Old fashioned, simple meals.

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Inspired by the Ploughman's lunch thread. What meals do you miss?

I remember my mum making lovely simple dinners when we were little. Or sitting in the pub garden eating chicken in basket.

pinching all the decent ideas for my meal plans

Sausage, mash and peas.
Macaroni cheese.
Egg and chips.

mince n tatties
Steamed sausage, onions, potatoes.
Pie, chips and beans.
Sausage, egg, chips.

My mums egg and bacon pie and chocolate puddle pudding.

Gammon with pineapple ring and chips from the Harvester in the 80's! (I felt well posh!)

Things by mam used to make:

Corned beef hash.
Egg, chips, and beans.
Slices of naice ham with new potatoes, peas, and sweetcorn.
Smoked cod poached in milk and butter.
Mince and dumplings.

And Sunday tea was always a Pek sandwich, a Mr Kipling cake, a bag of crisps, and a bowl of rice pudding with either a spoonful of strawberry jam or a spoonful of tinned fruit. I hate Pek and the thought of tinned, sliced peaches in rice pudding makes me have a little bit but if I think back on the flavour it's like instant childhood nostalgia.

Egg and bacon pie! Yes! Also egg and bacon stottie - medium boiled egg mashed up with butter, crispy bacon, served warm inside a quarter of a stottie.

Eggy cup too which was soft boiled egg mashed with butter, salt, pepper, and some ripped up white bread. Served in a cup with a spoon for eating. That was pure comfort food and usually what mam would give us for lunch if we weren't feeling well. Her theory was "an egg binds you" so anytime we needed binding, out came the eggs

My mum recently taught me her lamb hotpot recipe (well, it’s five ingredients, its more assembly than recipe), if that’s the sort of thing you mean?

Toad in the hole

Cottage Pie 😋

bacon roly-poly with onion sauce

Ham, egg and chips - proper ones made in a chip pan 😋

Mince & dumplings
Steak & kidney pie
Quiche Lorraine (usually with chips!)
Skate wings in black butter
Pea & ham soup
Gammon knuckle with pease pudding (that would be called dhal these days)
Sausages & fried tomatoes

I really want a ham and pease pudding sandwich now.

I remembered another one, saveloy dip sandwiches from the butchers for lunch.

@TweetUsOnFacebook oh shit yes! For Ham, eggs and chips the chips MUST be cooked in a proper chip pan! Preferably cooked in an old chip pan where ages old fat has lovingly coated the chip basket until it becomes one. None of that oven chips crap.

Mince and onion with boiled spuds.
Hot Rice pudding or semolina with a large spoonful of cheap strawberry jam which must be mixed in and then you need to have a nap due to slipping into a sugar coma.

Sugar sarnies. Must be mad with cheap white bread, marg (or butter if you are feeling posh or mum had some) and granulated sugar.... mmmmmm really want one now.

We had sugar sandwiches too, only at Nana's house though because our dad didn't like us having them. Also ketchup sandwiches and salad cream sandwiches.

(steamed in milk over sauce pan) smoked haddock with mashed potato & peas & brown sauce (sharp flavoured ones traditionally hp)
scrambled eggs beans & toast
(dh spin: dhal, rice fish fingers & tomato sauce )

Mince and chips- absolutely loved that
Egg ham and chips
Toad in the hole
Sausage mash peas and gravy was my ultimate fave! I've never made it at home it's always something my mum has to do but I might do it this week!

toasted banana sandwich with cinnamon
grated apple sandwich with sultanas & cinnamon (so sue me I like cinnamon)
apple crumble & custard (or any fruit)
curried backed bean sandwich (it came in a tin that way we didn't curry them nothing to do with dh df use to make them for our school lunch in Australia - nb to all those useless modern males dd was born in the 1920's & was far more supportive than they are - dm did not make him sandwiches or run his bath when she was a sahm!)

Faggots

Mash

Marrowfat peas

With a round of white bread, butter and a huge mug of tea.

Funnily enough I've been craving lazy food and will be having tinned beans and sausages on top of white toast tonight.

Oh I forgot!!! proper porridge that cooked for hours with extra warm milk poured in & Tate & Lyle golden syrup.

And dp says tinned curry.

Tinned rice

And a tin of beer 😂😂😂

Ham, egg and chips
Sausage and mash (usually with peas, and onion gravy)
Pie and mash
Boiled eggs and toastie soldiers
Soup and a pasty

All things that I make now anyways:

• oxtail soup
• liver, bacon, onion and gravy
• rissoles (Aussie grandfather use to make them. Cross between a meat patty/meatball with onions, herbs and breadcrumbs inside)
• junket
• bread/butter pudding

On Mondays we always had leftover cold roast meat from Sunday dinner, with new potatoes and ‘salad’ - iceberg, cucumber, tomato, spring onions & lashings of salad cream. Loved it!

Egg and (homemade) chips was a midweek staple.

Sausages and colcannon or bacon (gammon) and mash were standard Irish mum dinners.

I forgot
Stovies
With bread n butter and a mug of tea.