Best TEA ever.

[mamasma]

Normally I make homemade shepherds pie,roast chicken etc for everyone but tonight we had go old bacon and sausage rolls...just normal old Richmond thick sausages on a roll with tomato sauce and it was amazing!!

What's everyone's simple tea that are just better than anything else?

Spaghetti Carbonara. Food of the bloody gods especially when you are hungover and need a foodie cuddle.

On to tea (the beverage)...
For serious work: English breakfast. For quaffing on post school playdates, indian/earl grey.

My three year old seriously disappointed her brothers friendship group by promising chocolate tea. (She meant cocoa). I am now searching for chocolate tea bags!

Not on the thread title she doesn't

True. I'm forgetting you can't expect MNers to read the OP.

I did read the OP but by then I'd invested time and energy ()

Why can't we discuss both tea (food) AND tea (drink)?

I came on here for the tea... I love a strong mug of Yorkshire tea.

Food wise, Pesto pasta with a loads of pesto and a mountain of melted cheese.

My dm's mock crab (think it was a war recipe) so grated cheese, chopped onions and tomatoes, lots of salt and pepper, piled on toast and grilled.

For dinner, Spaghetti hoops on toast, lots of butter.

Tea - has to be Ceylon.

So if it's dinner. Why are dinner ladies not called lunch ladies?

I used to call it dinner. I called it supper for a while. I now call it tea when in fact tea is a drink or a meal you have at half past four with a tea pot and tea cosy, cucumber sandwiches and small cakes.

What is it?

Beans on toast!

We were both arriving home lateish last night so I left some frozen soup out to defrost for a late quick dinner. OH arrived first to find a tub of stewed apples defrosted. He quickly fried an onion, red and green pepper, dumped in a can of beans, some herbs and had the toast popping up as I arrived home. It was surprisingly yummy.

So if it's dinner. Why are dinner ladies not called lunch ladies?

If it's tea, why don't restaurants take bookings for lunch and tea instead of lunch and dinner?

What area of Scotland says tea instead of dinner? I've never heard it before. I assumed we all said dinner.

Anyways, anything with eggs.
Roasted cheese.
Toasties.
Soup.
Cereal.
What we call a 'snack plate' (a sandwich, crisps, yogurt, cheese, whatever takes your fancy).

Twinnings

Tea is a drink

Its TEA in our house.

Mine is fried egg, homemade maris piper chips cooked in a chip pan, brown sauce and bread and butter.

Oh love lobscouse too.

Chips, cheese and gravy. Yummy!!

So if it's dinner. Why are dinner ladies not called lunch ladies?

They’re called lunchtime supervisors where I live!

Tea/Dinner it’s all the same to me (and I’m Australian)

My lazy go to is bruschetta - nice crunchy bread, freshly diced tomato and spring onion, fresh basil, fetta and lashings of balsamic glaze - bliss! These are staples in my house so I can always cook it on a whim when I feel like it (which is usually once a week).

This thread is full of small minded snobs. It's tea where I come from and dinner where you come from, get over it

Mine is beans and cheese on toast or cheesy pasta, mmm!

*red onion - not spring, gah!

Lunch and supper is what I say. Really nice ham, poached eggs and chunky oven chips.

We have very soft tap water and it rarely makes a great cuppa. Would love to find the perfect tea!

It was always Tea in my (north midlands) home but I’ve always thought of the difference as a bit if a class thing. I am definitely working class background and more middle class people always say in a condescending way “oh you mean dinner or Supper “ you don’t get many people who put that the other way when invited to dinner “oh you mean Tea”.
Sure you have always called it dinner you might click on a thread then see it’s about food and not have to point out how disappointing it being the other incorrect way of saying the evening meal.
Builders Tea
Cheese and crackers

Took me a long time to post this thread as I was worried about this reaction but I really just wanted to make Mn friends...maybe won't bother next time!thanks to everyone who did reply nicely,Richmond sausages on a roll with tomato sauce is the best the end.

Ps I'm from East Lothian and here it's called tea.

@mamasma we also do sos or bacon bap tea midweek and the children love it. I love a Richmond too it must be that greasy spoon vibe!

Richmond sausages aren't very 'meaty', they are a bit like pate.
Last night I did a very simple dinner, fairly quick too but unoriginal and uninspiring. Cod fillets in breadcrumbs, new potatoes and cheesy mash and peas. It was nice though.

Lamb chops tonight with all the accompaniments you'd have with a roast dinner.

I have some nice strawberries in the fridge.

Hope you do continue to post mamasma, you seem really nice. I don't know what the controversy is about.

Dinner is the main meal of the day which is why we have 'school dinners' and not 'school lunches'.

It varies at home, if a big meal is cooked at roughly lunchtime (often on Sundays), it is 'dinner 'and in the evening, a lighter meal is prepared - salad or soup or an omelette with some fruit or cheese (or both). That's 'supper'.

Tea is mid to late afternoon, a nice pot of Yorkshire, maybe a snack like a sandwich and cake but it isn't something I bother with very often,unless I'm starving. Could have that sort of thing for 'supper'.

Don't know what you'd call a roast dinner served at 4pm :-). 'Dinner' I suppose and give supper a miss.

I have a theory that the reason some people call their evening meal Tea is because they would traditionally have had their main meal (dinner) at midday and the evening meal was a lighter meal which they would have drunk tea with.

So the OPs bacon and sausage rolls seem to fit in with this theory as they would go just right with a mug of tea.

I have a similar favourite easy evening meal of cheese on toast with some pickles. My favourite tea to drink is the yorkshire tea ideally the hard water one.