To think that coddle and fresh brown bread is a dinner?

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According to dd who is 14 and therefore knows everything its not. Now she had a bowl and a half before declaring shes full and is pestering for money for chips.

Doesn't sound very filling tbh!

I often eat leftover soup for breakfast - that coddle sounds delicious, I could live off soup everyday, much to the disgust of my mother who would cook soup for us but doesn't like eating it herself

I'd love a bowl of coddle. Might try your recipe. My dad always made it without browning the sausages too. Not keen. Never had peppers in it either. Very exotic! Dad did always put potatoes in.

Sounds great to me.
We are using stuff up out of the freezer, and 4pm is not too soon for tea. We eat it whenever we feel hungry.

I imagine there will be a gathering of teens boys outside the chippy of a friday evening

I wondered about an ulterior motive too Our local chippie used to be a teenage meeting place in my socially deprived youth

No spuds? Who makes coddle without potatoes??? :o
And peppers added in. The mind boggles!

But no she needs no chips. Is there a cute boy working at the chipper however? :o

Doesn't sound very filling tbh!

a bowl and a half of something containing a pound each of soss and bacon with veg, plus bread not filling?

What is 'tesco stew meal makers' though?

You know those packets you mix with water,they are meal makers. I don't have time to make my mums stock.
Shall I suggest accompanying dd to the chipper? I might want a milkshake. Although not if she wears her animal jacket thing.

Interesting you call it a chipper, I always thought that was just a Warrington word. We did have a huge influx of Irish immigrants in the 19th Century though and got 'Irishified' along the way.

We have our evening meal at 4pm too! My dh works nights and likes to have his meal at this time and we try to eat together, i do find it a bit early myself though. As for the coddle it is not really a soup but a stew with all that meat in it. But I agree your dd might want a light meal or supper around 8 or 9 I sometimes do. If you are willing to spoil her and get a bag of chips as it is Friday night is up to you.

4.30 is way to early for dinner in my opinion and 9.30 is really late to eat again. But if you do let her eat again then why not let have chips tonight?

I'd let her have them.
My DD is 12, she has a friend staying tonight and at their request I'm making them chicken korma, but I fully expect them to want chips or ice cream or fizzy juice or some such crap later, which is fine by me.

Ooh yes coddle's a proper dinner. Although I'm a bit at your peppers and lack of spuds having only ever had my granny's very plain coddle. It's my DD's favourite dinner too.

I think if I were having my tea between 4 and 4.30, I too would probably want supper before bedtime.
However the coddle (great word - I've never heard it before ) and bread does sound like a meal in itself so if it were served a bit later in the evening (say just 90mins later?) it would probably take her through to bed time.

That said, teens do have growth spurts which seem to make them 'starving children' for a while, so maybe she's going through one of those ?

Never had peppers, celery or browned sausages in it - always boiled white. Ours had potatoes in it too.

Yes, coddle is a Dublin dish.

Can I have dinner at your house? That sounds so good right now.

I am so doing coddle for tea tomorrow. Haven't had it for years.

Never heard of it but I don't see why its so strange to have tea then

My mum normally has it ready for 4ish as my brother and sister (12 & 14) come in and they are always 'starving' even though ate at 12ish.

Coddle is a proper dinner. But thats not coddle! Think about it....a classic Irish dish with no potatoes in it ? Does not compute.

We eat much later now, but 4.30 was the normal time for us to eat diner, growing up in Ireland. I don't think it's that unusual up here (NE England) either.

The coddle sounds very filling, btw, OP.

*dinner!

It was missing potatos, so that's why she needs chips!

I think she just wants to go out and chippy is an excuse though, she's 14, that sounds like a very 14 yr old thing to do, any excuse to get out of the house!

What are rashers? Bacon?

I really fancy trying this now, but not with the peppers, I don't like them.
Anyone have a good recipe with no peppers?