Appetizers your Mom , Dad served

[wiffleball 4,788]

Deep fried chicken livers

Rumaki

Salmon & Cheese roll with ground nuts. 

Lil Smokey's

Deviled eggs

Individual nachos

ONLY for company of course. 

 

Probably more

 

[DonS 3,292]

I always loved your Mom's tunafish tacos.

 

[Gepetto 1,297]

crackers and dip made with cream cheese, cocktail sauce and with baby shrimp all on a large circular glass plate.

[easilyscan 870]

8 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

crackers and dip made with cream cheese, cocktail sauce and with baby shrimp all on a large circular glass plate.

Hell yeah!

[BunnysBastatrds 2,321]

42 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

Deep fried chicken livers

Rumaki

Salmon & Cheese roll with ground nuts. 

Lil Smokey's

Deviled eggs

Individual nachos

ONLY for company of course. 

 

Probably more

 

Same with us. Pops made the best deviled eggs and mom made individual nachos.

Also stuffed jalapeños and steak fondue. Only for guest

[SUXBNME 1,458]

1 hour ago, DonS said:

I always loved your Mom's tunafish tacos.

 

 

I'll bet Wiff loved his Dads Lil smokey 

[Pimpadeaux 2,404]

9 minutes ago, SUXBNME said:

I'll bet Wiff loved his Dads Lil smokey 

We all did. 

 

[IGotWorms 4,057]

I feel like the boomers didn’t really “do” appetizers.

I remember they were considered an extravagance at restaurants. We were solidly middle class so I don’t know if the upper middle class felt the same? But seemed like they weren’t very common in my teenage and young adult years.

At home, can’t really recall my parents ever serving appetizers. It was usually vegetable, starch and main entree. A salad if they were feeling fancy. Dessert and coffee if company

[seafoam1 2,817]

38 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

We all did. 

 

Of course you Sally. 

[Fireballer 2,639]

Didn’t have appetizers as a kid. Didn’t have money for parties or entertaining.  I ate jelly or PB on a Ritz cracker if I wanted a snack.  

[MLCKAA 547]

6 hours ago, Fireballer said:

Didn’t have appetizers as a kid. Didn’t have money for parties or entertaining.  I ate jelly or PB on a Ritz cracker if I wanted a snack.  

Same here.  We were dirt poor.  My snack food was SOMETIMES the off-brand oatmeal creme pies or granola bars.  Appetizers didn’t exist in my house.  Sometimes dinner was “bean salad” which consisted of kidney beans, chopped egg, mayo and relish mixed together.  Tuna casserole.  Hot dogs stewed in sauerkraut.  Sometimes Fried potatoes with a side of cottage cheese.  Scrambled eggs with nothing was probably my most frequent dinner up to age 10.

[Rabbit Range 51]

Half pineapple, half water chestnuts 

https://www.delishdlites.com/course/appetizer-recipes/bacon-wrapped-pineapple-bites/

[seafoam1 2,817]

41 minutes ago, MLCKAA said:

Same here.  We were dirt poor.  My snack food was SOMETIMES the off-brand oatmeal creme pies or granola bars.  Appetizers didn’t exist in my house.  Sometimes dinner was “bean salad” which consisted of kidney beans, chopped egg, mayo and relish mixed together.  Tuna casserole.  Hot dogs stewed in sauerkraut.  Sometimes Fried potatoes with a side of cottage cheese.  Scrambled eggs with nothing was probably my most frequent dinner up to age 10.

I loved breakfast for dinner as a kid. My mom would pan fry the potatoes and throw the scrambled eggs and cut cooked bacon in over them. Yum.

Never appetizers. Just a basic salad daily. 

[MLCKAA 547]

8 hours ago, seafoam1 said:

I loved breakfast for dinner as a kid. My mom would pan fry the potatoes and throw the scrambled eggs and cut cooked bacon in over them. Yum.

Never appetizers. Just a basic salad daily. 

Eat it for 3 weeks in a row as an 8 year old and you might change your tune.  Maybe not, though.

[JustinCharge 2,397]

my dad served these very dark nuts whose name was 2 words and the last one was "toes".

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,247]

38 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

my dad served these very dark nuts whose name was 2 words and the last one was "toes".

Brazil nuts 

[wiffleball 4,788]

16 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Brazil nuts 

What do they call them in Brazil? 

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,247]

1 minute ago, wiffleball said:

What do they call them in Brazil? 

Ninja toes 

[Cloaca du jour 2,147]

Spekin if dem toes.  My parents had a nut dish with the metal stabby tools to open the shells.

[WhiteWonder 2,682]

19 hours ago, IGotWorms said:

I feel like the boomers didn’t really “do” appetizers.

I remember they were considered an extravagance at restaurants. We were solidly middle class so I don’t know if the upper middle class felt the same? But seemed like they weren’t very common in my teenage and young adult years.

At home, can’t really recall my parents ever serving appetizers. It was usually vegetable, starch and main entree. A salad if they were feeling fancy. Dessert and coffee if company

this. My family was upper middle class and I can't think of a single appetizer either of my parents ever made when I was younger. Feel like that generation was still more about casseroles and shit. Then again, neither of my parents are good cooks. Dinner at home was similar to you, veggie/starch/meat.. maybe fish.  Or we would order pizza or go out to eat. 

I guess appetizers were more of a larger family gathering/holiday thing and even then it was crackers and cheese, cheese and fruit plates, deviled eggs, etc

I picked up on deviled eggs and tuna salad from my great aunts. 

[WhiteWonder 2,682]

1 hour ago, JustinCharge said:

my dad served these very dark nuts

i bet he did

[wiffleball 4,788]

Mom had a rotating full contact bridge game 4-5 tables. Always tried to be fancyish.  Think: Scene from Sopranos wives party. 

My folks also played cards with the other Brothers and Wives once a month. Same thing. 

 Then the occasional holiday, football, etc shebang. 

We had to be GONE/Invisible. 

Got very good at filching food. I think basically, as long as we didn't get caught or take too much, and stayed the hell invisible and silent, she didn't care too much.

To this day, I can't even buy myself bridge mix without feeling too guilty to do so. I'm pretty sure my mom would have broken a few fingers if she ever caught me digging into those bowls.

 

[Drizzay 700]

Ritz crackers, cheese slices, and summer sausage is as fancy as we got.

[shorepatrol 1,870]

My aunt made bacon wrapped water chestnuts. RIP auntie Mel 

[TommyGavin 790]

14 hours ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Ninja toes 

[TommyGavin 790]

Wiff plays with his lil smokey all day long.