Whenever I see great retro dishes like this one, I have flashbacks to my baby boomer childhood.
My parents had four children in 4 1/2 years. Being it was the late fifties, early sixties, daddy went to work and mommy stayed home with the kids. Every woman's dream at the time...well, not every woman.
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My mother was a college graduate, who taught elementary school before she got married at 26...not exactly the traditional path of her contemporaries. She had her first kid 10 months later (me, and yes, I did the math). After two years of taking care of the best and most adorable child in the world, the rest of them came along.
That's when it happened. That's when my mother became a desperate housewife. My dad left for work very early every morning leaving mom alone with four kids under 5 all day long. This brings me to my most recent flashback...dinner was on the table at five, the children were in their seats and my dad was still at work.
Partly to keep us occupied, and partly to maintain her sanity, she convinced us that we could make our dad's return happen just by saying over and over..."Daddy come home, right now!"
And then we did and then he did and then we all believed her...so every night at supper time, you could hear that chant coming from our kitchen, with one voice just a little louder than the rest.
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