old nostalgia of it … it was absolutely disgusting but it brought back a lot of memories.
Huh, this stirs some memories about a cabbage, carrots and potato ‘gruel’/stew our mother used to make when I was a kid in the early 90’s. Our country was in bad economic depression at the time, and our family was having it hard. I remember hating it as a kid.
I think I’m gonna improvise a pot of something similar in the weekend, maybe I’ll appreciate it more nowdays.
Thank you for sharing.
If you add corned beef to the mix you’ll have yourself corned beef and cabbage. Our “soup” always had way more cabbage and carrots in it than beef.
Pow, right in the childhood! My mother sometimes made semolina gruel but we always ate it with cinnamon and sugar. This abomination on the other hand…
At some point in my adult life I realized that I could make semolina with milk whenever I want. I just cook it in milk to the desired thickness and eat it like that. Love it
I’m just embracing my inner peasant in this ever increasing modern techno-feudalistic worldscape.
Yep, nostalgia is a powerful thing. We used to eat it with vanilla sugar as kids, that works wonderfully well too imho.
As a peasant you’ll only get plain gruel. We’ll get there soon enough.
Ditto! My mum would jazz it up a tad by making an apple sauce to go with it. To this day it’s so memorable for me as a delicious desert but for some reason I’ve not attempted to make it myself
Nasty af. Well done.
Does this place have c/frugaljerk?
