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Old fashioned, simple meals.

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PollyPocketLucyLocket · 11/02/2020 17:03

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

OP posts:
MillicentMartha · 11/02/2020 18:21

Cheese and potato pie. Yum!

AgeLikeWine · 11/02/2020 18:22

Sausages, chips & beans, generously anointed with brown sauce and washed down with a large mug of very strong builder’s tea.

One of my all-time favourite meals.

Ejmorgan · 11/02/2020 18:23

Tonight I'm real cooking as I love it but last night I really enjoyed ravioli on toast , some things I remember as being amazing like corned beef hash but when my partner does mince and boiled pots it really pisses me off I mean seriously you couldntmash the spuds for a cottage pie instead?

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RedRed9 · 11/02/2020 18:31

Toad in the hole.

Cold meats, new pots and salad.

Any kind of dinner but served with a big plate of sliced white bread and butter in the middle of the table (this NEVER happens anymore!).

Witchend · 11/02/2020 18:42

We did a WWII rationed week for half term once. Rissoles went down brilliantly with all the dc.

HelpMeDrRanj · 11/02/2020 19:02

Love this thread! I miss:
Boiled eggs & dippy toast
Fish finger sandwiches
Chip butties
Pizza on toast
Bubble & squeak
Apple crumble & custard

Fifthtimelucky · 11/02/2020 19:02

Home cooked ham and parsley sauce
Toad in the hole

Blackberry and apple crumble (or just about any crumble really) and custard
Home made rice pudding

poshme · 11/02/2020 19:19

What do people miss these? Why don't you just cook them?

I just ate toad in the hole. YUM

Elouera · 11/02/2020 19:28

@poshme- I DO cook all the things I mentioned!

Just reminiscing about grandparents cooking them for me when much younger.

TinklyLittleLaugh · 11/02/2020 19:30

People don’t really eat parsley sauce much now do they, or blancmange, or evaporated milk?

florriepeck · 11/02/2020 19:42

Skate wings in black butter
Smile

LesLavandes · 11/02/2020 19:43

Pork chops, apple sauce and mash and gravy. Maybe some peas.

fairyfingers · 11/02/2020 19:59

Dh loves mince and spuds. Dds will sort of eat it.

They all love chops and veg

Dh and I had spaghetti oops on toast the other day - t'was lush

DH also loves ham egg and chips. MIL was a proper 'and chips' cook when he was growing up.

We used to have meat and 2 veg (always carrots and a type of greens) and a potato product almost every day growing up. Probably a fairly balanced meal as the meat bit was only ever a quarter of the plate and the veg were over a third......

MitziK · 11/02/2020 20:02

Steak and kidney pudding, boiled potatoes, gravy and peas. For extra authenticity, the pud must come out of a tin, as must the potatoes and Marrowfats. Tinned baby carrots for the win.

A salad with half a packet of crisps and a puddle of salad cream on the plate, next to the coleslaw. If you have celery, cut into sticks and spread soft cheese (or cheese spread - cheese and prawn if you're going for that 70s vibe or live near an IKEA) into the channel and ham has to be rolled with salad cream squirted into the middle.

Tinned tomatoes on thickly buttered toast with loads of pepper on top.

Tinned Mackerel in Tomato Sauce mashed onto thickly buttered toast and loads of pepper. Or tinned crab mixed with extra finely grated cheese to hide the crab taste make it go further.

Smoked Haddock, peas and a poached egg on top.

Fishpaste sandwiches.

A wonky doorstop of white split tin or farmhouse loaf with cold butter and a glass of gold top milk.

Prawn cocktail baguette (or jacket potato). Slice up tomato into prawn sized strips and mix in to make it go further. Use iceberg lettuce (for 'posh') or a standard round lettuce, dunked in water and then spun round at 20 miles a hour in a salad spinner.

Boiled egg sandwiches.

Warm ham and cheese quiche with salad.

A salad of round lettuce, medium tomatoes cut into wedges, diced cucumber and beetroot. Add horseradish or salad cream if you're being fancy and want it to taste of anything at all.

Tongue sandwiches. Corned beef, salad and Branston Pickle sandwiches. Tinned salmon and cucumber sandwiches.

Brains Faggots, extra gravy, mash and frozen veg.

Braised lambs' hearts stuffed with Paxo Sage & Onion, potatoes, gravy and carrots.

Chicken in Red Wine Cook-in sauce with boiled potatoes and mushrooms mixed into the sauce beforehand, so they shrink to fairy sized mushrooms.

Garlic mushrooms.

Mushrooms vinaigrette.

Scampi and chips. Way out of our price range now.

Jar of cockles in vinegar and tons of white pepper. Don't tend to be able to buy pints of winkles from a fish van on the way home anymore, though.

French bread pizza - but posh, because you've made it yourself with a piece of baguette, then spread tomato puree, grated cheddar, bits of ham, pineapple and diced red and green peppers over it.

A huge plate of sprats with nothing but several lemon wedges to get you through it.

Oxtail soup. Buy lump of oxtail, rinse under tap, shove in slow cooker with a stabbed Scotch Bonnet, spring onion and a sprig of Thyme. Leave for hours.

Gala Pie with salad.

Cheese, leek and potato pie - cheesy mash with added greenery.

Boiled ham with pease pudding and potatoes.

Cod with parsley sauce and frozen peas.

Waffles and fried eggs.

Chicken Kiev and either salad or boiled potatoes.

Waldorf salad. Celery, apples (Granny Smiths), walnuts and green grapes in mayonnaise. Best served with orange juice freshly squeezed.

What they NEED to do again are crispy pancakes. Cheese, ham and cheese or minced beef.

florriepeck · 11/02/2020 20:06

Mitzi, you can still get crispy pancakes.

NemophilistRebel · 11/02/2020 20:07

Why do you miss all of these meals? Many of these are our winter staples!

teenagetantrums · 11/02/2020 20:07

This thread makes me laugh. I have cooked most of the meals in the last month
Maybe because l cook in an old people's home.

Hoik · 11/02/2020 20:29

What do people miss these? Why don't you just cook them?

I cook some of them, we had corned beef hash for dinner just the other night, but others I don't because it would only be eating them. Plus of the ones I do make, they don't taste the same as my mam's version.

Kittensinmysupper · 11/02/2020 21:30

Shepherds pie and liver and onions ... sldont say ewww to liver until you have had it with sage and onion gravy !!!

GetawayfromthatWelshtart · 11/02/2020 21:34

I've cooked them but they don't taste the same as my mum cooking them. Also I don't I trust myself with a chip fryer.

Like my mums hot egg sarnies... tried to make them so many times but they are missing.. something.

Can't ask her as she died in 2000 and I'm not buggering about with those ouija boards.

So saying "ohh.. I make them ALL the time" in a smug manner means nowt to me unless what you make tastes exactly like what my mum made and will happily give me all the recipes. nom nom nom

Bloodybridget · 11/02/2020 21:44

I'm eating shepherd's pie and peas right now. I didn't make the pie, though, it's from Sainsbury's.

Hoik · 11/02/2020 21:46

I have my mam's recipes and even then they don't taste the same, they always taste like something is missing.

katy1213 · 11/02/2020 21:48

Curry made with curry powder (and sultanas usually crept in).

Egg foo yong and chips (that was exotic).

Berni Inn steak with grilled tomato and frozen peas and a baked potato. And Liebfraumilch.

But now I wonder if the baskets for chicken in a basket were ever cleaned? All those hands - yuck!

Fried bacon rinds done until they were crispy. And fried bread, I love fried bread.

Sardine sandwiches, ditto meat paste. Sandwich spread.

Bloodybridget · 11/02/2020 21:51

In fact I find that now, I guess too old to be middle aged any more, my favourite meals are those my parents might have eaten. When I read menus for restaurants that involve pickled and fermented and foraged this, that and the other, I just think, no thanks. Which is no doubt very silly of me.

katy1213 · 11/02/2020 21:54

Milk jelly made with evap.

Proper rice pudding with skin - don't miss sago/semolina/tapioca though.

Tinned mandarin oranges in jelly.

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