If someone asked you what food reminds you of your youth/parents house, what would you say?
A nice Sunday Roast, nothing better :003:
Bread n Dripping.😄
Quote from: Art Vandelay on June 30, 2019, 09:25:22 PM
A nice Sunday Roast, nothing better :003:
Goes without saying. What about midweek, after school stuff.
Vesta curries !! Bloody hell they were awful !
Quote from: BigbadBillyMcKinley on June 30, 2019, 09:52:20 PM
Quote from: Art Vandelay on June 30, 2019, 09:25:22 PM
A nice Sunday Roast, nothing better :003:
Goes without saying. What about midweek, after school stuff.
Mum used to make a lasagne and a bolognesse pasta bake because my dad was adamant he didn't like Lasagne. After 20 years, he realised he like it much to my mothers delight. So homemade lasagne, pasta bake and garlic bread was the staple, every week.
Chicken dumplings, Beef stuffed cabbage or Bratwurst Stewed with Sauerkraut remind me of my youth with my mom, my Aunts and Grandma all cooking. :wine:
Pie and Mash
Salt beef (brisket) with dumplings it was a cheap meal then , but now become a bit cocky , £12 for a salt beef sarnie in selfridges.
Liver and Bacon....... very good for you I'm told, but, not tasted since I left home over 50 years ago.
Sunday tea time Winkles and celery...... now, that I would try again.
See through vegetables. A vegetable wasn't cooked in our house until every once of colour had been boiled out of it.
Quote from: I Ronic on July 01, 2019, 06:43:55 AM
See through vegetables. A vegetable wasn't cooked in our house until every once of colour had been boiled out of it.
lol....Same here.
My brother used to drink the cabbage water when cold.
Sugar sandwiches anyone?
Quote from: Fernhurst on June 30, 2019, 11:47:17 PM
Liver and Bacon....... very good for you I'm told, but, not tasted since I left home over 50 years ago.
Sunday tea time Winkles and celery...... now, that I would try again.
i was about to say the same. Every Tuesday liver and bacon - i hate the stuff.
Sunday - roast
Monday - cold meat leftovers
Tuesday - liver and bacon
Wednesday - shepherds pie
Thursday - cant remember
Friday - fish and chips
Saturday - pie at football
Vegetables - cabbage and carrots - boiled to hell so they were soggy
Repeat each week but that was all they could afford
My mum used to fry mushrooms in beef dripping. Christ, they stank and the stumps looked like stubbed out fagends. I can't bear the thought of mushrooms since.
Nicer memories are bacon and onion roly-poly, spotted dick, home-made brawn and my gran's sausage rolls.
Quote from: love4ffc on June 30, 2019, 11:03:05 PM
Chicken dumplings, Beef stuffed cabbage or Bratwurst Stewed with Sauerkraut remind me of my youth with my mom, my Aunts and Grandma all cooking. :wine:
Ah! smoked pork, sauerkraut and dumplings!
Bread Pudding. My Grandma used to make the most delectable I have ever smelled or tasted. The recipe is still a (supposed) family secret and is just something about how you prepare the bread.
Rolley Polley, Suet pudding cooked wrapped in the same grubby old cloth fixed with a couple of big safety pins.
Quote from: Russianrob on July 01, 2019, 07:06:50 AM
Sugar sandwiches anyone?
Yep loved those - only white bread obviously.
Also remember tins of fruit cocktail with evaporated milk as a "pudding" we always used to argue over who had the lone cherry.
However what always reminds me of home, especially when growing up, is my mother doing a stuffed marrow for my Dad. It wasn't done very often and I couldn't stand it, but it is a very vivid memory.
Stuffed marrow ........ completely forgotten that delicacy!!
Always had loads of dripping, sugar and banana sandwiches.
Made it this far (over 70) on a such a strange diet.
Shephard's Pie.
Pancakes (my dad made them as a treat every Sunday).
Peach Melba yoghurt (not sure why but my mum bought tubs of the stuff).
Sunday roasts.
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on June 30, 2019, 09:27:55 PM
Bread n Dripping.😄
& me, with lots of salt on 092.gif not one for today's health conscious nanny state!
Quote from: filham on July 01, 2019, 12:05:19 PM
Rolley Polley, Suet pudding cooked wrapped in the same grubby old cloth fixed with a couple of big safety pins.
We knew we were having suet pudding when we came home and mum only had one stocking on :005:
Quote from: bigalffc on July 01, 2019, 02:00:59 PM
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on June 30, 2019, 09:27:55 PM
Bread n Dripping.😄
& me, with lots of salt on 092.gif not one for today's health conscious nanny state!
Yes spread thickly with jelly bits as well,salt,and washed down with mug of hot cha.
Eggs. Strapped for cash and inspired by Tom and Barbara, Dad built a chicken coop in the back yard. Then the race was on to eat them faster than five hens could lay them. Not many got swapped or sold. I take my hat off to him and to Mum who found ever more ingenious ways to build them in to our meals. All had pencil written dates on them and she was meticulous about the order of use. As a kid you just assume such stuff is normal. It really wasn't even then and certainly isn't now.
Scrambled eggs on toast remains my ultimate comfort food.
In the 60's as a young lad before every home game I had saveloy and chips.
At home again in the 60's I remember my mum regularly making spam fritters.
Parents came over from Ireland in the early 50s.My Father's favorite was something called a Coddle.It is basically a stew where you put all your leftover food in back in the day.When we had it it would contain,sausages,bacon,meatballs,stewing steak,potatoes whole onions,carrots.Mum use to make it in a massive Pot and My old man would have it 2 to 3 times a week.Good Memories
Quote from: mrmicawbers on July 01, 2019, 05:17:20 PM
Parents came over from Ireland in the early 50s.My Father's favorite was something called a Coddle.It is basically a stew where you put all your leftover food in back in the day.When we had it it would contain,sausages,bacon,meatballs,stewing steak,potatoes whole onions,carrots.Mum use to make it in a massive Pot and My old man would have it 2 to 3 times a week.Good Memories
Could you see young girls with kids doing that now.
4 minutes in the micro is all most know,no wonder you see so many pale faced kids around,all lacking certain vitamins.
There was a documentary on last year,and a high percentage of kids around 10-15 had never tasted carrots or cabbage...Unbelievable.
Prison
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on July 01, 2019, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: mrmicawbers on July 01, 2019, 05:17:20 PM
Parents came over from Ireland in the early 50s.My Father's favorite was something called a Coddle.It is basically a stew where you put all your leftover food in back in the day.When we had it it would contain,sausages,bacon,meatballs,stewing steak,potatoes whole onions,carrots.Mum use to make it in a massive Pot and My old man would have it 2 to 3 times a week.Good Memories
Could you see young girls with kids doing that now.
4 minutes in the micro is all most know,no wonder you see so many pale faced kids around,all lacking certain vitamins.
There was a documentary on last year,and a high percentage of kids around 10-15 had never tasted carrots or cabbage...Unbelievable.
To be fair to the kids of today. I'd eaten both by the time I was ten but didn't realise either had a taste until I left home. There used to be a restaurant on the corner of Dawes Road and North End Road. I started going in there on a Friday night with my Boss and discovered Liver that melted in the mouth as opposed to tasting something like a car tyre and vegetables with colour and flavour. Plus the service was fantastic they treated you like a long lost brother. I wish I had made more of that as a kid but you're just not old enough to appriate what's going on around you.
By the way. A lovely story by Carborundum :)
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on July 01, 2019, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: mrmicawbers on July 01, 2019, 05:17:20 PM
Parents came over from Ireland in the early 50s.My Father's favorite was something called a Coddle.It is basically a stew where you put all your leftover food in back in the day.When we had it it would contain,sausages,bacon,meatballs,stewing steak,potatoes whole onions,carrots.Mum use to make it in a massive Pot and My old man would have it 2 to 3 times a week.Good Memories
Could you see young girls with kids doing that now.
4 minutes in the micro is all most know,no wonder you see so many pale faced kids around,all lacking certain vitamins.
There was a documentary on last year,and a high percentage of kids around 10-15 had never tasted carrots or cabbage...Unbelievable.
yes your right and look what's happening to peoples weight especially kids these days,When I went to School to have an overweight kid in the class was maybe one out of thirty.Different today sadly
Dad earned to much money allegedly for me my brother and sister to have free school meals in primary school. So at lunch time we would go home and have a bread related lunch. Beans ,spaghetti beef dripping and the dreaded lemon curd hated the stuff but in those days it was Take it or Leave it ! I still to this day will not eat anything with lemon in it . Used to love Sunday's round my nans roast dinner on the go me being sent to the Wilton arms to collect my dad and grandad, Grandad knowing he was in trouble would buy half a pint of winkles to keep her happy. Then it was wrestling on the Tv followed by a film then a game of cards chase the ace for the kids and later on cribbage for the adults.Happy days .
Cow Pie
Rice Pudding
Winkles, cockles, mussels & whelks. There was a van selling outside the Crabtree on Sunday morning, so we always had it for Sunday tea.