to think my MIL has turned into Letitia Cropley?

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Arrive at MIL’s for dinner and ask what we are having “a lamb tagine” she replies. Lovely.

We sit down to the table and we’re dished up a lamb tagine served with broad beans from the garden, okay fair enough so far. Stuffing balls, “pineapple guacamole” and a mini sausage roll.

Pudding will be ginger roly poly with “milk and raspberries”. I don’t know what this means.

The freezer packed up and you are the unlucky recipients

Is it wrong that I see nothing at all wrong with that menu?

Then again, cooking has never been my strong point...

Raspberries and milk. Ewwww

Raspberries and milk? What a waste of raspberries!

Was the sausage roll a 'pig in duvet'? Sounds like she went with lamb tagine then got scared and tried to steer it back towards a roast dinner with stuffing and pigs in blankets/duvets.

What was the pineapple guacamole please?

Is her cooking normally this adventurous? Did it taste nice despite the unusual menu?

I am intrigued by pineapple guacamole and the rogue mini sausage roll.

Do you think some of the pages of her recipe book got stuck together? What on earth is pineapple guacamole?

I'm creasing at this, sorry OP.

Has she mentioned the freezer packing on or needing to use anything up?

If not then that's truly bizarre, definitely the next Leticia Crowley

*Cropley

What was the pineapple guacamole please?
More to the point, why was the pineapple guacamole?

We used to have bananas and milk, for pudding quite regularly, when I was a child in the fifties. It was a treat, I never thought it was strange at the time, but never had it at anyone else's house, only at home.

Do you think some of the pages of her recipe book got stuck together?

Valid point Utterly, it is such a conundrum!

Dog well, no because then clearly there’d be beef trifle

Did your dh say anything?

Next time serve her some shepherds pie with noodles and saag aloo

It appers that Pineapple guacamole is just normal guacamole with pineapple chucked in.

Crumble for breakfast?

Was that because she was saving the milk for your roly poly?

Oh my DM pulls stunts like this.

My favourite meal was a stir fry of every vegetable in the fridge with some chopped up wafer thin ham sprinkled on it.

Or another one, basmati rice served with baked beans.

She does make us giggle

I actually make a breakfast crumble. It's a baked date custard with an oat crumble top. It's delicious and perfect with coffee.

Has she always cooked ‘unusually’ or has she been watching loads of cooking programmes and put her own twist on it?!

Do you think she was intending the raspberries and milk to be a DIY crusha?

DH didn’t arrive until pudding.

Then pineapple guacamole was guacamole with chillies and pineapple.

I actually make a breakfast crumble. It's a baked date custard with an oat crumble top. It's delicious and perfect with coffee.

I think that sounds quite nice. The bacon and eggs (and something else breakfast-y) SIL was offered as a crumble seems less delicious.