Food you don’t often see anymore

[BigJanette]

What dishes did you used to eat, but don’t really see around anymore?

I’ve just remembered a M&S ready meal I ate quite regularly in my student days (this would’ve been in the mid 90s) but haven’t seen since.
Smoked haddock kedgeree.
Anyone else remember it?
I used to make it every so often, but haven’t done in years.
I think it’s time to remedy that and get it back on the menu.

Any easy recipes welcome!

You can still buy these, it's just 2 of us now, and Dh doesn't like stir fry .so I always have a packet in the freezer , and I just add chicken and make a sauce,he has something else.

Can you? I had no idea. Did they not used to come with meat? I don't remember my mum adding anything, but we were very definitely not a veggie household!

Yes it was the full stirfry wasn't it? I just get the veg with bean sprouts, supermarkets do them I get mine in Tesco, it saves me waste.

Yep I made it last week - it was so good😃

Ooh yes! Nothing like that intensely fishy smell of a fish shop if you like fish 😋

Ooh interesting, we have a few European shops in my town so might pop in and see if they have any. Thanks

Anyone remember Tivall kievs? Veggie DH misses those, he says they got the texture right, unlike most of the meatfree supermarket ranges.

@Lovelysausagedogscrumpy Your gran's recipe sounds very similar to the one my mum used, with minced beef, breadcrumbs and onion, then cooked in gravy. Was your grandma from the West Midlands?

Chicken Bovril

Chicken stock powder in a tub. I know there are massive tubs on Amazon for £20. Just want a small tub similar size to the Marigold Vegetable Bouillon. Some recipes require 100ml chicken stock, I am not want to waste a chicken stock cube. The powder, used half a teaspoon's worth.

My grandma used to butter digestives…I don’t see that any more but it’s probably a good thing 🥴

Butter and cheese, you are welcome 😀

I used to eat them with cream cheese on

I was a student in the 90s.

Sainsburys do one but it’s 400g

May have to find out which Sainsburys sell it

Me too. I love them with blue cheese too - the combination of slightly sweet with deeply savoury is fab.

No, she was from Manchester, but my grandad was from somewhere in the midlands so that may have influenced somewhat.

Does anyone remember the cheese pie we used to get in school ? It was shortcrust pastry on the bottom and this intensely cheesy mix topping. I’ve seen various recipes supposedly recreating it but none have come close to the original I remember - they’re all just a version of quiche, which this definitely wasn’t. It was about the only school dinner outside of fish chips and mushy peas on a Friday that I really loved.

Not marrow for us, but we had pink blancmange at the weekend. Made in the obligatory rabbit mold.

I loved this too! It was my go to when my first child was born. Wish they would bring them back.

God, I loved cheesey moments! Can’t believe they still do bacon fries and not cheesey moments!!

My mum had a rabbit mold too, and yes she used it to make pink blancmange which she served on a bed of green jelly chopped up to resemble grass. I recently saw a photo of a pink blancmange made in the rabbit mold. It looked unpleasantly like a skinned rabbit.

Home made rice pudding, with nutmeg.

Please tell me it’s minus the skin !! 🤢

I love the skin.