At The Dinner Table

I remember eating 5 o' clock supper at my grandparents'. The meal would usually consist of something like chicken or roast beef or meatloaf, pork chops, corn, tomatos, mashed potatos, pickles, apple sauce, bread, green beans, peas with onion and bacon, maybe potato pancakes with sugar. Not in one meal of course, but these are they types of things we would eat.

My grandpa would mound his plate up with food, and he would clean his plate using the bread to mop up whatever was left. He had a really good appetite, but that was probably because he worked so hard. He worked as a mailman 6 days a week, and they had a huge garden and a lot of lawn to mow.

In their garden they planted potatos, carrots, beans, radishes, beets, kohl-rabbis, lettuce, corn, tomatos, cucumber, squash, and they planted a ton of flowers.

My grandma was a good cook. She never made anything fancy, just basic food, but it was always delicious, and there was always plenty of it.