Underrated, simple foods or meals

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Sometimes I think there is nothing better than just a plain cheese sandwich. Bread, a nice crumbly mature cheese, butter.

Sure, I love a cheese ploughmans with all the trimmings and pickle. I love a cheese and salad. But I just think a plain cheese sandwich very often gets overlooked. It’s simple but delicious.

Similarily, sometimes I think you can’t beat just butter on toast.

I’m just curious what other simple foods or meals others enjoy.

Not sure it’s an underrated food, but it is a very occasional comfort food meal for me - a ham roll (Scottish morning roll, not any other kind of bread roll will do), and a bowl of Heinz tomato soup. I think it takes me back to childhood. Followed by a cup of tea and a caramel log.

Oh, the boiled egg in a cup, I’m Scottish and this is how I always had it growing up and into adulthood butter and salt for me. Not runny, but not completely hard boiled, mashed with butter and salt. Accompanied by a couple of slices of white toast with butter.

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it 🤣 😋

I think three-quarters of my lunches are one of the following:
Eggs on toast
Cheese on toast
Cheese and crackers
Soup
Ham sandwich

Spicy chicken on a bed of basmati rice. That’s it.

Ritz and pate

@Thatsillymama It is amazing, I'm going to have it tomorrow, haven't made it in ages!

Ah ha! So I'm half Scottish, half Irish, born in Cork but mostly raised in Glasgow. Chapped egg, never heard it called that! Would be interesting if any English folk used to get this?

We used to call it ‘ a negg in a negg cup ‘ as a child in Ireland . Though it wasn’t in an ‘egg cop’ it was a tea cup with the egg mashed up in it. Loads of butter, white pepper and salt .
i want one now

Tinned tomatoes on white bread toast with lots of butter

Im only about 30 miles from you!! My dad's is from Irish decent. Mum irish/polish. Chapped egg in a cup,loads of butter and salt and pepper 😋.

My simple dinners are lots of small easy bits from the fridge. Eg half an avocado, a bit of cheese, bread, a few nuts, etc.

I’ve got lots of them -

coucous with tinned mackerel in tomato sauce

pasta with sweetcorn and chorizo

nachos, baked covered with salsa and cheese

good bread whit butter and honey

scrambled eggs with feta

toast with duck fat, salt and paprika

Nachos - good quality tortilla chips, good salsa, Monterey Jack cheese, in oven 15 minutes, served with a dollop of sour cream. It feels decadent.

Scrambled eggs. Fry some spring onions and chillies, beat the eggs with generous amounts of chopped coriander, Parmesan and black pepper, pour in the pan with the onions and chillies, serve with toast.

And finally - my guilty pleasure is an oven pizza (Dr Oetker or similar). I am very aware of my diet, so this is a rare treat for me, but every few months I allow myself one, topped with lashings of dried chilli flakes. The pleasure to price ratio is very high 😊.

in Cumbria we call it “botched eggs” - I often make it for my lunch when working from home!

Warm pasta with a knob of butter stirred through and a bit of herbamere sprinkled on top

Cheesy beans on toast
Scrambled eggs with grated cheese and mixed herbs ,under cooked rather than overcooked! Absolutely amazing.

Good old egg and chips with bread and butter on the side to make chip butties with

I think cheese and tomato is the ultimate marriage of foods. In a sandwich, or on a pizza, the best toastie, mozzarella and tomato, cheese on toast with tomato, macaroni cheese with grilled tomatoes etc - nothing beats it imo!

I like the children’s sandwiches from marks n Spencer’s. 3/4 of a sandwich, best of both bread, bit of butter and plain cheese or ham. It’s just enough for me for lunch with some fruit for breakfast.

Really enjoying reading through all these replies.

I’ve never had or heard of the egg in a cup that people are talking about.

I agree with so many of these suggestions, tinned tomatoes on toast, cheese and crackers (how could I forget that!), chip butties, crumpets drenched in butter.

Some things I have actually never tried but now am going to:

Pasta with butter on. I normally love plain pasta with a good quality olive oil on but have never tried it with butter.

A tomato sandwich. I have never had one! I imagine it needs to be lovely quality tomatoes though and not any that are tasteless.

Just thought of another one! Bread dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. I could live on this it’s so delicious.

Fried egg and toast( thick white bread)

Also Irish and we call this chuckie egg

Pasta with marmite, butter & cheese stirred in.
Marmite on toast.
Marmite on a crumpet.
Marmite on sesame ryvita.
Do you see a theme?

Cheese on toast with Hendersons relish. My mum swears by eggs in milk with cheese & mushrooms.