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LOAFER

Today's meal is salmon loaf.

This is a dish from my childhood. Canned salmon. I have tried to update it with fresh salmon but it doesn't cut it. You need the strong, fishy taste of the canned.

The recipe comes from the same place too. Well almost.

The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook that my mother had is not the same as mine but it is not the first "new" Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook which was so radically changed it pissed people off and they would not buy it. Word got around, the reviews were bad and so they took it back.

I have the new "new" Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook which is much closer to my Mom's and is mostly updated for things like microwaving and freezing. My mother froze nothing. Well, some ice cream and ice cubes in a little freezer compartment on the top of her refrigerator.

The thing about the salmon loaf is that it is depression food. Reminiscent of a time when economy took over the kitchen. Stretched proteins and all that. But all of these foods from the first depression era are what we now consider to be "comfort foods". Macaroni and cheese. All the other stretchers.

I will use a "sauce" that my mother used. Cream of Mushroom or Cream of Celery soup. Probably the mushroom. Celery is too strong.

This from the can with only half the recommended milk.

I am working on the "breadth" of my cooking. Or preparation. I have found some very good prepped foods that we like. Maybe I will write about that more as I get into it more.

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