I am 68 and I have never had prunes and noodles. I might give it a try if someone else made it.

Friday is pizza night here. We never get tired of pizza with so many different toppings to put on them. Most of the time we make our own.

BLT's and Publix potato salad. Salad was a disappointment tho.

TJ's ravioli.

ben, your post stirred strong memories for me, so I know that I've had noodles and prunes somewhere in my childhood. I'm thinking that my Dad's mother made them, she was from the Midwest and of German stock.

I remember really liking it!

Never heard of that. SO is a fan of prunes but I am not. I am sure he would not be willing to try it though. That sounds like one of those things you have to have grown up eating to understand and enjoy. Is it German? My grandparents on both sides were of German background and made lots of German stuff but I never heard of this. Just as well, I was never a fan of some of the traditional dishes that my parents and grandparents liked.

Today, I made SO a bacon cheeseburger and homemade fries before I left for work. I stopped at the grocery store and got some grilled chicken,a box of frozen brocolli and cheese,and a case of cherry vanilla coke zero for myself on the way. It was disappointing. The chicken skin had some sticky sweet gunk on it and I hate sweet stuff on meat. I managed to get most of it off by peeling it off and giving it,along with the rest of the leftover chicken to the little feral cats out here. I hate wasting calories on mediocre food.

yes it is German. My DH and I both grew up in ND and I couldn't believe he had ever had it and liked it. We are both catholic and it was traditional when we couldn't eat meat on Friday's. He said his mother didn't make it that he remembers though. It was a non-Catholic lady who made it on the farm he worked on when he was a boy.

BBQ wings, quinoa salad and brussel sprouts.

Definitely never had prunes and noodles. I like a few good fresh prunes but I never liked them cooked at all. I am afraid how they would affect my digestive system! 😱

Tonight I made macaroni and cheese with breaded flounder for me and some polish sausage for my son . No meat for me on Friday and he doesn't eat fish.

I love German food and have been all over the country and have enjoyed many regional dishes. We have a few favorite authentic German restaurants in my area we go to regularly. I'm not disputing what anyone says, I'm sure it is as described but I've never heard of it. It doesn't sound appealing to me.

There are a few women active in this forum who were born in Germany, like Moni. I wonder if this dish is something she knows?

We were raised Catholic and we always had fish sticks and macaroni and cheese(from the box, but still delicious) on Fridays during Lent and Advent,and other specific days. Or tuna melts on English muffins. With a salad. I didn't get it then and don't now. Why is fish flesh NOT considered meat? But as long as no one tried to force feed me the fish and just allowed me to eat the mac and cheese and salad in peace, I never objected to the practice. I don't even think about it now unless someone mentions it, or if my mom or sisters happen to send a picture of the fish/seafood meal they cooked and i remember that "oops. its Friday and its Lent isn't it?" Then i eat my chicken.

Second "meal" of the day: An Atkins Dark Chocolate Royale shake and 2 claussen pickle spears. Getting ready for my nightly walk in an hour or so.

Never heard of prunes and noodles. Getting ready to eat a dinner snack..maybe some boxed mac & cheese.

For those curious about noodles and prunes, a quick google search turned up these articles:

Germans from Russia

Cookbook Project

German Noodles and Prunes

I remember my friend's mom making pierogi with prune filling. I believe the family was greek orthodox.

I have never heard of Prunes and Noodles together. I like both but I don't know about them together. My supper was fish sticks, fries, coleslaw and strawberries and bananas.

Sue

The only cooked prunes I remember eating were in rabbit stew.

As a child we never ate meat on Fridays at all. It was always fish or an omelette.

Funny, I was a very picky eater. I couldn’t stand either fish or eggs. But I clearly remember liking the stew.

Go figure.

Never had it....never heard of it. Jody likes prunes....he would probably like it. I would like the noodles, plain.

Supper last night was going to be steak, salad, and strawberry shortcake, but due to time restraints, I didn't get in from feeding until 7:30 and Jody didn't want much to eat, so that will be lunch today.

One of my grandmother's friends would make a sweet noodle kugel with prunes. Grandmother would also add prunes (and/or other dried fruits) to a few meat dishes. Her family was from Lithuania.

I'm fixing tostados for DH and a salad for me. Garlic toast on the side.

I woke up too late to cook so I went to a local little place and got SO a little pizza, myself some hot wings. I probably should have gotten a salad bar with it but too late now.

Leftovers tonight - Mexican lasagna, cucumber/tomato/avocado salad with chili/garlic dressing and Mexican style pickled carrots and onions.

Part of a Rainbow roll and a couple spring rolls for my "lunch" just now. Will have the rest of the Rainbow roll and miso soup for dinner tonight. While part of Central Ky is freaking out over covid 19 and buying up all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer (based on all the Facebook posts I've seen today), others were crammed in like sardines in my favorite sushi place.

Homemade multibean/collard/pumpkin soup, made with a ham bone that I had frozen from earlier this winter. I got a quarter of a turkey out of the deep freezer also (left over from Christmas) and I plan to alternate the two items over the next few days.

Kathsgrdn, I went to Kroger to get TP last evening - not out of panic buying, but because they had it on a really good sale - and it was completely sold out probably because of the sale. But I did notice that another major brand TP was almost all gone too. Funny that people seemingly don't want to stockpile the bargain TP!

ravencajun,

You don't boil in the shell?

That sounds like a German thing. The way I have had it is that the prune is wrapped in dough and the cooked like that. I guess your family just shortcut it, since it is really the same thing, just in a different form.

That is much the origin of Penn Dutch slippery pot pie. Instead of actually making a pot pie they just slipped pieces of the dough into the hot pot of stew. It is easier and quicker and really the same thing.

Last week I made for the second time some Momos, which are filled dumplings. It seems to be a popular thing around that part of the world that includes Tibet. Darn, they were good! Thinking of that again today. They are like Goyza dumplings. It is an acquired skill to fill and form the noodles. You use lots of cilantro, ginger and garlic.

It seems that a lot of cultures have some kind of a filled noodle or dumpling or peroige or ravioli.

I am bumping this up for moni again. I still would like to see her views on this.

My inlaws who came to NY from Germany in 1940ish used to stew dried prunes and apricots and then cooked dumplings on top. We had that for a 'special' lunch on the weekends.