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)

Beef olives
Mince and potatoes
Fish and chips and peas (tartare sauce optional)
Lamb with mint sauce
Pork chops with apple sauce
Ploughman’s lunch
Gammon and pineapple
Bangers and mash
Toad in the hole
Bubble and squeak
A fry up for dinner
Fish pie
Omelette with ham/cheese/ peas/ mushrooms
Scampi
Salmon and asparagus
Beef stew with carrots and turnips
Steak pie
Lamb casserole
Shepard’s pie
Cottage pie

I love a good ploughmans for lunch you cant beat it and also salmon new potatoes and peas is a lovely light dinner,but my most favourite ever thing to eat is egg n chips don;t have it often but its my all time favourite thing!

Sausage, egg and chip pan chips is the quintessential English meal.

OP, you need this book. English Food It's a fascinating history of English food as well as a decent recipe book.

Ploughman’s lunches have changed. They have gone all upmarket :(

I'm a very fussy eater and only eat English food - ie bno pasta, rice, garlic, Chinese, Indian dishes etc and I mostly eat:

Roast dinners (eg roast beef with roast potatoes and parsnips and green veg, Yorkshire pudding, horseradish sauce, mustard and gravy. Lamb shank, ham shank, toad in the hole (also love lamb chops in the hole), beef and kidney stew with dumplings or I make pies, lamb chop, pork chop, sausages, lambs liver with onions and bacon, all of these with potatoes and veg. Steak and chips, fish and chips, gammon, egg, pineapple and chips, or baked potato, salmon with new potatoes and asparagus, homemade hamburgers and chips, bubble & squeak with cold meat, salad and pickles....

no pasta