Good idea for a thread, also helpful to mners trying to meal plan to get ideas.
Generally I didn’t much enjoy food growing up, as it was very much “meat and 2 veg” usually with one of the veg being boiled potatoes which are the most unappetising, bland, boring food ever! But also because I don’t and never have liked red meat (I’m veggie over 30 years now but I did used to like chicken and fish it was red meat I hated) and we had it a lot, mostly in the form of mince which was gross! (Poor family, mince is cheap and easily bulked out).
However - all that said there were dishes I did enjoy
Sausage and mash (good quality pork sausages, dad was quite fussy about this)
Macaroni cheese - my mum does make a lovely mac cheese which she makes with sautéed onion and mustard included.
Egg and chips - often on Saturdays as mum worked retail and pub jobs so as to work around dads job and dad often had us on Saturdays and he isn’t the best cook but he did a cracking job of this. Eggs always cooked perfectly whites cooked through but yolk still runny to dip the chips in.
Fish fingers, chips and baked beans - another Saturday dad one it being the 70’s and frozen food booming. Plus he fried the fish fingers which yes I know it’s not healthy but they did taste better!
Corned beef hash - a midweek boost
Chicken casserole - weirdly I’ve never asked for the recipe must get on that as could do it with quorn pieces
@hoik we called that “Chucky eggs” and yes we tended to get that when we were ill. Partly “it binds you” so supposedly good for diarrhoea but also just light and tasty and nutritious if otherwise ill
Weirdly I also loved steak and kidney pudding. One of the few red meat things I liked.
Cod in parsley sauce or scampi or peppered mackerel... I miss fish veggie “fish” fingers are ok but there’s really no veggie alternatives as yet.
Chicken Kiev
Creamed mushrooms on toast or even over chicken or pasta
“Also I don't I trust myself with a chip fryer.” Yea I’d be too nervous with something like that I won’t even have a “safety” fryer as I’ve known people have these and they’ve started fires.
I cook veggie versions of as much as I can.
Also true that even when I try and copy some of my parents dishes they just don’t come out the same and none of us can figure out why cos I follow instructions to the letter. I’ve tried MANY times to do mums mac n cheese and it just doesn’t taste quite the same. At one point we thought because I use lower fat milk and she uses blue milk but I got a pint of blue to try one time and it STILL didn’t taste right!
@bloodybridget - I used to think my grandparent and ex in laws (older than my parents) were unnecessarily fussy in erring towards old fashioned plainer foods...now I’m older myself and can’t tolerate spicy, strong pickles etc too well myself I understand.
“Just remembered angel delight and fish paste sandwiches, wonder if they taste as good now..” don’t bother with the angel delight @helpmedrranj I tried it off the back of a similar thread couple years back and the lack of sugar and addition of artificial flavourings in attempts to make up for lack of sugar means it tastes rotten now!
@mbosnz ooh fish pie yes! Would love a veggie version