Mama Kat Thursday: Family Meal Memories
The Mama Kat blog writing prompt I've selected today is to, "Share my favorite home-cooked meals growing up." My growing up era was the 1960's and early 70's. We lived way out in the country in Indiana. We had a TV antenna, a septic system, a well for water, one rotary-dial phone and one television set. I say that to create the right setting before I explain that my favorite meals were, "oven meals." Mother prepared these "oven meals," because she had a propane gas stove fueled by 2 tall (50-inch) propane tanks sitting outside and if she was going to bake, she was going to make good economical use of that propane doing it! So, for example, if she was going to bake chicken in the oven, she'd also bake potatoes and a dessert, too. So, my two favorite "oven meals" were her baked chicken & meatloaf meals and the menu's looked something like this: In the oven: Baked chicken ( legs, thighs, wings & br...