Did anyone else's mum give them a food nobody you speak to has heard of?

[Rollerbird]

Although with mumsnet I bet others have had 'it:
In my case it's a' treat' of Cabbage Water
Basically when she cooked (boiled) cabbage (which was with a chopped onion, pepper and nutmeg) I could have a cup of the water after (veg stock I suppose)
I did see it as a treat and am drinking some now, remembering her fondly.

My mum would give us a concoction of tinned tuna or salmon with chopped hard boiled egg in a bechamel sauce with paprika. On toast. She called it kedgeree.

My mum’s version of kedgeree is rice and smoked haddock (both microwaved) served with peas and sweet corn mixed in. I was similarly amazed when I encountered the real thing. My mum might have been closer to it, what with the rice and all, but yours probably had more flavour.

She also does a version of beef stroganoff that’s just onions and strips of (stringy) beef fried and then some cream and Worcestershire sauce added. I was amazed when I actually had stroganoff.

MIL used to make ‘Brown Fish’. I have worked out that it is dyed smoked haddock mashed and fried with lots of butter.

Pizza sandwiches in my packed lunch!

Cheap cheese and tomato pizza between two slices of white bread.

My DC were at first. Until I made it for them as a joke. Now they have it as a birthday packed lunch only.

My mum now denies that she ever came up with such a thing.

That marmite like pear jam is still available in Holland. We love it.

Fruit juice made up from dissolved jelly cubes and vanilla essence.

@MorningsEleven

Mine too! I was going to post it but figured it would be too outing as surely nobody else would do it. I hate it but my siblings love it.

"egg in the nest" if we were poorly: poached egg in a nest of mashed potato.

We also had the pear and apple spread that looks like marmite, you can still buy it.

@Herja Yes we had sosmix and Tartex too. It's made by Granovita now. here. I used to dip salt and vinegar chipsticks in it, thereby negating any health effect it might've had!

@Tawdrylocalbrouhaha how fabulous, seriously I absolutely love making meals out of nothing and these sound immense, I did have to Google a Popeye egg!

We regularly have Weird Tea Wednesdays in our house and these will make excellent ones!

Coming in on a cold day, we would get a Bovril cube made up as a drink with a piece of bread to dip.

Also made a meal of tuna in mashed potatoes with cheese. It was lovely.

When I was at university we were having one of those conversations about how many different ways of cooking potatoes there were, as you do. After the standard suggestions of chips, mash, etc., I said 'rosti!', and everyone laughed at me for being posh

I made rissoles the other day. Basically beef burgers made with cooked roast beef rather than mince. They were fab

Spam curry. Well, it was slightly less disgusting than plain spam. Also a sort of butterscotch semolina - no idea how she made the butterscotch aspect of it, but didn't taste good and as I didn't like semolina anyway it definitely wasn't my favourite dish.

However, as against that, she made a fantastic lentil curry paste spread that I've never been able to replicate despite begging the recipe off her.

Adore yours wins!

Yes to tartex, sosmix and the weird pear marmite stuff. Also a thing called ‘vecon’ which was a vegetarian green marmite thing. And sesame snaps, tofu, a tofu-like thing called tempeh, and alfalfa sprouts. All waaay before time, in the 80s.

All my classmates had wagon wheels and wotsits in their packed lunches. I was desperately jealous.

I remember years ago a friend from school was over at our house and my mum told her to stay for dinner.
We were having stovies, she had never heard of them and refused to eat them.
I can remember my mum being well pissed off with her for wasting food 😂.
She told everyone at school that my family ate weird food.
My mum made the best stovies, square sausages, with plain bread and a mug of tea.

Mayrhofen please convey my sincere apologies to your children for the spaghetti ring they are about to endure.

The Harvey Wallbangers were good though, unless she had anchovies that needed using up.

We had chicken covered in ready salted crisps and then baked. Weirdly delicious!

We used to get cubes of undissolved jelly for pudding sometimes. I think it was just because dm had forgotten to make the jelly tbh but we loved it.

GreenThing
Cabbage water, yes!

Haha was surprised to see other posters say it was a NW of England thing, I thought only the Irish did something so strange. My ex (with English mother) thought it was very weird at first but learned to love it.

No but my dd will be on here in a couple of decades complaining about smoothies with a raw egg in them. She wont eat them these days. My mistake for telling her. She did much prefer them to normal smoothies up to this point as it makes them go frothy.... Idea being to slow down digestion and reduce sugar spike.

Oh, and there was an awful lot of plucking and gutting chickens, geese and rabbits going on in the kitchen (we lived on a farm) which made eating the resulting meat a bit of a mental challenge at times...

@Yabbers

We had Oxo cubes as a hit drink rather than Bovril. With giant doorstops of my gran's homemade bread ... thick, very heavy and laid in the stomach for hours😂

My dad used to make us eat macaroni and custard. Cold. He also used to try to make us eat frozen rice pudding (by which I mean still-frozen, not thawed and then heated). And then we got into trouble for being ungrateful when we didn't want any!

I've got no name for this, but after my grandma made 'breaded' anything, she'd mix up the leftover flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fry it. That used to be my favourite part of the meal.

Chiplets

Diced fried potatoes mixed with beaten eggs and cooked til the egg scrambles round the chiplets

YUM