need a recipe

[flo]

Bonnie, I suppose this could be a spin off.  Al and Pauline Moffett, who owned the one in Long Beach, had 3 children.  Henry (Hank) Moffett, Al's bro. worked for them, then opened the one in Bellflower, but all three of them are probably dead as they were middle aged then and I was a teenager.  My mother worked there is why I started.  The menu then was Chicken Pie, Chicken and Noodles, Steak, soup, and that was about it, I think.  I have a menu in the trunk but don't want to dig it out right now. 

[Bonnie M.]

Bonnie, I suppose this could be a spin off.

You're probably right.  We were sitting with people the last time we were there who said they used to eat at the one in San Diego when their children were little, 50 + years ago, probably.

[flo]

yep - I was there in 1956 so 50+ years ago it was.  Know it was sometime in 57 or 58 that they opened the one in Bellflower and the original was still open at that time, but don't know for how long after that as my mother moved back to Kansas in 1959 and she had transfered to the one in Bellflower when it was opened.

[Diane Amberg]

   A menu in your trunk? A spare tire and a jack I could understand, but a menu? Oh, not that kind of trunk?

[flo]

Diane, never know when you might get hungry along the road and that way I can see what's for dinner, (if I ever get to Long Beach)  - just kidding - I have a menu and an ashtray as keepsakes.  Also a spoon from Denmark that a waitress brought me when she went back to her homeland on vacation.  Now, Greta was one of those waitresses that never wrote anything down.  Me, I used a pencil and pad, then lots of times had to check it twice.

[dandymomma]

We ate in some good places in Japan Town too. We love good Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese also. We both like Kim-chi, but I'm not crazy about how the authentic stuff is made. Dandymomma, do you have a favorite Shashimi?

Albacore Tuna is my favorite raw fish, but southern fried cat fish is my favorite cooked fish. I never was a fan of gravy like substances, so no pot pies for me, but give me a warm pecan pie with vanilla ice cream any day!!!

[flo]

these chicken pies were not POT pies - they were chicken pies, no veg. filler, just chicken

[kdfrawg]

I guess I must be a guy. My favorite food group is gravy.

[Ole Granny]

Must be good gravy.  Nothing worse than bad.  Not a guy thing- just what you grew up with.  My mother was the gravy "queen", (sorry Teresa).  I learned from the best.  It could be the meal.  Of course, it is not recommended by health professionals.  Just grease and flour with some liquid and flavoring.  Mostly how it is cooked.  I have ruined my share over the years.  Burned chicken grease makes for nasty gravy.

[kdfrawg]

Wise words, indeed, Ole Granny.

Bad gravy is indeed a pretty repulsive substance.

But good gravy makes it all worthwhile.

Understand, gravy has places that it belongs and places that it doesn't. It belongs on mashed potatoes and doesn't belong on a steak. So a man can't live on gravy alone. But I do remember with great fondness Tee Jay's Country Place Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. Art the manager always said they alway had seven kinds of gravy, but that included the creamed chipped beef.