When I was a kid we never had peanut butter in the house, but I like the crunchy version. In the Netherlands peanut butter is a big thing, my sister worked there for some years. The Dutch love this stuff (their eating habits are fairly weird for Germans, they love colored sugar sprinkles on their bread and fry everything in oil that walks, swims or flies... The Belgians are just like that).
My mom used to make a very American variation of Shepard's pie with tater tots instead of mashed potatoes, and it was one of my favorite dishes. It was her go-to for a quick easy meal- frozen mixed vegetables, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, and top it all with tater tots. She had a philosophy that there is no such thing as too much cheese either. We never ate a lot of hamburgers or hot dogs, but my parents were convinced that a dinner was not complete without meat. We had a big garden, so we tended to eat a lot of seasonal vegetables and fruit or homemade jarred goods.
Meatloaf and various pasta dishes were common for us as well as homemade potpies, taco Tuesday, potroast with potatoes, carrots, and onions. We also had homemade pizza. My mom believed there should always be some kind of dessert after dinner every day - she loved sweets and loved to bake 😁
Ich bin aus Deutschland und unsere typischen Gerichte waren: Gemüsesuppe Nudeln mit Tomatensoße/Nudelauflauf Pellkartoffeln mit Quark/sour creme Bratkartoffeln Kartoffelbrei/Salzkartoffeln mit Fleisch(zb Frikadellen)/Fisch und Kohlrabi/Karotten in weißer Soße Verschiedenes Gemüse in Tomatensoße und Reis Kohl-Hack-Kartoffeleintopf
I'm from California, and we ate a lot of the same meals as Deana's family, but we ALWAYS had some form of potato dish on the side. Meatloaf without mashed potatoes is almost sacrilegious! LOL
My personal all time favorite: potatoes with spinach and scrambled eggs. Even today I mix it all together, build a "wall" and then tear it down with the fork... Typically German? I don't know. But typically my family, I'd say xD
Deana's hair is luxurious and I adore how Phil is German, two countries adds much to the mix. Thanks for this film, I learned something plus thinking on simpler times was fun!
Growing up Hispanic in America we also very rarely ate out, maybe on Sundays after church. But I mostly had traditional Mexican food growing up; tacos, menudo, ceviche etc.
I am from central Germany (Hessen) and we had shepherds pie because we went to Ireland since I was little. I actually recently found out that it can only be called Shepherds pie if it is made with lamb meat. Otherwise it should be called Cottage pie (with pork/beef) .....also recently my parents took DNA heritage tests and we found out that my dad was 84% British/Scottish and my mum 34%...well, also they don't have any German percentage......that was so surprising. I always said I don't feel German...and it's true :O
Ahhh interesting! Yeah we want to take a DNA test. It would be interesting to see. We know some people who took them thinking they're be one thing and it didn't turn out as they expected. 😅
@@DeanaandPhil Pies are more common on the American continent than in Europe (I had a fantastic meat pie in the market-hall of Ottawa/Canada, also my host family in Sao Paulo/Brasil made a delicious chicken pie. In the USA you see them often also sweet or with fruits inside.
I grew up in the South, so we ate a lot of southern food. My mom’s paternal relatives were from Louisiana, so lots of rice. My Mom’s maternal relatives were of German descent… and from up north. So I have an appreciation for sauerkraut, and sauer brat. My kids and husband won’t touch the stuff. My dad left when I was 5, but his mom was Cuban, and he taught my mom how to make black beans and picadillo. So I grew up with a lot of different things that we ate.
As an American, we ate exactly the same things! And we never went out to eat either. The only time I remember going to a fast food restaurant was when we were on a road trip and a sit down restaurant was only for birthdays haha!
I don’t remember a whole lot of the meals but my favorite was a bastardized version of stroganoff. Both my parents were midwestern and weren’t the best of cooks so I remember a lot of canned veggies, ground beef, and boxed Mac and cheese.
Shepard's pie precooked ground lamb with veg topped with potato mash and done in the oven. We had that every week in Australia growing up in the 60's and 70's.
Im from Tennessee pretty much same foods as Deana but we ate pinto beans, potatoes ,and cornbread usually with fresh garden raised sliced tomatoes and onions pretty much whatever vegetables were in season
Bobby Hood Tennessee here too! We never had most of those, but meat loaf, never with pork in it. Lol we had tons of tons potatoes, pintos, and garden vegetables! Special occasions we did have homemade pizzas! And never tuna! Yuck sorry. And homemade ice cream in the summer once in a while! We eat out on sundays after church maybe once a month.
Bei uns gab es in meiner Kindheit mittags warmes Essen. Hab dann mit meiner Mama gegessen und Papa hat es sich abends aufgewärmt. Aber jetzt, wo ich arbeite, koche ich logischerweise erst abends und hätte ich eine Familie, würde ich das auch so beibehalten.
I am from northern Germany. As a child we ate a lot of East Prussian dishes, like Königsberger Klopse, because my grandparents were from East Prussia. Today I try to cook the dishes, my children love them
In The Netherlands about every kid is raised on peanut butter sandwiches either on white or dark bread. But not peanut butter and jelly though. We actually have been living in Austria for almost 10 years, and still buy our Dutch peanut butter (Pindakaas) so we can eat it here....LOL.
Hi I am very interested in the " shepherd pie" or something else.Maybe you can cook it ...and let us see how its done... However nice to watch your video...every single time.👍
Deana definitely grew up in a healthier US household lol. A veggie for my family was canned green beans lol. For dinner - we did a lot of corn & potatoes as sides. We had meatloaf a lot, served always with mashed potatoes & probs corn. Spaghetti (red sauce), lasagna, roast beef with potatoes, occasionally we'd have hot dogs (sometimes boiled and sometimes grilled). We had taco night often. A treat was when dad grilled pork chops or STEAK served with potatoes that we made by making aluminum foil pouches, chopping the potatoes with onions & bell peppers & putting a big slab of butter in the foil pouch. then grilling that pouch with the steaks. so good but so fat. We weren't a family that ordered pizza, but i think lots of families do that. For lunches, yeah we'd make a pb&j sandwich with CHIPS, no veggie or fruit slices lol. for lunches we'd also make a lot of frozen pizzas & those frozen kids cuisines & single serving Velveeta mac n cheese microwave cups lol. oh & ramen noodles! Breakfast (healthy) was cereal lol. but we hated cheerios. we liked cocoa puffs, fruity pebbles, cinnamon toast crunch. Other breakfast items were pop-tarts & sometimes toast with butter & cinnamon & sugar sprinkled on it.. omg it's a miracle we weren't fat kids! We loved toaster strudels & toaster scrambles. Our weekend breakfasts were the same as yours - pancakes, bacon/sausage patties, & eggs. I'm hungry now.
Carbonara or Bolognese? I like both, but it depends on the time I have. Carbonara is made really quick where Ragu Bolognese takes about 4 hours to cook.
I grew up eating lots of grilled bratwurst, BBQ (I'm from Kansas City), apple cake, meatloaf, crockpot chili, American goulash, mac and cheese, pizza, blackened chicken, red beans & rice, biscuits & gravy, and cabbage rolls. Also, the only times I really like potato chips is with a PB&J, just a weird meal given to me as a child in the USA. Stuff like that.
I'm a bit older than you two, but my favorite school lunch was a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Something about a brown paper bag and a few of hours in a locker, The honey would crystalize into the bread. An apple and a carton of milk. Perfection. Deana's other meals sound extremely familiar, but we did a lot of salads, carrot and celery sticks and olives.
In my family we never cooked fresh Lasagne (or even frozen, if I think of it). Then we found this recipe for Zucchini, courgettes as we had so many in our vegetable garden, and it took me years to find out it was basically Lasagne, just sliced courgette instead of pasta.
Growing up in Canada (living in US now) it was cereal for breakfast, weekend breakfast would be bacon or sausages, eggs, pancakes. Took sandwiches for school lunch. Supper could be chili, meat and potatoes, pork chops, pasta, meatloaf. Also being of Ukrainian descent, we would often have perogies too and Ukrainian food food holidays.
For lunch, PB&J sandwich was most common, but not every day. Other options were tuna, or baloney or other lunch meat, maybe egg salad. But yeah, sandwiches. California here. Hamburgers and hot dogs are special food for summer weekends and holidays.
I would say Italian, Mexican & Chinese foods were always extremely popular choices growing up here in the US. I would say Vietnamese food is now becoming very popular here as well thanks to Pho especially. I come from a multicultural background, so I ate a combo of stereotypical American foods, German food and Armenian & other Middle Eastern foods (from Lebanon especially) growing up. I definitely ate the culturally specific foods more when I was at my grandparents houses though, so I loaded up on traditional German and Armenian food during my visits to my grandparents on either side of my family. Like Deana, my family was also all about the “health” food cereal & no soda was allowed at home, so I drank water & juice. We didn’t really have dessert unless we randomly had ice cream for a treat. I really feel like the only stereotypical American foods I ate were things I didn’t previously identify as such, like peanut butter. I can’t live without my various nut butters! Almond, cashew, peanut, etc. Bacon and fried eggs or scrambled eggs are always delicious but I certainly don’t eat them daily.
Peanut butter is actually really popular in the Netherlands. But as a far as i know, we don't really combine it with jelly/jam, we do sometimes combine it with hotsauce, chocolate sprinkles or banana slices. I'm from an International household, my mom is Indonesian. I grew up on Indonesian food like Nasi Goreng and Satay, Dutch food like Stampot and ofcourse the ocasional pasta or pizza. When i cook i mostly cook Korean, Tex-Mex, Indonesian or pasta. While i do like pasta with carbonara sauce, nothing beats a spicy tomato sauce (though i mostly make pasta with boursin cuisine, spinach and tuna or salmon).
Growing up we also never had deserts, except at Easter and Thanksgiving. BUT! My mother baked all the time. There was always cake, cookies or pies in the kitchen. I had two favorite Saturday morning cartoons breakfasts. Either Saltine crackers with a massive dollop of peanut butter, layered at least four high or cold, leftover apple pie. Yum! We too shared Sunday breakfasts as a family at the table. My father was always in charge of the eggs and pancakes. My mother was in charge of the fried ham or sausages and the fried potatoes- often with onions. We kids were in charge of preparing fruit. Quite often cantaloupe (all year round - this was Southern California), which we would slice into thin pieces and then cut off the rind. Mouth watering breakfasts!
A special Sunday dinner was roast chicken stuffed with apple slices and prunes (we kids would fight for the last prunes!) rather than a bread stuffing; there was always gravy. Sometimes we’d have red cabbage and potato dumplings (from the Panni mix). Other times it was whatever vegetable was on sale that week with mashed potatoes, or very rarely rice. We never made the chicken with veg and potatoes baked in one pan as pictured when Deana described their roast dinners.
I read somewhere that an American has like 5,000 pb&j's by the time they finish high school. Sounded high to me until I really thought about, and ehh, yea doesn't sound that far off 😂
Big fat dinners are why most Americans are obsessed! You intake so many calories at night prior to sleep! Most Europeans have big lunches and small dinner bites! That gives you so much room and time to burn more calories! Anyhow walking down the city streets in America and Europe you can tell there is an extreme difference! Plus most Americans don't WALK anywhere, they are always in their cars!
From new jersey, USA we ate all the foods Deana mentioned. We are an American German family so we would have schnitzel, sauerbraten or brats, and we definitely were influenced by living so close to new York that there were lots of Italian cuisine like chicken parm, eggplant rollatini and pizza of course. We had lots of grilled chicken with corn on the cob and we had cheeseburgers in the summer a couple times definitely not all the time though.
This going to be REALLY long. My father grew up in the US on both the east and west coasts, my mother is southern. They lived in England for a few years. We lived for three years in the southwest, then we were raised in Hawai'i. My dad was a foodie before the term existed. So, regular, weekday, dinner dishes: *Slumgullion, a.k.a. Johnny Marzetti (browned ground beef, then add chopped: onion, green bell pepper, celery; add cooked macaroni, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes), served with cornbread. *Chop steak (stir fry steak, vegetables) with rice, salad *Swiss Steak (onions, mushroom sauce), mashed potatoes, peas, salad *Creamed chicken, rice, corn, broccoli, cheese sauce, salad *Sauerkraut and spareribs (county style ribs, not actual spare ribs), mashed potatoes, peas *Pork chops, fried potatoes with onions, beans, spinach, corn bread, sometimes scrambled eggs, applesauce *Shoyu chicken, rice, salad *Fried round steak, boiled potatoes w/au jus, vegetables, bread and butter *Fried chicken gizzards, hearts, and livers, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, salad *SOS (creamed minced beef on toast) *Fried rice, vegetables, kim chee *Tempura shrimp, vegetables, Japanese pickles *Chow fun (Hawaiian style, Sun Noodles) *Tacos, fixings, Mexican rice *Lasagne, bread, salad *Chili, rice, crackers *BELT sandwiches (bacon, egg, lettuce and tomato) *Luau pork, rice, vegetables, etc. *Ham, scalloped potatoes, spinach, sliced onion, rye bread, salad *Adobo, rice, salad If in a hurry: *Boiled hotdogs (yuck) *Cream of asparagus on toast *Scrambled egg sandwiches *Denver Omelette *Saimin, fried SPAM *Breakfast foods (cooked) Weekends, Sundays, seasonal, occasional: *Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, potatoes, green beans...sometimes homemade ice cream *Pork roast, scalopped potatoes, green vegetables, rolls, applesauce *Spaghetti Bolognese, garlic bread *New England Clam Chowder *Fried chicken, cold potato salad or hot German potato salad, deviled eggs, watermelon *Grilled steak, sometimes lobster (my dad had a diving business), salad *Teriyaki, fried wonton, rice, vegetables *Rainbow Trout, lemon, potatoes, frenched green beans, salad *Catfish, hushpuppies, french fries, frenched green beans, salad, watermelon *Veal cutlets, potatoes, vegetables, salad *Ahi poke, rice *Goose, turkey, duck, squab--feast/holidays *Huli-huli chicken *Luau: Kalua pig, luau leaf, rice, fresh pineapple, poi, long rice, more... English Tea (after Sunday's nap 😁). Lunches (besides school lunch): *Grilled cheese, tomato soup *PB&J (peanut butter & jam, usually blackberry) *Tuna salad sandwiches *egg salad sandwiches *Tomato sandwiches Weekday Breakfast: *Cold cereals *Oatmeal *Cream of Wheat *Rice Weekend/Sunday Breakfasts; Any combination of the following: *Pancakes *Waffles *French toast *English muffins *Fried potatoes and onion *Hash browns *Rice *Linguica *Bacon *Fried SPAM *Sausage, link or patty *Eggs: *soft boiled *poached on toast *over easy *scrambled *Denver omelette *Fried rice omelette *Corned beef hash and eggs * Fresh fruit (could be any time): grapefruit, bananas (apple banana for preference), guava, strawberry guava, pineapple, leitchi nut, lilikoi, orange, loquat, black fig, kumquat, mango, papaya--whatever was in season or grew in the yard, ours or neighbor's (we all shared). I really miss this. And juice--POG (passiofruit-orange-guava). When, on the mainland, kids had milk time and maybe cookies (schools used to offer a mid-morning snack), we had guava juice and poi. Yum. If I could have, I would have traded poi for cookies, though. Me, when I lived in Hawai'i, for/at any meal: kim chee, rice, linguica (Portuguese sausage), tomatoes at lunch or dinner, eggs at breakfast. Also, a good potato-mac salad goes with any lunch or dinner. Desserts: special occasions *Devil's Food cake *Angelfood cake *Fried hand pies *PIES!--cherry, apple, peach, pecan, custard, blackberry, chocolate, banana cream *cheesecake (with graham cracker/chopped macadamia nut crust. Anytime (store bought): *Chocolate dobosh cake, or ANY dobosh cake *Dream Cake Snacks/hors d'oeuvres: fried wonton, raw beef, mochi crunch (mixed arare), crack seed (li hing mui--seasoned dried/wet plums, lemon peel
OMG someone who knows what Johnny Mazetti is!!!! It's like lasagna but not with lasagna pasta. We used elbow pasta. The cheese was cheddar, longhorn and lots of it. Its kinda like chili but not spicy.
I love it with carrots and peas added to the minced meat and gravy. Topped with homemade potato puree(with butter, nutmeg and milk).My sister makes it with grated cheese on top, I prefer just egg yolk on the puree, makes it brown nicely but not too heavy. With cheese I get stomach pain :P
shepherds pie = minced lamb. cottage pie = minced beef. same thing different meats put extra butter in the mashed potatoes and extra gravy in the meat before you bake it
Shepherd's pie is so delicious. It's also versatile. I've had bad ones but it's so easy to customize to preferences. It also freezes well for those like myself that like to make extra for the freezer for easy dinners on busy days. It's definitely comfort food and does sit heavy. Never met a kid who didnt like it either so it's a great way to get kids to eat a variety of veggies. It's also easily made vegan as well
My TOP German Childhood Meals Spaghetti Bolognese (Miracoli!) Frikadellen with some vegetable (like cauliflower or creamed kohlrabi) and potatoes Chili con Carne (of course with kidney beans and corn from the can) with rice Fridays always Fish: As a small child fish fingers with mashed potatoes and peas, later fried whitefish with a vegetable and potatoes (mashed, fried, cooked or as salad) and even later pasta with salmon and spinach Sundays: Something that takes along time - like Rouladen with red cabbage
that's an interesting topic. I´m from the western of germany an we had a lot of varieties of dishes during my childhood. in our Family was the lunchtime the most improtant meal, because my Dad worked as a chef in a Restaurant and to got to work after lunch. We ate pasta in different ways (with Ragu, or Carbonara), Soup (Vegetable Soup, or stew with lentils or white beans), Sunday roast, roasted Chicken with Salad, Porkchops with Potatoes, Grünkohl (sorry, I don't know the englisch name of this) with Potatoes and Sausages.. for Dinner we usually had Bread with Ham, Jam or Cheese (German Abendbrot)or leftovers.
I'm Dutch and grew up on PBJ -- and PBS, peanutbutter and sambal bajak (I have Indonesian heritage) or PBA peanutbutter and appelstroop (Apfelkraut/Apple syrup) -- in the early 70's. Also, pancakes here are more of a lunch and dinner time thing and unlike American pancakes they are not fluffy and roughly the size a medium-sized pizza, so no stacks of those!
@@DeanaandPhil They are actually really good! I must say the PB here (Calve brand) is far less sweet so that may help the taste. But it's somewhat reminiscent of Indonesian/Malaysian peanut satay sauce.
Sir Swede It is a common misconception/old wives’ tale about Alfredo not being Italian. There is a famous restaurant in Rome that is the creator of linguine Alfredo. It became popular with American film stars and definitely became associated over time with America rather than Italy (and didn’t take off worldwide either). But it’s a dish created in Rome by a Roman chef. If curious, the restaurant is called Ristorante Alfredo. It’s on Piazza Augusto Imperatore.
I’m born and raised in California. My meals growing up was chicken with mashed potatoes, salads, homemade tacos, Mexican rice & beans, pasta, pizza, meatloaf, homemade chicken vegetable soup, other Mexican food, steamed or sautéed vegetables. In the summer my dad would grill on the barbecue, steak, chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs and we would have homemade potato or pasta salad. Never had dessert much, only planned dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We would have Chinese takeout on Friday evenings.
I don't like steamed vegetables. I grew up in Switzerland with a greek father. So we used a lot of olive oil (broccoli for example). Hot dogs are very different here, they aren't sliced in half. It's just a slim sausage (called "Wienerli") in a baguette. People would make a hole with a strowel handle and then you put mustard, ketchup and the sausage in to the hole. It was very popular for children's birthdays or as a breakfast at school before the holidays.
American, here. For dinner, we would typically have some sort of pork dish with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable. On the weekends, though, we might order pizza.
When I was younger I had alot of German cook meals till 2000 when we moved to USA, and then my step-mom made alot of hamburger helpers. When my dad cook it was German infused into the American dishes of either chicken pork or beef, with green veggies, potatoes of short (diced mashed or sliced). I loved the days my dad would make Bratwurst with Sauerkraut topped with mustard 😁
Both of my parents grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and I lived there as an adult for 12 non-consecutive years. I ate a lot of toasted ravioli and I enjoyed gooey butter cake at other people's houses or at potlucks 😁.
I grew up in Indiana. For breakfast we would have poptarts, or cereal, or toaster strudles (things like that). For lunch we would have grilled cheese, pb and J, breaded tenderloins with fries. For dinner we would have taco, spaghetti bolognese, homemade pizza, some kind of fried meat (cube steak was one of my faves), and no matter what the dinner was we almost always had with it 1 potato side (mashed, fried, browned in butter, baked, fries), one vegetable (corn, green beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower), and one extra side like chicken and noodles, chicken rice, normally one of those packaged side dishes they sell in stores like that. We almost never had dessert, but later on like 3-5 hours after dinner we would have popcorn, fruit, or something like that while we watched tv together. (I was raised by my grandma though so thats it was probably a bit different for others my age)
I grew up in Mecklenburg. Depending in where we ate ( At Home ort At my grandparents place) we had a Lot of diffrent, but typical german meals. Nearly all the Times we had potato-based meals, for example cooked peas and carrots (mischgemüse) and Schnitzel or Kotelett. Senfei (mustard egg) was and still is one of my favourites. We offen had the east-germany (and truly right) Version of jägerschnitzel ( thick panned jagdwurst slices) withe noodels and tomatosauce. On sundays or at my grandparents we always had the fency meals. Braten ( roasted duck, rabbit or wild meat) withe Knödel and Rotkohl (cooked red cabbage) We also had fish, nearly once or twice a week ( we live near a lake, a professional fisherman was our neighbour and Half of my Family where Hobby fisherman) we also ate very healthy. (Most of the time) we lived in a farm, my grandparents, Who also lived Therese had a gute garden with lotsen of vegetables and fruit trees. Basicly we normal gad german meals. Later that changed a bit (After the "Mauerfall") we ate nice and noodles Moore often but that where the fancy food optional. Today, when I cool for myself I cool the nostalgic meals from my childhood as well as various dishes from diffrent cultures. I really like to Experiment in the kitchen but I am glad I learnt to cook from my mum and my grandma (because grandmas coocking is the best) ^.^
We only had meat on Sunday ...roasted chicken or fish or schnitzel or rouladen or sauerbraten or kohlrouladen or hackbraten or koenigsberger klopse or gulash or rinderbraten...was always a special meal...with a set table (tablecloth and plates and cutlery layed out perfectly).coldcuts and cheese during the week for dinner and broetchen on Saturday with cheese and gekochtem schinken 🙂
I am from Germany and as a child I loved to eat peanut butter and jam on a slice of bread. It is still one of my favorites especially the crunchy peanut butter.
I have to say I highly disagree that all cereal is unhealthy. Cereal and milk are a basic standard breakfast nationwide, and not necessarily the sugar bomb ones. Never knew any household that served quiche, even to this day. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, baked chicken and roasted potatoes, fried fresh halibut with streamed broccoli, meatball stew, polish sausage with mac & cheese, spaghetti w/meat sauce, grilled tri-tip & beans, enchiladas and Spanish rice. Dessert was a nightly thing, either ice cream, jello cake, or just cookies and milk. I don't think I ate out until I was a teenager.
I come from the USA near Chicago, IL and fast food was only eaten very occasionally. We had homemade meals the majority of the time. Breakfast was eggs, toast or cereal. Lunch sandwiches either PBJ or deli meat and sometimes with a bowl of soup. Dinners were the main meal as Deanna said. Meat loaf, steak, pork chops, chicken and the sides were potatoes and a vegetable or salad. Also a lot of casseroles and pasta dishes especially spaghetti or frozen pizza. Your channel is so much fun thanks.
My childhood meals are almost identical to what you listed! I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a St. Louis parent and a Missouri-farmer-moved-to-St.-Louis parent.😃
I still to this day eat peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches and bacon for breakfast; with scrambled eggs and coffee or hot cholocate. But only on the weekends. At school my mum always made me some sort of sandwich and added either veg or fruit and some sort of cereal bar. Since both my parents were working I was in charge of lunch during the week. It mostly consisted of either pre cooked dishes I heated up or microwave dishes from BoFrost. Dinner was the big event where my parents cooked and stuff.
In my Family we have Quiche from time to time (probably because I am half french...), Lasagna too and Shepherd's pie too, although I know it as Hachi parmentier Also, the most important meal for me is dinner, but I know a lot of people (friends and family) whose hot meal is Lunch
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I'm from GA/AL, and a lot of what Deana had was similar to what we ate. We had a lot of the Italian dishes often (lasagna, pasta, etc.), but we also had a lot of stuff that she didn't list. We at Beef Stroganoff, mashed potatoes and some meat and veggies, and chili really often. My dad was a single father working two jobs for most of our growing up years, so we had to have stuff that could be cooked with little attention and was good for leftovers. Breakfast wasn't really anything special. We did whatever we wanted during school weeks, and sometimes on weekends my dad would do fried spam and egg sandwiches. At my grandparents' house we at a lot more stuff from the garden or "traditional" foods like black eyed peas and cornbread, raw onions, tomato and cucumber.
I had quiche and lasagna (but when I was a kid (80s West Germany) these would be rather special meals for occasions, similarly for homemade pizza. Meat loaf or roast chicken is/was fairly normal, too. Never had sheperd's pie but it sounds interesting. As a kid it was Bolognese only or plain tomato sauce, but nowadays I prefer Carbonara because it is so quickly done (although I use standard smoked streaked bacon as pancetta or these other special italian bacon varieties are too hard to find. Don't much like tuna on a pizza either but I like cream based pasta sauce with tuna and capers (vaguely similar to the vitello tonnato sauce but not cold and not quite as rich) which can also be done within the time the water and pasta takes to cook.
The only thing we have often in my house in California that Deana mentioned was pasta, but it's almost never alfredo. Meatloaf is rare, but I make it with turkey, we hardly ever eat pork or beef. Never ever roast chickens. Definitely all over the place as far as international foods though. We eat a lot of Japanese, Chinese, and Italian inspired dishes (as adults with our own children). Sometimes we might have burgers or hot dogs if we want a really easy dinner. I ate completely different as a kid though, super picky. Going to restaurants happens around once a week or so for us now.
My stepfather didn't have the most extensive palette. My mom rarely branched out, and pretty much kept to the same 10ish meals on rotation (same meat/veg every time it was made). The only time I ate something different was when I either ate at a friends house, or when I went away to boarding school for high school. We rarely ate fast food (maybe 1x a month) or went out to eat (well I didn't but my parents did). We ordered pizza 1x a month probably, and that was when we had my older step siblings over. I left home at 18 and pretty much became a foodie and started to have an extensive palette (and my kids have been exposed to foods of all sorts - especially international foods).
Growing up we had a mix of things...my mom wasn't really the best cook in the world but she did make simple dinners almost every night. we moved around a lot since my dad was military so there was influence from local foods as well that my mom often included. mostly she liked to make tacos/burritos, asian inspired stir fry dishes, meat/potato dishes with onions, salmon patties, meatloaf, goulash, pastas and southern style things like beans and cornbread. as I got older I started cooking more and brought in some newer ideas and recipes mostly Asian inspired since i've always loved Asian foods then fancier items as learned more about culinary arts. desserts weren't a thing in our house we had snacks sometimes like ice cream or crackers and i'd do a lot of baking but as a family we didn't have it.
I'm from Switzerland. Breakfast was and still is just plain bread for me (without butter or jam). When I still went to school I ate lunch at home. We cooked "Spätzle", Omeletten and Toast Hawaii" every week for lunch. Once a week I ate at the school (so expensive). Our main meal was in the evening. We often made homemade Pizza or Raclette for dinner on Saturday. Sundays we made the classic "Sonntagsbraten" with mashed potatoes. We also made filled tomatoes and other greek dishes (greek father). I had Lasagne, Cheesecake quiche (salty), Risotto with Piccata, Bratwurst with Pasta, Chicken with Spaghetti, or Chicken with potatoes and carrots. We had a "Schrebergarten" (a garden you can rent), so we had our own potatoes and made french fries out of them. We had so many berries, so my mother made a lot of jam for herself.
Peanut butter and jelly toasts/ bread was definitely normal for me growing up in Germany. Then again I used to eat lots of weird food. Examples: - Spaghetti Bolognese with potato chips for crispiness. - Rice with soy sauce and fried onions - yum yum noodles, uncooked mixed with the spices. Basically broke student foods Team Bolognese!
Hi growing up in Aussie meals very similar to Deana family, Spaghetti , Meat loaf, Shepard's pie, Stews lots of vegetables, Friday night takeaway, Saturday BBQ or take care of yourself and Sunday was a roast. For me getting the ingredients and preparing a meal at home is a win.
The talk about hamburgers and hot dogs reminded me that we typically would only eat those for like Memorial Day or 4th of July if we had a cookout... and *that* made me wonder about the different typical meals between Germany and America for their respective (and sometimes in-common) holidays. That might be a fun video! Apologies if there already is one...haha
Coming from Texas, I had some of the same dishes, but I really remember the TexMex dishes we made at home frequently. Stuffed jalapenos', fajita's, tacos, green chili enchilada's. Definitely had our meatloafs and pasta's as well. More beef then pork (coming from Texas), but we did have pork chops on occasion. Sides depended on the meal, but almost always a green vegetable and/or a potato. Enjoying your channel very much. Keep up the good work! My wife and I are moving to Germany in a few weeks.... things are going to be interesting!
The top ten in our household when i was growing up Was !. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and greens peas, 2. Lasagna 3.Beef Pot Roast, mashed potatoes , Carrots cooked in the pot with the roast. 4. Pork chops in gravy with rice and string beans.5.Cheese Burgers with caramelized onions, double dipped deep fried french fries, 6. Kielbasi, sauerkraut, boiled potatoes with dill and butter and cabbage, 7.Home made Macaroni and cheese, 8. Fish either Cod or Salmon fried,poached,broiled, fish and chips or mashed potatoes we ate a whole lot of fresh fish.9.Roasted whole chicken with escalloped potatoes and string beans, 10.Grilled Cheese sandwiches and home made soups and chowders. All of this was made from scratch not from a box or frozen. Now as i am older i eat healthier and still have some of these childhood regulars but eating like that will hurt you. Now i crave better food and love a great complex salad and most nights hardly any meat or chicken.
I am considerably older than Deana, but our breakfasts were similar. Unlike Deana, I liked shreded wheat. Our main meal was the evening meal, even if we called it 'supper' rather than dinner.
I am from Germany and was 1973 in Chicago and helped in school to feed the kids.......and the lunch was white bread, with salat and some meat, the teacher said is nutrisches and healthy.....me OMG, they are kidding.....soft white bread is NOT healthy!!!!
I grew up in South Africa and our common dinners were... Beef stroganoff Lamb saddle chops with chips Leg of lamb, roasted taters Spaghetti bolognese Roast chicken w rice pilaf Bredie (beef stew) Samp and beans Mutton curry Roast, spud, 2 veg Shepherds pie Moussaka Bobotie (spicey ground beef casserole topped with custard and served with yellow rice) Peri peri chicken Braai (grilled meats) Stuffed peppers with rice Bucket of Kentucky
Quiche is actually a Franco German food. The word quiche has German roots. Italians don't know what Alfredo is they dont eat pasta with cream sauce. It's named after the Italian American chef who invented it. Just like Caesar salad is named after the Mexican American chef who invented it.
Fettuccine Alfredo IS, in fact, Italian. It was named after Alfredo di Lelio (NOT American), who served it in his restaurant in Rome starting in the early 20th century. Now, it might not be as popular today in Italy as it is in the US, but is 100% authentic Italian food.
I grew up with Shepard’s Pie in the U.S. but I always had it topped with TATER TOTS. Using mashed potatoes was not something I ever heard about until wayyy later and it is SO WRONG TO ME. GIVE IT SOME CRUNCH MAN.
Phil , it's just Burgers, NOT Hamburgers ! There is NO Ham in those Ground Beef Patties !! Just Ground Beef ! Hamburg Steak originated in Hamburg , Germany , is a Thick Ground Beef Patty mixed with chopped onions , cooked and then topped with a Brown Mushroom Gravy and served with mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans on the side. Also known as a Salisbury Steak in the U.S. !!!
Do you make any of the meals we mentioned? Let us know what type of dishes you make at home and where you're from! 😍
I don't cook but my parents make most of these. But I don't like quiche and meatloaf really isn't a big thing in UK.
When I was a kid we never had peanut butter in the house, but I like the crunchy version. In the Netherlands peanut butter is a big thing, my sister worked there for some years. The Dutch love this stuff (their eating habits are fairly weird for Germans, they love colored sugar sprinkles on their bread and fry everything in oil that walks, swims or flies... The Belgians are just like that).
My mom used to make a very American variation of Shepard's pie with tater tots instead of mashed potatoes, and it was one of my favorite dishes. It was her go-to for a quick easy meal- frozen mixed vegetables, ground beef, cream of mushroom soup, and top it all with tater tots. She had a philosophy that there is no such thing as too much cheese either.
We never ate a lot of hamburgers or hot dogs, but my parents were convinced that a dinner was not complete without meat. We had a big garden, so we tended to eat a lot of seasonal vegetables and fruit or homemade jarred goods.
Meatloaf and various pasta dishes were common for us as well as homemade potpies, taco Tuesday, potroast with potatoes, carrots, and onions. We also had homemade pizza. My mom believed there should always be some kind of dessert after dinner every day - she loved sweets and loved to bake 😁
Ich bin aus Deutschland und unsere typischen Gerichte waren:
Gemüsesuppe
Nudeln mit Tomatensoße/Nudelauflauf
Pellkartoffeln mit Quark/sour creme
Bratkartoffeln
Kartoffelbrei/Salzkartoffeln mit Fleisch(zb Frikadellen)/Fisch und Kohlrabi/Karotten in weißer Soße
Verschiedenes Gemüse in Tomatensoße und Reis
Kohl-Hack-Kartoffeleintopf
I'm from California, and we ate a lot of the same meals as Deana's family, but we ALWAYS had some form of potato dish on the side. Meatloaf without mashed potatoes is almost sacrilegious! LOL
So it's compatible to people with tooth problems
My personal all time favorite: potatoes with spinach and scrambled eggs.
Even today I mix it all together, build a "wall" and then tear it down with the fork...
Typically German? I don't know. But typically my family, I'd say xD
It's one of the best "basic meals" indeed. And mashing is a must!
Meine Eltern leben wirklich nach dem deutschen Sprichwort: Esse Morgens wie ein Kaiser, Mittags wie ein König, Abends wie ein Bettler.
Ich dachte immer: Morgens wie ein König, Mittags wie ein Bauer/Bürger und Abends wie ein Bettler.
Aber eigentlich ist es ja der gleiche Spruch😂🤣
english please
Sven Fleitmann in English it means: eat in the morning like a Emperor, midday like a king and in the evening like a beggar.
I do the opposite.. upsi
ich auch :D
Deana's hair is luxurious and I adore how Phil is German, two countries adds much to the mix.
Thanks for this film, I learned something plus thinking on simpler times was fun!
Growing up Hispanic in America we also very rarely ate out, maybe on Sundays after church. But I mostly had traditional Mexican food growing up; tacos, menudo, ceviche etc.
Crazy! In Germany that is rare...😅 Cevapcici Game from slavia.... Jugoslawia, my husband is from this Lokation... so i knew about it later.....
I had peanut-butter-jelly sandwich when i was 25 (in the USA!) and it was a revolution to my taste buds!
Did you like it or was it gross?
Try adding bacon also... ☺
I'm from Switzerland and when we were young we also only had the warm meal at lunchtime and usually cold food at dinner but nowadays not anymore
Same here.
I am from central Germany (Hessen) and we had shepherds pie because we went to Ireland since I was little. I actually recently found out that it can only be called Shepherds pie if it is made with lamb meat. Otherwise it should be called Cottage pie (with pork/beef) .....also recently my parents took DNA heritage tests and we found out that my dad was 84% British/Scottish and my mum 34%...well, also they don't have any German percentage......that was so surprising. I always said I don't feel German...and it's true :O
Ahhh interesting! Yeah we want to take a DNA test. It would be interesting to see. We know some people who took them thinking they're be one thing and it didn't turn out as they expected. 😅
@@DeanaandPhil Pies are more common on the American continent than in Europe (I had a fantastic meat pie in the market-hall of Ottawa/Canada, also my host family in Sao Paulo/Brasil made a delicious chicken pie. In the USA you see them often also sweet or with fruits inside.
Jan Pracht (from Texas) We would eat a lot of meat pies in my home growing up.
I'm a SHEPHERD. Does that make me a pie?
@staircase2 we did, too :D
I grew up in the South, so we ate a lot of southern food. My mom’s paternal relatives were from Louisiana, so lots of rice. My
Mom’s maternal relatives were of German descent… and from up north. So I have an appreciation for sauerkraut, and sauer brat. My kids and husband won’t touch the stuff. My dad left when I was 5, but his mom was Cuban, and he taught my mom how to make black beans and picadillo. So I grew up with a lot of different things that we ate.
As an American, we ate exactly the same things! And we never went out to eat either. The only time I remember going to a fast food restaurant was when we were on a road trip and a sit down restaurant was only for birthdays haha!
I don’t remember a whole lot of the meals but my favorite was a bastardized version of stroganoff. Both my parents were midwestern and weren’t the best of cooks so I remember a lot of canned veggies, ground beef, and boxed Mac and cheese.
"NO CEREAL IS HEALTH!" Keep dropping these truth bombs! I love it
@Graham, King of the Britons! 1 Bowl Muesli (100g) with low fat milk: ca 500 kcal. Same like 2 bake rolls.
Haha I feel so french here 😂
We kinda always had a big lunch AND a big dinner ! (Fun fact : growing up I tend to eat smaller lunches, no dessert,...
Lol I love watching you guys, I've been subscribed since 8k followers, really hope your channel continue to grow ♥️🙌🏽
Ahhh glad you're still here! Thanks for sticking with us for so long! 🤗💜
Shepard's pie precooked ground lamb with veg topped with potato mash and done in the oven. We had that every week in Australia growing up in the 60's and 70's.
Yep, cottage pie is made with ground beef.
Im from Tennessee pretty much same foods as Deana but we ate pinto beans, potatoes ,and cornbread usually with fresh garden raised sliced tomatoes and onions pretty much whatever vegetables were in season
Bobby Hood Tennessee here too! We never had most of those, but meat loaf, never with pork in it. Lol we had tons of tons potatoes, pintos, and garden vegetables! Special occasions we did have homemade pizzas! And never tuna! Yuck sorry. And homemade ice cream in the summer once in a while! We eat out on sundays after church maybe once a month.
i‘m from switzerland and i would say our lunches were the most important meal. We would often eat bread or just some cold dishes for dinner
Bei uns gab es meistens auch Abends erst das warme Essen. Aber oft ganz verschieden.
Bei uns gab es mittags warmes Essen... bis meine Mutter einen Volltagsjob bekam, dann wurde auch erst abends gekocht.
Mein Vadder war bei der StOV und es gab Essen wenn er nach Hause kam, spät nachmittags oder Abends
Bei uns gab es in meiner Kindheit mittags warmes Essen. Hab dann mit meiner Mama gegessen und Papa hat es sich abends aufgewärmt. Aber jetzt, wo ich arbeite, koche ich logischerweise erst abends und hätte ich eine Familie, würde ich das auch so beibehalten.
Bei uns werktags abends. Schulspeisung war billig und schlecht. Da aß ich mittags lieber ein belegtes Brot
I'm American and my Austrian husband introduced me to pizza with tuna. It is so good!
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Ich hab Erdnussbutter mit Marmelade IMMER gegessen als Kind, war mein Lieblingsessen
Yum!! 😍
Wie alt bist du denn? Seit 15-20 Jahren ist das in Deutschland nun ja auch bekannt, aber damals in den 90'ern wusste keine Sau damit was anzufangen.
Mit Aprikosenmarmelade😍 besteee
@@MickeyKnox Das wüsste ich auch gerne. Peanutbutter war gar nicht bekannt bei uns 🤷♀️
Ich bin sechzig und Erdnussbutter kannte ich als Berliner Kind auch schon, aber nicht mit Marmelade
Deana, maybe you and Phil could make quiche sometime to see how he likes it? It sounds like maybe he hasn’t tried a good quiche?
"Healthy" food.
All food is healthy. Because without food you die.
I love quiche, actually.
Quiche is a breakfast thing in my household. Also I’m German and when I was a child in Heidelberg we would have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...
I definitely grew up on all of the meals you mentioned but I have to say the Shepherd's Pie is my number one favorite!!
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Pizza with tuna, lots of onions, chilli peppers and cheese is second best after pizza Hawaii. :-D
I am from northern Germany. As a child we ate a lot of East Prussian dishes, like Königsberger Klopse, because my grandparents were from East Prussia. Today I try to cook the dishes, my children love them
In The Netherlands about every kid is raised on peanut butter sandwiches either on white or dark bread. But not peanut butter and jelly though.
We actually have been living in Austria for almost 10 years, and still buy our Dutch peanut butter (Pindakaas) so we can eat it here....LOL.
Indeed, sandwiches with peanut butter OR jam. Never ate those two mixed on one sandwich. (dutch)
12 and under: Baked chicken thighs, Tacos! pasta, Hamburger Helper, Rice a Roni, Shake and Bake pork chops, hot dogs, ramen
We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time when I was a kid - I’m from Saudi Arabia
I thought that was an American thing ONLY
Hi
I am very interested in the
" shepherd pie" or something else.Maybe you can cook it
...and let us see how its done...
However nice to watch your video...every single time.👍
Deana definitely grew up in a healthier US household lol. A veggie for my family was canned green beans lol. For dinner - we did a lot of corn & potatoes as sides. We had meatloaf a lot, served always with mashed potatoes & probs corn. Spaghetti (red sauce), lasagna, roast beef with potatoes, occasionally we'd have hot dogs (sometimes boiled and sometimes grilled). We had taco night often. A treat was when dad grilled pork chops or STEAK served with potatoes that we made by making aluminum foil pouches, chopping the potatoes with onions & bell peppers & putting a big slab of butter in the foil pouch. then grilling that pouch with the steaks. so good but so fat. We weren't a family that ordered pizza, but i think lots of families do that. For lunches, yeah we'd make a pb&j sandwich with CHIPS, no veggie or fruit slices lol. for lunches we'd also make a lot of frozen pizzas & those frozen kids cuisines & single serving Velveeta mac n cheese microwave cups lol. oh & ramen noodles! Breakfast (healthy) was cereal lol. but we hated cheerios. we liked cocoa puffs, fruity pebbles, cinnamon toast crunch. Other breakfast items were pop-tarts & sometimes toast with butter & cinnamon & sugar sprinkled on it.. omg it's a miracle we weren't fat kids! We loved toaster strudels & toaster scrambles. Our weekend breakfasts were the same as yours - pancakes, bacon/sausage patties, & eggs. I'm hungry now.
Carbonara or Bolognese? I like both, but it depends on the time I have. Carbonara is made really quick where Ragu Bolognese takes about 4 hours to cook.
I grew up eating lots of grilled bratwurst, BBQ (I'm from Kansas City), apple cake, meatloaf, crockpot chili, American goulash, mac and cheese, pizza, blackened chicken, red beans & rice, biscuits & gravy, and cabbage rolls. Also, the only times I really like potato chips is with a PB&J, just a weird meal given to me as a child in the USA. Stuff like that.
I'm a bit older than you two, but my favorite school lunch was a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Something about a brown paper bag and a few of hours in a locker, The honey would crystalize into the bread. An apple and a carton of milk. Perfection. Deana's other meals sound extremely familiar, but we did a lot of salads, carrot and celery sticks and olives.
In my family we never cooked fresh Lasagne (or even frozen, if I think of it). Then we found this recipe for Zucchini, courgettes as we had so many in our vegetable garden, and it took me years to find out it was basically Lasagne, just sliced courgette instead of pasta.
"it took me years to find out it was basically Lasagne, just sliced courgette instead of pasta."
It is more a Moussaka :-))
Growing up in Canada (living in US now) it was cereal for breakfast, weekend breakfast would be bacon or sausages, eggs, pancakes. Took sandwiches for school lunch. Supper could be chili, meat and potatoes, pork chops, pasta, meatloaf. Also being of Ukrainian descent, we would often have perogies too and Ukrainian food food holidays.
For lunch, PB&J sandwich was most common, but not every day. Other options were tuna, or baloney or other lunch meat, maybe egg salad. But yeah, sandwiches. California here. Hamburgers and hot dogs are special food for summer weekends and holidays.
I would say Italian, Mexican & Chinese foods were always extremely popular choices growing up here in the US. I would say Vietnamese food is now becoming very popular here as well thanks to Pho especially.
I come from a multicultural background, so I ate a combo of stereotypical American foods, German food and Armenian & other Middle Eastern foods (from Lebanon especially) growing up. I definitely ate the culturally specific foods more when I was at my grandparents houses though, so I loaded up on traditional German and Armenian food during my visits to my grandparents on either side of my family. Like Deana, my family was also all about the “health” food cereal & no soda was allowed at home, so I drank water & juice. We didn’t really have dessert unless we randomly had ice cream for a treat. I really feel like the only stereotypical American foods I ate were things I didn’t previously identify as such, like peanut butter. I can’t live without my various nut butters! Almond, cashew, peanut, etc. Bacon and fried eggs or scrambled eggs are always delicious but I certainly don’t eat them daily.
Peanut butter is actually really popular in the Netherlands. But as a far as i know, we don't really combine it with jelly/jam, we do sometimes combine it with hotsauce, chocolate sprinkles or banana slices.
I'm from an International household, my mom is Indonesian. I grew up on Indonesian food like Nasi Goreng and Satay, Dutch food like Stampot and ofcourse the ocasional pasta or pizza. When i cook i mostly cook Korean, Tex-Mex, Indonesian or pasta. While i do like pasta with carbonara sauce, nothing beats a spicy tomato sauce (though i mostly make pasta with boursin cuisine, spinach and tuna or salmon).
Growing up we also never had deserts, except at Easter and Thanksgiving. BUT! My mother baked all the time. There was always cake, cookies or pies in the kitchen. I had two favorite Saturday morning cartoons breakfasts. Either Saltine crackers with a massive dollop of peanut butter, layered at least four high or cold, leftover apple pie. Yum! We too shared Sunday breakfasts as a family at the table. My father was always in charge of the eggs and pancakes. My mother was in charge of the fried ham or sausages and the fried potatoes- often with onions. We kids were in charge of preparing fruit. Quite often cantaloupe (all year round - this was Southern California), which we would slice into thin pieces and then cut off the rind. Mouth watering breakfasts!
A special Sunday dinner was roast chicken stuffed with apple slices and prunes (we kids would fight for the last prunes!) rather than a bread stuffing; there was always gravy. Sometimes we’d have red cabbage and potato dumplings (from the Panni mix). Other times it was whatever vegetable was on sale that week with mashed potatoes, or very rarely rice. We never made the chicken with veg and potatoes baked in one pan as pictured when Deana described their roast dinners.
I read somewhere that an American has like 5,000 pb&j's by the time they finish high school.
Sounded high to me until I really thought about, and ehh, yea doesn't sound that far off 😂
Big fat dinners are why most Americans are obsessed! You intake so many calories at night prior to sleep! Most Europeans have big lunches and small dinner bites! That gives you so much room and time to burn more calories! Anyhow walking down the city streets in America and Europe you can tell there is an extreme difference! Plus most Americans don't WALK anywhere, they are always in their cars!
From new jersey, USA we ate all the foods Deana mentioned. We are an American German family so we would have schnitzel, sauerbraten or brats, and we definitely were influenced by living so close to new York that there were lots of Italian cuisine like chicken parm, eggplant rollatini and pizza of course. We had lots of grilled chicken with corn on the cob and we had cheeseburgers in the summer a couple times definitely not all the time though.
Deanna turned into Super Mario when talking about homemade Pizza 🍕
It's hardly surprising Phil has never heard about Fettuccine Alfredo. It's an American invention and not an Italian dish.
I'm with Deana. Carbonara all the way. I don't like tomato sauce-
And I've only had Tuna on pizza once or twice. I'm staying with salami and mushroom.
I'd never heard of tuna on pizza or carbonara sauce until this video. I'm in the US west coast.
My Italian-American mind does not comprehend.
Tuna sounds horrible. But salami is a wonderful thing.
@@b1k2q34 noo tuna is good in Italy you have Tonnata pizza and it's basically tomato sauce tuna onions and olive. It's pretty good
I am an American with a German mother. Shepards pie would go over soooo big in Germany.
What about Salisbury steak? Anyone have that growing up?
it funny, you mention PB&J as a lunch thing... for me it was always bologna sandwiches.... bologna was cheaper than PB... lol!
This going to be REALLY long. My father grew up in the US on both the east and west coasts, my mother is southern. They lived in England for a few years. We lived for three years in the southwest, then we were raised in Hawai'i. My dad was a foodie before the term existed.
So, regular, weekday, dinner dishes:
*Slumgullion, a.k.a. Johnny Marzetti (browned ground beef, then add chopped: onion, green bell pepper, celery; add cooked macaroni, tomato sauce, canned tomatoes), served with cornbread.
*Chop steak (stir fry steak, vegetables) with rice, salad
*Swiss Steak (onions, mushroom sauce), mashed potatoes, peas, salad
*Creamed chicken, rice, corn, broccoli, cheese sauce, salad
*Sauerkraut and spareribs (county style ribs, not actual spare ribs), mashed potatoes, peas
*Pork chops, fried potatoes with onions, beans, spinach, corn bread, sometimes scrambled eggs, applesauce
*Shoyu chicken, rice, salad
*Fried round steak, boiled potatoes w/au jus, vegetables, bread and butter
*Fried chicken gizzards, hearts, and livers, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, salad
*SOS (creamed minced beef on toast)
*Fried rice, vegetables, kim chee
*Tempura shrimp, vegetables, Japanese pickles
*Chow fun (Hawaiian style, Sun Noodles)
*Tacos, fixings, Mexican rice
*Lasagne, bread, salad
*Chili, rice, crackers
*BELT sandwiches (bacon, egg, lettuce and tomato)
*Luau pork, rice, vegetables, etc.
*Ham, scalloped potatoes, spinach, sliced onion, rye bread, salad
*Adobo, rice, salad
If in a hurry:
*Boiled hotdogs (yuck)
*Cream of asparagus on toast
*Scrambled egg sandwiches
*Denver Omelette
*Saimin, fried SPAM
*Breakfast foods (cooked)
Weekends, Sundays, seasonal, occasional:
*Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, potatoes, green beans...sometimes homemade ice cream
*Pork roast, scalopped potatoes, green vegetables, rolls, applesauce
*Spaghetti Bolognese, garlic bread
*New England Clam Chowder
*Fried chicken, cold potato salad or hot German potato salad, deviled eggs, watermelon
*Grilled steak, sometimes lobster (my dad had a diving business), salad
*Teriyaki, fried wonton, rice, vegetables
*Rainbow Trout, lemon, potatoes, frenched green beans, salad
*Catfish, hushpuppies, french fries, frenched green beans, salad, watermelon
*Veal cutlets, potatoes, vegetables, salad
*Ahi poke, rice
*Goose, turkey, duck, squab--feast/holidays
*Huli-huli chicken
*Luau: Kalua pig, luau leaf, rice, fresh pineapple, poi, long rice, more...
English Tea (after Sunday's nap 😁).
Lunches (besides school lunch):
*Grilled cheese, tomato soup
*PB&J (peanut butter & jam, usually blackberry)
*Tuna salad sandwiches
*egg salad sandwiches
*Tomato sandwiches
Weekday Breakfast:
*Cold cereals
*Oatmeal
*Cream of Wheat
*Rice
Weekend/Sunday Breakfasts;
Any combination of the following:
*Pancakes *Waffles *French toast *English muffins *Fried potatoes and onion *Hash browns *Rice *Linguica *Bacon *Fried SPAM *Sausage, link or patty *Eggs: *soft boiled *poached on toast *over easy *scrambled *Denver omelette *Fried rice omelette *Corned beef hash and eggs *
Fresh fruit (could be any time): grapefruit, bananas (apple banana for preference), guava, strawberry guava, pineapple, leitchi nut, lilikoi, orange, loquat, black fig, kumquat, mango, papaya--whatever was in season or grew in the yard, ours or neighbor's (we all shared). I really miss this. And juice--POG (passiofruit-orange-guava). When, on the mainland, kids had milk time and maybe cookies (schools used to offer a mid-morning snack), we had guava juice and poi. Yum. If I could have, I would have traded poi for cookies, though.
Me, when I lived in Hawai'i, for/at any meal: kim chee, rice, linguica (Portuguese sausage), tomatoes at lunch or dinner, eggs at breakfast. Also, a good potato-mac salad goes with any lunch or dinner.
Desserts: special occasions
*Devil's Food cake
*Angelfood cake
*Fried hand pies
*PIES!--cherry, apple, peach, pecan, custard, blackberry, chocolate, banana cream
*cheesecake (with graham cracker/chopped macadamia nut crust.
Anytime (store bought): *Chocolate dobosh cake, or ANY dobosh cake *Dream Cake
Snacks/hors d'oeuvres: fried wonton, raw beef, mochi crunch (mixed arare), crack seed (li hing mui--seasoned dried/wet plums, lemon peel
RL MAIDEN you were not lying it was really long 🤣👍
OMG someone who knows what Johnny Mazetti is!!!! It's like lasagna but not with lasagna pasta. We used elbow pasta. The cheese was cheddar, longhorn and lots of it. Its kinda like chili but not spicy.
I think this might be the longest comment EVER😹
Wowww!! 😍🤤 So dinner at your place?? 😋 Sounds like an delicious childhood!
Jep, the longest post i've ever seen.
I need to try a Shepherd's Pie!!
Some people like it but I never had it till my adult years with my ex inlaws and didnt care for it
I love it with carrots and peas added to the minced meat and gravy. Topped with homemade potato puree(with butter, nutmeg and milk).My sister makes it with grated cheese on top, I prefer just egg yolk on the puree, makes it brown nicely but not too heavy. With cheese I get stomach pain :P
it's really good. I often get it when i go to a British pub. British pub food is awesome in general. But I've never tried a homemade one.
shepherds pie = minced lamb. cottage pie = minced beef. same thing different meats
put extra butter in the mashed potatoes and extra gravy in the meat before you bake it
Shepherd's pie is so delicious. It's also versatile. I've had bad ones but it's so easy to customize to preferences. It also freezes well for those like myself that like to make extra for the freezer for easy dinners on busy days. It's definitely comfort food and does sit heavy. Never met a kid who didnt like it either so it's a great way to get kids to eat a variety of veggies. It's also easily made vegan as well
Ich bin aus Norddeutschland und ich liebe es im Frühjahr Grünkohl mit Bauchspeck, Bregenwurst, Kasseler und (karamellisieren) Kartoffeln zu essen
I am from Austria and I cook and eat Quiche quite often because it‘s very easy and good! I love it ☺️
My TOP German Childhood Meals
Spaghetti Bolognese (Miracoli!)
Frikadellen with some vegetable (like cauliflower or creamed kohlrabi) and potatoes
Chili con Carne (of course with kidney beans and corn from the can) with rice
Fridays always Fish: As a small child fish fingers with mashed potatoes and peas, later fried whitefish with a vegetable and potatoes (mashed, fried, cooked or as salad) and even later pasta with salmon and spinach
Sundays: Something that takes along time - like Rouladen with red cabbage
that's an interesting topic. I´m from the western of germany an we had a lot of varieties of dishes during my childhood. in our Family was the lunchtime the most improtant meal, because my Dad worked as a chef in a Restaurant and to got to work after lunch. We ate pasta in different ways (with Ragu, or Carbonara), Soup (Vegetable Soup, or stew with lentils or white beans), Sunday roast, roasted Chicken with Salad, Porkchops with Potatoes, Grünkohl (sorry, I don't know the englisch name of this) with Potatoes and Sausages.. for Dinner we usually had Bread with Ham, Jam or Cheese (German Abendbrot)or leftovers.
I'm Dutch and grew up on PBJ -- and PBS, peanutbutter and sambal bajak (I have Indonesian heritage) or PBA peanutbutter and appelstroop (Apfelkraut/Apple syrup) -- in the early 70's.
Also, pancakes here are more of a lunch and dinner time thing and unlike American pancakes they are not fluffy and roughly the size a medium-sized pizza, so no stacks of those!
sounds interesting! I have to try a PBS! :D
@@DeanaandPhil They are actually really good! I must say the PB here (Calve brand) is far less sweet so that may help the taste. But it's somewhat reminiscent of Indonesian/Malaysian peanut satay sauce.
About 2 years ago I ate peanut butter with strawberry jam for the first time. Toasted bread, of course. Really tasty
I switched from grape jelly to strawberry jam in my adult life. So good! Now I prefer raspberry or blueberry jam. (I'm from USA, in the Midwest.)
Well, a REAL Carbonara is without cream. It is just egg and parmesan cheese. It is not easy to make but very delicious.
Did you know that neither Alfredo nor Bolognese is Italian?
They have their ragu sauce of course, but nothing similar to Alfredo even exist there.
Sir Swede It is a common misconception/old wives’ tale about Alfredo not being Italian. There is a famous restaurant in Rome that is the creator of linguine Alfredo. It became popular with American film stars and definitely became associated over time with America rather than Italy (and didn’t take off worldwide either). But it’s a dish created in Rome by a Roman chef.
If curious, the restaurant is called Ristorante Alfredo. It’s on Piazza Augusto Imperatore.
Deana is a smoke show. Phil is a lucky man.
I’m born and raised in California. My meals growing up was chicken with mashed potatoes, salads, homemade tacos, Mexican rice & beans, pasta, pizza, meatloaf, homemade chicken vegetable soup, other Mexican food, steamed or sautéed vegetables. In the summer my dad would grill on the barbecue, steak, chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs and we would have homemade potato or pasta salad. Never had dessert much, only planned dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We would have Chinese takeout on Friday evenings.
I don't like steamed vegetables. I grew up in Switzerland with a greek father. So we used a lot of olive oil (broccoli for example). Hot dogs are very different here, they aren't sliced in half. It's just a slim sausage (called "Wienerli") in a baguette. People would make a hole with a strowel handle and then you put mustard, ketchup and the sausage in to the hole. It was very popular for children's birthdays or as a breakfast at school before the holidays.
Shepard's Pie is more Irish than English. One of my favorite things to get at Irish Pubs in the US!!
American, here. For dinner, we would typically have some sort of pork dish with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable. On the weekends, though, we might order pizza.
So I'm from Germany (16 years old) and I often have pancakes for breakfast
Try peanut butter on them! It is yummy!
When I was younger I had alot of German cook meals till 2000 when we moved to USA, and then my step-mom made alot of hamburger helpers. When my dad cook it was German infused into the American dishes of either chicken pork or beef, with green veggies, potatoes of short (diced mashed or sliced). I loved the days my dad would make Bratwurst with Sauerkraut topped with mustard 😁
That sounds like you got the best of two worlds! Amazing! =)
@@DeanaandPhil ya but the hamburger helpers I could have gone without. I do miss some good wurst and Sauerkraut from a good German shop 😁
You poor thing. You went from German cooked meals to nasty lazy hamburger helper. 🤣🤣🤣
@@brittbrat9328 yes nasty indeed. Now that I am an adult I cook alot of German meals for my family
Toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake for desert classic st.louis meal
Both of my parents grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and I lived there as an adult for 12 non-consecutive years. I ate a lot of toasted ravioli and I enjoyed gooey butter cake at other people's houses or at potlucks 😁.
I grew up in Indiana. For breakfast we would have poptarts, or cereal, or toaster strudles (things like that). For lunch we would have grilled cheese, pb and J, breaded tenderloins with fries. For dinner we would have taco, spaghetti bolognese, homemade pizza, some kind of fried meat (cube steak was one of my faves), and no matter what the dinner was we almost always had with it 1 potato side (mashed, fried, browned in butter, baked, fries), one vegetable (corn, green beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower), and one extra side like chicken and noodles, chicken rice, normally one of those packaged side dishes they sell in stores like that. We almost never had dessert, but later on like 3-5 hours after dinner we would have popcorn, fruit, or something like that while we watched tv together. (I was raised by my grandma though so thats it was probably a bit different for others my age)
I grew up in Mecklenburg. Depending in where we ate ( At Home ort At my grandparents place) we had a Lot of diffrent, but typical german meals. Nearly all the Times we had potato-based meals, for example cooked peas and carrots (mischgemüse) and Schnitzel or Kotelett. Senfei (mustard egg) was and still is one of my favourites. We offen had the east-germany (and truly right) Version of jägerschnitzel ( thick panned jagdwurst slices) withe noodels and tomatosauce. On sundays or at my grandparents we always had the fency meals. Braten ( roasted duck, rabbit or wild meat) withe Knödel and Rotkohl (cooked red cabbage) We also had fish, nearly once or twice a week ( we live near a lake, a professional fisherman was our neighbour and Half of my Family where Hobby fisherman) we also ate very healthy. (Most of the time) we lived in a farm, my grandparents, Who also lived Therese had a gute garden with lotsen of vegetables and fruit trees. Basicly we normal gad german meals. Later that changed a bit (After the "Mauerfall") we ate nice and noodles Moore often but that where the fancy food optional. Today, when I cool for myself I cool the nostalgic meals from my childhood as well as various dishes from diffrent cultures. I really like to Experiment in the kitchen but I am glad I learnt to cook from my mum and my grandma (because grandmas coocking is the best) ^.^
We only had meat on Sunday ...roasted chicken or fish or schnitzel or rouladen or sauerbraten or kohlrouladen or hackbraten or koenigsberger klopse or gulash or rinderbraten...was always a special meal...with a set table (tablecloth and plates and cutlery layed out perfectly).coldcuts and cheese during the week for dinner and broetchen on Saturday with cheese and gekochtem schinken 🙂
I am from Germany and as a child I loved to eat peanut butter and jam on a slice of bread. It is still one of my favorites especially the crunchy peanut butter.
I have to say I highly disagree that all cereal is unhealthy. Cereal and milk are a basic standard breakfast nationwide, and not necessarily the sugar bomb ones. Never knew any household that served quiche, even to this day. Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, baked chicken and roasted potatoes, fried fresh halibut with streamed broccoli, meatball stew, polish sausage with mac & cheese, spaghetti w/meat sauce, grilled tri-tip & beans, enchiladas and Spanish rice. Dessert was a nightly thing, either ice cream, jello cake, or just cookies and milk. I don't think I ate out until I was a teenager.
I come from the USA near Chicago, IL and fast food was only eaten very occasionally. We had homemade meals the majority of the time. Breakfast was eggs, toast or cereal. Lunch sandwiches either PBJ or deli meat and sometimes with a bowl of soup. Dinners were the main meal as Deanna said. Meat loaf, steak, pork chops, chicken and the sides were potatoes and a vegetable or salad. Also a lot of casseroles and pasta dishes especially spaghetti or frozen pizza. Your channel is so much fun thanks.
My childhood meals are almost identical to what you listed! I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, with a St. Louis parent and a Missouri-farmer-moved-to-St.-Louis parent.😃
I still to this day eat peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches and bacon for breakfast; with scrambled eggs and coffee or hot cholocate. But only on the weekends. At school my mum always made me some sort of sandwich and added either veg or fruit and some sort of cereal bar. Since both my parents were working I was in charge of lunch during the week. It mostly consisted of either pre cooked dishes I heated up or microwave dishes from BoFrost. Dinner was the big event where my parents cooked and stuff.
Carbonara rocks
find ich auch, aber stimmt schon, hat es bei uns damals auch nur sehr selten gegeben. Sonst fast immer mit Tomatensauce
We had all different types of Cuisine Italian, Chinese Mexican, German growing up in NYC
In my Family we have Quiche from time to time (probably because I am half french...), Lasagna too and Shepherd's pie too, although I know it as Hachi parmentier
Also, the most important meal for me is dinner, but I know a lot of people (friends and family) whose hot meal is Lunch
I just noticed that your "German Boyfriend" changed to "German Husband". May we see a beautiful photo of your wedding?
Yes! We posted a few videos about getting married. 🤗💜 Here are a few links!
► Marriage Announcement!! + How Phil Proposed, Our Thoughts on Marriage (Story Time): th-cam.com/video/mMyJRGDs7qY/w-d-xo.html
► Our Wedding Video (Our Vows): th-cam.com/video/jn3s3_ovPZs/w-d-xo.html
Congratulations 💕
I'm from GA/AL, and a lot of what Deana had was similar to what we ate. We had a lot of the Italian dishes often (lasagna, pasta, etc.), but we also had a lot of stuff that she didn't list. We at Beef Stroganoff, mashed potatoes and some meat and veggies, and chili really often. My dad was a single father working two jobs for most of our growing up years, so we had to have stuff that could be cooked with little attention and was good for leftovers. Breakfast wasn't really anything special. We did whatever we wanted during school weeks, and sometimes on weekends my dad would do fried spam and egg sandwiches.
At my grandparents' house we at a lot more stuff from the garden or "traditional" foods like black eyed peas and cornbread, raw onions, tomato and cucumber.
I had quiche and lasagna (but when I was a kid (80s West Germany) these would be rather special meals for occasions, similarly for homemade pizza. Meat loaf or roast chicken is/was fairly normal, too. Never had sheperd's pie but it sounds interesting. As a kid it was Bolognese only or plain tomato sauce, but nowadays I prefer Carbonara because it is so quickly done (although I use standard smoked streaked bacon as pancetta or these other special italian bacon varieties are too hard to find. Don't much like tuna on a pizza either but I like cream based pasta sauce with tuna and capers (vaguely similar to the vitello tonnato sauce but not cold and not quite as rich) which can also be done within the time the water and pasta takes to cook.
The only thing we have often in my house in California that Deana mentioned was pasta, but it's almost never alfredo. Meatloaf is rare, but I make it with turkey, we hardly ever eat pork or beef. Never ever roast chickens.
Definitely all over the place as far as international foods though. We eat a lot of Japanese, Chinese, and Italian inspired dishes (as adults with our own children). Sometimes we might have burgers or hot dogs if we want a really easy dinner. I ate completely different as a kid though, super picky.
Going to restaurants happens around once a week or so for us now.
My stepfather didn't have the most extensive palette. My mom rarely branched out, and pretty much kept to the same 10ish meals on rotation (same meat/veg every time it was made). The only time I ate something different was when I either ate at a friends house, or when I went away to boarding school for high school. We rarely ate fast food (maybe 1x a month) or went out to eat (well I didn't but my parents did). We ordered pizza 1x a month probably, and that was when we had my older step siblings over. I left home at 18 and pretty much became a foodie and started to have an extensive palette (and my kids have been exposed to foods of all sorts - especially international foods).
Ich mag nicht mal Erdnussbutter
Growing up we had a mix of things...my mom wasn't really the best cook in the world but she did make simple dinners almost every night. we moved around a lot since my dad was military so there was influence from local foods as well that my mom often included. mostly she liked to make tacos/burritos, asian inspired stir fry dishes, meat/potato dishes with onions, salmon patties, meatloaf, goulash, pastas and southern style things like beans and cornbread. as I got older I started cooking more and brought in some newer ideas and recipes mostly Asian inspired since i've always loved Asian foods then fancier items as learned more about culinary arts. desserts weren't a thing in our house we had snacks sometimes like ice cream or crackers and i'd do a lot of baking but as a family we didn't have it.
I'm from Switzerland. Breakfast was and still is just plain bread for me (without butter or jam). When I still went to school I ate lunch at home. We cooked "Spätzle", Omeletten and Toast Hawaii" every week for lunch. Once a week I ate at the school (so expensive). Our main meal was in the evening. We often made homemade Pizza or Raclette for dinner on Saturday. Sundays we made the classic "Sonntagsbraten" with mashed potatoes. We also made filled tomatoes and other greek dishes (greek father).
I had Lasagne, Cheesecake quiche (salty), Risotto with Piccata, Bratwurst with Pasta, Chicken with Spaghetti, or Chicken with potatoes and carrots. We had a "Schrebergarten" (a garden you can rent), so we had our own potatoes and made french fries out of them. We had so many berries, so my mother made a lot of jam for herself.
Peanut butter and jelly toasts/ bread was definitely normal for me growing up in Germany. Then again I used to eat lots of weird food. Examples:
- Spaghetti Bolognese with potato chips for crispiness.
- Rice with soy sauce and fried onions
- yum yum noodles, uncooked mixed with the spices. Basically broke student foods
Team Bolognese!
Hi growing up in Aussie meals very similar to Deana family, Spaghetti , Meat loaf, Shepard's pie, Stews lots of vegetables, Friday night takeaway, Saturday BBQ or take care of yourself and Sunday was a roast. For me getting the ingredients and preparing a meal at home is a win.
Taco Tuesday's !!!!!
The talk about hamburgers and hot dogs reminded me that we typically would only eat those for like Memorial Day or 4th of July if we had a cookout... and *that* made me wonder about the different typical meals between Germany and America for their respective (and sometimes in-common) holidays. That might be a fun video! Apologies if there already is one...haha
I'm from Arizona, USA. We had tacos, burritos, fry bread and beans, indian tacos, chili and stews.
Coming from Texas, I had some of the same dishes, but I really remember the TexMex dishes we made at home frequently. Stuffed jalapenos', fajita's, tacos, green chili enchilada's. Definitely had our meatloafs and pasta's as well. More beef then pork (coming from Texas), but we did have pork chops on occasion. Sides depended on the meal, but almost always a green vegetable and/or a potato.
Enjoying your channel very much. Keep up the good work! My wife and I are moving to Germany in a few weeks.... things are going to be interesting!
Shepard pie. Yum! 50-50 ground lamb and hamburger, peas, carrots, onion, slathered and baked topped with cheesy mashed potatoes
The top ten in our household when i was growing up Was !. Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and greens peas, 2. Lasagna 3.Beef Pot Roast, mashed potatoes , Carrots cooked in the pot with the roast. 4. Pork chops in gravy with rice and string beans.5.Cheese Burgers with caramelized onions, double dipped deep fried french fries, 6. Kielbasi, sauerkraut, boiled potatoes with dill and butter and cabbage, 7.Home made Macaroni and cheese, 8. Fish either Cod or Salmon fried,poached,broiled, fish and chips or mashed potatoes we ate a whole lot of fresh fish.9.Roasted whole chicken with escalloped potatoes and string beans, 10.Grilled Cheese sandwiches and home made soups and chowders. All of this was made from scratch not from a box or frozen. Now as i am older i eat healthier and still have some of these childhood regulars but eating like that will hurt you. Now i crave better food and love a great complex salad and most nights hardly any meat or chicken.
I am considerably older than Deana, but our breakfasts were similar. Unlike Deana, I liked shreded wheat. Our main meal was the evening meal, even if we called it 'supper' rather than dinner.
I am from Germany and was 1973 in Chicago and helped in school to feed the kids.......and the lunch was white bread, with salat and some meat, the teacher said is nutrisches and healthy.....me OMG, they are kidding.....soft white bread is NOT healthy!!!!
Sunday's usually roast beef, potatoes, veggies
Wednesday pasta, bolognese, primavera, etc. Rest of week: Shepard's pie, meatloaf, various chicken dishes, fish, steak, bbq, straganoff, tettrazenni, kielbasa, pierogies, stuffed cabbage, bbq items. Yum!
Didn't like liver and onions or beef tongue. Yuck!
I grew up in South Africa and our common dinners were...
Beef stroganoff
Lamb saddle chops with chips
Leg of lamb, roasted taters
Spaghetti bolognese
Roast chicken w rice pilaf
Bredie (beef stew)
Samp and beans
Mutton curry
Roast, spud, 2 veg
Shepherds pie
Moussaka
Bobotie (spicey ground beef casserole topped with custard and served with yellow rice)
Peri peri chicken
Braai (grilled meats)
Stuffed peppers with rice
Bucket of Kentucky
Quiche is actually a Franco German food. The word quiche has German roots. Italians don't know what Alfredo is they dont eat pasta with cream sauce. It's named after the Italian American chef who invented it. Just like Caesar salad is named after the Mexican American chef who invented it.
Fettuccine Alfredo IS, in fact, Italian. It was named after Alfredo di Lelio (NOT American), who served it in his restaurant in Rome starting in the early 20th century. Now, it might not be as popular today in Italy as it is in the US, but is 100% authentic Italian food.
I grew up with Shepard’s Pie in the U.S. but I always had it topped with TATER TOTS. Using mashed potatoes was not something I ever heard about until wayyy later and it is SO WRONG TO ME. GIVE IT SOME CRUNCH MAN.
Phil , it's just Burgers, NOT Hamburgers ! There is NO Ham in those Ground Beef Patties !! Just Ground Beef ! Hamburg Steak originated in Hamburg , Germany , is a Thick Ground Beef Patty mixed with chopped onions , cooked and then topped with a Brown Mushroom Gravy and served with mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans on the side. Also known as a Salisbury Steak in the U.S. !!!