What's your favorite nostalgic meal? Here is mine.

My dad's best friend was a hog farmer.  The hog roasts and corn boils they threw were legendary, getting coined "Whitestock", after my dad's buddy's last name.  Badminton, football, basketball, swimming pool, all the bases were covered.  Dog Days of Summer.  Great memories.

My family nostalgic meal at home has to be my mom's pot roast.  We got our own beef slaughtered in Hillsdale, IL, by another one of my Dad's buddies, Sheldon.  They would all hunt, fish, and trap together.  Deer, rabbit, bullheads, dove, duck, pheasant, turtle.  If it moved, those guys ate it.  Us kids didn't go near that sh!t though.  They would eat pickled pigs feet by the jar drinking Buds.  Also jars of spicy pickled cauliflower, carrots, and jalapenos, they ate them like chips.  Was an eye opener seeing that jar on the table.  And as a kid, I remember such a great beef flavor from those pot roasts.  Fork tender, veggies too, so damn good.  Grilled shishkabobs too, remember my Ma using Sherry as a part of her marinade, unique flavor then.  Meatloaf, taters, and green beans too. Lol

Thanks for an awesome post b.  Keep those cooks going.  I may have to go through some of my Ma's cookbooks. 

These are all such great stories and great meals. Thank you for sharing.

I was raised in a boy's home, as a ward of the state, in the shadows of Appalachia. On my birthday, (July 4) every year, we were served fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuits with gravy and green beans. For dessert we had apple pie.

Country home cooking at its best.

We raised most of our own food back then, and we also helped in the kitchen. I did not realize it at the time, but it was part of the process in educating us to become self sufficient.

I was so blissfully ignorant, (some are frequent to point out, I still remain so) I thought I was living like a king on the 4th, every year.

I have never been able to fry chicken as good as we had back then, but my Beautiful Wife sure can.

I am a very, very lucky man. Blissfully ignorant, but a lucky man.

BBQ chicken on the Weber kettle (Dad did the grilling),   KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce,  corn on the cob, and sun tea.

Mom's tater tot casserole & chocolate eclair dessert.

One thing to note that my wife opened my eyes to the other day.  I was telling her how my BIL says my best brisket was my first one that I ever tried.  I smoked it on my Chargriller horizontal offset smoker overnight on Christmas eve about 10 years ago.  She told me "You are competing with a memory.  You won't ever top it."  I feel that is true in many cases.  When trying to re-create something from yesteryear, you can't replicate the circumstances.  There is a whole different feeling as a kid with no responsibilities and not a care in the world, coming in from playing hard outside all day to a home cooked meal.  The sights and smells and the love can't be replicated.  Now, you are in charge, tons of responsibilities, every care in the world, trying to do the best by your spouse and kids.  It tastes different even if it is the same.

gittin all choked up thinking about it.

Thanks @blasting

kl8ton said:

BBQ chicken on the Weber kettle (Dad did the grilling),   KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce,  corn on the cob, and sun tea.

Mom's tater tot casserole & chocolate eclair dessert.

One thing to note that my wife opened my eyes to the other day.  I was telling her how my BIL says my best brisket was my first one that I ever tried.  I smoked it on my Chargriller horizontal offset smoker overnight on Christmas eve about 10 years ago.  She told me "You are competing with a memory.  You won't ever top it."  I feel that is true in many cases.  When trying to re-create something from yesteryear, you can't replicate the circumstances.  There is a whole different feeling as a kid with no responsibilities and not a care in the world, coming in from playing hard outside all day to a home cooked meal.  The sights and smells and the love can't be replicated.  Now, you are in charge, tons of responsibilities, every care in the world, trying to do the best by your spouse and kids.  It tastes different even if it is the same.

gittin all choked up thinking about it.

Thanks @blasting

Tater tot hotdish, YES!!!!!!!