Traditional English Dinners

[Camomila]

I was browsing through the meal planning threads for ideas and I noticed lots of people are quite varied in the cuisines they cook (eg, stir fry, curry, pasta, fajitas). The most common 'English foods' were shephards pie, Sunday Roast, and sausages and mash.

DSs two favourite foods at nursery are mackeral and 'the pie with the vegetables and the tasty stuff (chicken?)' and they both strike me as very English/British.

Does anyone else have any other traditional things they cook regularly?

(I'm not British so looking to expand my cooking horizons a bit)

Pie and mash and gravy
Sausage and mash and gravy
Casserole (lamb, chicken, beef, or sausage)
Fish pie with veg
Shepherds pie with peas
Toad in the hole with veg
Roast with all the trimmings

Toad in the hole is regularly featured on our meal plan. It's one of the few things I cook which all the children will eat.

Liver and onions, sometimes with bacon added.

Gammon (ham once you've cooked it) with parsley sauce.

Egg and chips.

Sunday roast.

Rissoles and other dishes which make use of leftovers.

Faggots - a British take on the meatball.

Lasagne, wonderful
it most certainly is wonderful ( but not British!)

But I have only ever eaten Lasagne in the UK and never in Italy.

But I have only ever eaten Lasagne in the UK and never in Italy
I've never eaten peking duck in china but you wouldn't call it British! :-)

Yes I would. I had British Peking Duck in London. And Somerset Brie.

Popular traditional meals here are
Steak & kidney pie with plenty of kidney
Liver & onions with mash
Homemade soups
Stew/casserole with dumplings
Sausages with cauliflower cheese

but Peking duck is not a traditionally British dish. If I've eaten Mongolian hotpot in aberdeen, does that make it a Scottish dish? ( no, is the answer)

One I love is gammon with new spuds (also recently recommended with roasties) and broad beans in parsley sauce.

Stew (chicken or beef) and dumplings

Sausage, mashed potatoes and kale.
Fish pie and peas.
Beef stew with suet dumplings.
Ham, egg and chips.
Gammon ham with parsley sauce.
Bubble and Squeak.
Lamb chops, mashed potatoes with veg.
Beef and Ale pie.
Roast Chicken/belly pork/leg of lamb/rib of beef dinner with the trimmings.

Yes, Peking Duck is a traditional British dish. When I go to London, and I have been going for some time now, I often have Peking Duck. It has become a tradition for me.

Hot Pot is a Scottish dish which the Mongols stole when Genghis Khan arrived in Scotland on elephants. He just took it back to Asia and put Mongolian in front of Hot Pot.

Full English....not just eaten at breakfast time!

Meals I had growing up, before world cuisine really took off, all served with veg and some sort of potato (usually chips, we had a chip pan):
Sunday Roast
Cold meat and chips(on a Monday, not a meal I ever enjoyed)
Lamb chops, Murphy's and peas.
Braising steak with jkt potatoes
Chicken casserole (another meal I hated)
Lamb stew and dumplings
Shepherds pie
Fish and chips
Scampi
Fish fingers
Tinned meatballs
Pie, pastry topped. A variety
Curries

My mum was an ace cook and when the likes of lasagne,stir frys, chilli con carne and spag bol became popular she cooked us those too.

What are Murphy's?

We used to have cold meat on a Monday and my mum made beautiful fluffy mashed potatoes. I'd eat with Branston pickle. We had pancakes with lemon and sugar for pudding.

Something else my mother made was 'rissoles'. Oh boy they were gorgeous. She used to buy Scotch beef (I don't know why Scotch but she did), and minced it herself. She was an excellent rissole maker.

Also a good fish and chip cooker, I enjoyed that tremendously on Fridays. Lovely chips and she usually cooked plaice.

Lamb stew and dumplings, yum-my!

Leek and Potato soup - Delia Smiths recipe and make sure you sweat the leeks and potato's in the butter first it makes it 😋

Toad in the hole.
Sausage and mash with onion gravy.
Liver bacon n onions.
Shepherd's/cottage pie.
Ham egg n chips.
Any meat n veg n gravy

Oh and DH cooks a good corned beef hash, hotpot and fish pie

"But I have only ever eaten Lasagne in the UK and never in Italy."

Does this also mean that tiramisu isn't Italian either? I've only ever had that in the UK....

But I have only ever eaten Lasagne in the UK and never in Italy

What a weird argument. It originates from Italy, and is widely available in Italy.

I’ve never been to Japan but I know whenever I make a ramen it’s not a classic British dinner

Welsh rarebit is fantastic - not really a main meal, but delicious.

Steak and kidney pudding.
Oxtail braise
Kippers
English breakfast
Fresh or smoked salmon

Mince beef stew and dumplings like my grandma used to make (not sure if this can be recreated though).

Oh yes I forgot oxtail stew. That is so good.
And smoked kippers with peas and stottie cake.

Murphy's are potatoes.

Boiled in our house.

We also had liver and onion which was lovely!