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Depression Cooking with: Clara
Welcome to my kitchen. I’m Clara. I’m 91 years old. Today we are making meals from the Depression.
Today we are making pasta with peas. It’s a very simple dish, but it’s very tasty and good for you.
Now we are gonna peel the potato, it’s not expensive but it is nourish. That’s the only thing I can tell you about it. Take the potato and dice it. And take some onions. Now we are dicing the onion in the pan with the potatoes.
I ate past with peas since I was little girl and then during the Depression we ate lot of it. Because we ate pasta most of the time with low vegetable and then it was our meal.
The Depression was bad. I got this all chopped up. Take olive oil. Put a little olive oil in the pan. After that I put all boiled and them with the potatoes and the onion and I’m gonna fry them. For a while until they get a little softer. Watch them in the pan – they might burn.
Now we’ll open the can peas. When the potatoes are rose then I will put the peas. Not rose yet. We ate more potatoes during the Depression with pasta but we survived. It was hard.
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with garlic.”
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with peas.”
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with beans. “
“That’s all we did. Ate pasta with vegetables.”
Throw all the peas now. With the juice and all.
Now we are gonna put some warm water enough to cook the pasta.
I have to wait until this boil and then I put the pasta then. A little salt, pepper.
Then you simmer it until the pasta is cooked.
I can put the pasta then. Now check if it’s cooked with the peas. When the pasta is cooked it is ready to eat. You can let it boil or you can just put the cover and cook with the heat. So that’s what I will do. Turn it off. Put the cover up. That’s it.
At the Depression we would turn off the gas and let it cook by its own heat, so we would save gas. Anything to save anything.
I guess it’s done but it last something. So we decided to put a little tomato sauce. My mother would make it with tomato sauce, sometimes just plain without the sauce. Add little more salt and pepper.
That’s good. I made pasta with peas just like we used to make during the Depression. It’s peas with potatoes and pasta. It’s delicious. Oh! Then you put cheese on it, grated cheese. That’s it. You have a meal.
Depression Cooking with: Clara
Welcome to my kitchen. I’m Clara. I’m 91 years old. Today we are making meals from the Depression.
Today we are making pasta with peas. It’s a very simple dish, but it’s very tasty and good for you.
Now we are gonna peel the potato, it’s not expensive but it is nourish. That’s the only thing I can tell you about it. Take the potato and dice it. And take some onions. Now we are dicing the onion in the pan with the potatoes.
I ate past with peas since I was little girl and then during the Depression we ate lot of it. Because we ate pasta most of the time with low vegetable and then it was our meal.
The Depression was bad. I got this all chopped up. Take olive oil. Put a little olive oil in the pan. After that I put all boiled and them with the potatoes and the onion and I’m gonna fry them. For a while until they get a little softer. Watch them in the pan – they might burn.
Now we’ll open the can peas. When the potatoes are rose then I will put the peas. Not rose yet. We ate more potatoes during the Depression with pasta but we survived. It was hard.
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with garlic.”
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with peas.”
“What are we gonna eat tonight? Pasta with beans. “
“That’s all we did. Ate pasta with vegetables.”
Throw all the peas now. With the juice and all.
Now we are gonna put some warm water enough to cook the pasta.
I have to wait until this boil and then I put the pasta then. A little salt, pepper.
Then you simmer it until the pasta is cooked.
I can put the pasta then. Now check if it’s cooked with the peas. When the pasta is cooked it is ready to eat. You can let it boil or you can just put the cover and cook with the heat. So that’s what I will do. Turn it off. Put the cover up. That’s it.
At the Depression we would turn off the gas and let it cook by its own heat, so we would save gas. Anything to save anything.
I guess it’s done but it last something. So we decided to put a little tomato sauce. My mother would make it with tomato sauce, sometimes just plain without the sauce. Add little more salt and pepper.
That’s good. I made pasta with peas just like we used to make during the Depression. It’s peas with potatoes and pasta. It’s delicious. Oh! Then you put cheese on it, grated cheese. That’s it. You have a meal.
