Country Road Sandwiches- A Childhood Favorite for Tom - A Simple Sandwich Created by his Grandmother
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- Country Roads Sandwiches
2 slices of bread, toasted
Miracle Whip
4 slices of bacon, fried
1 egg, fried
2 slices of American cheese
Bread and butter pickles
This is what you’ll need to make one sandwich.
Toast your bread and slather one or both sides with Miracle Whip. Don’t be stingy! Use plenty!
Pile on the fried bacon. Pile it on!
 Fry an egg, breaking the yolk just before you flip the egg. Place a slice or two of cheese on top of the egg and let the cheese melt for about 30 seconds to one minute. Place the egg & cheese on top of the bacon.
Cover the egg /cheese with a layer of Bread and Butter Pickles. The pickles are THE KEY to this sandwich. Cover the whole sandwich with them! Top with the second slice of toasted bread. 
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My grandfather died long before I was born. My grandmother helped raise me while my parents went through a nasty, drawn-out divorce. She was always my soft place to fall. I spent weekends and summers with her until she died when I was 19 years old. Wouldn't trade that time with her for anything.
Thanks for bringing back precious memories. No, we can't get that time back, but we sure can treasure the time we had. 💜
I love that thought. I can't go back and change the fact that I stopped spending summers with my Mamaw and Papaw when I was 16, but I can treasure those memories of the many summers I did have with them. Thank you for that. And, thank you for supporting our channel.
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Tom you brought tears to my eyes when you said when you turned 16 you stopped going to spend time with your grandparents. So glad you have the memories and the sandwich 🥪 😊❤
I think Tom almost had tears in his eyes, as well! 😢
Thank God for grandparents
@@MarHauck, I fought back tears throughout the entire video. I almost “lost it” two different times. As soon as Melissa stopped videoing, I had myself a small breakdown. I miss my Mamaw and Papaw so much. I guess it’s one thing we just never outgrow.
I am crying now too! 😢❤
@@tomwyant9297 I miss my grandparents so much too but work really hard now to create those lasting memories with my grandchildren!!
As a child in the 50’s, I’d watch my Grandma bake bread each week. She would place her loaves on the warm registers in winter to rise. I’d pinch a piece off to eat raw and it deflate……..she didn’t even mind💕 (love sent to Heaven, Grama)
Such a sweet memory! Grandma's let us get away with things nobody else would. LOL! I love that. Thanks for sitting at our table. We appreciate you.
My Grandma was a farmer’s wife and then she ran a boarding house for girls. She had her own wedding cake business and so I came by it quite naturally as I stood on a chair learning how to make anything food related. We canned and catered till she could no longer do it because she had cancer. My Mom was also a school cafeteria worker and she had many people who worked under her and they became very close to us. I became a chef and my side hustle was a cake and catering business for the Saddlebred industry and we showed all over Mn, SD,IA, Mo, Kentucky and Illinois Wi and even a few other places. I spent 45 years as a Chef. I made it a family tradition and my kids are still the best banquet waitstaff ever. But it all started with a Grandma passing down those cherished memories of Food. Now I am retired and I am teaching my Granddaughter how to make our family recipes. I love the program you and Melissa have. You explained everything to make it and then you care enough to give us the background. Loyal watcher for life. Keep on cooking 🧑🍳
What a heritage you have and what a family legacy you are leaving! I love your story.
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Every Sunday, after church, my Italian grandparents would cook spaghetti & meatballs, plus chicken, roast, etc.,for their 7 children and their spouses and 41 grandchildren! Never did they run out of food! No microwaves back then, but everyone’s food was always hot! Our cousins were our best friends❤️. And strangers would come to visit them and there was still food for someone else. Just thinking about that, I can smell what their house did when you’d walk in the porch! Family was their world❤️❤️
That could bring tears to my eyes. I always craved a big family that got together every Sunday, but my family is very small and scattered around the country. Those Sunday dinners together would be a dream for me. I know you cherish those precious memories!
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A recipe that I will never forget. I also went to my grandparents in the summer. Granny(as she was lovingly called) would bake very thin sweet potato pies and stack them on top of each other. (6 or 7) then we would slice them like a cake. Man was that good eating. Never knew anyone else to do that. We had a family reunion at her house every summer. Granny played the piano. Her house had a big front porch. Someone would pull the piano out to the porch and everyone would bring their chair around to the front yard. Granny would start playing the old hymns that all of us knew. And so the afternoon was spent singing. I will be 90 in December and I remember those times like it was yesterday. I love the stories you tell about your recipes. 😮
I love that story! I can just imagine your granny playing that old piano and everyone singing the hymns. What a precious memory!
What lovely memories ❤ I too have my own growing up around all my Grandparents.......
When I eat an heirloom tomato with just a little bit of salt on it, it takes me back to my grandmother's garden. We would take a salt shaker out to the garden, pluck a tomato, give it a little salt and into our mouths. When I eat that now I can actually see her garden and I am 83 years old. But I am building memories with my grandchildren and great-grandchildren ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Don't you just love that a simple tomato and a shaker of salt can bring back those precious memories? How precious is that! I love your story.
Thanks for coming to sit at our table and for sharing your sweet memories with us.
I used to stay with my grandparents a lot too. They lived in the same city as we did, but I loved spending the night at their house. My Papaw would fix biscuits and strewed strawberries for me for breakfast. It was always a special treat and I still fix that today. My Papaw died in 1997. He was 93. He was a godly man and taught me many life lessons. I cherish the time I spent with them.
I enjoyed your story about the history of your "road house sandwich"
I just love that something like biscuits and stewed strawberries carries such sweet memories. Isn't that wonderful! And, I love that you continue to make them in his memory. Thanks for coming to sit at our table!
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This episode was a tear jerker for me, Tom and Melissa, but in a very good way. My great granny lived with my grandparents and they were from Czechoslovakia. My siblings and I spent every weekend with them and of course, we did all the fun stuff like fishing, picnics and seashore trips. My grannies cooked beef stew and homemade haluski (egg) noodles for Sunday dinner. Wow, I wish I could recreate that delicious homemade meal. I’m 67 so my grands are home with our Lord for many years but I can’t wait to see them again. Food really does evoke lots of memories and I thank you for sharing your sweet story with us today. God bless you both! ❤
Oh Tom, I love that you spent so much time with your grandparents. I spent all summer every summer at my grandparents. I would fly down to Pasadena the day after school got out and fly back the day before school started. I cherish every minute I spent with my grandparents. As a young child, I also got to spend one weekend a month with my great grandmother. I wouldn’t trade those times for all the gold in the world. Now I am a grandmother and great grandmother, and nothing makes me happier than when our granddaughters come to visit us when they have time off each year.
What sweet memories you have and what sweet memories you are making with your grandchildren! How precious are those memories!
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I hope, when you guys write your cookbook, you will include your family stories. I enjoy hearing them. Simpler times
Completely. More hard work physically. Mentally less straining. I remember hanging and bringing in the wash. Hm. The smell. Ironing handkerchiefs. Beating the rug. 😊 Yes simpler times
I'm trying hard to have the cookbook ready by this fall. It's been a big job. Thanks for watching our videos and supporting our channel.
Love hearing your “grandparents” stories! I was divorced when my son was 4 years old and it was a difficult one because I did not want it. One thing I made sure of was I got a birthday card in the mail to them from my son on each and every birthday. I made sure they got to see him over holidays and school breaks, summer vacations. I loved them dearly and I knew they loved me, I would have to drive sometimes to another state just to drop my son off so he could spend a week or two. Just like you they would camp and fish and a couple of summers his grandpa read water meters in this small town and he would tell me stories of what critters they would find when they opened the lid! He too has memories of when he turned 16 and got a job at a local restaurant first busing tables and later cooking and they would urge and urge him to come visit more. The trips were shorter and shorter. Regrets. Don’t we all have them as we grow up and lose those we love? But we still tell stories of our favorite foods they could cook, or maybe tell a story of how they remember their grandpa eating this or that every evening. My son is the main cook in his family now and I know he thinks he is making memories for them. He told me how he just cooked his daughter’s favorite meal for her birthday dinner even though he felt very sick. I had to chuckle to myself. Your sandwich sounds so typical of what an older person would make and how a grandchild loves what grandma or grandpa makes, right? Thanks for your recipes, but thanks more for peppering them so many times with special stories of maybe who first gave you the recipe or cooked it for you, or where you were when you first ate it. Maybe which child of yours had a special liking of a certain dish, it all has brought you both so close to us and we have come to really believe we would be welcome at your table! Family and friends can’t be replaced and we cherish them so much, and we cherish you both! ❤❤
Thank you for sharing the story of your son spending summers with his grandparents and your sacrifice making sure he made those memories. What a gift you gave him!
I love that food doesn't have to be "fancy" to be memorable. This simple sandwich is worth much more to me than a $100.00 meal in a French restaurant would be. It's our sandwich so it's special. I love that food does that for us.
Also, I LOVE that your son is making new and special memories for his kids. How special is that! How special!
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One of my all-time favorites. --- And yes, Miracle Whip on each slice of toasted bread. YUM !!!
Ok, the ONE recipe that "takes me back" is my mother's Spanish Rice. When I left home, I remember telling her how much I missed her Spanish Rice, and she told me her secret - she got the recipe off of a box of Minute Rice. Well, I am 63 now, mom passed in 2019... and with her passing, she took that recipe with her to the grave. --- I have searched for 40 years for the recipe... from the boxes... newspaper clips... scoured the internet... written the company.... and tried making it from memory of watching mom make it. The only thing I remember was she used (that was not included in any of the recipes that I found) was a small can of Tomato Paste. ---- Over the years I have made 1,000 different versions of Spanish Rice, trying my best to duplicate how mom made it.... but it's never moms. Well, that's my "food memory" :) Thank you for another great recipe. Instant save. I send you both BIG HUGS and much love. BTW... I'm in Logan, WV.
I am so sorry you didn't get your mom's recipe for Spanish Rice. Your story is very similar to the story of the reason Melissa and I started this channel. Maybe I can tell that story someday on a video.
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Isn't it something how a certain food, or sound, or smell can transport us back to the place we were when we enjoyed those things? Such sweet memories of a yummy sandwich 🥪 😋 ❤
I am so thankful for "food memories". One thought of our Country Roads Sandwich can instantly transport me back to that small kitchen on Teays Valley Road in West Virginia. Such sweet and precious memories!
I'm the first granchild so I was the closest to my grandmother. She made me a cookie jar with my name on it and would fill it with cookies once a week, or as a surprise. She would make all kinds but my favorite was chocolate chip. I would come home from school and smell that she had been baking and see my cookie jar was full and get excited. Fast forward now I'm married and we have a bakery in town called Grandma's Bakery. We go there once a month and I get a chocolate chip cookie in memory of her. It's nice to keep those memories alive even though they aren't with us physically anymore, I still have those comforing feelings of having a grandmother.
I’m glad you have that comforting feeling of remembering your grandmother caring for you. I try to be that kind of grandmother to my grandkids.
Your story brought tears to my eyes. What a precious memory! I love that a simple chocolate chip cookie can bring your grandmother right back to you, not physically but in your mind. That's love!
Thank you for coming to sit at our table and for sharing your memoires.
Sharing your memories brings tears to my eyes. If we only knew when we were 15 & 16 how fast life happens. We want to grownup too fast and don't appreciate those times till we don't have them anymore. Thank you for sharing.
You are so right! If we only knew! But, I am so thankful for the memories. Thanks for coming to sit at our table and for supporting our channel.
I've got a ton of food-related stories because I got to be in one of "those" families full of GREAT cooks, but my favorite one these days is my mother's meatloaf. After my dad passed away, my mother didn't cook a lot anymore. However, when I'd come to visit, she liked to do some cooking. She knew how much I loved meatloaf, especially hers, and she'd make that almost every time I came to town, no matter what time of year. She'd do meatloaf, oven fried potatoes, and then some type of green vegetable. Mom knew that I looked my meat cook really well, and she'd "forget" about the meatloaf every time and leave it in there longer than she normally would. Of course, it would come out pretty crispy around the edges and on the bottom. She'd apologize for "overcooking" it, and then she'd spend the next few days watching me scarf the whole thing down for lunch, a mid-afternoon snack, and even supper on other evenings if she didn't feel like cooking something or going out to eat. I was in heaven. No one, and I mean no one else that I know (including my sisters who have tried and tried) can make meatloaf like she did. She had a secret way of doing it that she never passed along, or maybe we just never paid close enough attention to catch it. She went home to be with dad in mid-February, and this is one of my favorite things to think about. I knew I was blessed with incredible parents, but like Tom mentioned, I didn't appreciate it enough or realize how soon it would be over. Thanks for asking us to share our memories. I needed this today.
Your memories brought tears to my eyes. Your precious mother probably never fully understood the importance of that overcooked meatloaf, but you do. What a sweet and wonderful memory you have! I love your story.
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I grew up in WV and when I was married I moved to Ohio. My kids went to WV almost every summer and spent them with their grandparents. They loved it.
I know they treasure those memories just like I do. Thanks for coming to sit at our table.
My dad was a service manager at a GM dealership. I got to get raised up on the hoists, but the most fun was going with him on tow calls. And anytime of the day or night, especially when my mom worked 11 to 7. Winter, summer, fall and spring. Or going ice fishing with him into the middle of nowhere but he knew where the lakes were or fishing in streams for rainbow trout or from the boat for pike or pickerel. I loved that time with my dad. He fried sliced potatoes with onions and bacon and fried pork chops and he’d make a gravy from the grease and a roux and some water. Best tasting meal ever (sometimes it was instant potatoes which I love to this day). With my mom it was at our cottage or when we had the trailer just playing around with my friends hanging out at the beach, I have friends who still camp at this camp grounds 50 years later. You just brought all kinds of amazing memories. ❤🇨🇦❤🇨🇦❤🇨🇦
Oh, I love your memories and I appreciate that you shared them. Wasn't riding up and down on the lift fun! I loved it. And, is it special that some fried potatoes, pork chops, and gravy can still carry such sweet memories for you. Food memoires are the best! Thanks for coming to sit at our table and for sharing your sweet memories.
Your channel is a collection of amazing recipes that are demonstrated and described by a fantastic teacher/cook and they are filmed by the absolute best and most supportive camera person. What makes your channel truly special, though, are the stories that you include in the process. Thank you so much for all that you bring to us with your videos. You are truly appreciated.
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I so appreciate that, bowed305. It means the world to me that you appreciate our recipes and tolerate the memories and stories of an old man who longs for just another moment of "home" with those he loves and misses.
As always, I appreciate your loyal support.
That was such a sweet story, Tom. My grandparents were actually my great aunt and uncle that never had any children of their own. This was my mother's uncle and I was actually born on his birthday, so I not only spent lots of time with them (they lived in the same town as me and my parents), but we always celebrated our birthdays together too! My great aunt taught me how to make biscuits when I was 5 years old, how to slice things with a paring knife (my daddy almost had a heart attack when he and my mom came to pick me up one day and I was in the kitchen with that knife slicing green onions at the tender age of 6~ Haha!). My great aunt loved to bake and she was a fabulous baker. My favorite memory is the German Chocolate cakes she used to make and let me help, which quickly became my favorite cake and still is to this day! I make them, but of course, they don't taste like hers and I cannot eat a slice that I don't think of her and my precious great uncle and all the wonderful memories I shared with them! My great uncle loved to fish and they took me to their fishing camp during the summer where I learned to fish. He would clean the fish and my great aunt would fry them up with hush puppies and cole slaw ~ It was beyond delicious! I could go on and on, but you know how sweet and precious these memories are and I'm so thankful to have them, as this precious couple has been gone for many years and oh, how I miss them!
How blessed you were to have them for surrogate grandparents. They truly loved you as their grandchild. What a precious story! Thank you for sharing it with all of us. We appreciate you coming to sit at the table with us today.
Loved those good ole days when life was so simple and genuine. 😢
That's a great way to describe it - simple and genuine. Thank you so much for watching our channel. We appreciate that you are at the table with us.
That sure is a sweet memory. My aunt made this but with fried bologna, fried egg and cheese. I’m going to make this one.
Um um. Nothing like fried bolonie 😋
I'm going to have a Country Road Sandwich for lunch today in honor of your Grama !😋 Thank you for taking us down memory lane. I felt the love you have for your Grandparents.👴👵
Thanks for your video, I was diagnosed with breast in june and your absolutely right food can bring back so many fond memories. I guess im just feeling homesick for the good old days
I find that the older I get the more I long for "home" and those I've lost. I think that's natural. And, I certainly value those precious memories.
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Once a Mountaineer, always a Mountaineer. The Feeling never leaves you!
Tom, I love the history behind the recipes. I also love reading viewers comments and their stories. I so wanted Grandparents with whom I could spend time. I would listen to other children talk about their Grandparents, they were so blessed. You and Melissa have a wonderful channel.❤😊
I didn’t have the grandparent experience either. 😢
I'm so sorry you didn't have grandparents in your life growing up. I had one set of grandparents that loved and spoiled me. The other set.....not so much. But that's alright. My Mamaw and Papaw more than made up for the other set.
Melissa and I sure do appreciate you being a part of our channel.
❤❤❤❤ Tom and Melissa, you are one of a kind.
Not only have you invited us to sit at your table, you also went to the center of our hearts❤ to be able to remember those good old days.
But, they are not good old days they are the best days we got to spend with our love ones.
Memories that you just had the right key to open our ❤.
God Bless you 🙏
Awww, thank you for that Mary. I appreciate that so much. Thank you for coming to sit at our table. We appreciate you being here.
Such great memories of your time together with your Grandma and grandpa
I treasure those memories and I will always miss my Mamaw and Papaw.
West Virginia born and raised, still here, a widow and still working Nurse at 65 yrs old. Love those sandwiches as much as you! I eat those because if the easy prep for one! Thanks 😊
Thanks for watching our videos and supporting our channel, Tami. And, thanks for your work as a nurse. We appreciate you and your work! It's so nice to have some fellow West Virginians on our channel.
I'm from West Virginia and was wondering if your grandparents were Umberger's
@@susanreynolds4001, no, they weren’t. My Mamaw was a Smith and my Papaw’s last name was Janey.
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Keep them coming
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I love that song ! It brings so many memories of child hood I spent with my country aunts uncles and cousins ! ❤😊
That song tugs at my heartstrings, Dollie. It speaks to the child in me that always loved going back to my West Virginia home. Thanks for watching our videos. We appreciate you.
All Hail West Virginia! I was talking to my WV family this very morning. When I say up home, I mean WV. Grandparents are such a treasure. Thanks for reminding me that I was a teenager once and wish I had a do over. 🤗💕🙏🏻
What a lovely story that sandwich looks delicious I’m going to try it have a blessed day Tom and Melissa 🙏
Thank you. We hope you have a blessed day too. Thanks for stopping by to sit at the table with us. We appreciate you being here.
The grandmother story warms my heart. I was lucky to have my great grandmother until I was about 14 and a great aunt until I was an adult who always lived next to my daddy’s parents. The amount of food they all cooked for us is beyond comprehension. It was always family dinners on Sundays when my mother was at work (an RN on various shifts). Church was first then lunch. It was 45 minute drive up into the hill’s from home almost like a holler if that’s the right term. Away from town. In a rural area. A big open hilly area matawatchen Ontario. Lots of good Irish folk from which I descend. It was rural. Near lakes. Creeks. Lots of hills to toboggan in the winter and ice fishing. Hide and seek. The great church services where my sister player the pianos organ. Times with my cousins were amazing. Playing in the creeks. Going foraging with my dad for wild leeks and mushrooms and puff balls . I’m almost 66 and these memories just stand out so strong. Your stories just conjure up those memories I have. It’s so amazing. Keep up the good work. 10:00
As soon as you said bread and butter pickles, I knew it was going to be so good! Yes, mayo! And 4 pieces of bacon is perfect!
Bread & Butter Pickles are essential to this being a Country Roads Sandwich. I'm so glad you like them too. Thanks for coming to sit at our table.
My grandmother lived very close to our house when we were young, and we used to go over for a spaghetti dinner on sundays, just the grandkids and her! We loved her spaghetti recipe, everything she prepared was so delicious! My grandmother was the daughter of a butcher and my grandmother knew how to prepare meat like no one else! Any piece of meat on an animal she was able to cook and prepare. I have great memories with my 2 grandmother, who both were great cooks!!
How special that your grandmother had just her grandkids over for Sunday dinner. She was making memories with her grandkids. That is absolutely wonderful! I love that! Thanks for sharing your story.
Isn't it amazing how a recipe/dish or, in this case, a sandwich can bring back such sweet memories even from decades ago. Thank you, Tom and Melissa, for making this possible. Thank you, followers, for sharing your memories.
It certainly is amazing! And, I love it. Food memories are one of God's most wonderful gifts to us, I believe.
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As soon as I saw your tee shirt a tear came to my eye. I was born and bred in West Virginia and spent 64 years of my life there. I am now stuck in California and will surely die here. I miss WVa so much. Your sandwich holds so many memories for you and isn't it wonderful to be able to go back in time and relive those innocent times. I miss the fall butchering and the taste of homemade sausage and ponhaus. But most of all I miss the smell of the fresh air and the sweet aroma that lingers after a steady rain. Thank you for the memories. God Bless
Sherry, there's nothing better than fresh mountain air after a gentle rain shower. I, too, can close my eyes, feel the dampness, and smell the sweet freshness of that air. What a blessing we have that we can still remember and be transported back to the mountains of home. West Virginia will always live in my DNA.
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Food, music, smells and so much more can bring up memories.....Thanks for the memories ❤
This nostalgic video was most enjoyable as you described those childhood summer days with your grandparents
together with a simple but tasty sandwich prepared by your grandmother. Heartfelt memories of family and the meals enjoyed with them. Thank you for sharing those special days with us.
Thank you for those kind words. I sure do miss my Mamaw and Papaw, but I'm thankful to have the special memories that will stay with me for a lifetime. Thanks for watching our videos.
My maternal grandmother always made such special treats for me every time I went to spend the night with her. She made shrimp cocktail, freshly squeezed orange juice, Lamb chops, blackeyed peas, fruit gelatin molds all for me. I have the sweetest memories of her and now, I am creating those same memories with my grandchildren. Thank you for sharing such a special video. 💕
What precious memories you have! I love that. I appreciate you sharing your memories. Thanks for coming to sit at our table today.
Such a precious story about your Grandparents. I wish you had gone to see them the summer you were 16 too. Then we could hear that visit!
If I could go back i n time, not only would I have gone that summer, but I probably wouldn't leave. My Papaw passed just two years later. I was heartbroken and I still cry when I think of him.....like right now. I miss them so!
@@tomwyant9297 I feel your pain. I miss my grandparents so much that it hurts...
I have to say how fortunate you were to have these special memories of your grandparents. The camping, fishing and sandwich--priceless!
I didn't know any of my grandparents--they were all gone by the time I was born and at 86, yes I missed so much --they were pioneers and the "homestead" is still in the family-- getting close to being a Heritage Farm -well over 150 years!! I have many special memories relating to food though as my mother was a fantastic cook/baker --all on a wood cook stove.
Can’t wait to try this! Nothing like memories from a grandmother!!
Hey, Sherry, I saw that Mike made these for dinner last night. I hope you guys enjoyed them. Tell him I loved his video he sent to us.
Growing up, I had experiences similar to yours with my mother's family. We lived in a small city near Chicago, IL at the time and my mother's family lived near the family home, a farm in far Southern Illinois. From the time that I was five years old until I was thirteen years old, I would spend several weeks each summer with one of my mother's sisters. During that time, I would be exposed to what it was like to live on a farm -- feeding the livestock, gathering eggs, milking the cow, gardening, etc. I have many fond memories of those summers. We also shared what would become a favorite food for me -- a rich potato soup that didn't have any milk in it == it took me years to learn how to make it even though I watched and helped my aunt to make it many times. We had that wonderful soup two or three time per week whenever I visited. Much later in life while studying some old German cookbooks, I learned that my favorite soup was based upon a German soup called Revel Soup. To this day, I make our family's Potato Soup whenever I need a serving of a special comfort food. The reason that my summers with my aunt ended when i was thirteen year old was that was the year that we finally moved from the city to our family farm and I was able to attend and graduate from the rural schools in my mother's hometown. After attending the University, I had to move away to find employment, but when I retired nine years ago after 28 years of teaching high school Business and Computer Science, I returned to that town to enjoy my retirement.
Tom, Melissa.... Spam or Boloney, if we were lucky that week!!! with fresh maters, Mayo and gubmnt cheese.... OMGeeeee Memories!!
I love this recipe. I'm from the beautiful mountain state of West Virginia. TFS God Bless.
Hello, fellow West Virginian! I'm so glad you're here. We appreciate you being a part of our channel. God bless you too!
I grew up 5 miles from a north Iowa town of 202 people. Lived a mile from my gramma, called her Nana. I learned to cook watching her, I was fascinated by what she did and she’d explain as she went along. She was Norwegian. One of my favorite things to eat was bread dipped in bottom of cast iron skillet after frying a hamburger. The juices and bits of meat left after frying, she called “slag”. I’m 62 now and never met anyone who’s heard of this. You had to use good locker quality ground beef.
Oh, I bet that was the best! Nothing beats Nana's cooking. What a precious memory! Thanks for sharing that with us. We appreciate you being a part of our channel.
Tom, your story brought tears to my eyes too. I was 16 once too. As Melissa said, if only we knew those moments weren’t going to last forever. That being said, that sandwich sounds wonderful. My maternal grandmother lived with us and both my parents worked so grandma watched me. She used to make me cracker & milk (saltines crumbled into milk). I thought that was just the best. I don’t think I could even eat it now but as a toddler it was wonderful. I miss her every day. ❤
Those sandwiches less the pickle were my go to food during my second pregnancy. I would brown my bread, however, in the skillet and in the butter before I cooked my egg. Love your stories. Now, I'm going to have to make one of these again! When I was young we often ate Sunday dinner at my grandmother's. She always had fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes, green beans and lima beans and best of all, banana pudding, still warm from where she made the pudding from scratch! Yum! Yum! I still miss her. Her last name was Dockery so she was Mama Dock to us. Sweet, sweet lady.
What precious memories you have! How special that you got to eat Sunday dinner with her every week! I love that.
Try the Bread & Butter Pickles on your sandwich. I think you'll like it. Thanks for sharing your memories. We appreciate you sitting our table.
We spent all our time with our grandparents in Idaho. My very best memories from my childhood. Except for when my grandfather passed away in 1969.
When both my Mamaw and Papaw passed away, my Papaw in 1978 and my Mamaw in 2005, I thought I would never get over it. But, time has a wonderful way of covering the grief of death with love and precious memories. I love that. May we always hold dear those sweet memories.
Melissa you're an angel ❤ Thank you both so much! I grow chickens for meat and eggs. We haven't bought eggs or chicken in 28years. God Bless You both ❤
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That right there is fire!! For my grandmother, the food that always brings her straight to mind is egg salad sandwiches. She would always make that for us on summer breaks.
For my grand father, it will always be pancakes! He would make us pancakes or pigs in a blanket every morning. Simply the best!!
I love watching you cook and share your stories. When we got to spend a week in the summer at my grandmas house she let us make a lemon meringue pie ever year. She had one of this old toasters that the sides fold out. She would never let us touch it fear we would get burnt. Since you shared your story he reminded me of one of my cherished memories. Thanks for posting your video.
My dad loved ice cream. He didn’t really cook but he grilled all the time. However, he loved making us kids egg nog milkshakes around Christmas. Man, they were so good! Along with the egg nog milkshake memories is another ice cream memory. Whenever we were sick and had to stay home from school, he would come home at lunch just to bring us a milkshake from Dairy Queen. A food memory of my mom is we had a dilapidated house boat that we’d spend every weekend in the summer at. It only had a little 2 burner gas stove top but my mom would fix glorious breakfasts on that little bitty stove. One burner was turned into a food warmer where she’d stack all the cooked food in aluminum pie plates with holes poked in them and the other burner she’d cook with. And we all know that food cooked in and around outside always tastes better. One more food memory. My dad and his friends decided to build a big, hokey homemade houseboat and the dads and kids would make the trip from central Missouri to New Orleans down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Moms weren’t included in the planning, building or execution. Consequently, when dads went shopping for food supplies, they decided to only buy the industry sized cans of Veg-All, making all our veggie requirements in one, easy to heat serving. So the only veggies we had was Veg-All for the whole trip. I’ve never had it since!
You bring tears to my eyes talking about when you outgrew your grandparents. My niece outgrew me & it hurt God bless.
I guess it's the circle of life, but it still hurts. Looking back I know my grandparents were disappointed the first summer I didn't show up to go camping and fishing. I didn't do it to hurt them, but I was growing up and things change. If I could go back and change my decision, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But since I can't, I will cherish the memories we made and look forward to seeing them again someday in Heaven.
I’m so happy how much you (Tom) loved your mammaw. I loved mine beyond words. She and my grandfather raised me from the time I was about 9 months old till I got married. They were Momma and Daddy to me. My whole life I called them Momma & Daddy. So many precious memories. Thank you both for helping bring those memories to the forefront of my heart. Y’all are such a blessing. However, it does make me cry. O to be able to go back😢. I may want this sandwich for my breakfast in the am tomorrow.
What a gift they gave you! They were your grandparents, but they chose to be your parents too. How precious is that! I know they were such special people. I can feel it in your story. Thank you for sharing that with us.
What a wonderful story and a great sandwich! I used to stay with my grandparents during the summer. They had a farm and NO indoor plumbing! 😱 My favorite part was being chosen to draw the water from the well - with my Papa’s help of course! Wonderful memories of the best summers ever! There’s nothing like cold spring water from a well and being chosen to ‘help’ my Papa do one of his chores.
Hello Tom and Melissa when I was a young girl my Grandpa was a farmer and my Grandma would pack a lunch to the field and she would cook ham and beans and put them in a jar and make bologna sandwiches and now I have to have a bologna sandwich with a bowl of beans and it brings me down memory lane nothing like the good ole days they are priceless you have a good weekend God bless you🙏🏻🥰🧑🏻🍳🙂
I loved reading your memories of the ham & beans in jars and bologna sandwiches taken to the fields. What a precious memory! Thanks for sharing that with me, We appreciate you being a part of our channel!
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Thank you for that sweet comment. I hold memories of my loved very dear. Someday when it's my turn to "go home", I pray that others will have those same fond memories of our time together. Thank you for stopping by to sit at our table today.
I love these family recipes. I had to pause this video to rake a phone call from my sister asking for recipies for our third edition of family cookbook. Such a great eat to pass these recipies on to our children, grand children and greatgrands
I love that your family has put together cookbooks for the future generations! They'll be so appreciative someday.
My grandmother had one of the Sellers Hoosier cabinets. I can still see her sifting the flour, adding sugar, butter and baking soda to make tea cakes. They were so good. We didn’t get many sweets so they were a real treat. I wish I knew what happened to her Hoosier cabinet.
When i was little girl my Mom invited me into her kitchen to learn how to cook like she did.
She was a great cook. I loved every that was placed on the table. Her vegetable were never served just heated. 1 favorite was green beans with bacon bits and tender slice caramel onions.
Fried cauliflower or cauliflower Au Gratin. A thing Southern Sea Food. They make memories for me too. As I became part of the kitchen staff.
When we get older it seems that you look back at soo many special memories we hold in our hearts ❤
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Born and raised in Queens NY , my favorite memory is spending time in West Virginia in the summer at my Grandparents farm.. Grandma would bake bread twice a week , and we would have it still warm with home made jelly ... My favorite was wild rose petal jelly .... thanks for a great video ....
What a lovely memory. I too wish I had spent more time with my grandma . I look forward to seeing her in heaven. We will have eternity to visit then.
While I'm in no hurry to leave my wife and kids, I do look forward to the day I will join my parents and grandparents in Heaven. What a day that will be!
Hi Tom and Melissa! 🥰 I just enjoyed hearing the story and background of this sandwich. OMG my Dad had one of those domed lunch boxes. It was a metal one and it got so beat up after many years that he received one made out of hard plastic. I still have that lunch box. Gosh, brings back wonderful memories. I think I'm going to make this sandwich and one for my sister and place it in the lunch box and have a fun lunch with my sister. Thank you for the inspiration. Tom, with you wearing that West Virginia t-shirt and the title of your sandwich recipe, I started singing John Denver's song, 🎶🎶Country Roads, take me home, to a place, I call home, West Virginia 🎶🎶 I have such a big smile on my face. Thank you 🥰🥰
My mom’s cranberry relish. I would be in the kitchen with mom anytime I could. As a small child, 4 years old, I remember pulling up a stool by the stove and watching her cook. Her cranberry relish was our special dish. I was the only one who would spend the time to make it with her. I am the only one that knows the “recipe “. I know what to add but quantities are subjective to the size of the apples and oranges that were available. When anyone else makes it, it just isn’t right. I carry her very close each time I make it. She passed 18 years ago at the age of 58. I always feel she is standing and guiding me with every batch.
I guarantee that she's right there by you every time you make that cranberry relish. Her spirit lives on in your heart and memories. How precious is that! Thank you for sharing that precious memory!
We lived in town but I spent a lot of my summers at relatives farms baling hay. We ate a lot of lunches out in the hay fields sitting on either a bale of hay or the hayrack. My aunt would bring out bologna and butter sandwiches and potato chips along with cold Pepsi's. I started putting my chips on the sandwich and smashing them down so that I could hold my drink in one hand and the sandwich in the other. They are so good. I still do it and now my granddaughter does it too. I also make peanut butter and bologna on toast like my Mom made us. Now my daughter and granddaughter also love them. So many food memories. My Dad's oyster stew and his chili, my Mom's coffee cake and bunny shaped pancakes. ❤❤
Every time I make my southern fried corn it takes me back to my grandparents table here she had heaping bowls of vegetables and platters of fried chicken and biscuits. I loved to just fill a biscuit with her creamed style corn. Oh the memories!
So nice to see someone who cooks down home favorites from the past! I still make butter beans and cornbread the way my grandma did. and many favorites. It’s fun to watch you.
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Duke's, Sir. Memories about special times with family and friends are precious and necessary. Pity those without such joy.
We also love Duke's, but somethings must be kept the way my Mamaw made them. 😀 I constantly switch between Duke's, regular mayo, and Miracle Whip. We like all three.
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Grew up on Mayonnaise sammiches..... Was so glad when the maters got ripe.... !!! government cheese was a treat!!
That right there brings back memories! My mother worked in the school cafeteria and would bring home the government cheese at the end of the week! I was ok with just the mayo but the cheese helped and I actually liked it!
Growing up i loved mayonnaise and pepper sandwiches on white bread, would eat them when i didn't think there was anything good in the fridge . 😅😊
My most favorite memory is of my grandpa . He was a baker, and he would always sneak as kids baked goods when we would visit. My other fond memory is when I was little and my daddy loved to make a fruit salad at Thanksgiving and Christmas and it was him and IWould make it. I cherish those memories. There is six kids in my family so grandpa had a lot to bake for us. The sandwich looks really good. I can no longer eat eggs and boy do I miss not being able to eat them . Tfs and God bless:)
To any grandchildren who may see this video, if your grandparent or grandparents are still alive, and if they are special to you, no matter where you live, please take the time to reach out to them in some way. Let them know you care about them and love them. You will be glad you did while you still can do that, and it will make them feel loved and still needed and appreciated. Nancy from Arkansas ❤
My grandmother made the best tomato soup. With my grandfather, our very favorite place was to go to Dairy Queen. With my uncle, our favorite thing to do was floating down the irrigation cannels.
Precious memories! Aren't we blessed to have them? Thanks for sharing them with us.
We really are blessed to have good memories. The good memories cancel out the bad any day.
The best food I can remember as a kid is leftover mashed potatoes , turned into potato cakes.. in a skillet.. that was the best,,,❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love how you talk about your grandma. Add old memories I have some to my parents was from Casey county Kentucky
You are so right. I did the same thing but I was 14 when I started working summers to save and buy a car for when I turned 16. Then after getting the car I worked summers and after school to pay car payments, insurance, gas and have some fun money on the side. If only I had known back then I would have waited to grow up a little longer and spent those childhood days with them. Little did I know my grandma had been saving all her change for years in a savings account for me. I used that money for a down payment on a home.
What a sweet story. I know your grandma saved every bit of that change with love in her heart. You know she dreamed of the day she could hand over that savings account to you. You were surely loved!
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Oh, those grandparent memories!!!!
I spent lots of time with my grandparents! Loved every minute of it.
We were blessed by having that time with them. I'm so happy I got to do that.
Tom, I believe you could barely wait to eat that sandwich. You looked so sweet while reminiscing.
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I just love your stories and how each of us relate to them in the comments. It was my aunt and uncle with no children that I spent my summers with. They owned a grocery store and I loved going in the delivery truck around town delivering the groceries to mostly elderly ladies. I thought it was the best thing ever to deliver their orders. The stores closed down in town on Wednesday afternoon because it was church night and those were the times I got to go fishing with my uncle. We always went to Bible study in the evening. A great way to grow up and build character. That sandwich looks so good. Thank you for sharing it and your fond memories.
Aren't we blessed with such great memories? Your aunt and uncle sound like loving "grandparents". I know you feel blessed to have had them. I, too, remember when EVERYTHING closed on Wednesday nights and on Sundays for church. We'd be better off to go back to those days.
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My husband and I were at Ohio University and married always trying to find good recipes and our neighbor gave us this one and we still enjoy it . On Toast ,peanut butter, pickle Mayo ,bacon I make it like a club sandwich was always my husbands favorite
Omgoodness! I will be definitely making this sandwich for my family especially my grandkids, everything about that sandwich is delicious, god bless you and your beautiful wife 🙏🕊️❤
I spent my summers with my grandparents too!! Such wonderful memories!
Weren't summer with grandparents the best! I wish I could go back and camp with them, fish with my Papaw, and sleep in that hot house with no air conditioning. I do it in a heartbeat and never want to leave.
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I grew up in Connecticut in the 1950s, and every summer, we would visit my paternal grandparents in Pennsylvania. My grandfather was a coal miner (retired by the time I was around) and they still had a coal stove and coal heating. Toast made over the opening on a coal stove was fantastic. He also drove once a week up into the mountains to a natural spring to get their drinking water. Good times.
Oh, and I make my bacon the same way! In fact, I believe I have all the ingredients for this and might make it for dinner.
What precious memories you have! I know that you, like me, look back at those days with longing and a twinge of sadness.
I hope you got the chance to make my Mamaw's Country Roads Sandwich and that you loved it as much as I do. Thanks for being apart of our channel.
Belated Happy Anniversary. I love your stories and your recipes. I never knew my grandparents. God bless you both. I learn a lot from you Tom. Thank you for a great channel.
Good memories are treasures! You are very blessed.
Good name for your sandwich. I like you shirt as well.
Thank you Tom.
Tom and I are so grateful to have you watching our channel. I'll be sure to pass along the compliment for his shirt! Hope you are having a great weekend.
When my sister and I visited our grandma (grandpa died when my Dad was a baby, so I never knew him), we got to go across the street to my aunt's little five and dime store. She had a variety of penny candy on the counter in large glass jars. She would give each of us a small brown bag and we would tell her what candy we wanted. Two of this, three of that... So we each got a custom mix. Great fun!
I remember being at grandma's house once having lunch--PBJ sandwich with some potato chips. Well, one of my two front teeth was quite loose. First bite of my sandwich my tooth came right out and lodged itself right in the sandwich. And thankfully the tooth stayed stuck in the sandwich so I didn't swallow it! And it didn't hurt a bit coming out!
My other grandmother would often have us over for Sunday dinners. She always made a pie from scratch for dessert. She usually made either chocolate cream pie (which I loved), lemon meringue pie (which I liked a lot) or coconut cream pie (which I didn't like). Her crusts were amazing as well as the fillings. I was always so happy when she made choc or lemon!!
Aww love that you shared your childhood memories with us! You all are so down to earth! And pile on those pickles if you want, lol Stay Blessed 😇
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Looks good.I was born and raised in WV but live in Ohio now.love your stories.
I never had grandparents, and I would hear the other children talking about theirs and wonder what that was like. Now that I have 4, I hope they look back on our times together as much as you do with yours, Tom. Life goes too quickly, for sure.😢
I'm sorry you never had grandparents to make memories with, but what a gift to be able to make memories with your 4 grandchildren. That's a wonderful and special gift! Thanks for coming to sit at our table. We appreciate you being here with us!
I was raised in Kentucky and now live in West Virginia. Both are great states.
I live in Texas but I'm from West Virginia. Love your stories.
💖💖👍👍🙏🙏👍👍💖💖My Grandmother used to make me 3 poached eggs with butter, salt and pepper, as soon as she set it in front of me I would scramble them up so I could get all the yolks mixed in because that's the best part of poached eggs. I miss her sooo much. 💖💖💖💖
Looks good. My mom would make a beet and green bean salad with mayo. Cold salad. Plus home made bread,cookies,cranberry/orange relish for chrismas and thanksgiving. Great Cook i miss her so much. Sweet memories. ❤️❤️❤️😄😄😄🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹👍
Hi Melissa and Tom, wow what a lovely memory for you. My most valuable memory was when both my parents who happened to be Polish, got into the kitchen together and made pyrogi, they made them with cold mashed potato and strong cheeses, NO ONION. As a young adult I’d help them because it was an all day process, their pastry was made by hand and I was always told you had to kneed it until it was shiny. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS . But my mum always told the story of when she was a young girl and she thought she’d help her mum by making pyrogi while her mum was working, of course my mum only being very young and obviously she’d watched some of the process in making them BUT not all of it, instead of using about 5 cups or so of flour she used the entire sack, not a bag but a very large sack, when my grandmother came home there was flour everywhere, and the more my mum tried to make this dough the worse things got. So after a very big clean up, my grandmother taught my mum to make them the most tasty dish I have ever tasted. I only ever met my grandmother once in my life but I will always remember and imagine how that day must have gone for them both. My mum taught my Dad to make it too and now that they have both passed I do have to say I can’t make them much because of health issues but I still remember her story. Sorry this is such a long post. I sure do hope it puts a smile on your faces as it always does for me. Best wishes 🥰🇦🇺
I LOVE your story! Thank you so much for sharing it! I can see in my mind the mess and panic your mum must have been in and feeling when she tried so hard to make the pyrogi. I'm sure she thought it would be a great surprise for her mother. And how disappointed she probably was in the outcome. It did end up being a great story, though. I'm sorry health issues prevent you from cooking as much as you'd like to now, but Tom and I certainly appreciate that you are at the table with us. We love having you watching our channel.
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I don’t know which is better - that delicious sandwich creation, or that amazingly sweet story. Put them together, and I’m SO GLAD that I came by for a visit this evening. Sharing happy times ‘round the table is one of my favorite “happy spots.” God bless y’all, both richly and abundantly.
Oh, Kenneth, I think the memories are better than the sandwich, though the sandwich is delicious. I sure do miss my Mamaw and Papaw.
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That sandwich reminds me of simple meals growing up in WV!