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Tell us your favourite classic recipes - to win Marcus Wareing's new book plus a £100 restaurant voucher

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SorchaMumsnet · 01/11/2017 12:27

Following on from his Sunday Times bestseller Marcus at Home, Marcus Wareing is back - with a must-have new classic for your kitchen shelves.

Over the years, Marcus has developed and refined recipe after recipe. Whether it’s a quick meal after a hectic day, a recipe to bring your family together or a feast to impress your friends, Marcus brings excellence to every dish that he makes.

In New Classics, Marcus takes the best of time-honoured recipes and puts his own spin on them. What’s more, he creates new recipes that will become much-loved classics in their own right. Here is a book to pore over, to bring inspiration and excitement back into your cooking, and to use again and again.

Marcus’ new book features his own take on classic dishes, as well as dishes he thinks deserve to be classics of the future. For a chance to win a copy plus a £100 restaurant voucher, we want to know: what are your all-time favourite classic recipes - or the ones that you think deserve to be classics?

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Tell us your favourite classic recipes - to win Marcus Wareing's new book plus a £100 restaurant voucher
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Givemecoffeeplease · 06/11/2017 21:08

Erm, pesto pasta. Clearly it's a classic for the kids, but we've started eating it too. So very lazy. It freezes well. It tastes amazing. It's green so basically a vegetable. And it goes with red AND white wine. Can't help myself...

chrissy53438 · 06/11/2017 20:25

carbonara is always my favourite

grannybiker · 06/11/2017 18:36

Veggie soup cooked in the slow-cooker and extra portions frozen for later - makes me feel a real domestic goddess!

clairet144 · 06/11/2017 14:22

We love Macaroni cheese - a classic comforting food which can be 'pimped up' or left just as it is! mmmm Delicious!

Pmliu · 06/11/2017 12:57

We love lasagne

ILookedintheWater · 06/11/2017 11:35

French onion soup. It's simple to cook but done well it is just heavenly. I make a lot of stock, but can always use it up making this soup if the freezer becomes over-full. It's also a great budget meal when you need to feed a gaggle of teens with little notice!

BowlingShoes · 06/11/2017 11:30

If we're including baking, a traditional boiled fruit cake like my Grandma used to make.

For main meals, I have never been able to make a decent toad in the hole so I would like a foolproof recipe.

helly27 · 06/11/2017 11:25

Steak Diane and chips

southernsun · 06/11/2017 11:16

Slow cooker chilli con carne

wallers5 · 06/11/2017 07:05

Grand Marnier Soufflé brought to the table flaming brightly.

sashh · 06/11/2017 05:56

Toad in the hole - best classic food ever.

Cookingongas · 06/11/2017 05:22

A suet pudding- beef and mushrooms in red wine/ ale

Also , a side dish, but one sadly falling out of favour- bread sauce , made properly with good bread and infused milk

freefan · 05/11/2017 20:42

Macaroni Cheese should definitely be considered a classic recipe, it's a real comfort food and perfect for a quick healthy meal with vegetables

sunshinewey · 05/11/2017 20:02

I guess my best 'classic' recipie would be Lamb Stew!

Ranita · 05/11/2017 17:18

A roast dinner with all the trimmings

BuzzKillington · 05/11/2017 15:40

My husband's beef brisket, slow cooked and served with creamy, garlicky dauphinoise potatoes, fine beans and loads of really strong horseradish sauce.

It is simply sublime, and the perfect Sunday dinner as it can, largely, be left. He preps it in the morning, sets the timer and goes off cycling for hours.

We sometimes do it for friends and they always ask for the recipe.

maisiesnan · 05/11/2017 15:39

Stew and dumplings is my absolute favourite and bread and butter pudding with custard for dessert my ideal meal

littlemonkeyz · 05/11/2017 15:31

Steak and ale pie with a thick crust and home-made gravy.

beckyinman · 05/11/2017 13:41

Toad in the hole with mash and onion gravy

sezz35 · 05/11/2017 12:47

beef casserole

TellMeItsNotTrue · 05/11/2017 12:20

Veggie shepherds (well, technically cottage pie bottom, shepherds pie top) pie has been passed down through our family, started off with meat and swapped to veggie mince as its been passed down, but everything else is the same. It includes baked beans, pads it out a bit to make it cheaper, the beans work well with the mince and the bit of sauce mixed with the gravy makes it really nice without actually being able to tell a tin of baked beans in sauce has been added not just haricot beans.

It started when my grandma had unexpected visitors and had to make their meal stretch further, the family all commented on how it was even better than normal so my grandma did that in future and was pleased that it made the meal cheaper (or stretched to more meals meaning the kids had it the next day too)

amelia4levi · 05/11/2017 12:08

A Classic STEW! And Dumplings! x

Lisapaige24 · 05/11/2017 10:20

Cheese pie should definitely be a classic dish I absolutely love it I loved it in school I loved it when my nan used to make it if I could make it my kids would be made up as they love it too

wjanice121 · 05/11/2017 09:51

Treacle Sponge

INGREDIENTS
250g golden syrup, zest 1 lemon, plus juice ½ lemon, 5 tbsp breadcrumb, 200g pack butter softened, 200g golden caster sugar
3 medium eggs, 200g self-raising flour, 5 tbsp milk

METHOD
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Mix the syrup, lemon zest, juice and breadcrumbs and spread over the base of a 1.5 litre baking dish.
Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the eggs, one by one. Stir in the flour and milk and dollop over the syrup. Bake for 35-40 mins until golden and risen, and a skewer poked into the sponge comes out clean-ish. Eat with lots of custard, cream or ice cream and extra dribbles of syrup.

Marg2k8 · 05/11/2017 09:39

Roast beef, with all the trimmings.